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That's pretty close to right.
I keep bees, and somewhere in the 250-400 range will kill you dead.
I personally get sick if I take more than a dozen or so at once.
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I got stung a couple years ago at least a dozen times, through the head veil of my suit. It was too tight fitting. Stings along my jaw, ears.
Ears swelled up like a wrestlers cauliflower ears for a day or two. I was not feeling too good that night, not puking buy woozy for sure.
That was an aggressive hive. Maybe they were queenless at the time too.
They had got me a couple times before in the garden, once at least 50' from the hives while I was just weeding.
Not sure if that was the same year one also got me right above the eye, same thing, far from the hive and the thing just attacked me
So now sometimes when I work in the garden I will at least wear a veiled cap.
I think ML told my Dad when he went to pick up the packages that year , that they were "mutts". They had no idea of the pedigree of the queens.
Really once they're in any given bee yard or anywhere, the new queens they make will mate with whatever drones they meet up with in their bee orgy, and she will mate with a dozen or more males on that flight or two. So you might only be able to say the hive is Italian or carniolan with that one queen you bought if she was artificially inseminated.