somewhere from a quarter mile up to a mile. enough bee stings can kill you. texas a&m and the merck manual for diagnosis say ten stings per pound of body weight can be lethal so my 40-pound son could take 400 stings. i would take 1,600 stings. i won t tell you how many i could take. the answer is to run away. the safest thing to do would be to run. but very few people are being killed by killer bees. one or two per year. right. ow when the media isn t worried about bees killing us, they worry about bees vanishing. a beepocalyse, beemageddon that threatens food disaster. something is happening. first at 9:00, see the dangers of the decline. every third bite you eat is pollinated by a honeybee. as utah copes with the mystery of disappearing bees.