Beekeeping: How To Reduce Your Chances Of Being Stung!

Getting stung my a honey bee is scary. Understanding about how to remove the stinger properly and how to know whether or not you are allergic to honey bees is vital for your health and safety. Honey bees are so important as pollinators but beekeepers should always to the necessary precautions to avoid being stung. Even if you are not allergic to honey bees, it still hurts to be stung. In this video, I'll show you how to properly remove a stinger and how to smoke the area where you were stung to mask the pheromone odor.

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[Blackswan]

Thanks for your well done videos Dave !
My wife and I started beekeeping 8 years ago and when we first started neither of us were allergic to the stings so we started up a cottage industry based on our honey and bi-products . However about 3 years ago I became anaphylactic to the stings .
An old school Allergist told me to take two Benadryls every time I went out to work our bees and have a back up Epi -pen . Of course now I wear an oversized Beesuit ( ventilated) but with pants and heavy tee shirt under the suit . It’s been a little over 4 years now and by Gods grace I’m still doing what I love, but at 68 I’m mentoring our son to take over in another five years !
Oh, also double gloves ! 😂. It can be done

[originalwoolydragon]

The bane of my existence! Regular leather gloves usually have fingers that are too long for my hand; nitrile gloves are better, but oh boy, my hands gets sweaty.

[anthonypeterson]

Bee stings make me feel like I just had 2 glasses of wine, get a litte buzz

[CrazyIvan]

Tip 6, spend some time around the hives meditating and getting into a calm state of mind. Leave work at work, leave bills where bills go, leave family stuff back at the house. Be Zen.

Tip 7: have no fear, anxiety, angst, frustration, stress, etc. You know how they say dogs can small fear? Well bees olfactory sense is much stronger than that of a dog's. And they communicate through pheremones. Humans still emit various pheremones based on the chemical reactions and hormones going through the bloodstream. So if you're afraid, they're afraid. If you're stressed, they're stressed. If you're angry, they're angry. Keep calm, and hive on.

[AstralWalker]

Another great video. I've been funneling people to your videos from multiple bee pages. I find that most every question asked in these forums you've made a video on. You're getting very positive reviews there. 👍 Thanks again to you, Sheri & the team.

[hamishlovesit]

Really important to realise that as a beekeeper you build up a tolerance but that can change and what would usually wouldn't normally bother you can put you on your arse .. without warning you become sensitised .

[gaellach]

Love that you recommend wearing the full suit, way ahead of you there as I will be wearing all the time when I get started. Hate being stung.

[WildwoodsBeekeeping]

Nice video David, good tips to reducing the chances of being stung. Hope you had a great Easter David :) have a great day

[ChanceHubbell]

Always good seeing you David. Thank you.

[brianpetrocine]

I don't like getting stung but I swear it has greatly improved my hand arthritis. Brian Petrocine

[jayglosser]

David THANKS for the heads up on bee stings. Well it got to 60 degrees today but the next 4 days NOT GOOD, expecting low 30's to mid 40's, rain, and 1 to 3 inches of snow by Thursday night. So, I have decided to keep the hive insolation on until next weekend.

[earlharris]

I finished inspecting my hives yesterday and took off my veil to clear an area near the hive to prepare for new hives. I guess I pissed off one of the girls and she stung my forehead. My forehead began swelling and by the next morning both eyes were swollen shut. Getting stung while inspecting the hive sucks, but getting stung away from the hive is worse.

[Meghhon]

Thank you for another great video! I think your book mentions banana smells too, (sorry if I am wrong) which I thought was so interesting! Love the new bobble head!!

[chuckroast]

Mr. Burns, I have been stung in the finger tip area, and those type of stings, hurt like a son of a gun! I felt your pain all the way here in Ca.

[zhodge]

Your videos are very helpful to me. My wife's hobby has become my chore and I need all the help I can get.

[PatrickCoste]

Getting my 1st hives in few weeks.

This is priceless info!! I’m very excited, borederline stressed haha the line is very thin haha

[jamesbarron]

I went out this afternoon to put tie down straps on my horizontal hives because high wind storms are coming tonite and one hive was all over me. I even stood on the back side of them. I put Apiguard on them 2 days ago and I guess that’s got them agitated.

[philiphearn]

Great video. My view is that unless you are super experienced you should always wear a suit. Having 10, 000 bees all trying to sting you at the same time is just somewhere you don't want to be.

[timmaskell]

Hi Dave I'm from BC Canada, just wondering if you could make more short videos with good advice and methods for being a good beekeeper.

[MiguelMartinez-bfnk]

best way to avoid stuns, wear the proper equipment and protect them, remember when they sting, they died.