A bee flew in my helmet

[mattster31]

Yep..............I was riding along minding my own business......visor up, Cee Baileys halfway, sunglass on. Then BAM!!! I feel something hit my cheek, and all of a sudden I feel a rather intense pain around my eye. I quickly try to brush whatever it was off my face to no avail. I'm only doing 80kms on a side road so I start to slow down, but my concentration is on sourcing out the cause of the pain. I see something fall out of the helmet and lo and behold...............a bee lands on the tank. Stung me 1/2" from my left eye.............OUCH!!! In 20 years of riding I have never had that happen.................I should be good till I retire!!!

 

[Bustanut joker]

Well ya kept it on two wheels and you're here so ya done pretty good I'd say.

Damn though, bee's this time of year sure get surly. Little assassins chased me around the shop today. :huh:

:jester:

 

[JT 384]

That sucks ! Its to cold up here for them now.

 

[Bungie]

That sucks ! Its to cold up here for them now.

JT is a bee.

I got out for another 150 clicks today. Mind you their calling for snow over the next couple of days..

 

[scubabiker]

Had the bee experience test riding a DRZ400S at the Honda Hoot when it was Asheville (they let other brands come to the party). Been tempted to keep one of those sting packs in a saddle bag, but how often does it happen? Rather hit a bee than deer. ooh_on_ball:

 

[Big Sky]

I've been stung probably a half dozen times, maybe more like 8 or 9. I used to get them up my jacket sleeves a lot where the buggers would sting at will and their leisure. My arm would puff up like Popeye's, so I've been carrying Benedryl about the last 15 years to keep the swelling and horrible itching down. Note: when you start the Benedryl, it will work, but as soon as you stop...look out! You've got to stay on the stuff for several days. I've also been stung on the neck and face a few times. I remember a guy in high school got one in his helmet and it stung his ear. That ear got huge, purple and real ugly. I guess bees (and hornets/wasps) are just part of the fun and experience.

 

[Happy Rider]

Around here the bee keepers like to stage their bee boxes along the road. When you see about 50 boxes stacked near the road or in an orchard you learn to duck behind the windshield real quick.

 

[Groo]

I had a yellow jacket fly into and land on the one unprotected part of my entire body... the neck of my jacket and sting me about a week ago. Hurt like heck, and forced me to realize I should have some anti-sting medication on the bike for such an occurrence.

 

[demetri]

i got bee thing up the sleeve too. thats nasty but one time a friendly little arachnid decided to hang himself from a thread of web right inside my visor right between the eyes! talk about crapping my pants! almost lost the bike on that one.

 

[painman]

Mattster31 glad your ok! Facial stings are painful!! ToeCutter's the one who has the bee stories. Problem with bees is you think you're not alergic to them and can be that way for years then all of a sudden, bam. Alergic reaction that can be life threatening after a sting. My dad and I use to be apiculturists and we carried kits in our truck just for such an occassion. Not a bad idea to keep one on the bike either. If not for you it might save someone else's life out on the road.

Of note, if you do get a stinger left in your person, don't grab it to pull it out. If you do you will grab the venom sack and force all the remaining venom into your body making for a worse sting. To remove, first place your finger nail against your skin away from the stinger, slide towards the stinger and in a pulling up motion, flick it up and away thus removing it and not touching the venom sack. Hopefully you do this before the pulsating sack empties all the fluid into the sting site. Drop for drop bee venom is more deadly than cobra venom. Hopefully it arrives in the usual small amount. Ride safe, PM. <><

 

[rocketdoc]

I had a been fly up my shorts riding a bicycle once, now that is something I never want to experience again. I didn't want to wear spandex, so wore loose hiking shorts, the bee went buzzing as high as he could get before giving me the stinger in my stinger. It wasn't pretty!! Stung on the motorcycle once up the sleeve of my riding jacket, it was nothing compared to the previous episode.

 

[Khunajawdge]

Somewhere(?) in the Santa Cruz mountains in 1972, I came upon a few shafts of morning light illuminating an S curve in the upcoming road. In the illuminated dust of these shafts of light was a spiraling dragonfly, about the size of a large martini olive on a stick. I was wearing an aviators flight jacket, an open faced Bell helmet, a pair of yellow tinted ski goggles, and was doing about 60 mph on a CB 350. Somehow, in the gyrations of that Dragon bug and my own working the bike we tangled. He hit me right on the left temple. It felt like I had been shot with a rock fired from a sling shot.

A few minutes later, after pulling over on a road shoulder, I removed my goggles and helmet. There were wings and guts smeared over the side of my head and a nice knot began to form on my temple. I still have a bone scar over 30 years later.

Stuff happens, let's be careful out there.

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Damn though, bee's this time of year sure get surly. Little assassins chased me around the shop today. :huh:
:jester:

Did you go after their sister too, Bust?

 

[Bustanut joker]

Nah I was after their mama It's the time of year when things brought in from outside storage tend to re-animate when the heat gets to 'em.

They get real pissy when you dismantle their home :lol:

I'm getting damn good at taking the little buggers out on the fly with me staple gun.. Though the fun factor is somewhat diminished as there aren't any other employees to endanger with errant staples :lol:

:jester:

 

[Big Sky]

Twice in over 30 years of riding I have run into a special kind of bug: they are juicy and spray fluids when struck. The last one collided with my helmet right at the top of the chin bar and my face shield was open a bit. The juice splattered all over my lips, moustache and nose. It was unbelievably foul stuff! Just horrid! I was gagging and my stomach was rolling by the time I got pulled over. Despite what I could do to clean up, I smelled that until I could get to a bathroom with soap and water. Now I carry the little wet towels in the foil packets. I don't know what that particular bug is but am glad I've only encountered them twice.