Hello Paddlewisers, I was wondering if the bee survived after encountering Ralph. Or did one your steps following the sting include playing sqaush the bee? Good Paddling, Don Dimond Owner of Superior Visions Sea Kayaking School Board Member of Twin Cities Sea Kayaking Association Director/Minnesota Alliance of Sea Kayaking Educators *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
superiorvisions_at_att.net wrote: > > Hello Paddlewisers, > > I was wondering if the bee survived after encountering > Ralph. Or did one your steps following the sting include > playing sqaush the bee? > > Good Paddling, > > Don Dimond > Owner of Superior Visions Sea Kayaking School Someone through back channels informed me that the bee mostly likely died as its stinger would have been ripped out of its stomach. The suggestion was that the humane thing to have done was to squash the poor thing, which I didn't. I also heard back channel from someone else on this listserve that she had the identical accident with her sandals, i.e. a bee flow in under her uplifted toes in that part of the stride and stung her on her next-to-big-toe (my bee got my big toe). ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I've only been stung on once occasion. Slightly off topic I guess, but I was rock climbing, on a semi hanging belay top of the second pitch, bringing up my second when this wasp lands on my leg. The belay was sufficiently restrictive I couldn't reach down ... wasp wanders right into the cuff of my boot .... arggggggghhhh. unfortunately wasps don't lose their sting first time ... arggggggghh again ... before the little critter emerges and flies off. On a more on topic note, last summer I was touring around the inner sound between Skye and the Scottish mainland. On the second morning setting out from camp there are a bunch of midges out - the air was black with the vicious little critters so it was pack the boat quick and get on the water, then 100 yards off shore just as I was about to put my deck on this huge red and blue bug thing flies out of nowhere into my cockpit! I was wearing shorts .... argggggg!!!! paddle back to the midges like a man possessed ... but the thing had gone to ground around the side of the padding duck taped around the seat! Midges are really starting to get thirsty and there is a huge multi-coloured bug hiding out in the depths of my boat! arggggg! I quickly tipped the boat up, filled the cockpit with water, and flicked the switch on the pump ....... I always like multi-functional gadgets :-) Cheers Colin Calder 57º19'N 2º10'W *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I think you stated it was a bumblebee and I believe they do not lose their stingers. cya *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Bob Denton wrote: > > I think you stated it was a bumblebee and I believe they do not lose their > stingers. > > cya I don't believe I stated the type of bee. I'm a city kid. A bee is a bee is a bee to me. Given the circumstances of its flight pattern I would think it was a fumblebee. Another story, and I hope Jackie forgives my being off-Paddlewise topic. Last summeer I pulled out a pair of shorts from my cluttered closet and felt this static sensation one gets from synthetic clothing. I took the shorts over to my wife in the next room and she felt the same sensation commenting "It feels alive". I wondered about that and squeezed the hell out of the area that seemed most static, shook the shorts out, looked everywhere and then put them away. Three days later I went to put on the same shorts. Got them on and was zipping up the fly when I felt the same sensation quite strongly on my left hip. I whipped off the shorts and tossed them to the floor. At which point a dazed bee staggers out of the pocket liner. It then flies straight up in the air to a level just 18 inches from my now terrified face, looks me in the eye, hovers there for a second or two, gets its bearings and makes a bee line for an open window and out of there. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Hey all, just a short note. My mother discovered that she has developed an extreme reaction to bee stings. As I occasionally fear for my mortality, my doctor gave me a prescription for an EpiPen. It is a little auto-injector of epinephrine that I keep in my first aid kit. The pen is good for any allergic reactions (bees, bugs, deadly flying stinging plants (OK, those would be bees too I guess)), and even if not necessary, will not have any adverse site-effects if used on someone when I am just pissed off at them ("Hey, get moving -- JAB!"). I guess it has the equivalent power of a couple of cups of coffee. Just another bit-o-gear for the boat. -Patrick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 2/18/00 2:22:27 PM Central Standard Time, pmaun_at_bitstream.net writes: > As I occasionally fear for my mortality, my doctor gave me a prescription for an EpiPen > I guess it has the equivalent power of a couple of cups of > coffee. Hey, Patrick, next time we boat together, bring a few of these for me. I won't have to fire up that noisy stove and wake you up before noon:-)) Rob *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> > I was wondering if the bee survived after encountering > Ralph. Or did one your steps following the sting include > playing sqaush the bee? > Don't Americans learn about the (birds and) bees at school?? The ones with stings are female (workers), and they die once they have stung something. C'mon, you all knew that! Allan Singleton Hamilton NZ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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