Poll of the Day > How many bee stings do you think you've gotten in your life?

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How many? Surprisingly enough i don't think i've gotten any, knock on wood
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Twice pretty much a year apart on the same finger.
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Bee? 1 when I was like 3

Wasps? A lot. In my back yard there was a wasps nest. I got stung by a wasps every single time I cut the back yard

One on my toe when I was younger.

I got stung by a wasp when I was like 4-5 though. It was sitting on the button of a drinking fountain and I didn't notice it and it ended up stinging me in the middle of my thumb.

It really fucked me up, I will bolt if I see any flying-things-with-stingers near me (bees, wasps, hornets, etc.)
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do you think it hurts more to get stung or like getting your blood drawn?
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Bees? Maybe two or three. Wasps... more.
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Probably like half a dozen or so.

Wasps I have been stung once and that was enough to make me have an allergic reaction and need to go to the doctor.
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Stung. My finger was a bit swollen and irritated for a while both times. With blood draws I don't really feel much.
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UT1999 posted...

do you think it hurts more to get stung or like getting your blood drawn?

Oh, stung. Hands down.

The goal of syringe/IV technology is to minimize pain. Sure you still have to get poked, but they obviously strive to make it as painless as possible. Wasps are the opposite. Those fuckers are out to inflict as much pain on you as possible. That's what nature intended them to do.
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UT1999 posted...

do you think it hurts more to get stung or like getting your blood drawn?

Oh definitely stung. The stings contain a poison that is meant to kill small animals. It doesn't do much to humans (unless you are allergic to it) but it does make it hurt.

Drawing blood made my arm sore for a little bit, but I got over it after a few minutes.
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@Muffinz0rz repellent
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I'd say about twenty.

With about sixteen of those happening all at once..
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Once, I've been stung once.

I did have to hide indoors from a swarm of Africanized bees, the killer ones, once. That was scary.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

@Muffinz0rz repellent

My repellent is just not going outside tbh

Also please don't tag me in topics in which I've already posted - I always go to most recent unread posts in any topic I post in, so I will see it <__<
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none
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Two. One from a dead bee
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I've been stung 3 times in my life

Zero but I have been bitten by asshole spiders while asleep though.
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I was stung by a bee on my arm once. I didn't notice the stupid thing until it stung me.

That experience did nothing to improve my fear of bees/wasps, but it at least it didn't make my fear any worse.
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Stung once by a bee, like a year ago, at least I know I aint allergic to them now!

Also once by a wasp as well when I was 5 or so, that one hurt like a motherfucker.
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Zero to one

Age: 30
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Maybe once or twice, and while camping out.
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I've never been stung by a bee
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Hundreds of times. There was the time my brother tricked me into a doghouse full of hornets and I almost died from the stings, that time alone was well over 100 stings(I don't remember the exact number but it was closer to 200). Then as a kid it was generally 2-3 times per year, occasionally accidentally disturbing a hive and getting hit a handful of times before getting away.

Then when I was about 12 or 13 I was stung on the back of the neck by something. It was never identified, and I had a severe allergic reaction to that one and almost died that time too. It only took a few seconds to run home, but by the time I got there my face was already swollen up. Ever since that time, knowing there's one that could potentially kill me with one sting, I've been extra cautious. I suspect it was one of those giant hornets like the one Sunny posted, I've been seeing lots of them around since then. My brother and I found a massive dead one once, that thing was almost finger length. >_>
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approaching 10 or so times, if we count things like wasps with "bees", but it's hard to say. at least 6 or 7.

once or twice as a kid that I can barely remember

once, mowing the lawn, the white wooden fence had a wasp nest on it and the vibration of the lawn mower stirred the nest. I only got stung once if I recall, and after I was able to get close enough to the nest to douse it completely with half a can of Raid.

once doing papers, a wasp followed me into my car and got me square in the middle of the back of my hand as I reached for the gear shift. that one hurt like hell and my whole hand swelled up like one giant mosquito bite.

once doing papers, this house had a porch that was completely shrouded by bushes, and yet they wanted the paper in the mailbox. unfortunately somewhere in there was a wasp nest, and a small swarm of them followed me as I left the house. one got me on the leg, and I limped for half a block while getting stung a second and third time on that same leg. realizing they weren't going away, I stopped, bent down, and started flicking the two or three wasps that were still on my damn leg. had to finish the next few hours of work limping around on a triple wasp stung leg.
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1
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0.
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0
Been bitten by spiders plenty tho
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37
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Three times.

1994
2015
2016
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Bees? Not many.
Wasps? Too many.
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I dunno, maybe 2 or 3?
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Zero.
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1
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