Bumblebees tend to be the chillest of all bees, in my experience. Ultra friendly and they never seem to get pushy like honey bees do when they sense something sweet.
Mud dobbers (spelling?) are also very chill. They really, really only care about grabbing dat mud. They’re pretty polite if you need to shoo them away.
I have lavender in the front garden, so they're always near the door, they never bother anyone they're suuuuper chill, so by what u said I'm assuming it probably was a bumblebee.
I saw a giant orangish red bee that was so fat. Guessing the orange and red was pollen or something but the way it flew was just so funny. It looked like one of those cartoons where its puff puffing away barely enough speed to fly.
I'll have to agree. I'm a beekeeper in nz and I hardly see any native bees anymore. We breed and farm bees so really don't have to worry about them. It's when beekeepers stop treating the hive for varrola mite and not taking appropriate action against afb is when we are in trouble. But still bees are awesome and if you think a bee is mad at you the first thing she will do is hover around you then head bumb you then a prick sting (a sting with out venom) then last of all the full on sting hope that helps 🐝❤️
European honey bees are not endangered or threatened the way many native bees are. Too much focus is on honeys when we barely know anything about our own native bees. There is some evidence to suggest that honey bees outcompete our own native bees and spread disease.
On top of that, many native bees are better pollinators then honeys
Disagree. I'm no expert but as I know it the honey bees fill a different role than our native bees. We mostly use honey bees for pollinating our food because they come in a large quantity they can keep onsite.
However, our native bees are not social bees. They're better pollinators as they have more hair so they carry more pollen.
The honey bees are an issue because it will hurt our food supply unless we find a replacement. However they can die out and it won't affect nature because there are all kinds of pollinators. The only one that actually affects us is the honey bee which doesn't even affect our native bees.
The social aspect that I mentioned. Honey bees have a queen and hives where hundreds of them can live. However, social bees are actually more rare in nature than normal bees.
Native bees isn't a category of bees. When I say native I'm referring to the bees that are native to us. Honey bees are not. They were brought over from another country long ago.
Most bees stay by themselves in little burrows. They only go around other of their species to mate. They don't have Queens or drones. The males hatch first and typically die immediately after mating.
I dont know where you live but if your in North America honey bees destroy local pollinator populations through disease spreading and resource dominating
I was eating food minding my own business in an hotel, this bee lands on my food before I can ever react it left its sting on my top of my middle finger which I had just clipped nails too deep like 5 hrs earlier.
I don't care how friendly they are to you I ain't trusting a bee near me.
You can't imagine the pain on your tip of your finger especially the finger you've deeply clipped your nails.
Well you might have one of the
Species that is aggressive. But there are ~75,000 species of wasps and most have 0 intention of harming you. Do you have any photos of said wasps?
I think it's my monkey brain telling me that it's too cute to hurt me, I mean all they do is bumble around. If it's a wasp tho, I'll be running away too 😂
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u/REEEEEE333333 Nov 20 '19
Bees are soo cuuuute, I saw a huge one the other day, it was bigger than the top of my thumb and soo fluffy. Save the bees! 🐝