Big old bumble bee right across the bridge of my glasses? Couldn't see a thing with all the yellow goo splattered across both lenses... Had to slow and pull over using the peripheral vision only!

 

Took a hornet up the sleeve one time... not exactly a "strike" but it got my attention I'll tell you... :shock:

People must have thought I was crazy swinging around slapping at myself while I was going down the highway... :lol:

 

European Hornet up a jacket sleeve.

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Yep! June bug! Going down a highway…no shirt(I was like 20 yrs.old at the time.)…doing around 80 mph. Damn thing hit me in the middle of my sternum. Hell…I thought someone had shot me. :shock: Managed to stay on the bike, pull over and hmmmm…no blood. Just goo, a hard brown shell and a welt the size of my fist. :lol:

 

June bug, last Saturday on hwy H in St. Charles County, MO. Was doing about 70+ and it hit right on the bottom of my rib cage. When I got to my destination everyone said it looked like I got shot with a paintball gun (I had on a white t). Stung like hell and still have the welt.

 

had my full face on and my eye glasses (visor up). Well, some bug, no idea what kind, managed to get under my glasses, smack dab in the eye. I couldn't see and my eye started watering instantly. Was coming to a stop too. I promptly shut the visor after that.

 

riding the levy road back to sacramento from rio vista I took a wasp or honey bee to the bicep when I was wearing just the vest and a lt. blue longsleeve chambrey shirt. The bugger tangled in the shirt material and let me know (over and over) he was displeased....I never stopped and shucked off a peice of clothes that fast before in my whole life! and the people I was riding with where 20 miles down the road before they realized I wasn't with them !!! :shock:

 

Bee also, in the inside of the arm, when I was young and living in SoCal, wearing a T-shirt and doing about 70 down a straight road. Lil' bee was going to the same party I was, I was just going a lot faster and rear-ended him with the inside of my arm at the elbow joint, right about where they take blood from (nice and soft). Thought I'd been shot, it scooped out a neat piece of flesh, and the stinger was buried so deep I didn't even know it was there until it became infected about a week later. Matter of fact that's the only way I know it was a bee, because the doctor who dug it out ID'd it as a bee stinger.

 

I haven't been hit by a June bug (yet). I've only had a kamakazi bee fly into the sleeve of my leather jacket and meet his maker with part of the zipper. I picked pieces of him out afterwards...

The only thing I have had is small flies and mosquitos pelt my face when I tried riding without my racheting face shield.

The only painful thing I had is a small stick get kicked up by the car in front of me. I swerved out of the way, but still got nailed right in my shin by the stick.

 

I only have about 1 square inch of skin showing when I ride (my adams apple), and sure enough a june bug smack me when I was going about 60mph...had me cussing in my helmet.

Ditto - in my first week of riding!

 

A Cicada bug marring my brand new Memphis Shades.....

 

I had on the full face and caught (what I believe to be) a bat right across the face. Interesting.. it felt like getting hit by a baseball at 35 MPH.

-Denison

 

Got hit by a Yellow Jacket on the visor, it landed on my bare neck. He was kind of ticked off, so started stinging/bitting my neck. Used my gloved finger to flip him off my neck, with the idea the wind would carry him away. It didn't, he went down the back of my neck, under a T-Shirt/Longsleeve/Sweatshirt/jacket. Again He started bitting/siting. Finally was able to pull over, took a while to remove the clothes. He died this time.

 

Bumble Bee, went past my windshield and curved around and went in my 3/4 helmet and got me on the front upper rim of my ear.

Going about 65mph with a semi on my butt.

I was so glad to have a brake lamp modulator on that day!

 

I decided to take my windshield off and go riding up into the mountains around Boone. I got 1/4 mile from home and got hit in the face with a horse fly. Damn that hurt! Thought it was just a fluke and went on. I went another 2 miles and got hit in the face with another horse fly. Turned the bike around and went home. I put the shield back on and had a nice ride after that.

 

I was riding down a suburban road at about 45 mph one evening when I saw that a bug was going to hit me in the chest. I really didn't think anything of it. Suddenly I felt a fierce, sharp pain in my right side. Man that hurt! I reached up to rub it and BAM!!!, it got me again about six inches lower. That's when I realized that I had a bee in my shirt. Apparently, the bee hit me in the chest and fell into my lap. It then went up my shirt. It took a lot of concentration, but I managed to stay in my lane and get pulled over. I jumped off of the bike and ripped my shirt off. I shook it out real good and was feeling alot better when BAM!!!, it got me again -- right in the crack of my butt! :shock: It had crawled down my pants and stung me in a very bad place. I was dancing on the side of the road like a mad man! Stuck my hand down the back of my pants and crushed it with my bare hands. :twisted:

 

I don't know what they are but I only see a black spot for an instant and then WHACK!! something bounces off my visor, un-nerved me the first time it happened now I'm used to it and glad I listened to the guy who told me to buy a full-face helmet when I first started riding.

 

Riding on the weekend i had a very large dragon fly coming straight at my face in slow motion (these bugs are 2 or 3 inches long), it did an amazing turn like a fighter jet and narrowly missed me. That would have hurt if it hit me with no mask on.

Got me thinking about you guys riding with your beanies on.. holy crap. I wonder how many guys crash and burn from that kind of unexpected attack? What if a truck tosses one of those big rocks that normally break windshields in cars and it hits you in the chest or face? ouch..

 

this last week had a small "swarm" of flying ants meet their maker on my mask, unfortunately a few of them made it down the back of my shirt and gave me hell for it. I had swollen red dots that stung and itched all over my back and sides.

On monday i actually got hit by a bird on the arm. Not a glancing blow but a full on hit. It was on the road and it took off as i approached, it flew in the same direction i was riding and i ended up swerving the same way it did and took it on the bare arm at 80. Poor bugger was rolling on the road last i saw.

 

Definatly a bee. It was going the same direction I was going. I felt it hit my left forearm. I thought it was a pebble at first but 10 seconds later the sting started getting worse. With in 10 minutes I could barely pull the clutch lever. It was swollen the size of a golf ball for 3 days.
The worst hit I ever took was a humming bird at 70. Had on a tee shirt but no jacket. It hit me in the sternum and knocked the wind out of me.

 

In the first week on my '84 Shadow, stung once when I had my riding jacket partially unzipped. Go figure. A fairing is in place now to prevent a repeat hopefully.

I'm not allergic to bee stings, but a lady at work had a benedryl 'pen' that really helped knock the swelling and pain down fast. Definitely something to carry in the backpack.

 

Dragonfly made it up my pantleg somehow. That was a little distracting at 110 km/h.

 

Dragonfly made it up my pantleg somehow. That was a little distracting at 110 km/h.

 

Yellowjacket in the ear, full face with no visor, I threw the helmet away at 75 mph.

 

Yep! June bug! Going down a highway…no shirt(I was like 20 yrs.old at the time.)…doing around 80 mph. Damn thing hit me in the middle of my sternum. Hell…I thought someone had shot me. :shock: Managed to stay on the bike, pull over and hmmmm…no blood. Just goo, a hard brown shell and a welt the size of my fist. :lol:

Ok now let me get this straight, susan07, no shirt.... :roll:

mark f

Reminds me of a Johnny Cash song... A Boy Named Sue :lol:

Back on topic, June bugs are the worst for pain because they are so hard.

Haven't been stung yet...I'm sure it'll happen one day.