JJB>I doubt that the LCD or ticking has anything to do with it.  Bet your
   >watch is dark with a dark band.    Bet the same thing would happen if you
   >sinply wore a similar colored band on your wrist.
 
Hello Jerry,
 
IMHO..It's the moisture and salt that attracts the bees to a wrist watch,
or any other area of the body that is moist and salty including some
private parts if the bees can get to them. The bees normally are not
intent on stinging these areas, but in our normal movements they become
injured and attack as a last effort setting the area up with the sting
and alarm odors that others are attracted and attack also.
 
I have watched the bees bite down on these wet areas and cause enough
pain that you would sware you had been stung, and if the bee is left
alone she will continue to bore in attempting to do what I don't know
what. Maybe hunk off a bit of salty flesh.<G> In any case 2nd only to
someone getting stung on his privates the show beekeepers put on when a
bee crawls up a pant leg into the trespass territory that has never been
caught on film, if it had I am sure that film would win a acme award
for natural humor.
 
A good test of the wrist watch observation is in those helpers in the
past who have had fancy leather covers, the bees would seldom sting the
leather that one would think would make an inviting target but they
normally go for the area of exposed skin between the band and skin. Over
the years I have been stung and bitten enough by my bees and others to
know the difference and when I should stop everything and drop my BVD's
to remove a stinger or just keep working until a better time.
 
JJB>Took my watch off years ago.  Glad when the black mustache turned
   >Still get hit around the edges of my glasses - they automatically turn
   >dark and the bees go for them.  Fortunately, as mentioned before, I have
   >near total immunity - but I don't suggest that others not wear a veil.
 
It is always a wise idea for anyone who works in agriculture to leave
the watch at home or in the truck for farm safety reasons and grater
enjoyment of a un rushed work place. I went through a 100 dollar pocket
watches before I learned that there was never going to be enough bee
time in this life to get it all done by the clock anyway.
 
                       ttul, OLd Drone
 
 
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