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!!!

[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

[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 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 "*AAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGH* mother FUCKER" after which it falls out 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...?