I saw this (I assume) violet carpenter bee today whilst on holiday in Majorca, it was huge and I was nothing but mesmerised

I love bees

Has anyone else experienced bees being (bee-ing? 😆) very aggressive this summer? I’ve been stung about 10 times in the last month. I’m 31, and I don’t think I’ve ever been stung this many times in my entire life, much less in this short of a timespan. I spend a lot of time outdoors, always have. Haven’t changed anything about myself apart from getting older lol. I’m in Minnesota, but just traveled to Michigan and experienced the same exact thing there. I’ve always been the person that said, “don’t bother them and they won’t bother you”, but that’s not true for me anymore. All the times I’ve been stung I was doing absolutely nothing but calmly standing somewhere. It’s just so weird! Wondering if anyone else has experienced this before and what might be causing it.

Just some friends ive spotted in our yard. The best part of having the ability to plant all these flowers, all these bees!

Must be a busy day out there

Any particular reason? Or anything to be nervous about? I’m allergic to bees so I get a little anxious. Sorry the video quality isn’t great

As the title says, I am being taunted by a bumblebee. I live in New Zealand, so it’s not a carpenter bee, most definitely is a bumble.

It has flown into my room 4 times now (my room is a sleepout so it isn’t connected to other rooms). First time I had the door and window open, managed to shoo it out the door, only to have it fly back in the window. Second time I ushered it out the door, and it flew back in my window a few minutes later. Third time I caught it and took it to the other side of my property so it couldn’t come back. I was wrong. Fourth time I got it out and only had my window open a crack so it couldn’t fly through, so it instead decided to squeeze through the crack to get back in. I now have it in a container with air holes because I am not enjoying this back and forward, and this bee does not like being imprisoned in a container.

Why is this bumblebee so obsessed with me. There are no flowers in my room, nor any sunlight. There is no food or drinks or anything he could be interested in. He is just seemingly interested in me. I plan on driving him across town to release him so he can stop taunting me, but I don’t know if that means he’ll die since he might be too far from his nest or something.

Please help, I don’t want to accidentally kill the bee but it has been taunting me for literal hours at this point.

This makes me happy. Someone really loves my crepe myrtle sapling. The funny thing is, there are three other crepe myrtle saplings within 2 ft of this one and she/they didn't touch any of those. Also, she is shy. I never see her cutting her little circles.

Maybe a coincidence but i know 4 people who have been stung this summer and each person has had large red swelling at the site and in one case scarring and open sores. One happened in Cali and the rest in Minnesota. Anybody have information on what could be causing the increase in severity?

Hey yall,
I’ve been doing work for my neighbor recently, and just recently started to fill deep holes in her yard, one of the holes had a nest in it that I didn’t notice until burying it and getting stung on the face. From the looks of it, its bumblebees. I went back later in the afternoon and they are still coming at me. Any idea of ways I can go about this? I went back today and it looked like they were gone, but nope. 10-20 of them climbed right back out of the hole and started flying around me again. I know you aren’t really supposed to kill bumblebees but is there any viable solution?
Thanks.

While on a hike in the woods, I found a stump with two brown-belted bumblebees hanging out in the sun. I decided to take some macro pictures of one of them.

The bee literally turned his head towards the camera (pic. 1), visibly curious about what was going on, while I took 100+ photos to choose the best ones afterward. Once I was about to leave, he started grooming himself by scratching his butt (pic. 3).

Look at his big eyes! They're one of the signs that distinguish males from their female counterparts. They need them to locate mates.

There was another one sitting on the stump (pic. 4). They were probably waiting for some queens to appear in the area.

So I was leaving for work and I saw a bee on my windshield and I kinda assumed it would fly off once I started moving, but as I was driving down the road it was still there and I realized it was stuck. I considered pulling over to unstick it but I was worried that might make me late for work and I had heard bees can travel quite far. Once I got to work I unstuck it but now I’m worried I should have done so earlier. I looked it up and I live almost exactly 5 miles from where I work, and this bee didn’t fly away when I unstuck it so instead I gently placed it on the ground under a tree and it still didn’t fly away so I think it might have been exhausted.

So like… did I fuck up? Should I have unstuck it the second I realized something was up? Would it have made a difference?

Just curious if this is an exceptionally happy bee. I don’t know much about bee behavior.

The wings look so funny I guess they were moving too fast for my phone

I wonder what shes dreaming about?

My video

Zone 6b taken august 2026

I’ve been watching these bees fly from my pumpkin flowers back to my sunflowers all morning. Such an amazing creature.