Swarm Capture Gone Bad Picture

sc-bee · June 01, 2015, 11:40:12 PM

Just a picture I ran across on the net .... Ouch

Photo Caption --You should always wear your veil when getting swarms! About 50 stings on back, neck and arms when swarm fell on my head!

KeyLargoBees · June 02, 2015, 08:06:29 AM

Ouch....

iddee · June 02, 2015, 08:29:47 AM

Been there, done that. Got the T-shirt. A few times, even.....

Helps with the arthritis.

Still won't wear a veil catching a swarm.

Of course, I'm lucky. Most people react to a mosquito bite worse than I do to a bee sting.

Michael Bush · June 02, 2015, 10:12:32 AM

I shook one down the back of my shirt once... 20 feet up a ladder... that was the last time I tried it without a veil. Funny how a swarm swings and then drops in a different place than you planned...

D Coates · June 02, 2015, 10:23:28 AM

Glad to know you're okay. With that said it would've made a great Youtube video. Never had one down the shirt yet but I've had them land wrong in the nuc box I was holding underneath them. The let me know their displeasure multiple times but I could do nothing about it as I had to hold the box relatively still as they calmed down. I take off the veil once I've ascertained their mood and after the shake. Simply too pretty to get stung in the face.

sc-bee · June 02, 2015, 10:48:35 AM

Quote from: D Coates on June 02, 2015, 10:23:28 AM
Glad to know you're okay......... Simply too pretty to get stung in the face.

No not me...... And I am with you on the pretty face thing. I shook a swarm once without a veil and immediately smelled bananas. First dry swarm I shook. Only took a couple stings though.

Kathyp · June 02, 2015, 01:15:22 PM

I always wear my jacket, but once I was on a ladder and was reaching for the swarm and both my jacket and shirt were pulled up. part of it dropped and landed down my back and I had not tucked in my shirt. lesson learned.

I swell a lot. My husband thought I might end up looking like a Kardashian

BeeMaster2 · June 02, 2015, 01:27:30 PM

I used a pole bucket to drop a swarm, no protection. My buddy, all worried, that I had a thousand bee on my head and back. Didn't get a single sting. One week later, I did the same thing. This time while I was emptying the bucket they were tearing my head up. Good thing I do not usually react to them because I took a lot of stings to the scalp. 30 minutes later you could not tell that I had been stung.
Jim

D Coates · June 02, 2015, 06:12:29 PM

Used a pole bucket last week for the first time. It was at least 20ft up on a decent limb but nowhere near ladder worthy. It took me a while but I finally got it once I got directly under it. It was a big one and I always had overflow dropping towards me. It looked bad as I looked up and saw the clumps falling towards me. The clumps broke up and flew away before they hit me. I flinched the first time I saw it but didn't after that.