Bees must be no stranger to everyone, as the propagator of pollen can be said to be very great, but if you encounter bees may be hidden far away, the main reason is because their thorns are too scary, we can often see puppies by bees after a few bites, the mouth swelling is very exaggerated, but if people are stung by bees a thousand times what will happen?
A blow to the point of giving up your life?
Bees do not expose their thorns in the course of their daily lives, and only when they perceive danger will they reveal this deadly weapon. It is known that bees die after they have stung people, because when the bees attack end and want to leave, the stings get stuck on our skin. When the bees want to escape, the skin will catch the bee stings, and even the internal organs of the bee stings will be pulled out, and naturally there will be no life.
One might wonder how this inefficient approach to offense has survived to this day.
In fact, the main target of bees is not us humans and mammals, their main opponents are other insects. The shell of insects is not as elastic and contractive as our skin, and normal bees can still retreat after stinging. However, this life-sacrificing attack from the bee is really too painful, what treasure is hidden in the bee sting, why does it make us so painful?
Deadly bee venom
When bees sting us, their bee stings will secrete a kind of bee venom, the composition of this bee venom is very complex, containing many kinds of protein polypeptides and enzymes, these things will make our skin red, swollen and stinging, local body temperature rise and other adverse reactions, the most serious is to cause allergic reactions.
Different types of bee venom are not the same degree of lethality, common bees in our daily life are: Northeast black bee, European black bee, Italian bee, Chinese bee and so on.
These bees are widely farmed because of their excellent economic effects, they are mild temperamental, the venom is not strong, and the lethality of people is limited, but their attacks are always in groups, because during the attack, the bees will secrete a pheromone that will tell their companions "There is an enemy here, come and beat him!" "Quantitative changes cause qualitative changes, and the attack of the bee swarm is still very scary."
But some bees are very scary, such as the golden ring wasp, alias Chinese tiger head bee, body length up to 4 cm, just look at it is mad, if it is stung by several golden ring Hu Feng at the same time, it is likely to be life-threatening; "Bumblebee from Hell", a close relative of The Golden Ring Hu Feng, the Japanese Bumblebee, who dies at its hands every year in Japan; The "killer bees" introduced from Africa but accidentally crossed with native bees have killed up to 1,000 people so far!
Even if these poisonous bees attacked together, five or six of them may kill us on the spot, but if the mild-tempered little bees suddenly go berserk and attack, can we survive their attack?
The picture shows the golden ring wasp
Survivors of a thousand bees terrorist attacks
Many people's answer to this question may be: Impossible, absolutely impossible! The fungus thought it was impossible at first, but reality taught me a lesson.
In July 2018, Thomas Mizell, an 81-year-old man in Texas, USA, was clearing the land in the yard as usual, preparing to form a fence, when suddenly a swarm of bees surrounded him and attacked him wildly, the elderly man "wrestled" with the bees for a long time and then jumped into a pond, and then his wife and children found him and called an ambulance.
When he was taken to the hospital, the nurses removed the stinger from him and found him suffering more than a thousand bee stings. "I have more than 135 stitches on my head alone, and they give me a new haircut." The old man said jokingly. Normally speaking, even if he survived the attack of the bees, he should have been injured for a long time, but the old man only stayed in the hospital for one day and one night before returning home.
Coincidentally, in July 2014, also in Texas, a lawn mower was also stung by a bee thousands of times while cleaning up weeds, and two of his colleagues went up to help help with the stings, and the three were subsequently taken to the hospital for treatment, all of which have recovered their health; In 2006, a beekeeper in South Africa accidentally broke his overalls while helping to move a honeycomb at a school, and a bee burrowed into his clothes through a gap and stung him a thousand times, but he survived.
The following example is very thrilling, this person was stung by a bee "dead", but ran out of the ghost door.
In 2016, Albert Katanov and his son in Arizona were attacked by more than a thousand bees when they were looking at the house, when he had an allergic reaction or even shock, stopped breathing, his son called for help, and then he was rushed to the hospital, and after rescue, he came back to life, and the doctors felt incredible.
Doctors later believed that his pacemaker had saved his life, and in that attack, his pacemaker was activated, not once or twice but seven times, allowing him to survive the attack of thousands of bees.
Survivors are a minority
Maybe after reading the above case, you may think that the bee is just like this, but everyone should not think so, and do not attack the hive with your life! When you encounter a hive, you still have to call a professional to deal with it!
Dozens of people still die each year from bee attacks, and news reports alone are common.
A farmer in Texas was stung to death by thousands of African bees while handling a hive in 2013; In 2016, a man in the United States was stung more than 1,000 times while exercising in a park in Arizona, and died after being sent to the hospital; In May 2021, a 13-year-old boy in Brazil ran under a tree to hide from the rain, but the honeycomb was swept down by the storm and fell, and he was unfortunately stung to death by a bee as a target for anger;
In 2021, a 25-year-old man in Wuchang, Harbin, mainland China, was stung to death by a bee on his way up the mountain to collect mushrooms; This year, that is, a few days ago, on July 18, a big uncle in Zhejiang had a serious allergic reaction after being stung by a bee, and died after ineffective rescue....
So we still have to be cautious in the face of bees, which are small but sometimes fatal. If you are unfortunate enough to be stung by a bee, remember to remove the bee sting in time and then wash it with clean water and apply ice to reduce the swelling. If you are still very unwell after treatment, you should call 120 as soon as possible for medical treatment!
In the face of the attack of the bee swarm, it is even more necessary to run far! It is better to jump into a pond so that you can escape from their attack smoothly, and maybe someone can survive a bee attack, but this nine-death experience for ordinary people may not want to try for a lifetime.