> looking on-line for the best way to control the location of an
> intentional sting, and it looks like people just grab the bee with
> tweezers and hold it stinger-side against the "patient."

hemostats like Doctors use in surgery works best as the *tweezers* lock the 
bee in
place. The sting from a recently dead bee still works also.

numbing the site with an ice cube before the sting helps I have been told.

The stinger needs to stay in for fifteen minutes.

I have attended a few of the sting therapy presentations (at which I learned
the above). In one I took six stings to show the group not to fear the
stings. My expression never changed as the stings were applied. The group
quickly lined up for stings but a few dropped from the line as they noted
the reactions of a few first time getting stings.

bob

"Thinking the last bee sting (yesterday) felt like the first bee sting I
ever received"

Richard Taylor said in Bee Culture :
"the lowly bee sting will always limit the members of the craft of
beekeeping"

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