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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
no it wasn't difficult at all, and we lived in a regular neighborhood, not in the country. the worst thing we had to deal with was when a new queen would swarm in a neighbor's yard and we would have to go deal with it. we had very gentle bees, to the point that the spare house key was kept just inside the top of the hive closest to the house!  the only sting I got in over 10 years was stepping barefoot on a dead one |
I made the mistake of squishing a dead bee between my fingers when I was a kid. The funny thing is that I used to catch them in my hand all the time and was never stung once.
We have carpenter bees in our shed. Every time I go near, I get buzzed by the guards. Fortunately, the guards are all males, and male carpenter bees can't sting; but their superficial resemblance to bumble bees is enough to keep most people and animals far away.