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Originally Posted by Table 5
Bees are even more amazing than spiders. Please do your best to solve the issue without killing them.
I've noticed that the people who are stung are always the ones who freak out and start panicking as soon as they see one. Ignore it and go about your business and they will leave you alone. Live and let live.
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Easier said than done.
When I was young my cousin was showing me how rotten a tree stump was. He stomped on it and half of it collapsed. The problem was there was a yellow jacket nest inside and they were instantly in attack mode. I was 4 or 5, he was 3 years older and could run faster so I took the brunt of it. When I made it to the grandparents place (we were visiting the grandparents farm) everyone had come out to see what all the screaming was about. My father pulled the shirt off me as wasps were all over it. I have no idea how many times I was stung. Good thing I wasn't allergic.
But as a result, when any bee or wasp is near it almost instantly triggers a panic response. I know I should ignore it. I know to stay still. But the sudden and immediate stress is always there and no amount of "Live and let live" will ever make that feeling go away. I need to get away or them to go away.
That said, I think everything possible should be done to save honeybees. Colony Collapse Disorder is terrible. The world would be a much poorer place without them. But they will always stress me out.
But wasps and hornets are nasty. Tactical nuclear offensive strikes to take out any and all of their nests is an option I would be 100% in favour of promoting.
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Originally Posted by Russic
My parents know a doctor with a beekeeping hobby and he uses a chunk of their property to store his hives. If bees were mean at all I think one of them would have been stung at some point during the last 2 years. All they seem to do is buzz and pollinate the hell out of everything.
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Actually, I had 2 neighbours who kept hives on the corner of their properties. Honeybees are not aggressive. And honey right from the honeycomb is awesome.