Well I'm a barefoot aficionado, and the only time in my life I've been stung by a bee was once when I was putting on a trainer. The bumble bee (which I'd just rescued from the lawn I was about mow) had crawled unseen into the shoe, and it got me on the big toe, the ungrateful bugger (it survived unsquashed). Well, I suppose it was only trying to save itself... So I'd have been a damn sight better off staying barefoot. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.