This morning it wasn't too bad first thing so I thought I had better pop out and see if the bees had been feeding, soon saw they hadn't so decided would remove feeder and close hive up for the winter, what did I do wrong? I was in a rush and decided that I didn't need my bee suit! Big mistake, a few bees started to fly and land on me, I quickly realised that retreat was best policy and dashed indoors and put on my suit, little did I realise that two bees had joined me inside my suit! They made there presence soon felt and no that isn't my elbow in the picture, it was a pretty impressive bee sting, think the whole venom sack was pumped into my arm! :-)
The other picture is the mouse guard that I put in place as well, mice like to live in the bottom of hives in the winter, the hives are dry and warm.
wow that's a good one! The same thing happened to me recently, and although I never wear a bee suit I always have my smoker, except for that day I was also in a hurry and was stung in the ankle it swelled up so much I couldn't wear my sneaker. And I discovered Apis Melifica in the homeopathy section of the health food store near my house. It's my new best friend I always have it on hand now.
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