“I was scared to death… I was scared because I didn’t know what the outcome was going to be,” said Withrow. When harvesting, beekeepers use smoke to calm the bees down during the process. But this time, it didn’t work. The angry swarm of bees attacked him, getting inside his suit. “There were several hundred bees on my face by the time I got away. And I knew in the end that I had to get the veil off and out of the yard completely in under a hydrant to kind of wash them off,” said Withrow. His wife called 911. That’s when Barber County Sherriff Sergeant Chad Hacker showed up.
Source: KAKE – News
