I had the wagon behind my garden tractor to break down an absconded hive & pull some supers. I kept the tractor running as I've been procrastinating about buying a new battery for it & it ran out of gas. walked up to the shed, grabbed some gas, fueled her up, & of course the battery was dead. one of the hives I was in was pretty cranky so I gave them about 45 minutes to spread out, fired the IH & went down to jump the Ingersoll without donning my bee suit. I took 20 or so stings within seconds so I retreated to get my suit. & Michelle-I've not completely zipped more times than I can count. USUALLY it's not an issue. I think I posted about this last year but I opened a nuc that was near African in behavior while not zipped. having 30 or more angry bees on your face is not something you'll forget. I took over 100 stings that morning, not counting the stingers in my suit! then I had to put spare suit on ( the suit I'd been wearing was laying in the yard covered with bees ) & went back to close up the still open nuc & took more stings thru the suit.
