What You Need To Know About Bee Attacks
I remember being about 5 years old, playing with my friends one afternoon. We saw a beehive and thought to ourselves, “Hey, let’s grab a stick or something and see…
I remember being about 5 years old, playing with my friends one afternoon. We saw a beehive and thought to ourselves, “Hey, let’s grab a stick or something and see if we could open it up.”
Well, I’m sure you can guess how that went. Picture a young Mike Anthony running down the street and finally getting stung by a bee right on my butt. It hurt. I felt stupid. And to this day, I don’t mess with bees. Lesson Learned.
Well, it’s May and as the pollinators are doing what they do, there are a lot of bees outside. And if you’re not careful you could get stung.
If you didn’t hear about this story on Sunday, it should serve as a cautionary tale….
There was a Mom in Arizona doing a family photo shoot when all of a sudden a swarm of bees started to attack! The mom ran her two kids into her car to protect them, but she wound up getting stung more than 75 times.
She had to be taken to the hospital and thankfully she’s doing ok now. But bee experts decided to issue some warnings about what to do and what not to do if you come under attack by any bees.
- If a bee "bumps into" you, it's not an accident. Run.
- Hold your breath. Bees navigate by smell. Holding your breath could throw them off long enough for you to get away.
- Don’t flail your arms and don’t swat at them.
- If you get stung, pull the stinger out immediately.
Stay safe this Spring and Summer season. And don’t be like the younger me and go hitting any beehives. It’s not funny or cool. And you just might get stung right on your arse. Which is in no way cool or fun. It’s actually a bummer.
5 Plants That Will Make Your Garden Smell
Plants don't always give off beautiful floral aromas, scents, and smells. There are plants that give off unpleasant smells that could stink up your garden. Most plants give off produce scents to lure in pollinators and repel predators.
Bees and butterflies are drawn to your garden by sweet scents from fragrant flowers. Plants with foul odors smell this way to attract flies and beetles which normally lay their eggs in feces and rotting materials.
With the gardening season around the corner, you may want to consider avoiding putting these plants in your garden.
Here are five plants that can smell up your garden.
Crown Imperial Plants
Getty ImagesThe flowers have a potent, musky scent almost like a skunk, which deters rodents and voles as well as squirrels and deer from the garden. Crown imperial plants are native to Asia and the Middle East. They come in These flowers come in shades of red, orange, and yellow.
Stinking Corpse Lily
Getty ImagesThe flower has a large central opening surrounded by petal-like structures and can grow huge, weighing up to 24 pounds. Also known as the rafflesia arnoldii, which smells and even looks like a rotting carcass.
Carrion Flower
Getty ImagesThese flowers are often pollinated by flies and other insects that are attracted to the smell of decay. The most common odors describe it as smelling like a rotting animal, a dead mouse, foul, and sulfur-like during flowering.
Skunk Cabbage
Getty ImagesSkunk Cabbages get their name from the fact they produce a smell of rotting meat or skunk when their leaves are bruised or crushed. While the smell may be unpleasant, the odor can help keep pests away and attract beneficial pollinators including bees and butterflies.
Corpse Flower
Getty ImagesThis flower is far from sweet. The United States Botanic Garden says its the worst-smelling flower in the world. Also known as the titan arum, some people compare its smell to a stinking corpse or rotting flesh.
