LEARNED THE HARD WAY

[fiveson]

I Installed two packages of bees on Friday. While wearing gloves I got stung four times on the same finger - in basically the same spot. It was my ring finger.

I have never noticed anyone referencing not wearing a ring when you handle bees.

Two days later I cut my ring off my finger. I have never felt such relief.

One of our brethren who is near to where I live suggested wearing rubber surgical gloves, said they have never stung him through those.

I tried it today... seemed to work!

My finger really looked terrible - its ok now.

Learned a good lesson though. If you work with bees you shouldnt be married. :roll:

[TwT]

you know alot of them surgical gloves have powder on them, I heard people say if you put some baby powder on your hands before you start, bee's are less likely to sting? , just something I heard before.

[fiveson]

The baby powder is inside the glove.

[TwT]

it is but with all them in the box , you know it got all over them because there not sealed

[fuzzybeekeeper]

Getting stung 4 times at the same place had nothing to do with your ring. (although I'm sure some would like to use that for an excuse)  The first bee stung you there by chance and in doing so left an alarm scent.  The other bees sensed the scent and "attacked" and stung the same spot because of the scent.  

If you are stung and have your smoker lit, you can blow 5 or 6 puffs of heavy smoke over the area and that will mask the smell so the rest of the bees don't "attack" that area.

It's a shame you had to cut your ring off.  I guess that's better than loosing a finger, though.

Fuzzybeekeeper

[Rabbitdog]

"If you work with bees, you shouldn't be married"

Sounds logical to me.  Sort of like when one tree in the neighborhood falls down, the rest of the people have all of their trees cut down ......... so they can't fall down on their own of course. :shock:  
A ton of prevention is worth a grain of cure (or something like that).

[leominsterbeeman]

I have a wife,  but I see less of her now that I have 100,000 girlfriends in one place.  

I too go stung on my ring finger (just once)  I immediatly pulled my ring off and put it in my pocket,  I didn't want the swelling to have me cut off my wedding band.  

I can get away with taking it off of a few days, but if I cut it off,  I would be divorced.  

I have beekeeping glove that I wear and the only problem that I see with them is that I need to light the smoker (with lighter) before I put the gloves on.  Just yesterday a little lady was trying to sting me thrugh the lambskin gloves.  She left her stinger in the glove, but not in me.

[Jerrymac]

After the first marrage went..... Well us southerners can't say South. And Robo don't like me picking on the Norht east..... Anyway my last two marrages didn't include a ring. If the love can't keep you together then the ring sure can't. Besides, I don't like jewlry.

[pardee]

I don’t wear gloves when I install packages, it’s one of the few times I don’t, the only time I get stung is when I’m shaking them out of the box I trap one between my hand and the box and the bee rewards me for not paying attention.

[AdmiralD]

Learned a good lesson though. If you work with bees you shouldnt be married. : Rolling Eyes:

I haven't read what everyone else has said, but this struck me as funny...Cus you know how girls are when it comes to thier man....You fool around with more than one girl and you will get stung!  

:P

[Robo]

After the first marrage went..... Well us southerners can't say South. And Robo don't like me picking on the Norht east..... Anyway my last two marrages didn't include a ring. If the love can't keep you together then the ring sure can't. Besides, I don't like jewlry.

Though I'm still hopefully on my first and only marriage :lol: Jerry, your not a lone,  my wedding band went in the jewelry box the day after our wedding and has been there ever since.  It actually would have saved us a bunch of money if my wife would have done the same (all the bent prong repairs, lost stones, yada yada yada........)