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Beekeepers advise the best thing to do when stinging insects threaten is to freeze, or better yet, to relax and ignore them. It may take furious bees a while to cool off again. A man and wife in Memphis were besieged in their house for three weeks when he barricaded a swarm out of the hive they had made in a wall. It’s not easy to outrun bees. They have been clocked in flight at 13 miles an hour. Stings can be merely annoying or deadly. Swarms of bees and wasps have stung horses to death. They kill more people than any other animal: in the United States at least 200 in the last 10 years.
Most of the human victims have an allergy to the venom or an acute sensitivity brought on by previous stings. Without treatment, they may die within hours from blood problems or breathing failure.
Yet a bee sting was credited with restoring the hearing of a man deaf 42 yean; beekeepers have long touted stings as a cure for rheumatism, and doctors have investigated the venom for stopping chronic bleeding.
Stinging insects even are used in war. In jungle fighting, Viet Cong rig booby traps with wasps’ nests.
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