[CobaltBlue]

Bees are funny. They won't bother you if you don't bother them, unless you're around the hive.

Some people they won't pay any attention to when you are near the hive. My older son and I have thick dark hair, and for some reason they want to sting our heads! So I always have to suit up.

My husband and other son have lighter hair, and the bees don't bother them.

Some kind of instinctive reaction to thick dark hair, I guess.

[AnAmericanMother]

Some kind of instinctive reaction to thick dark hair, I guess.

I bet they DO think you're a bear! The Reverend had a classic upstanding shock of thick white hair up until the day he died, in his 80s. Maybe that's why they never bothered him. I always wear a white pith helmet with a veil over, so the bees never SEE my hair!

If you go with hybrids instead of Italians, you'll get more honey production.