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I am getting nervous now.

No turning back now, buddy.

You all right?

I'm getting stung a lot.

Are you?

You got to get them off.

Go ahead and just jump really hard.

They all on my face.

My eyes.

From high in the sky the Sonoran desert

looks like an endless expanse of Rocky terrain

that is speckled with cacti.

And hidden amongst this unforgiving environment

exists a world of animals, many of which

can be difficult to spot.

However, today is going to be a little different.

As instead of looking for the animals,

they're literally going to be placed right in front of us.

Or in my case, directly on my skin.

That's a lot of bees.

With the goal to prove that honeybees

are not just out to sting you or so I thought.

The crew and I headed out to Life Sweet honey farms

where I will be working alongside Bee

Specialist Chris Britton.

Chris and his team specialize in safely removing bee swarms

from residential areas, honey farming,

and per my special request,

bee beards.

Is this the craziest thing you've

done this morning, Coyote?

It sure is.

Other than shaving of my fur beard.

Ah, yes.

The beard.

I'm sure you were wondering, Coyote, what in the world

happened to your fur beard?

Well, the answer to that question

is that I shaved it off to make room

for the nearly 3,000 European honeybees that will soon

be swarming all over my face.

Get ready for the newest trend in facial hair fashion,

the bee beard.

The following scene was filmed on private property

and under the supervision of bee specialists.

A single sting has the potential to be fatal.

Never approach a beehive in the wild.

OK.

Well, we're going to start the preparation here.

Chris is actually going to apply Vaseline

you said to my nose, and my ears, and near my eyes,

so that the bees don't go into these holes in my face, right?

Well, you're going to either look homeless

with a beard or we're going to look

like a nice manicured beard.

So this is a pseudo queen.

This is basically a queen pheromones lure.

So this is what's going to push those bees to actually gather

somewhere because they're actually looking

for that queen pheromone. OK.

They've been separated for a while.

So this is what's going to actually

hold them on your face. OK.

So we're going to put this underneath your chin.

So this is going to be the attractant.

This is the attractant.

All right, guys.

Well, I think we have reached the final moment here.

It's either back out or get covered by bees.

And I don't think there's any backing out at this point.

I have the pheromone attached to my chin.

Got GoPro here.

GoPro on my shoulder.

Both of your cameras going.

Now, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Before we go through with this, how do I get the bees off?

What if something goes wrong?

What do I do?

Good luck, man. I'm just going to drive away.

I got--

Nothing's going to go wrong--

OK.

- when it comes down to the bees.

If they get to the point where they are stinging excessively--

Yeah.

- you can just shake off real quick.

Put these in your pocket.

Oh.

Epinephrine pens just in case this really goes wrong.

I am getting nervous now.

Now, I'm getting nervous.

I'm Coyote Peterson.

And I'm about to take on the bee beard challenge.

Are you ready?

Yep.

OK.

Let's do this.

No turning back now, buddy.

Come on, girls.

Come on, girls.

Off you go.

How you feeling now, Coyote?

It's a lot of bees.

Just talk the talk.

There's a bee right on your nose.

I feel it.

That's a lot of bees.

Are you feeling nervous?

Have you been stung yet?

No stings yet.

That's good.

That means you remaining calm.

My leg is shaking.

Ow.

Stung on the lip.

Ain't no lip.

It's stuck on you.

Not funny.

You all right?

Be brave.

My neck has got some.

I'm going to take a couple steps back.

I just got stung.

Right on my hand.

I didn't realize we were getting

swam by bees this morning.

There are a lot of bees on me.

[inaudible] more.

You got it.

You got this.

Getting stung a lot.

I've gotten stung about six times.

Ow.

My neck is getting stung again.

This is what we start with right here.

We just get most of the bees to start on him.

And then, what they're going to do

is they're going to emit a pheromone.

It's a location pheromone.

And those bees are just going to start basically migrating.

So now I can actually just basically hold this right here

and they're going to all start marching up.

Watch.

Are all the bees out?

No.

Dude, my lip swelling up.

You all right.

You definitely have a full neck of bees.

I can feel them all.

Are you still getting stung?

No. Not right now.

So what is Coyote Peterson--

It stung my lip again.

Oh, no.

Oh, same spot.

It really starting to hurt.

You OK?

Well, Coyote, there-- you

are just covered in bees, man.

It's actually turning out pretty well.

Lip.

Every time he talks.

All right.

I think I need to get them off. - Are you OK?

Or you want them off?

It's a lot of pain.

Oh, you-- but you've almost got it.

You're so close. - My eye.

Forehead. You good.

You good. You got it.

You got it.

Power through. You got this.

You're already going to get--

You already got stung. You good.

My eyes. My eye.

I'm getting stung a lot. Are you?

You got to get them off.

Go ahead and just jump really hard.

Wow.

They all on my face.

My eyes.

You all right?

Smoke me.

I'm getting stung a lot.

You got stung quite a bit.

There's one on my hand.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, he has stung you big time.

You got stung a bunch, bud.

Can I walk away?

Just go ahead and walk away.

Oh, man.

My face hurts.

Oh, man.

You should see the sting you have in your neck.

Oh, my gosh. Are you OK?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Are you-- Is your tongue swelling up?

The tongue is the indicator.

We need to know. - No.

Not yet.

But my face is on fire.

Oh, man.

OK.

I think we're good now.

There's only a couple of bees.

And they're just following your-- the pheromone

on your face. Hold on, you still have--

Oh, let me-- You've got stingers all in your ears.

Oh, my gosh.

Let me see if I can get them out.

There's one.

Dude, I got stung like so many times.

All of a sudden like all at once started

stinging my face and my ears.

Oh, let me get the sting out of here.

You OK, bud?

Yeah.

Sorry.

I just was getting a lot of stings.

No. That's fine, buddy.

You got them through your shirt and everything.

For some odd reason, all of the sudden,

they started just absolutely going to town on you.

You can see-- Look at that right there.

That actually literally--

They like drew blood.

Yeah.

It got blood to the surface.

You just got stung like 40 times in the face by honeybees.

40 times.

I don't think that was supposed to happen, Chris.

I don't why.

I wasn't getting all blasted up. I mean--

That's what happens.

I got stung like once or twice,

but he was literally just getting beat up.

Ah.

Oh, my gosh.

Dude, my face is in so much pain right now.

You all right?

Oh.

How's your tongue?

Ah!

Really, really painful.

My tongue is not swollen, but my lips, I can't feel my lips.

Aww.

Where's Mario at? He's over there filming.

Hey, tell him to come over here.

Hey, Mario.

Mario!

He's probably covered up by bee sounds still.

Come over here.

Was it worth it?

Oh, man, I could see my lip in the lens.

You don't want to look at yourself right now.

You don't want to look in the mirror right now.

Ugh.

Well, I guess I better give you some sort of an outro

where I can't talk because I find that my lips are not

working properly at the moment.

All right.

But try to be calm, all right?

I'm going to bee calm.

I think, based on the look on my face,

the bee beard is not the new fashion trend.

I lasted for about a minute and a half

with my face covered in around 3,000 bees.

And once I started seeing my lips, it got really painful.

There's swarm around my eyes.

I was getting stung on my hands, on my arms, on my forehead,

on my ears, but it was definitely the lips.

As you can see here, how swollen they are right now.

They were the worst.

I definitely say that the bee beard was an experience

worth experiencing.

So far, I haven't had any major adverse, allergic reactions,

other than just this localized swelling on my hands

and on my face.

You can hardly tell.

Yeah.

It looks OK?

You can hardly tell.

I could tell, you guys are having

a real hard time not laughing while I'm

trying to get this outro.

But we counted around 2,000 stings on my body

at this point.

My lips just swelling up, my eye is swelling up.

And you see, the drool's coming out of my mouth.

But I'm Coyote Peterson, and that was a bee beard.

Be brave, stay wild, we'll see you on the next adventure.

Oh, that's painful.

All right, Coyote.

You OK, man?

Your heart racing.

Million miles a second.

This is the most nervous I've ever been, to take

a stinger bite from anything.

My hand is shaking.

Are you guys all ready?

Oh, yeah.

I'm ready if you're ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready.

Here we go.

I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about to enter the sting

zone with the tarantula hawk.

Go for it.

1, [exhales] 2, here we go, 3.

Ahh!

Dah!

You all right?

Ah!

Darn, can't move my arm!

That is the most intense pain I've ever felt!

Don't think I can talk.

COYOTE PETERSON Stings.

Ah!

COYOTE PETERSON Stings.

Uhh.

And more stings.

Aww, aww.

So far over the course of filming

"Breaking Trail," I've been stung by giant desert

hairy scorpion.

Yup, that one hurt.

Then I was stung around 60 times by harvester ants, a species

that both bites and stings and who have one of the most potent

venoms in the insect kingdom.

Ah, that was one on my neck.

Mario, get the one off my neck.

That one was pretty intense.

Then, there were the fire ants.

Hopefully, my body reacts OK to the venom.

Don't want to go into anaphylactic shock or anything.

I did OK with the harvester ant, so I think I'm gonna be OK.

I took over 300 stings

in less than 1 minute.

And boy, did my hands feel like they were on fire.

Aww, aww, aww!

Oh!

Holy cow!

That's a lot of stings already.

This is much more harvester ants.

I even tried using my own urine

to neutralize the venom.

So what I'm going to do right now--

This is so disgusting.

As gross as it seems, is I'm going

to dump my own urine all over my arms

and on my hands to try to reduce the swelling and the burning

from these fire ant stings.

Which helped temporarily.

However, I suffered for nearly a month

as my hands were swollen and covered

in itchy white pustules.

After the fire ants, I told myself, that's far enough.

Uhh! Ahh!

COYOTE PETERSON Until

we discovered the velvet ant.

We all know how that one turned out.

All right, here we go.

Here we go. Ready?

All right, let's do this again one more time for good measure.

I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about to enter the sting

zone with the cow killer.

Are you ready?

Are you ready?

1-- no, I'm never ready.

1, 2, 3, you good?

Yeah.

Get your shot.

Place it right down in my arm.

Here we go with my arm shaking.

And go.

Aww!

Fu-- oh!

OK. Make it back here.

You all right?

What are you feeling?

Gah!

Whoa, wow.

Whoah, wow. Whoa, wow.

OK.

COYOTE PETERSON Ranked

as having the fourth most painful stinging insect

kingdom, this wingless wasp put me into a world of pain

for nearly 30 minutes.

Oh, my gosh, guys, this is super bad!

COYOTE PETERSON One would think

I had gone far enough when it came

to experiencing the effects of the insect sting pain index.

Ahhh!

COYOTE PETERSON And then I

captured a tarantula hawk, which is ranked as the second most

painful sting on the charts.

In my opinion, stings are the absolute worst

because they not only hurt, they also

involve venom injection, which oftentimes, has an effect that

can last for days.

That is the most intense pain I ever felt!

Don't think I can talk.

Ahh!

Ohhh!

So why in the world

am I doing this?

That's a great question.

First of all, I'm working my way up the sting ladder

so that I can be stung by a bullet ant, which

is supposed to be the most painful

sting in the insect kingdom.

However, the real reason is so that we can all

get a firsthand visual and audible education as to what

happens if you are stung by some of these oftentimes,

misunderstood and feared animals.

I have a feeling that the bullet ant

is going to be pretty painful.

But before we get there, let's take a look at how

to treat a basic insect sting.

Oh.

Pff.

That, oh, feels good to be out of that hot sun.

Hah, my arm.

You all right?

Yeah.

Well, my favorite part of any bite or sting episode

is to show you guys how to clean up the aftermath.

I'm going to try to best--

I'm going to try my best to get through this, feeling

pretty out of it at the moment.

Has to get to see my arm is pretty swollen and red.

And this is the sting zone right there.

And right there is where the stinger

actually inserted into my arm.

I don't know if you can see that, but it is incredibly sore

and tender.

Now, I would say it's fair to say

that I went through at least five minutes of extreme pain.

Uhhh!

Oh.

Wow.

Then I kind of snap back into it.

I was able to give you guys the outro.

And now, I'm just feeling really lethargic.

I almost feel like I have a temperature,

and my body feels sluggish.

Do I sound like I'm talking funny?

No, you sound fine.

My mouth feels--

I think it's just dry.

I think there's a lot of adrenaline, a lot of heat.

And any time you are bitten or stung by any animal,

I always recommend you seek professional medical opinion

first and foremost.

But there are a couple of few basic things

that you can do up front.

There are no noted cases of a tarantula hawk ever

giving a fatal sting to humans.

So I'm going to treat this today just

like it was a normal bee sting.

First thing we want to do is clean up the site of the sting

with an alcohol pad.

And why do we do that?

That is just to remove any of the germs

or any of the bacteria that may have come from the stinger.

And the alcohol will actually help to neutralize the venom.

Oh, that's cold.

My arm is actually hot to the touch, Mark.

Stick your hand out there and tell everybody.

Does that feel hot?

Oh, yeah.

Compared to like here to here, yeah.

- Yeah. - I definitely feel it.

- Ain't that crazy? - Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That's good.

So what does it feel like right now?

Like tell us like compared to, obviously,

when you were stung really bad, but now, what's it like?

At this point, my arm feels really heavy.

It hurts when I squeeze my hand to try to make a fist.

Look at that.

When I do that, you can see it.

Almost just looks like a bunch of liquid underneath the skin

there.

All that from one sting.

One sting.

Yeah.

I now understand why the tarantula hawk is so far up

there on the sting pain index.

Yeah.

You don't have reactions to stings like this.

No.

I mean with the velvet ants, there were just

a couple of small little welts that formed,

and they actually went away pretty quickly.

Now that was a couple of days ago,

and we gave my arm a chance to rest before we got

me stung by the tarantula hawk.

This is definitely the worst sting I have ever taken.

So after you sanitize the wound, then you

want to treat the site for any potential infection.

And as we all know, I always go to Neosporin for that one.

So let me just get a little bit of Neosporin

on the site of the actual sting.

OK.

Now, at some point, this is probably

going to become pretty itchy.

And if you've ever been stung by a bee or hornet or wasp,

you know that eventually you'll get a welt.

And that will itch just like a mosquito bite.

And it really itches.

And I really shouldn't itch it, but, ah, that feels so good.

So what I have here is hydrocortisone.

This is excellent for insect stings.

And I'm going to apply some of that to the sting area as well.

Look at that.

Plus 12 moisturizers.

Good thing for me.

Now I'm going to get some moisturizing on my skin.

OK, you ready?

Mm-hmm.

Here we go.

Kind of looks like toothpaste.

It does a little bit.

And it doesn't really smell like much,

maybe just basic hand lotion.

Oh, yeah, that feels nice and cool on my arm.

Ha ha ha, that is exactly what I needed right now.

Wow.

You can really feel how hot the sting is underneath this cream.

And the cream is cool, which feels great on the sting.

Now last thing we're going to use here

is a basic cold compress, just like you would

get from the doctor's office.

And what I'm going to do is crush

this up, drop it on the ground, and then it's

going to get cold.

I'm going to place it on the sting,

and it's going to feel excellent.

You ready? Mm-hmm.

All right.

Crush this guy up.

You just do this.

It'll take a couple seconds for it to get cold.

Oh, this is going to be great.

OK, there we go.

It's getting cold.

All right.

Now, ideally, you'd want to have a comfortable chair to sit in.

Lay back, relax, watch some TV, and just

apply that cold compress to the area of the sting.

Oh, that may be the best feeling I have had all day.

So Coyote, tell us.

What was worse, the anticipation of being

stung by the tarantula hawk or the actual sting itself?

Oh, that's kind of a loaded question.

Both were bad.

I think the anticipation is the most

fear I have ever had before taking

one of these bites or stings.

My hand was shaking.

My leg was shaking.

I think it was probably pretty obvious on camera

that I was really nervous.

And then of course, once the sting happened,

it's almost like I blacked out for a second.

I remember the sting happening.

I remember the intense pain.

I remember thinking, get the glass enclosure,

on top of the tarantula hawk, so it doesn't get away.

And the next thing I remember is lying face down in the sand,

trying to just absorb the amount of pain that

was radiating through my arm.

Wow.

I think that was the most impressive thing to me

was the fact you were able to consciously take the glass

and put it back.

Yeah.

Let's take a look at that one more time.

Yeah, one more time of me actually getting the glass

back on top of the tarantula hawk.

I don't know how I managed to do that.

But what was great about that is that,

then we have the tarantula hawk for the end of the scene.

And we got that great release when it flew

away on GoPro, a cool shot.

And I love always being able to show

you guys the release of the animal

at the end of an episode.

And the one thing that I have to remind everybody out

there in the Coyote pack who's watching, never

attempt to replicate anything that you

see me do on these episodes of "Breaking Trail."

I've been stung by harvester ants, stung

by fire ants, scorpions, the velvet ant,

and now, the tarantula hawk.

And it's bad, and it's painful.

And the reason that I do this is so you can see it firsthand.

And you get an education about these animals, that a lot of us

fear, but then you also walk away from the episode,

and you say to yourself, wow.

That really look bad.

I'm going to admire these animals from a distance.

I'm going to let Coyote take the bites and the stings,

and I'm going to watch the episodes.

That, guys, that is what would make me happy.

I'm Coyote Peterson.

Be brave, stay wild.

We'll see you on the next adventure.

As for me, I'm going to sit over here in the shade

and enjoy this cold compress.

Oh, what a morning.