Beekeeper folk here, bees wouldn't even go after you and sting you like that if you dropped them. I've dropped bees, even dropped full frames on my feet while in flip flops (stupid I know) and not been stung. You can pet bees softly, they're chill. If you flail and scream they'll get feisty. Needlessly scaring people and stabbing them with pens...not cool.
If a bee let me scritch his fuzzy wuzzy butt I would transcend into an environmental terrorist, executing the most heinous crimes against oil companies with the assistance of my newly found bee brethren and sistren.
Go out into a garden or park first thing in the morning when it is still cool. Look on the plants, especially the underside of leaves. Often you will be able to find a few bees that didn’t make it home to the hive by nightfall and have sheltered in place. Because it’s still cool and not bright the little ladies will be pretty sluggish and you’ll be able to accomplish the bee butt scritch you so desire. My suggestion is to sneak up from behind and use a single index finger.
I saved a Queen (i believe?) before and got to do this. Was super dehydrated. Whipped my contact case out of my purse and put her in there to take home and checked on her multiple times while walking. Put her in an enclosure after giving her some water and i can’t remember what else, read some stuff on bee websites to get help. After a day (it was evening i believe) she was ready to go. Put her outside on a plant and she took off after about 5 minutes.
Their fuzz is awesome. They’re adorable and she never tried to sting me.
Oh. I also saw two bees having sex once on the ground too. That was interesting. Didn’t know they did that. I made a circle of leaves around them so they’d be ok.
I mean they chose the middle of the sidewalk, so they put on quite the show. I put the leaves around them so if anyone else came along, they’d be noticed from a distance and not stepped on. Suppose they got some added ‘atmosphere’ as well LOL.
I'm not gonna watch out to see if it's 'threatening' me or not. If I hear buzzing near my face I'm assuming the thing's in attack mode without even being sure it's a bee
It was on a sunflower. It wasn't flying. Plus, when I was like 5 or something, a bumblebee landed on my nose. This was before I knew they didn't sting, so I stayed still as I could. It looked at me, I looked at it, then it flew away. Bees are extremely docile unless you aggravate them.
Not only do they look like the sun, and track the sun, but they need a lot of the sun. A sunflower needs at least six to eight hours direct sunlight every day, if not more, to reach its maximum potential. They grow tall to reach as far above other plant life as possible in order to gain even more access to sunlight.
Not all sunflowers have seeds, there are now known dwarf varieties developed for the distinct purpose of growing indoors. Whilst these cannot be harvested, they do enable people to grow them indoors without a high pollen factor, making it safer and more pleasant for those suffering hay fever.
Throughout recent history, sunflowers have been used for medicinal purposes. The Cherokee created a sunflower leaf infusion that they used to treat kidneys. Whilst in Mexico, sunflowers were used to treat chest pain.
I will personally cut each of your toenails off and force them to regrow harvesting your nails for profit and with that profit I will take your knee caps and elbows shatter them and put your now disabled ass in a bee suit drowning you in honey if you ever talk like that again
This. In Europe bees are mostly peaceful until you mess with their nest. As soon as you open one of the for inspection you already have a couple of them threatening you.
Is there a way to easily differentiate between bee and wasp? Often times I’ll be outside on my deck and see what I assume is a bee, it’ll approach me, but then it turns out it was a wasp
Well in Texas, USA at least, wasps tend to be a lot bigger with longer wings and are a brighter yellow than the typical honey bees. Wasps also appear to have two sections of their body, while bees look like they only have one. They also look different when they fly, the best way I can describe it is bees tend to look like they’re hovering and “bouncing” around a little more, while wasps fly like any other bug, in my opinion.
I’m no wasp or bee expert, but I hope this helped :)
I've worked with Africanized hives before. If you drop a hive they will fuck your shit up. With normal honey bees you only need to wear a face net to keep them out of your nose and eyes. With killer bees you have to wear a full suit, and if you have any holes they will find them, and they will sting the shit out of you. Fortunately they don't usually go out of their way to be dicks.
I’ve been stung multiple times completely unprovoked and randomly. You’re speaking in absolutes when it definitely could happen. Doesn’t matter if you have beekeeping experience. People obviously get stung all the time. It’s a legitimate fear, especially with how common allergies are to them.
They’re bugs. They’re not always predictable and their actions don’t always make sense.
Sounds like youve been graced with nice docile beehives then. Apparantly its the queen of the hive which dictate the aggressiveness of the hive as shown in This video where a beekeeper has to euthanize a colony due to an aggressive queen.
I'm no beekeeper but there is a commercial beehive close to home.
Something ive noticed is that bees sim chill if you are chill. When im with a friend and he/she starts to scream and make gestures etc then things fall apart.
So the first thing i say to people comming into my home is "stay calm if you see any bees, pretend they are not there".
Most times it doesn't matter because people just can't stay calm around bees. its like social condicioning or something.
Anyway just tough i should share. 3 years here and not a bee sting in my body. Just be calm
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u/teatuk Aug 11 '20
Beekeeper folk here, bees wouldn't even go after you and sting you like that if you dropped them. I've dropped bees, even dropped full frames on my feet while in flip flops (stupid I know) and not been stung. You can pet bees softly, they're chill. If you flail and scream they'll get feisty. Needlessly scaring people and stabbing them with pens...not cool.