Thanks Weld & Spud.
It is really truly odd. I grew up on a farm. Beef cattle & grain crops. About a 1600 acre farm. I started actually
working as a true farm hand
at about 10 years old. I would get an occasional wasp sting every now and then, but never in all the years of working on the farm had I ever goten into a true swarm of bees. ALSO, in all those years, had never been bit by a spider. All that time crawling around on the ground under / over broken down tractors & equipment, checking fences, cutting / baling hay, no bees or spiders.
I have been spider bit TWICE in the last 6 months, and this is
the second time in 2 weeks I have had an encounter with bees!!!
The first time was last saturday when I was cleaning out old landscaping at my new to me house. The previous owner had not kept up the landscaping very well. I think I just found out why! :-/
And I just NOW noticed that I had titled my orriginal post as " Honda CRF250L "
This is a 230, not a 250.