Bees and helmet vents
01-25-22, 11:38 AM
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I have never had a bee in the helmet, but I have had stinging insects get under my sunglasses and had wasps fly down my jersey neck and/or up the sleeve. A honeybee stings once and leaves the stinger, but wasp will sting again and again since it does not lose the stinger, and will sting until it runs out of venom.I had a line of 6-8 stings across my shoulder or chest, with the welts and swelling getting less and less as it went. The all big shiny all black wasps and the white faced hornets were the worst. And then there are greenhead flies and deer flies that will draw blood. Those SOBs bite right through the jersey material.
01-25-22, 03:40 PM
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Ever have a bug fly into your ear? This happened to me a couple times when I was a kid--I think it was flying ants both times.
Damn that hurt! They actually try to fly around inside your ear--you can feel and hear the flapping We actually had to drown them by putting water into my ear before they could be flushed out.
Damn that hurt! They actually try to fly around inside your ear--you can feel and hear the flapping We actually had to drown them by putting water into my ear before they could be flushed out.
