My husband was stung on the back of the neck by a bee about 3 weeks ago. Since then he has been stung twice more in the exact same spot. Does anyone know why? And if there is some reason bees would be attracted to that exact spot over and over again. Does it have anything to do with the first sting?
Thank you all for your responses! And no he works on our ranch and and was in a different spot on the ranch each time he was stung. He does not wear cologne or anything. The first time he was on a bulldozer, the second he was welding and the thrid time he was building a fence all in different spots on the ranch and it is getting colder so they aren't out as much anymore. I have googled it and found nothing, but thanks for all your input.
that is creepy and wierd! lol sorry. i grew up in the country and never heard of this. call the dr and see what they say. also maybe google it!
Where is he physically when it happens?
The only related story I have is that when I was a teenager we built our own house. We would go on the weekends and stay in the house while we were building it, and my little brother and I slept on a mattress in one of the rooms. I remember one night I was so tired that I just fell on the mattress, ready to sleep. Then I felt the sting on my shoulder and realized I had fallen on a wasp. I didn't care, I was so tired I went to sleep anyway. The very next night, I did the same thing! Fell on the mattress, felt the sting in the same place, went to sleep anyway.
Could it be something like that? Is he in the same place each time it happens? The odds are against it that he would get stung in the same spot each time, but who knows? Maybe the bees sense that the neck is a sensitive spot and a safer place for them to sting/get away.
When bees sting they leave a pheromone (chemicals released by the bee) that signals an alarm to other bees that danger is near. Make sure your husband has washed the stung area well to get rid of the pheromones on his skin. The baking powder mix mentioned earlier should be enough to help protect the area. Good luck!
if he is wearing anything that smells sweet, then they are more likely to "check him out" would be weird for a man...the "sweet" smell could be in his blood, trickling out through sweat, i would take some baking powder or soda, mix it with water to make a paste, apply to the spot he was stung, and bandaid it to keep a bee from stinging him there again, and the powder or soda helps absorb the poison from the bee's sting...makes it heal faster
