The mean girl bees got me! (May 4, 2024)

We ordinarily don't open our two "mean girl" hives, because those bees have chased us at least one-half mile down the dirt road before turning back to their hive. I foolishly thought they should get sugar water like the other six hives. Big mistake! Hundreds, maybe thousands, of bees swarmed around me. Twenty or so managed to sting my upper arm through the bee suit! P.S. The bicep is courtesy of Caroline Girvan's YouTube workouts. I highly recommend her!

Luckily, you become more immune to bee stings as time goes on. By day two, they felt like itchy mosquito bites. 

See all the stingers stuck around my face mask? We carry an epi pen to the apiary with us, just in case.

They stung all over my suit, which did its job--mostly. Here are stingers in the lower arm portion of one of my gloves.