A swarm of bees came into my son’s shop last week. Two of his mechanics freaked out, but one was calm about it. They called a bee guy and, by the time he got there, the bees had decided that wasn’t a good home and they had all left.
That’w amazing you can put your hand into the center of the swarm.
do honeybees even sting??...
Yup. Done it myself a few times while growing up.
Depends why they are swarming. If someone agitated their nest already, then it’s a defensive swarm and they will sting.
I don’t mind honey bees much at all. I’ll even let one land one me though they rarely would. Same with carpenter bees. I dislike wasps, yellow jackets and hornets. I wish it was their populations that were being decimated, not the honeybees.