Got attacked by a swarm of bees while mowing.

[Junkers88]

Borrowed the neighbors mower to take care of the mess that my yard has become. About 45 minutes into I'm cruising through the front portion and something fast and mad ticks my ear. Yep, bees. I totally jumped off the mower, which died as I left the seat, and ran all the way around to the back of the house trying to avoid a swarm that was hot on my tail. Ended up inside with no stings and two bees attached to my shorts stinging for all they are worth. Peaked out the front window to see where they'd come from and they were my darn honey bees! Guess they don't like the mower.



Richard.

[UncleBubba]

Haha

[Landrover]

Traitors I tell ya!!!

[flywise]

Those suckers can be brutal
glad you made it out of there and good luck getting the mower back

[Drycreek3189]

Go out there and apologize ! I'm quite sure they will forgive you.....

[bushwacker361]

I hate bees....well, when they swarm you. Had it happen to use a few years ago running the dogs. Dogs bayed a hog up in some waist high wolf weed. We turned the bulldogs loose and we had us a caught hog. Me and my buddy go running in to grab, leaving my ten year old daughter at the atvs about 20yards away. As I grab the hog, which was taking his last stand against a dead log, I hear the buzzing, and it's getting louder by the second. I yell "BEES!" and make a run for it. My biggest fear is my daughter as she wasn't as covered up as we were. They stayed with me for about fifty yards and I got stung maybe five times, all around the neck and forehead area. I was wearing a long sleeve denim shirt, a bandana around my neck, leather gloves, and a ball cap. Thankfully, they were honey bees apparently and not the African bees. From what I hear, they don't give up, no matter how far you run.
Glad it was good news for you too.

[Dakota7493]

I got stung on my rear end last year mowing. I was on the side of my house next to my pool equipment and I was turning around and POW! My initial thought was I got shocked somehow but figured it out quickly when I saw a swarm starting up. Yellow Jackets had a hive starting behind the corner support for my fence.

[Ætheling]

Go get that durn honey!

[BURTONboy]

Had a whole pile of those bastages come out of a drain pipe once when I weed eating around it. Crazy how many came piling out of there. I threw the weedeater and ran the other way. They attacked both me and the weedeater but luckily most went towards the weedeater. I didn't get stung but a few times, but I had to pull plenty off my pants and shirt. They swarmed the weedeater so much they ended up choking it out. Hate those things!

[Jerry Worley]

About 8 years ago I was on my zero turn mowing a vacant home lot that our church owned. Two passes around and all of a sudden, I could feel the stings on my neck. I rode the mower to the front of the house. Those suckers followed me. I had on pants, long sleeves and gloves. I took my hat off trying to swat at them, that was a big mistake. They attacked my head and face. I started to panic and saw a neighbor outside working on his car and shouted that I need some help. When he looked at me his eyes got big as saucers and he yelled to come over by the water hose. He started to squirt water on me and then they started to attack him. He told me to follow me in his house and I took him up on that. When we got in the look on his face looking at me made me a little scared. He wanted to know if I was allergic to them, I said no because if I was I would be laid out in the yard. We called the fire department to come and look because those stinking bees would not let us out of the house for 45 minutes. Every time we went to open the door and step out, they would come after us. Fire department did not sound like they believed me when I called. They came up to his house acting like we were exaggerating, until one them started hopping around saying he was getting stung.

Went home and my youngest daughter pulled out stingers from my head and eyebrows for two days. Looked like I was in a fight and lost. I will never forget that. I will not mow around bees anymore!

[hogmess]

Last summer I was clearing brush with a skid steer and picked up a old log and the cab of the skid steer filled up pretty quick. I dropped the log and made it about 20 yards with the skid steer before I jumped off. Those little sucker chased me for a 100 yards. Had several in my hair and they all got me on top of the head. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. Decided to start building more deer pens and guess what those little suckers where still in that log. We where having to drill the holes because are place has a lot of rock. Figured I better kill them all before I start drilling beside their log. I snuck up to their log one after noon and filled their tiny hole in the log full of diesel.

[stickbowcoop]

I ran over a ground nest last summer mowing. As others said they chased me into the house. Standing inside at the door watching them I started getting zapped again. 3 rode into the house inside my pant leg and were extracting revenge for their comrades outside I accidently ran over. They would not let me back outside and my dang dog even got stung twice when he went out to pee. I waited until dark and then lit them up.

[Junkers88]

Go get that durn honey!

That's the plan this weekend. Then I'm selling the hive with bees included!


Richard.

[muzzlebrake]

I was shredding pasture a few years ago and ran over a big nest of ground hornets. Luckily I was in an air conditioned cab. Sounded like sleet hitting the glass. I just rolled around and dropped the mower deck down on top of the nest and let it run for about 20 minutes while I drank some Iced tea. After a while they quit hitting the windows.
Later that day there was a small gasoline fire out in the pasture.

[MQ32Shooter]

Yep, all of them flying, stinging critters don't like the noise and vibrations, equipment makes. My neighbor was on his dozer doing a job for me when they came after him. He said that bees are a constant problem when he's on the dozer.