You are much braver than I.

"Whoops, let me just reach into this PILE OF BEES!"



Incidentally are those your typical European honeybees? I could do a feature on them sometime if you'd like.

~Zoo

How about the domestic version? The ones that have seemed to disappeared in the wild?

They're all European honey bees. There's no such thing as an American honeybee.

Never was? Or any longer?

that picture gave me the shakes.  I can't believe you did this. 

 

 

 

never mind, I googled it. INteresting. America did not have any before they were imported. And yet, they are vital to america today. One case where the introduction of a foreign species has been very benign.

No honeybees, but in Mexico and Brazil there were stingless bees...and bumblebees seemed to have ruled well enough over the U.S. and Canada...as well as those annoying sweat bees.

Of course the introduction of honeybees has affected the native species a bit, they don't seem to be in danger. In fact, bumblebees have an interesting technique where they vibrate and warm themselves up to forage early in the morning before honeybees become active.

*sigh* I really gotta stop learning.

~Zoo

Never was.

I would rather have the stinging honeys, than the damn sweats!