After being assaulted by a swarm of bees, a mother and her toddler were evacuated to the hospital.
According to The Sunday Times, thousands of bees swarmed Rosie Kirkness and her 2-year-old son Jamie in July when they were strolling through Wester Ross, Scotland.
The two were taken to the hospital after receiving more than 150 stings apiece.
Rosie felt a bee in her hair at first, and then there were bees all over her arm. The mother was so stung that she passed out.
Fortunately, she managed to get to a nearby home, where a guy invited her and her son inside.
Susan Kirkness, Rosie’s mother, was later informed by the man that he would “never forget seeing that wee boy lying at the side of the road covered head to toe in bees.”
While paramedics arrived at the site, Rosie and Jamie cleaned the man’s shower of bees. The youngster began throwing up bees at one point.
According to The Sunday Times, which cited the Sunday Post, the two were treated for kidney problems, cellulitis, severe oedema, and spasms caused by venom.
The mother and youngster have both been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the bee attack.
The Sunday Times was informed by Rosie’s mother that the event resembled “something out of a horror film.”
A year or so later, the grandmother started a petition in the Scottish Parliament to outlaw beehives in public areas until new safety regulations are implemented.
“There is currently no clear Scottish legislation regulating where beehives can be placed in relation to public spaces, nor any requirement for safety signage when beekeepers are working on hives,” Susan said in the July 21 petition. Beekeeping does not require conspicuous warnings, although other activities with much lesser risk do.
She said that a beekeeper was working on hives without any barriers or warning signs when the event involving her daughter and grandson occurred.
Susan claimed, “The bees became defensive and swarmed when they were disturbed,” and that her two family members “continue to experience ongoing trauma and anxiety.”
She told The Sunday Times that the beekeeper acknowledged hearing her daughter in pain but declined to assist.
Following a horrific bee attack, a mother and her toddler son had to be evacuated to the hospital.
In their hometown of Poolewe, Wester Ross, hordes of insects attacked Rosie Kirkness, 31, and Jamie Macdonald, 3.
In reaction to the incident, which she says could have been fatal, Ms. Kirkness’s mother Susan, 57, has launched a petition to outlaw beehives in public areas.
The attack in June of last year, according to her, was “pretty traumatic,” and witnessing her daughter and grandson covered in stings “head to toe” is “a sight I’ll never get out of my head.”
She claimed that both her grandson and daughter had received at least 150 stings. After attempting to remove what she believed to be a fly in her hair, Ms. Kirkness “looked down and her arm was covered in bees.” Jamie was in a pushalong car, and she attempted to keep the mosquitoes away.
A man who resides in the only house in the area assisted Ms. Kirkness, the owner of Lochewe Bakery.
“I arrived and it was just like a horror scene,” her mother remarked. Because he had ingested so many bees and been stung on his tongue, down his throat, in his ears, and in his nose, Jamie was throwing up.