Bee Sting – Face Swollen, Eye Closed
Don’t worry Dear Reader, not me, my Dad!
The honeybees I caught in the swarm trap must have left some pheromones on the roof of my parents shed and about 100 bees were hanging around their back garden the next day. I think Dad has been getting over-confident with bees and this time he got too close.
Usually, when Dad gets stung, he hardly reacts, like some of the beekeepers on YouTube clips without any protective gear. However, he certainly reacted to this one which stung him 2cm above his eyebrow. He was fine for several hours, but the poison must have got out during the night and he woke up like this:
Later in the day he looked like this (his eye is beginning to open):
Two days later he looked a little bit better than above, but it’s not looking great for the Christening photos on Sunday (tomorrow).
Apiary Update
- One hive, full of brood and bees with 3 supers; 1/2 full super
- Three hives with laying queens, brood and stores; expanding into their brood boxes
- Nuc with friend who will split one of his hives and give me some bees (Thanks Darren)
- More details in My Apiary
Read More About Dad (these are all favourite posts)
More About Some Of My Bee Stings
- Bee Stings – Numbers 2-15 (a favourite post)
- The First Sting Is The Deepest
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I can sympathise as the same thing happened to me when I got stung under the eye, I couldn’t open one eye the next day and wore sunglasses to work for three days. It’s not fun!
Poor guy, stings around the nose, lips and eyes are much more likely to swell than something boring like a sting on the finger. I generally take a hay fever tablet if I get stung in the face which helps stop any nasty midnight swelling. I hope his beauty is fully restored for the Christening!
His eye was still bloodshot but not as swollen. He’s looking OK in the Christening photos. He wore dark sunglasses when his eye was as bad as in the photos above so as not to scare the children.
On top of tree picking fruit stupid bee Stung in the temple. Became itchy different part of body including legs in less than 5min. over night woke up slightly swollen even near the eye.
Oh and i got a bunch of hives in arm n neck. Looked nasty and skin flush red chest abdominal n legs. Very strange.. just rode it out. Skin went back to normal in 6hrs
On top of tree picking fruit stupid bee Stung in the temple. Became itchy different part of body including legs in less than 5min. over night woke up slightly swollen even near the eye.
Was also red skin in chest for like 6hrs