Bees and bikers...
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Danville Va, Providence NC
otherwise, how can they sting when we're riding at speed. It's not like they suddenly see us and turn around to nail us butt first. I can see how it happens when they get stuck between the helmet and face or in our clothes. By the way, the big black ones don't have stingers and are quite tame. Wasp's on the other hand are a entirely different beast. I believe those little bastards are kamikaze's. They sting out of sheer hatred for bikers. I'm grateful I'm not allergic since I've been nailed more than once over the years. It must be quite an ordeal if you're allergic to stings and then trying to get pulled over in a hurry and stick yourself with the hepi-pin.
I had one hit me and sting me on the eyelid. Was one-eyed for a week, it wasn't fun.
I wear full faced or full shield helmets full time due to bees and rocks. Have had so many hit my shield, I shudder to think if they had gotten me.
Road Master
Joined: Jul 2010
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From: southern MO
had a bee get up my jacket on the way to work a month or so ago...had to drive a bit before i could find a spot to pull over and KILL HIM..then to top it off had another one get up the other arm after work...cant win for losein sometimes
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Joined: Dec 2009
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From: Western Canada
Southern BC
Nothing like being stung when your in a cramped environment. You guys have a lot of flying insects that bite up there. Some pretty small but with big teeth.
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From: Altoona, Pa.
Ad one more to my list. Thursday I was tooling a long when I had a flash of a small black object and WHAM!! Got pelted just above my sunglasses. Hurt like all get out and thought some kid had shotme with a bb gun. Then the pain got worse to where I almost pulled over. Then I recoginized the pain as a bee sting. It was only in contact with me for a milla second so I figure it was a bee flying east as I was and I whacked him right on ther butt end and my impact squeezed the stinger rt out of him and into my forehead. So two things about riding......if your going to ride, your going to get wet AND stung at sometime.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2010
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Those caves are just awesome. I ran into a swarm a month or so ago and wished i had my riding jacket on but instead was in a tank top. FF helmet and bike was plastered with bees but only one managed to sting me in the middle of the chest. Bee stings don't hurt very bad at least not like a pissed off hornet that stings you in the middle of the back because you don't see his nest when your driving your riding mower around the blue spruce in the back yard 
. Now THAT HURT. Feels like somebody stabbed you with an ice pick. Guess i need to wear full riding gear while mowing to be safe!
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Joined: Apr 2010
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From: Southern Oregon
I was cruising in a tee shirt and got stung above the left nipple, then immediately stung again in the arm pit, it felt like someone stuck me with the cherry of a cigarette. That sucker was red for days!
Road Master
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From: New Brunswick, C-eh-n-eh-d-eh
http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
I could have lived without the information. Geez.
time to duct tape the sleeves on.
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2010
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I carry an epi-pen close by me at all times. I've been forced to use expired ones too and find them just as effective. Fall seems to be the worst times for bees. I think they get agitated by the closing summer season.
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From: Akron, Ohio
I had an angry hornet down my shirt last year, and couldn't pull over for about a half mile. He stung me 4-5 time right over the heart. I got home and went to bed. I had a nightmare about a giant insect chewing through by chest and eating my heart. When I woke up the whole left side of my chest as swollen up. Stupid bugs!
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From: Southern Colorado
Stung twice here! Bastards hate bikers. The last time was last fall..the damn thing hit my helmet, landed between my legs and crawled down between my chaps and jeans. I didn't know he was there. A few minutes later, just as we got off the bike, all hell broke loose...I felt the **** crawling on my leg and tried to grab it. Thats when he stung my inner thigh about 4" right below my nuts...I started screaming and grabbing my leg (this on the sidewalk in front of a bunch tourists) and started pulling down my chaps...I found the bee and killed it but his stinger was embedded in my skin and it felt like fire! I started to unbutton my pants but my wife stopped me causing a bigger scene. She sent me to a restroom before it got much crazier.