Damn bees hurt! What's your worst/best bug story?

tomato · #1 02-16-2008, 09:48 PM

Good news is Spring is in the air and the weather is perfect for riding. Bad news here in NorCal is that the farmers already have the bees out to pollinate their crops, and man they hurt when you take 1 in the face at 65+ MPH!

Took a couple on bare skin and 1 smack dab in the middle of my goggle lense today.

My best bug story...Happened when I lived in Chicago. Cruising on the highway and bam! A stinkin' June Bug smacks me in the knuckle then its guts splatter all over my face. The damn thing must have weighed 2 pounds!!! : ) Hurt like Hell (stupid me, no gloves) and literally covered my face with guts.

06 lowrider · #2 02-16-2008, 09:56 PM

I was riding down towards the beach and i took a deep breath of the nice fresh salt air and bang . I was stung right on the tongue at 50mph It hurt

SilentWarrior · #3 02-16-2008, 09:59 PM

Recently got hit with and orange butterfly right in the face on my right side of my riding glasses. I saw it comming at me and bam ! left orange residue on my right lens , couldnt even see out of it.

AmmoDan · #4 02-16-2008, 10:01 PM

I've had one (a bee) shoot down my right jacket sleeve on the highway. He got pissed and stung my forearm. Hurt like a SOB... Wear gauntlet gloves nowadays.

djamann · #5 02-16-2008, 10:06 PM

My best story isn't about a bug, but a bird. Riding through a burb of Indy and a bird came around a building and bounced off my shoulder then my helmet. Dam that hurt but I'm glad I had a helmet on, it might have taken me out

I did have a grasshopper or something splatter across my glasses last summer. Don't really know what it was but there was a lot of yellow pus everywhere[:@]

Clutch66 · #6 02-16-2008, 10:07 PM

Last Summer, I was running at my normal 85 on the Houston 610 Loop and got hit by a 4 lb (maybe less) dragon fly.
I wear glasses (thankfully safety) and that bastard hit half way on the glasses, halfway on my cheek. It splattered all over my face. I pulled into a convenience store to clean up and the clerk ask me if I needed him to call the EMT's It looked like my face was f--ked up.

C66

seniorsuperglideE8 · #7 02-16-2008, 10:10 PM

had a bee or something with a stinger and whatever is injected into you, hit me in the neck and left me with an airway closing, fortunately I made to an E.R. for treatment. I've had birds hit me in the helmet and big bugs too numerous too count. but hey that's what it's all about.

Gilly · #8 02-16-2008, 10:13 PM

Lightning bugs at night are cool (long as you wear a helmet). OOOOOO. Just like fireworks!
Gilly

brypink · #9 02-16-2008, 10:14 PM

Wasn't me but a true story...

A buddy of mine was riding and a little black bug kinda like a Lady Bug landed on his cheek while riding around town. It didn't splatter on him so he tried flinging it off. A couple of minutes latter he pulls over on the side of the road freaking out, taking his helmet off. The damn bug crawled into his ear!!!! He couldn't get it out and he could feel it crawling around. We had to go to the ER and thedocshad to flush it out.

It was kinda funny though...seeing him freak out like that!!!! I thought he was BS'ing me at first.

dklozik · #10 02-16-2008, 10:16 PM

I can relate to Clutch and the dragonfly. Huge dragonflys are common on the gulf coast. During a period of ignorance in my younger days, i was ridingfrom Houston toGalveston with just a tank top on about 80 or so. Something hit me in the shoulder and felt like I got shot. I pulled over and noticed the semi large cut on my shoulder and the blood on my shirt and chest. The only reason i know it was a dragonfly, it because of the wing left in the cut. Hurt like a SOB.