Also another thing to add if you dont want to get the stinger out and dont have anything. Tabaco ciggerette tabacco work great leave it on for 1 hour cover with band aide and it will pull it out on its own or put it on for 15 minutes then do the credit card. Works ever time for me and my gang.

Jumping in a body of water(pool) is also supposed to work to drive the bees off.

 Quote: Cameron Feathers

How many times has he been stung? The first time the exposure occurs, there is no reaction, it's the second or third time. (BOdy has to develop the allergy) If he's been stung a few times, I wouldn't worry so much.

Well, he's been eating two or three a day for about a week now, so I guess he'll be alright...

 Quote: Stephanie St Julian

Also another thing to add if you dont want to get the stinger out and dont have anything. Tabaco ciggerette tabacco work great leave it on for 1 hour cover with band aide and it will pull it out on its own or put it on for 15 minutes then do the credit card. Works ever time for me and my gang.

That will get the stinger out but only after it's pumped a lot of venom in. You want to get the stinger out as quickly as possible because the venom sack at the base of the stinger is still pumping even after the stinger is pulled from the bee. Less venom = less pain, swelling and/or allergic reaction. You especially want to get the stinger out quickly if the person is allergic.

 Quote: Cathy Goessman

Jumping in a body of water(pool) is also supposed to work to drive the bees off.

That works OK with domesticated honeybees, wasps, hornets and bumblebees but not Africanized honeybees. Afrcianized bees will stay vigilant for several hours.

When I was 3, I was stung 27 times by a wasp that flew up my pantleg. When I was 6, a wasp hive fell on my shoulder in the shed, and I was stung more than 50 times. When I was about 10, I stepped on a ground beehive, and was stung 253 times (that we counted).

Needless to say, if I see a bee/wasp/hornet, the dog and I are outta there. My wife wakes me up 2-3 times per week because I still have terrible nightmares about bees.

Honey bees reproduce colonies by swarming. Meaning the old queen and thousands of workers will leave the hive and look for a new home. They will often land on a tree limb in a giant clump usually the size of a basketball or sometimes even a beach ball while scouts go looking for a new place to start a colony. The way to collect them when they do this is to take a plastic trash bag, put that over the clump and shake them off into the bag. You can then dump them into a hive.

I was doing that once while reaching up to get at a swarm that had landed over my head in an apple tree and didn't see a second clump just above the one I was working with. When I shook the limb the secondary clump landed on my arms (I was doing this with short sleeves on. Pretty stupid thing to do). I got well over 200 stings that day and ended up in the ER. From then on we kept a epinephrine injection kit at the house and I never worked with bees while wearing short sleeves again.

The doctor at the ER said I was lucky I had an immunity to bee stings. If not I might never had made it to the hospital in the first place.

I had a female boxer that LOVED to chase and eat bees. In the summer, she'd go after bees with such ferocity that it wasn't uncommon to see her face with multiple stings. She really was a sight with her boxer face lumpy and swollen, eyes, muzzle, ears.
Despite the hundreds of stings she received over the course of her life, she never did stop chasing bees, and other than swelling for about an hour after the stings, there were never any complications.

Her brother (same parents, different litter), on the other hand, avoided bees with a passion.