Last night around bedtime my daughter went downstairs to give her Daddy a goodnight kiss. As she reached up to place her little arms around his neck and give him a hug, she let out a blood-curdling scream, yanked her arm back and smashed her elbow into the wall. She had been stung by a very large wasp that was crawling on my husband’s neck!
The wasp then proceeded to attack my husband’s ear and chase him around the house twice before being batted away. After performing the necessary first aid, we found the bugger and sucked it up with the Dyson.
My daughter and husband are fine but we both feel awful that she was stung. I thought my husband was going to cry when he realized what had happened. She was just trying to give him a hug and instead she was stung by the biggest and nastiest wasp either of us had ever seen!
First bee stings are pretty memorable; just ask my 6 year old. I can remember mine. I was playing in the back yard barefoot and stepped on a bumblebee. The sting made my whole foot swell. What worse was that I had to squeeze my swollen foot into dress shoes the next day as I was flying to New Hampshire to visit my cousin and her family. (My mother used to make me dress up to fly. What was up with that??)
Your turn…
Tell me a good bee sting story -
your first or otherwise. Buzzzzzzzz….
Like you, I stepped on the bee. Our family was on vacation, camping near a lake and I had just come out of the water and headed to the rest room to pee. (No, I don’t even pee in lakes! tee hee) The grass was abloom in clover, but little Nat didn’t bother to look down to see the busy bees gathering nectar. Nosiree. When the bee let me have it, I screamed and yelled for my mom. She had to come over and pull the bee off, since it remained attached. I can still remember feeling the thing as it struggled to free itself from my foot!
Since we were camping, we had none of mom’s miracle baking soda handy, so she made me stick my foot in the cool lake water. I had to wear flip-flops everywhere for a couple of days because of the swelling.
The stuff we remember! (This had to be 40 years ago!)
Since I have never smelled very good, I have never been stung by a bee, a wasp or a yellowjacket. Mosquitoes belly up to stinkers, though.
Well, I have never been stung. My mother put such a fear in me of bees, hornets, wasps and the like that I pretty much have a stroke whenever I am around one.
But…about 3 weeks ago we were at a great Chinese food place with my inlaws and there was a honkin gigantuous wasp on the window by our table. I swear I couldn’t breathe. It was a monstrosity. Big freakin long black tail with the stinger pulsading…oh god, I am freaking just thinking about it!
Thankfully, my father-in-law has no such fear and squished the bugger. Then I had my supper, but felt the need to spew. Ahhh….don’t cha just love nature??!!!
Have a great day!
Not too long ago we were playing in the grass where there was a bit of blooming clover. A bee stung the bottom of my foot, which swelled so big I couldn’t wear shoes for days. Talk about painful. Hope you daughter and husband are okay.
My son seems to attract wasps in a bad way. He’s been stung a few times and it’s ALWAYS on the face. Poor thing - he swells up like the kid in that Cher movie, Mask. It’s awful!
As for me, no wasps or bees, but the Squitos LURVE me. Ugh.
When I was a kid, I was playing in the bushes out front of the neighbor’s house (and no, I don’t have a clue why). I found out the hard way that there was a rather large yellow jacket nest in these bushes… I got stung around 50 times- all on the legs and feet. I have been scared to death of stinging creatures ever since…
A few years ago, we bought a slip n slide for my daughter…. We were outside playing on it when the bees discovered a great source of water…. she got stung and never wanted to play with it again…
Ya know, I have never been stung by a bee. That factoid is even in my 100 things about me. But what’s funny is something bit me recently because as I read you today I was playing with an itchy painful bump on my arm. Ah summer!
I have actually been stung twice in exactly the same spot on my wrist; once by a wasp and once by a bee. Needless to say the spot has a scar lol. Both times were accidents. I was swinging my hand and both times I we got in each others way.
My son is allergic to bees tho… everytime he gets stung his reactions get worse.
Oh God! My sister, brother and I were all standing out on the driveway, in front of some bushes, waiting for my mom to back her big ‘ole Suburban out of the garage (we were the first family in the area to own one of these beasts when they were first rolled off the assembly line). There was a yellowjacket hive in the bushes, and one by one, we each got stung and went off crying and running into the house.
Once my mom figured out what happened and got into the house, she found us all still screaming that we were getting stung. She lifted up our shirts and found that there were several yellowjackets under our shirts, repeatedly stinging. I think we each got stung about five times. It was horrible.
In the first grade I had on a skirt that my mom had made for me. It had an elastic waist band. I kept feeling the tag on my hip and it was making me itch. I pulled the waist band out to scratch, looked down just as the bee stung me. I freaked out and ran to the school office crying. Some woman in there took me out front, grabbed some mud and smeared it on the bee sting and out came the stinger.
We had to fly from LAX to Guam back in the mid 70’s. My mother bought me what I thought at the time was a very hip outfit. blue plaid and pink bell bottom pants and a solid blue shirt to match. All of us were very dressed up for the VERY long plane ride. I don’t get the whole dressing up to fly thing either.
i hope she wont be scared to hug her dad from now on! My first sting was also from stepping on a bee. I can visualize the whole scene, even though I was a little kid. By the pool at the club, on the grass. Ouch!
It seems the only times can remember are when I was stung on the back. Maybe once on the hand. To this day I can remember the stings on the back and how painful they were. It almost is enough to make my eyes water right now.
When I was very young my brother was in the backyard and I was in the front yard and we both ran into the house screaming. As it turns out we were both stung by two different bees at about the same time. My mother thought we were lying because the coincidence seems unbelievable.
Awww, poor BabyK! Good to know that she’s alright.
I had my first wasp (or was it a bee?) sting just over a year ago when I was with some friends at our weekend cottage for Labour Day break. To commemorate it I got my ears pierced again (in both ears). This was particularly odd since I have something of a needle phobia. But I survived.
Hey MommaK!
I dont have a GREAT story but I went to my grents and I checked their mail for them and when I reached in the mailbox I was stung…wow that was an awesome story LOL! TTYL
I got stung by a bumblebee on my hand when I was about 9 or 10. It was on the door handle, and I was going outside. Hand swelled up like a blown-up exam glove.
Yesteray I saw the biggest wasp/hornet/stinging thing I had ever seen. It was on the ceiling in my kids’ school. I swear that thing was at least 3 inches long. Gave me goosebumps just to look at it.
I’ve never been stung, as far as I can remember. I did see a massive hornet in the backwaters of the Volga in Russia. I ran quickly off then!
We were camping and boating up at Lake Sonoma when my Noodle-boy was about 4 years old- it was getting to be close to dusk and the yellow jackets were everywhere- nooodle was changed into to his sweats-top and bottom- there were yellow jackets in the insides of his sweats- he was stung bad from top to bottom-It was Horrible!!-we learned to check clothing after that-
Then a couple years later-again at said lake-my Jilly-bean was sitting in her car seat and those darn yellow jackets had been hiding in her car seat and she was stung inside her legs-I HATE YELLOW JACKETS!
When I was in the second grade, we had to run laps outside for P.E. (I could never keep up, and I was always the last one to finish.) As I was running, a bee flew up my pant leg and stung me! There I was, trying to shake the bugger out of my pants, crying in a field, all alone…
but i’m not traumatized, i hardly remember it like it was yesterday… honest.
So sorry your daughter was stung. That stinks. I was stung by a bee once. I went out to get the mail and came back inside and felt something crawling on my neck. I batted it off and it stung me. I hit it so hard though he fell to the ground and I squished him like the bug that he was. Dang that sting hurt though!
I have been stung several times, but for some reason I can’t remember the pain….On the other hand my husband was stung by many bees when he was on vacation when he was a kid and is somewhat phobic about any insects.
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last summer we had a huge wasp nest on a tree on our front yard, i bought the raid stuff to spray on it at night and told my kids to stay away from it. later in the afternoon, i looked outside and there was my neighbors kid, with a baseball bat, trying to knock this thing down from the tree. there were hundreds of wasps everywhere and my two kids were just standing there like nothing was going on. i ran outside and got them all in and when i questions them about it, they said they knew they weren’t suppose to touch it, that’s why they got the neighbors kid instead. luckily, none of the kids got stung, but the neighbors dog got it pretty bad.
I was stung for the first time two years ago. Then stung again on vacation this year out of the blue. Bugger flew into me with his stinger first.
Husband ran ran the lawnmower over an underground hive. The mower had stopped and he went to flick it when he thought he was being electrocuted. Hundreds of bees were stinging him. We ran like banshees around the house. Poor guy…
I sat on a wasp once. I won’t go into further detail on that event.
My dad
has had one fly up his shirt while driving and bitten one and it stung him inthe mouth 3 times.
I hate wasps.
Several years ago, when my oldest son was about 7 years old, my family decided to meet in Colonial Williamsburg and have lunch at the Trellis. It was one of those Indian Summer days of fall. Sun shining, temps in the 80s, no humidity…perfect Yellow Jacket weather. After lunch we took a walk, and then decided to park it on a bench. Stephen was walking on a log that was adjacent to a row of shrubs. All of a sudden he starts shreiking. I thought a tag in his shirt was sticking him, and as I’m quickly trying to pull the shirt off, a swarm of yellow jackets comes off his body too.
I call them The Kamikazes of the Insect World.
Last year my son was stung on his lip as he slept in his bed. Natually he woke up screaming and there he was. A yellowjacket crawling around on this comforter. After finally calming him down and making a trip outside to get a cupful of dirt so that I could make mud he fell back to sleep…this time in our bed. He wakes up not fifteen minutes later crying and holding his hand. Bleary with sleep I try to hush him but no luck. I turn the light on and there’s yellow jacket number 2 crawling on my husband’s pillow. Both bees met their untimely demise courtesy of my husband’s workboot.
I don’t remember the first time I was stung by a bee, but I distinctly remember the day of two stings. When I was a kid, I always walked around with no shoes in the summer. One morning, I was stung on one foot, and that afternoon, I was stung on the other. By then, even though I was only 10 or so, I’d become a pro at scratching the stingers out
My mother was very allergic to wasps, and my brother is very allergic to yellow jackets (but not regular wasps). I’ve only been stung by a wasp once, and I’ve heard that you won’t have an allergic reaction until the 2nd time you’re stung. Not sure if that’s true or not.
I got stung a couple times as a kid, no problem. Then as an adult, on the motorcycle, I had just taken off my jacket and got stung on the arm. It swelled and ached for three days.
I always wore a long sleeve shirt since the last sting, but a few years later, I took off my gloves cuz my hands were sweaty. 30 seconds later, stung right on my ring finger! Nothing happened. Next morning I woke up starting to swell and could not get my wedding ring off! I hoped it would get better, but it kept getting worse. We were riding in the middle of NOWHERE, miles from anywhere, when we came to this little shack with cars around it. Apparently the guy made a killing fixing cars for people in the middle of nowhere and he had a wire-cutter so my husband could cut off my ring!
Mine isn’t very exciting…I was rollerskating in the school parking lot, and when I got near the curb I fell and the palm of my hand landed right on a bee. *shudder* My great-grandma pulled the stinger out & made up some sort of paste with water & baking soda…
I didn’t get stung until I was adult.
I’m sorry about your 6 yr olds bee sting. : (
Poor thing!!! My mom was at an outdoor craft show & she bit into a piece of coffee cake & was stung by a bee. He tongued swelled & she couldn’t swallow. It was so scary!!! She went to the hospital & they gave her someting right away!!!
Hehe Great reading!
Here’s my bee story:
When I was one and a half year old i stepped infront of my grandpa’s beehives .. I got 150 stinges and were in a hospital for several months. We lived together, but Grandpa kept the bees although i had allergy … I was very afraid of the bees ever since .. but two years ago .. my grandpa died .. and now … believe it or not I have become a beekeeper.
I’m glad I was able to watch my grandpa for years and his beehives are my precious memory … Now I raise bees and even produce queens and some royal jelly …
the allergy sypthoms have been with me for 20 years .. But now that I’m beekeeping I get app 3 stinges per week .. and i sort of developed immunity .. a get almost no swealling after i get stinged .. before i was swealling big time.
Nice reading you. Bye!
all 2getha ive bin sting 23 tymz by bees and wasps alike, nd im only 13!! i got stung by one on wednesday, and my foot has swollen up and gone purple. also, i have a whole load of blisters. its all evry horribel, i must do something to attract them! :sorry:
yeah when i was little my cousins were playing baseball and they hit the hive with the ball. all these hornets came out and one attached itself to my head. my uncle had to pry it off cause it wouldn’t let go.
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Well, interesting story. I was working one morning, around 5 am as, I do security. I was opening a gate to the site in which I worked, and upon returning to the guard house, was putting down something when it struck. I mean at first, I thought it was a misquito, but that lasted a second, cause then I was thinking it was a horsefly which quickly turned into a SHARP BURNING, FIRE LIKE PAIN that rose up my whole arm, I began to scream in this unheard of pain, and looking down, I saw it, a wasp, sticking to my shirt, it had got through, and bit me, it hurt, SO BAD, and my thought was, is this a bee sting or a wasp, or a hornet, or a yellowjacket, whatever it was, I just could not believe the pain, then looking at my arm it left a red dot, which then swelled up. Not allergic, but, I turned that insect into goo. Plus, I have this fear of Stining insects lol. I will ALWAYS remember that pain. :eek:
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Yesterday I was in the back yard of my house, when I stepped on a giant bee. I was all alone, so I was just hopping on one foot trying to brush it off. I ran inside and told my Mom I stepped on something. She then put my foot in the sink and turned on the cold water. My step dad was telling my mom to get some baking soda. Since we didn’t have any, my poor mommy grabbed corn starch. We had a friend that was a doctor, so he put all of his medicine in a baggy, and we applied it accordingly. Today, it is as itchy as
a mosquito bite coated with itching powder, and stupid me went ahead and scratched it. Right now it looks like someone glued a red balloon to the bottom of my foot.