back in the 80's,,,,, my worst sting happened and it wasn't bee's, wouldn't ever come close, my worst was big ole Red Wasp, but my fought I guest, was climbing one of them big metal power line poles just to see how well I could see the power lines for deer hunting, wasn't going to high, about 20 feet, there was a wasp next that I had already past by climbing up and that was the only way to get down also, the nest was on the inside of a big piece of angle iron and when I climbed down the outside of it one wasp stuck his head out and looked like he was going to get me in the face, you know wings jumped up ;) , well I thumped him and he must have yelled or something because I got covered and couldn't jump being 20 feet up, figured I could break something, so I jumped around swinging and yelling then finally got numb and went down, when I got home my mother counted 78 stings from my waist up (44 stings in my right arm I was swinging at them), had 4 wasp fly out my shirt when I took it off at home, didn't know they was there, only 14 stings below the waist,,,, took 3 Tylenol 500 mg and went to sleep for about 3 hours and when I woke up I was all better..... that was my worst and bee's haven't got me good enough to get close to that one.... but the most painful single sting I have got was from what we in the south call a cow ant, big ole orange one that got between my collar of my shirt and my neck and yep my neck got the stinger,,,, it hurt so bad when I got it out of my shirt I tried to stomp it but that doesn't work (armor plated) so I grabbed MY DOUBLE BARREL 12 GAUGE AND SHOT IT,,, I had to get even some how but man that hurt and swell for a few days.....