OOPS, I did it again !

BeeHopper · April 07, 2008, 01:25:37 PM

Saturday,I did not don the hat and veil when I went around my hives to close up the bottom entrances at dusk (they now have top entrances ) What would be the harm, I ask ? Well, I got stung just above the eye and just above my top lip ( What, you girls don't like the NEW front door ???). Fast forward to Sunday morning, my entire face was swollen, one eye was completely swollen shut and the other I was able to see thru the slit, my top lip was hanging over my bottom lip, my Mother was about to dial 911 and my Brother was in tears from laughter. I went in to work this morning and everyone was like this : :shock: :shock: :shock: Yeah, another day in a Beekeeper"s life.

:-D I still love my girls.

Rachel · April 07, 2008, 09:18:50 PM

OUCH! I am NOT looking forward to that!! Hope you're ok.

BeeHopper · April 07, 2008, 09:43:58 PM

Quote from: Rachel on April 07, 2008, 09:18:50 PM
OUCH! I am NOT looking forward to that!! Hope you're ok.

I tend to get lazy and not wear the veil, sooner or later, a bee will remind me why I should, and that goes for everyone. Stings on the hands and wrists are nothing, but the face is another story ( for me anyway ) No matter how docile your girls seem to be, there is always one or two that will chalk one up for the team. I still have some swelling which should be gone by tomorrow. :-D

Alan Forbes · April 07, 2008, 10:28:45 PM

Sorry for your pain, BeeHopper. I can only imagine how the sting, swelling and itching feel on the face. Can you see out of the one swollen eye? Did you get any sympathy points at work.

I also sustained an injury yesterday, but it was nowhere near a beehive.

reinbeau · April 07, 2008, 10:32:16 PM

Fight with a bobcat?

johnnybigfish · April 07, 2008, 11:06:10 PM

Hoowee, Beehopper!!
Beestings just Crack me Up!
Do you still have time to get a pic? :)
I'm like you when it comes to veils and suits and stuff..Just TOO much trouble! AND I pay for it too!...I'm the kind of person though, who when I get stung, I figure if it makes people laugh, it makes me laff too!
I bet your brother and me would have a gas watching you at work with your bees!!

I'm always wondering when ones gonna get up my nose.
The most common attempts at beestings from my bees are when a bee lodges in between my face and my glasses! I usually swat my glasses right of my face!..Then I walk away kinda fast(ok,...maybe I run...but we all know "Professionals" dont run!)...one day I'm gonna run then step on my glasses! Then I'll do like your co-workers.... :shock:
Good luck with not "Using protection!" I like your attitude!

your friend,
john

BeeHopper · April 08, 2008, 12:36:35 PM

Quote from: johnnybigfish on April 07, 2008, 11:06:10 PM
Hoowee, Beehopper!!
Beestings just Crack me Up!
Do you still have time to get a pic? :)
I'm like you when it comes to veils and suits and stuff..Just TOO much trouble! AND I pay for it too!...I'm the kind of person though, who when I get stung, I figure if it makes people laugh, it makes me laff too!
I bet your brother and me would have a gas watching you at work with your bees!!

I'm always wondering when ones gonna get up my nose.
The most common attempts at beestings from my bees are when a bee lodges in between my face and my glasses! I usually swat my glasses right of my face!..Then I walk away kinda fast(ok,...maybe I run...but we all know "Professionals" dont run!)...one day I'm gonna run then step on my glasses! Then I'll do like your co-workers.... :shock:
Good luck with not "Using protection!" I like your attitude!

your friend,
john

I have had some co-workers advise me to quit Beekeeping, they say it could kill me. :roll:

So let it bee :-D

deejaycee · April 09, 2008, 07:45:54 PM

c'mon.. we want pics!

trade ya...

Apis629 · April 09, 2008, 08:41:32 PM

Heh, I was stung in my left eyebrow about a month after I first got my bees, when I decided it would be a good idea to shine a flash light through an upper entrance and see what was going on... oddly enough, it didn't swell that much, then again, I have narrow-ish eyes to begin with.

rast · April 09, 2008, 09:11:03 PM

I've got to add my story. Been around bee hives all my life growing up in the orange groves in central Fl. Just leave them alone and they leave you alone. Got bit by the bee bug by watching a feral hive and reading this website (Y'alls fault). I called David Micsa and asked if he would sell me a "nuc". He said show up at 7am Sat. I took my wifes Explorer cause I didn't want them sliding around in the back of my pickup. He smokes a med hive and sets it in the back. No veil or protection of any kind. I said, uh, aren't you gonna screen em in? "They'll be OK, did you bring a veil?" Nope. He throws one on the passenger seat and say's "just in case". Real reassuring. About 2 miles down the road I see a few bees on the rear window, realised how warm it was in there. I turned the AC on full blast. I like to have froze but the remander stayed in the hive. Got me in a bad habit, I don't think twice about opening them without a veil. Been careful and lucky.

BeeHopper · April 09, 2008, 09:17:01 PM

Quote from: deejaycee on April 09, 2008, 07:45:54 PM
c'mon.. we want pics!

trade ya...

So sorry, no pics, just a bunch of laughs and a new name at work " Chipmonk" :roll:

Maybe next time when I'm stupid again. :-D

BeeHopper · April 09, 2008, 09:21:54 PM

Quote from: rast on April 09, 2008, 09:11:03 PM
I've got to add my story. Been around bee hives all my life growing up in the orange groves in central Fl. Just leave them alone and they leave you alone. Got bit by the bee bug by watching a feral hive and reading this website (Y'alls fault). I called David Micsa and asked if he would sell me a "nuc". He said show up at 7am Sat. I took my wifes Explorer cause I didn't want them sliding around in the back of my pickup. He smokes a med hive and sets it in the back. No veil or protection of any kind. I said, uh, aren't you gonna screen em in? "They'll be OK, did you bring a veil?" Nope. He throws one on the passenger seat and say's "just in case". Real reassuring. About 2 miles down the road I see a few bees on the rear window, realised how warm it was in there. I turned the AC on full blast. I like to have froze but the remander stayed in the hive. Got me in a bad habit, I don't think twice about opening them without a veil. Been careful and lucky.

Wow, you know David Miksha :-D I'm surprised he's still in the bee biz. Have you read his brother, Ron's book, " Bad Beekeeping " It's a good read. It's about his life as a Beek up in Val Marie, Canada. He gave it up years ago, but I believe he is still living in Canada.

BH

johnnybigfish · April 09, 2008, 09:40:10 PM

Deejaycee!!!
Thats a good one!!!!
I got stung just yesterday...Its not bad tho this time.It only looks as if I've had a mild stroke..

Last good sting i got gave me the name "Hop Sing"!
If you go to an older thread titled "Sting Face" you'll see alot of us with our battle scars!!
My wife and i go there every now and then just to bust out laffing!!
Its funnier than "Home made videos" on tv! It will REALLY make water pour out of you eyes viewing these pics! I hyperventilate and the back of my heads feels funny i laff so hard...My wife laffs so hard that she SNORTS AND crys at the same time looking at them!
Go ahead.... take a look! :-D

your friend,
john

rast · April 09, 2008, 09:45:24 PM

David has his queen business about 5 miles from me. No, haven't read the book yet, but will. Small country towns where we live, least they used to be. His son is helping him with the business.

Agility Mom · April 09, 2008, 10:13:20 PM

It's funny when it happens to someone else. Sorry about your big puffy face- the face is the worst place for a sting!
I laughed outloud at John's description of the eyeglasses caper-You "professional" beekeepers are made of stouter stuff than I am - I run.

johnnybigfish · April 10, 2008, 11:23:34 PM

Agility mom,
I'll tell you the truth....I RUN!!!..And FLAIL!!!..and cuss too!!
And in the background, I can hear my wife saying,"John, you know the book says dont swat or flail.....The book says, Run around in figure eights"!!!!
Now, picture this....250(ok, 243)lbs of "Muscle and Love"(my wife likes that part) flopping all around the yard, tearing veil and shirt off, running toward ANYBODY or ANYTHING(including dogs) to try and distract the attacking bees from me to them......And THEY know what I'm doing!!!..Paul and Janelle are both screaming like little girls for me to stay away from them and the dogs are all diving under the house..And I'm left running around in "Figure eights"!
Then, when that fiasco is finally over everbody stares at me to see if I'm gonna have an A-Fib attack.
Its a "Circus side show" at my house!!!!!
And,.... :)......I havent even opened a hive box yet!!!!
This is what I've learned to do so far in my one year of beekeeping!! And I just cant get enuff of it!!!

your friend,
john

LocustHoney · April 11, 2008, 05:55:29 PM

That was HILARIOUS!!!! I will read that last post a couple of more times. I always wonder what it is like to watch myself do things like that. What do the neighbors think??? Thanks for sharing Johnny.

BeeHopper · April 11, 2008, 06:18:12 PM

Quote from: johnnybigfish on April 10, 2008, 11:23:34 PM
Agility mom,
I'll tell you the truth....I RUN!!!..And FLAIL!!!..and cuss too!!
And in the background, I can hear my wife saying,"John, you know the book says dont swat or flail.....The book says, Run around in figure eights"!!!!
Now, picture this....250(ok, 243)lbs of "Muscle and Love"(my wife likes that part) flopping all around the yard, tearing veil and shirt off, running toward ANYBODY or ANYTHING(including dogs) to try and distract the attacking bees from me to them......And THEY know what I'm doing!!!..Paul and Janelle are both screaming like little girls for me to stay away from them and the dogs are all diving under the house..And I'm left running around in "Figure eights"!
Then, when that fiasco is finally over everbody stares at me to see if I'm gonna have an A-Fib attack.
Its a "Circus side show" at my house!!!!!
And,.... :)......I havent even opened a hive box yet!!!!
This is what I've learned to do so far in my one year of beekeeping!! And I just cant get enuff of it!!!

your friend,
john

Wow :lol: I'd like to see you do that Scuba Diving. SHARK !