Bees swarm kills a person

[Shotgun]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bee-swarm-in-texas-kills-one-person-and-hospitalizes-another/ar-BB1g7sSv?ocid=entnewsntp

Terrible story. This place is about 100 miles west of Fort Worth.

[TheNewbie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bee-swarm-in-texas-kills-one-person-and-hospitalizes-another/ar-BB1g7sSv?ocid=entnewsntp

Terrible story. This place is about 100 miles west of Fort Worth.


Man so sad. Last year I was greeted by bees covering part of my front porch.


A local preacher came out and got them.

[Joe in PNG]

Having a swarm of bees move into my house is a longstanding phobia of mine, and not uncommon here in PNG.

A few years back, I stayed at a nice guest house in Kudjip PNG, and sure enough, there was a nest of bees in the bathroom wall. I had to carefully sweep the bees off the floor whenever I needed to use the restroom, and leave the light off.

[Borderland]

Years ago I found a bunch, maybe 50, dead hornets in my bedroom. Apparently they came thru the ceiling but died eating all that sheet rock. The next day I got on the roof and found the hive entrance. I took most of them out with spray. Wasn't going into the crawl space/attic with a hive of hornets in there. Nope. I've been stung by hornets enough to know when it's prudent to have an exit strategy.

[VT1032]

I may have shot a wasps nest with a pellet gun when was maybe 9 or 10 while I was out messing around in the woods with my brother. Turns out wasps don't fuck around. We each ended up with 20+ stings and my parents were still picking live wasps out of my hair an hour later. On the plus side, we found out how fast we could run, which turned out to be pretty fast.

[BobLoblaw]

I had a nest of bald faced hornets (mean little bastards) in my flower bed. I should've known it was there since my dog had been stung in the vicinity a week earlier but I'm an idiot. Anyway, I was mowing the grass and something flew in my face but I thought I'd just kicked up some debris or something. Then they came for me. Now, luckily, I was wearing pants and a long sleeve shirt w/ built-in hood so I only was stung once even though there were lots of them still in my clothes as I ripped them off in my driveway. Back to the mower: I'm also lazy and the control lever is tight so I just slide a zip tie over it. Once I realized these are stinger-assed things attacking me and bailed, the mower kept running due to the zip tie. Observed for a minute and decided I wasn't going back out since they were super pissed and it was clearly near the hive. Once it finally ran out of gas, I went back to retrieve the mower which had made the world's largest hornet salad. Then I sprayed all around just in case because those things are bad to the bone.

[Borderland]

I may have shot a wasps nest with a pellet gun when was maybe 9 or 10 while I was out messing around in the woods with my brother. Turns out wasps don't fuck around. We each ended up with 20+ stings and my parents were still picking live wasps out of my hair an hour later. On the plus side, we found out how fast we could run, which turned out to be pretty fast.

Seen that, multiple stings with several people I worked with. Had to take one guy to the hospital because his head was the size of a basket ball. Then he tells me he's allergic. My question was why he wasn't prepared for that or maybe not even working in the woods during the summer in first place?

[Joe in PNG]

Ages ago, I was weedeating a scrapyard at my college. I spotted a yellowjacket perched on a discarded aluminum screen door frame, and pondered popping him with the trimmer.

Happily, wisdom intervened, and I went back for the wasp spray. I gave him, and the inside of the square tubing a good shot of spray, and it was like the dying yellowjacket faucet was turned on. Hundreds of the suckers poured out of the tube to flop down and die twitching on the ground.

And I was very happy to avoid the potential consequences of my first inclination.

[Caballoflaco]

The only good thing about being attacked by a swarm of bees is that it’s one of the few times in life where the correct response is to scream “BEES!” and run away as fast as you can. In other situations you have to calm down and actually do stuff like stop drop and roll if you’re on fire. Or apply direct pressure or a tq if you’re bleeding heavily.

But, not with bees. Nope, screaming like a frightened child and hauling ass away while smacking yourself and tearing off your clothes like you’re on PCP generally takes care of the problem.

Well, unless you’re on a ladder or riding a motorcycle or doing something else that’s dangerous. But, as long as you’re on flat ground and don’t have a chainsaw in your hands...

[blues]

The only good thing about being attacked by a swarm of bees is that it’s one of the few times in life where the correct response is to scream “BEES!” and run away as fast as you can. In other situations you have to calm down and actually do stuff like stop drop and roll if you’re on fire. Or apply direct pressure or a tq if you’re bleeding heavily.

But, not with bees. Nope, screaming like a frightened child and hauling ass away while smacking yourself and tearing off your clothes like you’re on PCP generally takes care of the problem.

Well, unless you’re on a ladder or riding a motorcycle or doing something else that’s dangerous. But, as long as you’re on flat ground and don’t have a chainsaw in your hands...

I was doing a climb years ago in the Shawangunks in NY, and put my hand into a crack that turned out to be a hornet's nest. I was too high up to go anywhere so I just pressed my face against the rock and remarkably, I wasn't stung. Another time there was a small copperhead, I was low enough to jump back without concern for falling down the face if my belayer wasn't ready.

[trailrunner]

I have a special fear of bees. My mom said it probably came from when I was about 3 or 4 years old. We where living on Whidbey Island at the time, and there were a lot of bees around. I spent a lot of time outside romping around with the neighborhood kids, and I remember encountering a few bees. She told me that one time one got into our laundry, and when I went to put my pants or underwear on, it stung me in the groin. Yeah, if that happens when you are four and your manhood is just getting started, that will leave a lifetime scar.

[blues]

I have a special fear of bees. My mom said it probably came from when I was about 3 or 4 years old. We where living on Whidbey Island at the time, and there were a lot of bees around. I spent a lot of time outside romping around with the neighborhood kids, and I remember encountering a few bees. She told me that one time one got into our laundry, and when I went to put my pants or underwear on, it stung me in the groin. Yeah, if that happens when you are four and your manhood is just getting started, that will leave a lifetime scar.

When I was a kid at roughly a year or two older than you, we were at a cabin up in the Catskills and some older kids let me shoot their BB gun...but I had to shoot at what they told me. Unbeknownst to me, it was a beehive. Only got stung once, on top of the head, but it was pretty traumatic as my mother dug the stinger out.

[Joe in PNG]

The family homestead was located in the middle of a lot of orange groves, near a small lake in Central Florida. My folks used to lease to bee keepers, which did lead to us getting stung a couple of times. Especially when we went to view a bee swarm barefoot.