Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

[Marshwheeling]

A dead bee can bite you just as bad as a live one, 'specially if he was mad when he got killed.

 

[BarbC]

Coincidentally I turned on the TV last night and To Have & Have Not was playing, and it was two sentences before she said it the first time.

 

[cmort666]

"To Have and to Have Not" is a good movie, but I prefer "The Big Sleep". How the movie was actually made is a fascinating story in itself, since it was partially completed, then basically scrapped in mid-stream and redone. There's a great Turner documentary about it which compares the original and final versions. And of course, Loren Bacall is hot in it!

 

[Class III]

you think bees and wasps are bad I got hit on the back of the leg by a bald faced hornet and I have a scar to prove it many years later, definatly in the top 5 of things I never want to be bitten by again

Wait until you take your DA nephew out during spring squirrel season and he mistakes a bald face hornet nest for a bushytail rat and shoots it with a 12 gauge. Too bad for him that I run faster than he does. I ONLY got hit once, he got hit about ten times. Worst sting I've ever had. Still have the scar on the back of my right hand, it's been there for more than twenty years.

Class III

 

[John Eilertson]

Never been bitten by a bee EVER--but stung a few times!

 

[CajunBass]

Must be something about bikes and rear view mirrors.

My wife and I were going to the Outer Banks of North Carolina years ago, when I heard something smack the outside mirror of my Ford Bronco. Then I felt the pain. A bee or some kind (I didn't take the time for a formal introduction) hit the mirror and bounced inside the truck, and landed on the seat, in the "V" of my legs, and stung me about three times.

Let me tell you boys and girls there was Ford Bronco all over the road there for a few seconds. You ever try to (1) drive, (2) hold your butt up off the seat, (3) get a really annoyed bee out of your crotch, while (4) using the clutch and brake pedals, all at the same time.

 

[Maximumbob54]

‪Walter Brennan - To Have And Have Not‬‏ - YouTube

Classics should never die.

 

[jimmyj]

Question: What is the last thing that goes though a bee's mind when he hits the windshield?

Answer: His butt

 

[Double-O-Dave]

When I was a kid I was drinking a Nehi Orange one hot summer day when all of a sudden, I felt my lips getting HUGE! I looked in the bottle and there was a dead bee floating on top of the drink. The guys I was with were scared and ran, so I had to drive myself to the local hospital for treatment. I remember getting to the hospital, parking the car and walking inside the ER and that was it. I was told that was a close call. Oddly, I've never had another allergic reaction to a bee or other insect sting since then. That includes being stung about three times by a scorpion a few weeks ago - that wasn't any fun either.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Maximumbob54]

When I was a kid I was drinking a Nehi Orange one hot summer day when all of a sudden, I felt my lips getting HUGE! I looked in the bottle and there was a dead bee floating on top of the drink. The guys I was with were scared and ran, so I had to drive myself to the local hospital for treatment. I remember getting to the hospital, parking the car and walking inside the ER and that was it. I was told that was a close call. Oddly, I've never had another allergic reaction to a bee or other insect sting since then. That includes being stung about three times by a scorpion a few weeks ago - that wasn't any fun either.

Regards,

Dave

OMG... We keep getting bark scorpians in the house lately. I keep telling her I'm going to burn the earth to make sure I get them all and just rebuild. I can't stand those things. Maybe I watched Clash of the Titans too many times as a kid.

 

[TACC1]

The last time I got stung, I was fast enough to get my ring off
within minutes. Any longer, and it would have had to be removed with the "jaws of Life". My poor hand must have gotten as big as a melon!
Since then, all stinging insects in my vicinity are on "borrowed time".
It's all out war until the critter is dead or retreats. TACC1

 

[S&WIowegan]

I was stung by a dead bee when I was a kid. I was cleaning up dead bee bodies in the window sill with a Kleenex. The stinger went through and got me good. I couldn't believe it.

My oldest bro and I have always been highly allergic to bee stings. However, I was stung recently and didn't swell up. Turns out when you get OLD, you become less sensitive. That's the only good news I know on aging.

 

[RonJ]

What's the best carry round for bees and wasps, 44mag or .357 ??

Actually a .22 Hornet or a .218 Bee would be more appropriate.

Per the movie: Lauren was luscious and Walter Brennan was one of our most likeable character actors. As someone else mentioned, Bogie was Bogie, and that's a good thing.

 

[Armyphotog]

One Great Movie. One of my favorites, but anything Bogart and Bacall did together, I liked.

 

[Marshwheeling]

What's the best carry round for bees and wasps, 44mag or .357 ??

Either will do. You don't have to kill them all. Just identify a ringleader and make an example of him.

 

[rchance]

I've been stung by a dead bee. Someone had killed it and left it lying on a window seal just for me to bump into.

 

[LVSteve]

Sooner a dead bee stinging me than some of their kin we have here. The Tarantula Hawk has a sting rated North of Fire and Bullet Ant stings. After that we have Scarab Hunter wasps, Cicada Killers and MANY species of Cricket Hunter, and they are all packing big time. I have photos if you want to see. The good news is that they largely ignore people and provided you approach without waving your arms and yelling, you can get some very close in pictures.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Yeras ago when I lived in the mountains of Georgia, I was out one day working on our road, when I heard what sounded like an old flat bed truck with bald tires "singing" down the highway. The problem was that there was no highway-or hard paved road near enough to hear that sound. As I looked around, I noticed a small tree about 30 feet tall having its' top foliage completely surounded and covered by a swarm of the largest bees I have ever seen. They were huge. You could make out the bodies of individual bees from 75-100 feet away. This was in a very steep place, and I was above them. It was awesome, and so alarming that I got a clear signal from my bodys chemical factory to "Flee." And that's just what I did. Bees can be bad, hornets are deadly. Flapjack.