YIKES: They can grow to the size of an adults' thumb and deliver a sting so painful that one entomologist described it to The New York Times as "like having red-hot thumbtacks" being driven into their flesh.
A swarm of honey bees looking for a new place to build a hive set up shop right outside the main entrance to Maine Medical Center this week, so a bee keeper was called in to take them away.
I don't ever remember being stung by a bee so I can't relate to the feeling. However I now know the feeling of seeing my 7-year-old son get his first sting and it broke my heart, especially because of where it was.