Random Things You Should Know About Being Attacked by a Swarm of Bees (14 items)

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  (#12) You'll Start to Have Seizures

  If you were having an allergic reaction to bee venom, this is the time when you'd go into anaphylactic shock. Unfortunately, in this case, we're going to look at what happens when you just have so much venom in you that your body cannot cope. As you feel sick to your stomach and begin to faint, your body is going to start to go haywire. When this happens, you may start to have full-on seizures. Your brain is trying to compensate for your blood being full of toxins, sending everything it can to help, but at this point it's not enough. The seizures are a sign that different parts of your body are failing. At this point, there's not much that can be done to save you, because...
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  (#10) You're Going to Swell Up

  One thing you may have noticed with one or two bee stings is that the area tends to swell up where you've been stuck. It will get red, it will puff up, and it will turn pink or red as it does so. This is due to your body trying to fight off the venom by sending more blood and more white blood cells to that location. Now, imagine that happening all over your body. When thousands of bees sting you, your face will swell, as will your tongue. Your eyes may swell shut, your throat may swell closed, and your hands may become so swollen that you cannot properly use them.

  As this happens, you may feel numbness begin to take over. This is a bad sign, because it means the venom is genuinely beginning to kill you.
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  (#7) More Bees Will Keep Coming

  Bees have a pretty cool means of communication, but that kind of bee-talk spells bad news if you're caught in a bee swarm. When bees start fighting with something, they release an alarm pheromone meant to warn other bees of danger. What this also does is rallies other fighters to their cause. That means bees in their vicinity are going to join the chase or attack. More and more bees will keep coming as the fighters begin to die, and they won't care who or what you are, just that there's something near them that needs to be destroyed. This alarm pheromone can go out almost instantly, so it's a matter of minutes before reinforcements arrive. 
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  (#8) Venom Is Going to Enter Your Blood Slowly

  So how exactly do bees inject venom into you? You're swarmed, you're being stung, and you're starting to feel pained and woozy, but why? Well, for starters, when a bee stings you, the stinger detaches from the body, killing the bee. But the venom doesn't stop injecting when the bee dies. There's a sac attached to the stinger that begins pumping you with the stuff the moment the skin is broken, but it continues doing this slowly over a period of time. That's one major reason why bee swarm stings seem to get worse as time passes.

  Unfortunately, trying to remove the stingers may make it worse. It's good to remove them, so the venom injections stop, but if you use tweezers, you can actually squeeze the sac, injecting even more of the stuff into your blood stream. Once there, the venom will spread to your heart, lungs, and other vital organ. 
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  (#13) Other People May Not Be Able to Help You

  Remember that alarm pheromone we mentioned earlier? Well, here's where it gets to be an issue. As the bees are whipped up into a frenzy of "kill the intruder," they are not really selective about who they attack. This means that rescue workers, your friends, and anyone around you is fair game. The biggest problem here is that this means people just have to sit back and wait until the bees are done with you before they can try to rescue you. Bee attacks can go on for hours, and the more you're stung, the less time alive you have left. In other words, the bees are going to destroy you body, and they're going to keep everyone else away from you while they do it. There's no escape. There's no rescue. Just you and a whole mess of bees. 
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  (#11) You'll Have Trouble Breathing

  Trouble breathing is generally a sign of allergic reaction rather than a reaction to the bee venom itself, but it can still happen when you're stung enough times. As you are stung, the venom will begin to reach your heart and your lungs. When it does this, your heart will speed up, trying to process the stuff out of you. You may feel like you've been running for miles (if you haven't already really been doing that while trying to escape) and you may feel your heart pounding. Your blood pressure is going to drop, and you may even begin to lose consciousness. Your body will try to save you, of course, but too much venom from any creature is eventually enough to start shutting things down and killing parts of you. 

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