A woman has found out the hard way that bees don’t really like it when you try and steal their honeycomb.

She filmed herself with an extremely swollen face after being repeatedly stung by bees.

The unnamed woman turned her phone camera on herself to film the aftermath as she hiked down a mountain following the unsuccessful attempt, which left her face looking like a balloon.

In the footage filmed in a Chinese village the woman, carrying a scythe on her shoulder, says: ‘I was bored and went into the mountains to catch bees, but I was helpless when the aggressive bees stung me.’


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At least she could laugh about it

The short video has been viewed more than a million times on social media, although the woman’s identity or where exactly she was trying to catch harvest honeycombs is unclear.



Her sense of humour suggests she was not in danger of a serious reaction from the stings.

The short clip has made headlines across China.

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