Every day I go home for lunch. I let the dog out and sit in a swing chair next to my backyard pond and watch the bee hive as I eat my lunch. Friday and Saturday I went deep into the hive to inspect and then shuffle the brood chamber in an attempt to forestall what looked like swarm preparations.
Over the past few weeks as the hive has grown stronger, I've noticed increasing attention by the guard bees, sometimes buzzing me pretty good, but today one went past buzzing and got me good on my left eyebrow. I was sitting somewhere between 10 and 15 feet away. The entrance faces due east and I sit about 45° off the entrance at the northeast compass point. The place where I sit is not normally on a flight path of theirs, so I do not think this was a case of a bee just inadvertantly getting tangled up in my hair (which is all of maybe 1/2" long. . .)
I was surprised. I'm not sure that it may not be from the upset from Friday and Saturday (this being Monday), but in any case I got stung on the right eyebrow two weeks ago at my other hive when during an inspection my veil was touched my face and a bee found my vulnerable spot.
The results of that sting was an eye that was swelled shut the following morning when I arose. Only a little puffiness remained by that night, but still it made for an inconvenient day of monocular vision. . .LOL
I don't know. I surely don't want to go through this every day. . .I might have to move the swing chair a little further away from the hive and use binoculars to watch them. . .
:) :) :) :) :)