bee stings!!

[ratusratus]

Ive had some good ones but bloody hell i had one on the under bit of my wrist today and bugger me it was sore and its still swollen!!!
and before the tree huggers get on my case yes i had gloves on but the bee must have found a new way to get in!!!
:doh:

[Pixie]

I made the mistake of trying to cut off one of those little asian paper wasp nests on my water tank.I though that the little buggers were placid,but one climbed onto my hand from below and stung me on the wrist.
I though a bloody red hot poker had been stuck through it.Nothing like a bee sting.

[Wasp]

I had the visor up yesterday and something bee size hit me square in the head, hurt/stung pretty bad.

[MidnightMike]

Try sitting on a nest the size of your hand :moon:

[gamgee]

ohhh, damn bugs, had one of those huge bumble bees fly into my neck last year sometime, it proceeded to fall down the neck of my jacket and and stop on my stomach, so me riding along a road i couldn't stop on, feeling this giant bee crawling round on my stomach :crazy: started shaking the shit out of my tshirt trying to get it untucked then trying to get the damn thing out the bottom of my jacket, waving my ass in the air, shaking, hardly concentrating on the road, then i heard it's phsycotic fit come to an end bzzzzzzzzzzzzbzzzzzbzbzbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz then me :mega: "*AAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGH* mother FUCKER" after which it falls out :clap: get to my destination, feeling like my stomach is burning, check out the damage and there is a giant swollen red lump, it bugged the hell out of me for about a week!

[froggyfrenchman]

i got a bee in the temple riding with the visor up. it didnt sting right away, but got me a beaut when i tried to take helmet off 30km down the road!

[unhingedlizard]

got one in the forehead today, few the day before that. Ones in ears, between fingers and under fingernails hurt.

[Waylander]

Had one catch me right on my adams apple once. Hurt like fuck and couldn't talk for a few days.

[Big Dave]

They are cumulative too - some of it stays in your system and every one you get hurts more than the previous one - until it can become quite serious toxic shock.
I got one down the collar last week.

[thehollowmen]

I felt something hit my face and my right eye went fuzzy and I thought I'd lost a contact lens...
I was only 15 minutes from home so I kept riding, but it didn't feel as though my lens had popped out. When I stopped at the petrol station the guy gave me a funny look and I didn't think anything of it except maybe I was fumbling about not being able to see properly.

So I looked in the mirror when I get home to see if the contact lens was still there and just wonky but it was in place. Crawling around under my contact lens was this bug about six mm long and black and eewww my vents are now closed as I go past the wetlands.

I've also had a wasp under leather pants and they sting many times and that wasn't nice.

[Goblin]

Have had beestings on the temple and under the helmet strap but by far the worst was a bumble bee up the sleeve. Swelled up from my knuckles to my elbow so my arm looked like a rugby ball.
Worst bugs are huhu beetles at night, they explode with a mighty "THOCK" and make a huge mess where ever they hit.

[Monsterbishi]

The bugs have been feeling my wrath over the last 3 weeks, I've been putting in some long hours wiring up a car for a guy for this years rally season, on the way there one day, I copped a bumblebee to the neck@80kph which ended up down in my jacket, I felt a buzz around my shoulder so I just smacked it - bee guts galore...

About 30 seconds later, another huge bumblebee ends it's life by impacting directly into the helmet vent in front of my mouth, it sprayed up in a vapourised form all over my face, all over the inside of my visor, and a large chunk wedged at the top.

That'll teach 'em.

Had a large number of misc helmet hits, quite a few where you get that "SPONK!" sound as they hit - makes me glad I hardly ever ride with a open visor.

[Karma]

I had one hit me in the next on a paihia trip a few months back... doing about $1.20 on a bit of road, BAM!, bee in the next.

That stung for a bit I'll tell ya.

[Aiolos]

One got inside my helmet as I was riding to Alexandra on boxing day, got the bastard out before it stung me though.

Worst experience I have ever had was hiking in beech forest at the top of the south island, Wasn't watching close enough and stood in a wasp nest. Ouch.

[crashe]

Yep I have been stung twice now on both wrists...

Once heading up to Helensville - That one took weeks to disappear and not hurt.

Second one was in Whitianga (Coro Loop) I ended up riding one handed as the other hand was holding the right wrist and stopping the venom travelling up the arm..

Damn hard riding when you get stung on the right wrist...
hurts everytime you pull on the brake... as thats pumping the vemon up...

Yep I too was wearing gloves on both occassions...

First time I had my jacket open a little... but no the little fucker had to find its way up a small hole and sting the fark out of me..
Second time again.. it was like WTF....

You sure do stop real fast once you realise what has happened.

Its like how the hell do they do that...?

[ManDownUnder]

Yeah they're exciting all right. I rode through a swarm years ago... I had no idea what it was til the last second.

The oval "shape" was in really soft focus and I was riding towards it. It was surreal like an image in the tv where they really finely pixellate out the face of someone to the point you can see it's a face, but have no chance of recognising it.

Anyhoo - I was lucky enough to realise what was going on and flipped down the visor and ducked down behind the fairing of the GPz550 I had at the time... straight through 'em without a sting! I heard them rattling off the lid and bike for 1/2 a second then all clear

Blardy lucky and highly memorable.

[Flyingpony]

Reading all of these posts make me think I'm lucky, very lucky.

Worst insect incident in the past 4 years was last year when a blow fly hit helmet below the visor and proceeded seconds later to do the fly dance inside the helmet.

Also frequently commute with visor up. Haven't had any bugs in the eye, just dust.

[snuffles]

not pleasant, had one stinng my face ..... buy christ it hurt

[Madmax]

had a bee hit my helmet while riding at a highly illegal speed, the bugger
hit right on the top vent and broke it off didnt notice till i stoped for gas

[Finn]

Had one catch me right on my adams apple once. Hurt like fuck and couldn't talk for a few days.

Mate, you should ride a bit faster then!

[yungatart]

Had a bumble bee sting me in the neck once- it burned like acid and was sore, itchy and swollen for a couple of weeks. Must have looked hilarious when it happened tho. I was pillion on MSTRS's bike, we were with about 10 other bikes. I tapped him on the leg and asked him to stop- he says "yeah seen him already", thinking I'd said cop! MSTRS was leading the pack, he finally got the mesage and pulled over- everyone else does too. I leap off the bike, strip off jacket and start pouring water down my neck-ended up looking like a wet tshirt competition on highway 2. Got very strange looks from passing motorists for that one!

[S&S]

Had a Bee wiz into my helmet while do about 60 with visor up, got stuck down the side of my helmet near my temple, I started thumping my helmet trying to squash the bastard before it stung me.... Boy was I wrong in trying that, next day swollen face & black eye from the sting!

[Momentum]

I was working at a christian summer camp in the states last year.
was half asleep and rolled over onto a bee or a wasp and it stung me on the back.
Jumped up really F*$K that hurt. Woke the kids up OOPSY

Had to say sorry for my pottie mouth

[unhingedlizard]

They are cumulative too - some of it stays in your system and every one you get hurts more than the previous one - until it can become quite serious toxic shock.
I got one down the collar last week.


Thats not quite right. While some of the vemon stays in your system it disapates after about a week and you get used to them over time so they hurt less and less. Going from OK to having an anafalatic (sp?) shock takes years.

You can only get stung by a single bee once as well. the sting is barbed and the bee rips the sting and vemon sack out when it escapes. The vemon sack comtimues to punp vemon into you as long as the sting is stuck. Hot tip is to flick the sting out asap.

[yungatart]

It does NOT take years to develop anaphylactic shock- can happen in the first or second incident if you are allergic to the substance.

[Waylander]

Mate, you should ride a bit faster then!
Should have seen me going up the Waikato side of the Kaimais yesterday. Bottom to top in under a minute.

[Motu]

Took one in the eye a few years back,wearing my dirt helmet,the bee flipped under the peak and smacked my eye which I somehow closed in time.I was poleaxed on the tank,I damn near passed out with the pain.I scooped out liquid bee looking in the mirror,and the sting was in my eyelid,no way to get it out and I struggled home with one eye.It was really hard to get the sting out of the lid as there is no muscle tone,but we finaly got it out.I lay on the couch with an icepack and my wife gave me some homopathetics - I fully expected to look like elephant man the next day,but there was no swelling or bruising,no problems at all.

Way back,30 yrs and more ago,in seperate incidents years apart a couple of friends both ran into swarms in Coromandel,both were alergect to them and crashed as a result,one taking out a Landrover.Both on BSA singles.At one venue where we still hold trials in Wainui 2 years in a row we had bikes attacted by wasps,the bikes just had to be abandoned,the wasps were going for the bikes,not the riders.

[unhingedlizard]

It does NOT take years to develop anaphylactic shock- can happen in the first or second incident if you are allergic to the substance.



should have been clearer, sorry. If your allergic to the venom it can happen real early.

Yeah wasps are real bastards. when they are after sometime you cant stop the buggers.

And waylander, thats impressive :)

[Karma]

Aren't they attracted to the scent of a dead bee / wasp or something?

I was always told to make tracks if a wasp stung you as the smell would attract others who would also try and sting you.

Could be the bikes smelt of wasps they had hit, so the others went for them as well?

[Finn]

Should have seen me going up the Waikato side of the Kaimais yesterday. Bottom to top in under a minute.

You naughty, naughty boy... But good on yah!

[phantom]

Been stung by honey bees plenty of times and once disturbed a wasps nest when tramping at Waikaremoana and had more than 50 stings ( we counted ) but none hurt as much as stepping on a bumble bee in bare feet the other day. As I understand it only the honey bees sting is barbed, wasps will happily keep stinging you till one of you gets bored and bumble bees are non aggressive so will sting once then piss off

[MSTRS]

I made the mistake of trying to cut off one of those little asian paper wasp nests on my water tank.I though that the little buggers were placid,but one climbed onto my hand from below and stung me on the wrist.
I though a bloody red hot poker had been stuck through it.Nothing like a bee sting.
Asian paper wasps, placid?? NO WAY. They would be as aggressive as any of the stinging insects we have here. I've had several stings from them & it aint purty. Worst was in the same place as you - underside of wrist. Arm swelled up elbow to wrist, fingers like fat little sausages. Couldn't get a watch on for 3 days. And ITCH....bastardssss. Hatess them we doessss

[vifferman]

I've had only two (2) bee stings while riding - one was when I first rode the XBR500RS Mutant sans glubs, and one hit my hand and stung me before it died, and the other was just after I left home one day. I was riding the VFR750, and I almost always rode with the visor up and sunglasses on. It hit me in the nose, eliciting a mad scramble to brake to a halt, get my gloves off, take my sunnies off, then my helmet, then extract the B. Luckily, it stung me on the tip of the nose, the barb didn't go in deep, and it didn't spread at all.

However, I've been stung multiple times in the back of the neck by a wasp while not riding, and it was awful - felt like I'd been whacked with a piece of 4X2. I'd hate to have one of those in my helmet.

I hate it though when any insects get in my helmet. Last time was riding to Coro with Zed, and I got a midge or sandfly on the inside of my visor when I cracked it open to stop it fogging up. "No problemo!" I thought, and opened it wide to blow it out. I must ridden through a cloud of them just then, because I ended up with one under my eyelid, and a whole lot splattered inside the visor. Doesn't help that the fairing blade directs insects straight at my helmet.

[Crazy Steve]

Twice... once on the chin...And once on the back off my neck while ridin....

The quickest cure....Vinejar imedietley...

It really does work...

Crazy Steve

[Waylander]

Been stung by honey bees plenty of times and once disturbed a wasps nest when tramping at Waikaremoana and had more than 50 stings ( we counted ) but none hurt as much as stepping on a bumble bee in bare feet the other day. As I understand it only the honey bees sting is barbed, wasps will happily keep stinging you till one of you gets bored and bumble bees are non aggressive so will sting once then piss off
Think both the bumble bee and Honey bee leave thier stingers behind after to get more venom into you. Not sure could be one or the other but that, and the fact that they die shortly after stinging something, is why they bugger off after one.

[unhingedlizard]

Bees send off an alarm pheamone (sp?) when you disturb the hive. This is the same smell that gets sent out when you crush a bee or it leaves its sting in you (will run around the stung area). Other bees are attacted to this smell.

[TraD_MaN]

havent been stung on the road bike, only hit by bubble bees , i never knew they hit so hard :2thumbsup

only time i got stung was on a quad on the vindeyard when i was bird shooting, i was going down the vines way to fast :nono: and this wasp went straight up my sleve and buzzed around before stinging the heck out of my arm, so i paniced and slamed on the brakes ( whish did jack coz it was raning) and i ended up going head first into a post :weird: that kinda hurt :blank: learnt my lesson thoe... :hitcher:

[mini_me]

i was riding along with my leather half unzipped a few months back and I had a wasp fly into them and under my arm and proceeded to sting its way down and around my back before I could stop and roll around on the ground trying to squash the little fucker. musta looked funyn from behind swerving all over teh road hitting myself on the back then jumping off almost dropping my bike to start rolling around on the ground.
m/m

[sunhuntin]

had a bee fly up under the visor once....saw it out the corner of my eye. tryin to think howm i gonna get the lid off without anoying him? pull over and think for a second before i realise....open the visor! said visor flipped up, and bee buggered off leaving both of us happy.

left a monarch with a headache today after she flew into the visor. i went back to see if i could spot her, but didnt. sad really. love monarchs.

[Logic]

Yep, the little buggers find a way in and zap ya every time.

I think I actually prefer the ol' "bird in the nuts" compared to a bee sting.
A Sparrow came in at just the right angle and height and collected the jewels, nearly threw the bastard at a traffic sign.