Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says

Austin Bellamy has awoken from a medically induced coma after mistakenly cut into a bees' nest while trimming a tree

An Ohio man who was stung at least 20,000 times by bees - and even ingested some of the insects - during a mishap while he was cutting tree branches is expected to recover, according to his family.

Austin Bellamy, 20, climbed high into a lemon tree in Ripley, Ohio, last Friday to help trim it when he mistakenly cut into a bees' nest, his mother, Shawna Carter, has recounted, in addition to authorities' accounts of his injuries.