What flowers will they pollinate?
When I lived in the Sierras, a neighbor let a friend put a bunch of hives on her land for temporary storage. Those bees ended up visiting all of the cabin owners, making many of them stay inside. They stung quite a few of us. How did you end up not getting Sting’s?
None of the hives are within 300 feet of a house. There is a quite a bit of hayfield/pasture land here, acres and acres of red clover/alfalfa/etc.
The bees visit all of Mrs. Augie’s flowers, but they aren’t aggressive at all. Mostly they forage in the fields and woods. It’s quite a racket when they fly over my house on the way back to the hives in the evening.
Bees are social, communal insects but here are some of the things they don't like :
Loud noises near the hive (ie. lawnmower/ automobile backfire)
Thunder and Lightning
Sudden thermal change before the storm/ barometric pressure changes
Fuzzy clothing (ie: flannel, wool - because their feet get snagged)
Stinky odors
Dark clothing - reminds them of bears/ natural predators
Smoke - which signals danger to the hive, and the brood/ pupae/ immature bees
Bees work collecting flower nectar and pollen from Dawn to Dusk, and travel in a straight line ( Hence the term : 'making a Beeline') right from source to the hive.
It is best to avoid the beeline (!)... Ya think ?