Well where I live they would have just given you a chaw of Redman tobacco for the sting in your mouth since tobacco is supposed to draw off the venom. Then you could just spit at them to keep the little buggars away. I've had many construction workers get a cigarette and peel the paper for the tobacco to apply to a bee sting and put a band aid over it so they could get back into the day. I do not endorse this or the chaw in any way form or fashion, ecccch!

Bill