It is amazing and surprising how or that you got the bee allergy when you got older. Your story tells me that we can never be safe not to get an allergy. Sometimes a human body reacts strange.As an 8 year old I would catch honey bees by pressing their wings together. Occasionally I’d get stung. I’d slap mud on it and all would be fine. Then the 8 year old girls stopped being impressed so I quit.
Jump forward 10 years. I had a wild hive in my garage wall. One morning I was out hanging with them and my dog got lucky and actually snapped one and injured it. The bee gods were out and active that morning. It landed on my barefoot of course! I got stung. I we up to the house and made some mud and applied it. I needed to hurry to make it to school. My tongue very soon started to swell. I called my high school counselor then and told her what was happening. She freaked out alittle and told me to meet her out front she was taking me to the Emergency Room at the Hospital! She drove like crazy. We walked in, she said “bee sting, looks allergic!!” They said “meet us at the double doors!”
Some EMT’s were in the ER, the Doctors called them in to view how quickly a person can be affected the EMT’s where somewhat surprised. Only honey bees. None of the other stinging insects can bother me.