{"id":54388,"date":"2025-05-09T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/man-stung-by-hundreds-of-wasps-afraid-to-ride-motorbike\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:03:39","slug":"man-stung-by-hundreds-of-wasps-afraid-to-ride-motorbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/man-stung-by-hundreds-of-wasps-afraid-to-ride-motorbike\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stung by hundreds of wasps afraid to ride motorbike"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Andrew Powell says he is “lucky to be alive” after being stung 250 times<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A man who was stung hundreds of times by a swarm of wasps said it left him afraid to ride his motorbike. <\/p>\n

Andrew Powell, 57, was stung more than 250 times after the insects were disturbed and invaded his home in August last year. <\/p>\n

The festival organiser from Brecon said he was swarmed by thousands of wasps from a neighbouring farm, having just taken off his motorbike leathers.<\/p>\n

“I never rode a bike from August until about a week ago,” he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I stumbled about the front of the house and into the shower, but they followed me in, and stung me through my clothes in the shower,” Mr Powell previously said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The bathroom was full of them.”<\/p>\n

Mr Powell said he was stung 15 times to the back of his head, but managed to avoid getting stung in his face.<\/p>\n

“I was running fast,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said his friend Richard, who lives nearby, drove him straight to the minor injuries unit at Brecon War Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n

“I was dropping in and out of consciousness,” he said, adding: “All I could see was a white light and I thought ‘here we go’.”<\/p>\n

He said nurses were “amazing” and administered adrenaline, morphine and co-codamol for the pain.<\/p>\n

“If they hadn’t, then I’d be dead,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrew Powell – pictured with wife Gina – says he hasn’t been able to sleep because of the pain from the stings<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Speaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a>, Andrew, who helps organise the Brecon Beacons Food Festival, said he regularly rode motorbikes and performed at shows promoting them until the wasp attack.<\/p>\n

He said: “I didn’t want to go to the garage, I didn’t want to go outside where the bikes are. <\/p>\n

“I’ve organised a big show in Brecon, a big motorcycle show. Everyone is asking ‘when are you going to get back on the bike’. <\/p>\n

“So after the show I took the plunge and got the bike out of the garage but that was the first time.”<\/p>\n

Andrew says he now hates wasps and if he hears a buzzing sound in his house, he can “recall the hundreds and hundreds of wasps” on the windowsill.<\/p>\n

“In December, there was one in the living room walking across the carpet. I got piece of paper and put it in the glass and put it at the side. I’m not sure I really wanted to do that but I did,” he said. <\/p>\n

Andrew said his wife loves the garden as its full of pear and apples trees and “flowers galore” so he often sees the insects. <\/p>\n

“I’m trying to get over it but if they are in the car or if they are in the house it does does give you a bit of remembrance,” he said. <\/p>\n

Since his experience, Andrew said “life is precious” and now wants to make a difference through volunteer work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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