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I have stood on hives to paint the eaves of a house.
I’ve never been stung near a hive.
We have numerous swarms, every year, and nobody gets stung.
Most of the stuff you hear about bees is hype.
Makes for great stories.
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We have numerous swarms, every year, and nobody gets stung.
A swarm is when the queen leaves the hive and about half the bees go with her. You can pick up a swarm in your bare hands, put the queen in a box and the rest of the bees will come to her.
The problem is when they are protecting brood, and are disturbed. My understanding is that bears go after the brood, not honey. The brood is protein. Bees go to the bears face which is exhaling carbon dioxide.
Yeah, but you stood on, not jumped on the hive. Consider when Jesse thanks n Breaking Bad hopped a fence and landed on the porta-potty. The only thing that would have been worse was if it was full of bees.