Ever Been Chased by a Bee?

DayValleyDahlias · June 23, 2007, 02:21:48 AM

Well call me stupid...it was dusk, things looked to be quieting down at the hive...I meandered over, which I have done over the past 8 weeks or so...I noticed some small gnattype bugs on the outside of the hive...hhhmmm I thought, maybe I will rub some orange oil stuff on them so they will do away...so I got some of the stuff...put a dab on a burlap...an rubbed the outside of the top of the hive...bad idea...out from seemingly nowhere, came one girl...she buzzed my head and chased me all the way to the house...must have been a site...after a few minutes I went out tothe other side of the house to water...guess who found me! I went back inside til darkness fell! Live and learn... :shock:

doak · June 23, 2007, 03:06:27 AM

May have disturbed them by vibration. Plus the time it was made it worse. and yes, they will chase you.
I have one or two follow me several yds every time I work mine. Maybe one that was out in the field returning and didn't get any smoke. But after sundown is a bad time to try to do anything around the hive.
I think their defence mecanisum is higher at night than in day time. My thought.
doak

Michael Bush · June 23, 2007, 08:57:57 AM

>Ever been chased by a bee?

You mean today? Not yet.

Mici · June 23, 2007, 09:49:25 AM

Quote from: Michael Bush on June 23, 2007, 08:57:57 AM
>Ever been chased by a bee?

You mean today? Not yet.

exactly, LOL

DayValleyDahlias · June 23, 2007, 10:01:17 AM

HAHAHAHAHA :-D

Moonshae · June 23, 2007, 10:48:37 AM

Aren't they quite attracted to citrus? Someone here had a problem with chasing after using some sort of citrus shampoo, I remember.

beekeeperookie · June 23, 2007, 12:29:28 PM

I been chased at least twice, once after I hived a package went later that evening to retrieve the syrup can and a bee chased me and stung me, then this past week when working the hives got chased by a girl she got me :'(

Cindi · June 23, 2007, 01:05:16 PM

Sharon, ooooh ya, they can chase ya, and will do their best to get you. Never forget the time my husband wanted to get his beer that he forgot up around the apiary. I was working the hives and disturbing them, probably irritating them too, they probably thought I was a robber :evil:

He said that he saw the bee coming right for him. Yep, she was gonna get him. She stung him right between the eyes. He looked liked some kind of alien. The worst part was, that afternoon we had to go to a funeral......try and explain that one to people. Have a wonderful day, best of this life, the sun is gonna shine, after days and days of rain. Cindi

DayValleyDahlias · June 23, 2007, 05:57:46 PM

Oh gosh Cindi, sorry but that story made me laogh out loud hahahahaha :-D

Mici · June 23, 2007, 06:31:46 PM

Quote from: Cindi on June 23, 2007, 01:05:16 PM
The worst part was, that afternoon we had to go to a funeral......try and explain that one to people.

ain't that a truth!!!
swelling stings MUST occur, one day prior to event of some kind, where there'll be lot's of photographs and people...

i'd say that besides getting stund in the fingers 90% of other sting places were either the eyes or the nose, got stung in the nose just today!

beeginner · June 23, 2007, 07:19:04 PM

Man oh man have I ever been chased. Ive been chased all most a mile down the road. I woud stop and get and to see and thay was still after me. Thay was hiting the windshild and that was only the 2et week after I got started with bees lol. It was just right up the road from me. Now I have the hives all requeend for the lady that had the swarm. Now there a lot better thay might get after me for about 8 feet. But she had not done any thing with the hives in 2 or so years.

Moonshae · June 23, 2007, 09:36:57 PM

I don't know if this counts as "chased" since the bee flew maybe 1 inch, but I pried up my inner covers today to put in the cheap wooden entrance reducers to create a top entrance. The first hive had no problems whatsoever. I pulled up the top cover without a hive tool, no smoke, no problems. The second hive, I had to go get the hive tool even to get it loose. I pried it loose, and walked away, since there were more bees there at the top than the other hive. When I walked back, all of the girls seemingly ducked down inside, so i thought all was clear. I reached over to put the reducer near the edge, and the bee zipped up from between the two closest frames, landed on my thumb, and stung before I even knew what was going on. She was stuck there, too, I had to shake my hand several times to dislodge her, then I picked out the stinger. My thumb is a little sore and a little swollen, but nothing terrible. My first sting, too. :(

DayValleyDahlias · June 24, 2007, 12:17:38 AM

Your first sting Moon?? Oh my...hope it doesn't cause you too much grief...we bee folk are a funny lot!

JP · June 24, 2007, 01:49:42 AM

Michael's comment reminded me of the time I asked a neighbor if he had seen any deer lately. His answer was, not since this morning. :-D

DayValleyDahlias · June 24, 2007, 02:24:47 AM

:-D

Cindi · June 24, 2007, 01:34:21 PM

Mici, how is your nose? Do you look like Pinnochio yet? Have a wonderful day, greatest of lives. Cindi

Mici · June 24, 2007, 04:27:40 PM

hehehehe Cindi!! naaah, i just heat my knife and press it on the spot of stinging. it really helps. but if i get an "eye shot" i do both, the heated knife and plantain. helps 100% i swell a bit for about 2 hours, but there's no swelling the next morning and stuff.

Brian D. Bray · June 24, 2007, 11:45:24 PM

I have been chased by bees so many times that i can't begin to remember them all. I have to reduce it down to the more memorable ones--like the time I was 14 and was hired to work a hive that hadn't bee worked in 5 years. That hive was BIG and MEAN. They ended up chasing me 2 blocks down the street and my Dad counted 379 seperate bee stings. I got real sick, but I didn't give up beekeeping. That is one you remember.

DayValleyDahlias · June 25, 2007, 02:20:23 AM

379??????? :shock: :shock:Yowsers...you are one dedicated beek!