Right between the eyes.

sohner

sohner

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Ouch!

Right between the eyes...

The little bugger came right at me with little warning.

Smack dab with the stinger pointed point blank.

You can imagine the moment nothing you could do but suffer the outcome.

The moment it hit me I realized the rest of the day was going to be with narrowed vision. The drive home was at least a two hour drive home. I made it but it goes to show that you never know what will happen durning the day.

Right betixed the eyes....

Be prepared!!

What lesson did I learn good question what lesson have you learned?

The Bee factor is something that we all have to contend with. I was happy to have the sting on the ground. I had ice in the lunch box and let me tell you it helped me to survive the ordeal. It's not the first time I've been stung and I'm sure it will not be the last but from now on ice in the lunch bucket.

BEE SAFE
 
Wow! Makes me cringe just reading about it!

Something like that can make the rest of the day (and the drive home) pretty miserable.

Lesson? You can bee stung - note: get full body bee suit
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Hope you're better now - smart thinking about the ice!
 
Ouch! Lucky it wasn't just a little to the left or right. Did you have on eye pro? Bee careful out there. We're running short on living legends of Arboriculture.
 
no fun for sure. I have been stung (among other places) in the septum of my nose by a yellowjacket, and in the adams apple by a mud dauber. A fellow climber once dropped his rope snap into the blackberries beneath his tree, and as he was peering down to see where it landed, watched ground hornets swarm out of the duff and start coming up the tree!

Once, while moonlighting for a HVAC company, we went to install an attic fan. I set up the ladder, pushed the attic crawlspace cover up, and shined my light in. Like a seen from a horror movie, there was a giant wasp nest. It went from the cieling joists to the rafters and completely covered the gable end, insects crawling everywhere. I told my friend, he took one look, and had us pack up. He told the homeowner to call us back after the exterminator was done.
 
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The Bee factor is something that we all have to contend with.... It's not the first time I've been stung and I'm sure it will not be the last but from now on ice in the lunch bucket.

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Ice ... AND a box (or baggie) of baking soda.

Make a paste with a bit of water and some baking soda.
Put it on the bite (any bite or rash: mosquito, poison ivy, etc.) and the pain/itch will stop immediately.

The soda neutralizes/buffers the reaction that causes the discomfort.


Good stuff and inexpensive.

Here's some other uses for baking soda that many people don't know about:
http://www.i4at.org/lib2/60soda.htm



-Diane
 
Yep, treework can alter your appearance. Fortunately bee stings go away later. I should probably raise my bee awareness, I haven't been too watchful lately. My son got nailed several times last year dragging brush over a yellow jacket nest. That really sucked, he has a pretty strong reaction to stings and poison ivy and stuff.

You always have the best avatars Robert.
 
Had a run in with bees a couple weeks ago, in a large Tulip Poplar tree. I was removing a large dead lead over a path and had gotten most of it off (except the last stub) when I noticed them. I moved back outa the way luckly didnt get stung. I had a run in with that same nest two years ago. was on SRT going up and noticed the swarm. Quickly got onto a Figure 8 and decended
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. two days later we poured 15 gal of methel ethal bug be dead in the hole
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. And went back the next day to do the pruning, and had no problems. But they were back this year. Didnt expect that. Thats what happens when you start out first thing in the morning, you dont see things like that in your pre climb because the bees were not active. Pre climb doesnt stop when you start climbing always be aware of whats around you.
 
i was spur climbin with a flip line to set my tip after a marbar session and came face to face with like a billion wood bees last week! i didn't panic, i mean what would getting scared really do other than get me stung, i just cruised right by them talking sweet and low the whole time telling them i wasn't there to hurt them; i was just going to move their nest to the forest floor. after setting my tie in and descending to finish the removal, i noticed they really didn't like my rope and attacked it almost none stop until i dropped the lead with the nest in it into the abyss. i still wonder why i or any of my ground men didn't get stung.
 
This is why I often jug as opposed to spur up a tree even if sometimes setting a line is harder than walking up. Not only for the comfort level in my feet at the end of the day, but I'm allergic to yellowjackets so the ability to get down fast is always in the back of my mind. I try to take the extra time to keep my rope managed and keep an escape route ready.
Even after a year and a half of immunotherapy and the epi pen in the bag: I get nailed, I'm coming down. Period. At least for the perfunctory waiting period to see if I'm going to react.
Also, cheking for hornets nests above and yellow jacket nests near the work site definitely ARE part of my preclimb inspection. You learn to key into those holes in the ground even if they aren't active in the morning.
Can't say as I've ever been stung in the face though! That must really suck. I hope I don't ever get to figure out how much...
 
I was out running one afternoon, inhaling through the mouth, sucked one in and he nailed me in the back of the throat. That was the worst for me, getting the stinger out was the second worst. Ever since that sting my reactions to bees has gotten worse and worse to the point of swelling up like a ballon! On the ground or in the air, I'm always looking for nests!!!!!
 
Record the time. Collect an insect. Monitor your reaction. Two trips to the hospital. Five years of bee sting therapy. Bees, wasps, and stinging vespids (covered for scorps too) Its not like I'm getting stung reaching for the cooler. Onezies and twozies are ok but jackets comming out of a ground nest is real bad. Face stings are serious.
Cheap thrill and kind of jumpy. Hang in there.
 
Was working with a logger who was allergic to bees every time we came to a dead tree we rapped it a couple times with the axes to see if anything comes out up top or anyplace. Still work with him and to this day joke about stabbing the needle in him, but as said by many No tree is worth dieing for no madder how much it's worth.
 
the epi-pen will buy some time. not all its cracked up to be. I stuck my leg after being stung 10+ times by jackets. Hives, itchy groin,armpits, and vision effected. didnt really do it for me. in the ambulance they gave me a big dose of epinepheren. Lots of twitching and heart rate all over the place. benedryll, O2 up the nose, ice on the face, and saline/plasma. it takes about 3 hours to cool out. it is exausting. like i said cheap thrill.
 
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