I'm allergic to them.

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what a hellish nightmare. Too bad they didn't have a water hose around.

Then my brother and cousin stepped on a bees nest, got stung, and never heard that african bee story again. Before we kids would speculate that maybe in panama they could stop the african bees. Glad this man will survive. So sorry he went through what he went through.

Irwin Allen's hilariously preposterous The Swarm depicts them as possessing supervenom that can kill with only a couple of stings (and induces hallucinations of giant bees in every victim), but in reality they are just easily triggered and don't know when to quit attacking. (Kind of like trumpniks!) Every so often there'll be a news story about a swarm that takes over a yard or a car and attacks anyone who approaches. Those are the real "killer" bees.

I hope he doesn't have serious lasting effects.

My g. grandfather was stung by a nest of hornets or bees once when taking his wife & daughters to church. The nest was in the tree that he used to tie up the horse and wagon. He lost hearing from the incident but still rode his bicycle several miles to work every day for years.

anti-histamines at the cottage because i was mildly allergic when i was a young child. I was always smelling flowers and getting stung. Thankfully these african aggressive bees are not heard of often.

Fire ants. Nasty creatures, first it itches then it is on fire then gets infected and itches more.

when moved to FLorida. I like doing yard work and landscaping the yard. I was on my hands and knees doing work on ground. Therse ants are tiny but as soon as their nest is disturbed, they swarm out of the mound, and bite on the exposed skin quickly. Before one realizes, there are already dozens of stings. Now I will not work in grass without long rubber boots and gloves, which is torture in hot and humid Florida for 8 months during the year, but the bites are far worse. I have been using hydrogen peroxide on ant bites and it works better than anything else like that triple anti-biotic ointment.

If you saw pictures of my infected ant bites on legs, it looked worse than monkeypox!

gardening and never wore gloves although I saw people a bit older who did use them. Now I know why and how lucky I was to have never encountered a serious insect attack.

Yeppers. Bees target heat sources when they're on the attack. They go for your mouth and nostrils.

on a ladder painting 2nd floor trim on our condo building. I had one hand holding the tall ladder, other hand holding paint brush. The fucker kept stinging my ear lobe until I swatted him with the wet paint brush. My ear swelled up like a tomato. Luckily I am not allergic to bee stings.