Just so you know.

Honey bees, wasp and hornets all have different venom from each other.

If you are truely alegeric you carry a Epi Pen so you do not die from a sting.

Swelling and itching is a normal reaction.

Honey bees can only sting you once and die.

Wasp and hornets can sting you many times.

Running is fruitless, best to walk slowly to a tree like a pine with low hanging branches for cover.
How fast can you run, bees wasp and hornets can easily triple that speed.

There are all kinds oc home concoctions to apply to stings to ease thr pain from chewing bacc to meat tenderizer.
I usely wait about 15 minutes and the pain is gone, Half hour I've forgot where I got stung even.

If you see a swarm of Honey bees call a bee keeper.

Don't know a bee keeper? Check thru goggle your states bee keeping club for a list.

A swarm left alone is perfectly safe as my grand daughter will tell you and normally fly away in a few hours or days.






I love free bees.


Al

 

I've been thinking about getting a hive and putting it at the end of my baseball diamond shaped lot ( live on a cul de sac). There's plenty of clover in my lawn, and we always have flowers and other flowering trees/ bushes/plants. I'm going to plant a garden again this year after not planting one last year for a few reasons.

I just know my older Labrador hates any flying insect, with a passion. Thinking of I put the hive on that far side, which is 15' away from the e fence line for the dogs, that there would be less issues.

 

You can always put up a privacy fence about 5 feet in front of the hive and the bees will fly higher to clear it and stay high to the food sourse they are working. Once they know they have to fly high going they know to do the same returning.


Yellow yackets are not bees they are a warp. terriost of the insect world.
Just viberation will set them off.

Al

 

You should see whatcha gotta do when they swarm up your pants legs.

 

It's the neighbors that have to worry.

 

Tell me about it, but I fix there little wagons once it's dark out. A little #2 diesel down their entrance hole complete with a dirt cover= execution and funeral all in one !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yeah, they can't stand to watch the swelling....................

 

Don't care much about the advice of walking away....running always served me quite well!

 

Well figure how fast you can run which keeps their attention and how fast they can fly.

Al

 

I don't play tennis, but I almost always have a tennis racket nearby in the warm months for self defense against bees. I don't enjoy them

 

or be entertained ?

I don't recall ever going back for my pants.

 

Get one of the bug zapper rackets....even more enjoyable

 

Nice swarm and from your own hives. Hope you were able to collect them.

Al

 

Ha! I'm guessing California or Florida, looks like a citrus tree.

 

I have a question for you trail twister , I went out to the wood shed today and it is full of bees. They kinda look like honeybees, but they are small, are these just young bees? I went in the shed several times, they didn't bother me at all...kinda unnerving though!
They weren't there last evening, hundreds, maybe thousands of them today. It has been warm here the last few days...high 60s to low 80s.
Edit: I was just out there now (4:40 PM) ...not a bee in sight. It has started raining, dunno if that is why they disappeared?
Oh, and when they were buzzing around in there earlier, they were everywhere, but there did seem to be a little extra interest in my stack of 3-4 YO Sunburst Honey Locust?