Thought I would try to sweep up the bees that hadn't found their way into the hive from the tree cut out a few days ago.
All was going well until I had a buzzing right beside my ear, before I could get away and remove my suit hood the bee went straight into my ear. Buzzing got louder and louder the deeper it went and quite painful when Im guessing it was against the eardrum. By this stage I was in a bit of a panic, ripped the hood off and asked my mother who had been sitting watching 20m away if she could see it. No such luck it had crawled right in, not knowing what else to do I grabbed a bottle of water and asked her to tip in in my ear. The water immediately dropped the volume considerably, not sure if it was simple because water doesn't conduct sound as well as air or the wet bee wasn't buzzing as intensely.
Didn't drive the bee out so seeing it was only a mile back to the house and 2 miles from there to the local hospital thought it would be the best option. Fired up the old truck and had only backed a few yards when I felt the bee start to back out 10 sec later it had backed out far enough for mum to grab it before it had a chance to change its mind.
Have been over the suit top to bottom and can not find a hole anywhere, zippers were all fully closed. I think the bee must have been in the suit when I put it on. I dumped it in the back of the truck yesterday and did notice a few bees around my gloves before I shook them off and put the suit away. May well have folded the suit up with a bee inside and didn't inspect before putting it on today. Went back and brushed up another pan of bees but decided I had had enough beekeeping for one day.