When I was a kid I was afraid of bees, but eventually came to love and appreciate them

Not scared, yet have a certain respect for bees.

I'll say this for certain, even swarms yellow jackets don't bother me much. Yeah I might get bitten by a couple. Yet for some reason they really don't attack me like others.

Yellow jackets are meat eaters. So they will bit me. Yet I don't get stung. I was the only person that could close the trash bins when closing when yellow jackets were swarming.

I believe they can tell if you're scared.

I like bees but I do understand that they're VERY protective of their loved ones and their food included... Understandable because their food is the product of the nectar, godlike, ..

Now these particular bees uh, I'll just pretend I don't know about their existence, just like I did before .. :)

At the age of 4,I got stung on the top lip when I leant down to sniff a flower in my grandparents' garden - my grandmother had invited me to smell the nice aroma of a dahlia in bloom,without noticing that there was a bee in it.I wasn't too keen on bees for some time after that,but all good now - over 70 years later!

Yikes ! I give bees a wide berth simply because I’m allergic to their stings. Even so, I’ve always respected their role in nature.
But I admit, I didn’t know about these fellows. 😳

I'm 38 (going on 39) and still afraid of bees.

It's just that when I was 12, I was stung by a bee.

Okay, so that's gross, but not a reason to be scared of the little guys. I tell you what it is. Being chased by a big old loud bumblebee when you're 5 years old, and then in high school seeing somebody swarmed by not one, but two yellowjacket swarms because they went to the toolshed out back and through a big heavy shovel down hard enough to break both nests that were under the shed that they didn't know about.

I am so glad I don`t eat honey.

Delicious.....

Yummy

Wtf?!

Yikes lmao 😅 reminds me of Samson who took honey from a beehive in a dead lion's carcass 😅

Dios mio

Wtf