> 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" *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm