I just love honey bees. We had our own hives for many, many years and sold our excess honey in a stand using the honor system. When I operated our “pick your own bouquet” business I had a sign warning anyone that was allergic to bee stings that there were many, many bees in the gardens. Never had one single complaint of a bee sting. When I was working in the gardens, often bees would crawl all over my hands, so busy collecting pollen and nectar that they were oblivious to my presense.
I am counting on that. As it is, I have bees flitting around my gardens often and don't have problems. I get ~slightly~ allergic to stings and am questioned by my kids whether it's really smart to want bees. But, I want bees. ~slightly~ allergic is not deadly allergic and to my mind the honey outweighs an occasional discomfort.
ummm... and I already know that tobacco and spit as a poultice takes the sting out so I got myself covered. LOL