Bees showed up today. The dying flowers providing a feast.

There are some bees that just come in my kitchen and chill on my window,when i open then window some times they go out and some times they just stay there for a bit,they are chill with me i think pr at least they haven't atacked me ,i dont have any in door flowers or any opened food containers so i don't get what is it that they like from that place ,i have even had to save a cuple from glases of water after they fell in,im just worried about them and i don't know if their presence is a good thing mostly becouse i have cats and i don't want them being eaten.

I’ve been finding what I think are mason bees appear near my nightlight on the unfinished side of my basement for the last week. Usually one every day or so. Today I found two and I can’t figure out where they’re coming from. It’s winter here and my home is no more than 40 years old. Should I be worried?

Found this fuzzy guy taking a nap, he’s so cute and fuzzy 😭

Hi ive been stung by a bee on my forearm area multiple times in the same spot. Like 3-4 times already. Will i have a worse reaction each time or will i grow immune to the stings? The first few times i just had swelling and itching for about 3 days.

A Dream of Bumblebees and Tepary Beans by NokkenTheTerrible

It's the afternoon and I'm not feeling very well with an especially bad headache, so I decide to have a lie down.

It's a bright sunny day with a clear blue sky and I'm lying in bed. My duvet is pulled up to my chest. The duvet covers have a floral pattern of flowers of red and white, flowers of purple, white and blue, and small orange flowers with blue centres, all surrounded by green foliage on a dark blue, almost black background. My head and upper back are propped up by my pillows with covers matching the duvet. My bed is alongside the large window on my left hand side, the curtains are open and bright sunlight is streaming in, warming the still air. Inside my bedroom I have many tepary bean plants in pots growing all along the windowsill. They are stout bushy plants with healthy green leaves that are round with ends that taper to a point. Currently they are in bloom, covered in small white flowers.

I notice there are some small fluffy bumblebees outside curiously drifting from side to side. Their head and legs are black, the fur on their thorax a warm reddy orange, and their abdomen black with white at the end. They are having a good look through my bedroom window before flying away. Shortly after, many bumblebees, maybe around eight of them, have found their way into my bedroom through the slightly open door on my right hand side, at the far end of the room. At first I'm a little surprised, but then I remember this species of bumblebee is cleverer than most, with great spacial intelligence. They must have flown around to the back of the house, through the back door left open for my dog to go in and out of the garden as she pleases, through the utility room, through the kitchen, into the long hallway, up the winding staircase, onto the landing, and finally through my slightly open bedroom door.

For their navigational efforts the bumblebees are mightily rewarded. They fly straight over me to the tepary bean plants and begin pushing their fuzzy round bodies head first into the small white flowers. As they greedily feed on the nectar, bright yellow pollen is trickling down their backs and sticking to their hairs as they excitedly wriggle around enjoying their reward. I'm lying here quiet and still and feeling content while watching the spectacle of the bumblebees busily buzzing from flower to flower. When they have had their fill, they fly back out from where they came. I'm thinking to myself what a good job they are doing of pollinating my tepary beans, my plants are going to produce lots of slender pods full of small white beans.

Before leaving, one of the bees has chosen to investigate a small round hole in the left shoulder of the thick unbleached cotton, long sleeve top I'm wearing. I'm a little alarmed as it quickly squeezes its head and thorax through the hole. Its black and white abdomen, still powdered with bright yellow pollen, is sticking out with its back legs flailing around. Before it completely disappears into my sleeve, I gently grasp its abdomen with my right hand and carefully pull it out from the hole in my sleeve. As I do so it makes high pitched panicked buzzes and then falls to the floor. It is rather indignantly thrashing its legs and abdomen around while lying on its back. It then rights itself and with a loud buzz it hurriedly zoomes out of the room.

Hello! Its my understanding that honeybees, (European Asian and African) are the only ones to produce honey in human-harvesting Quantities (and one species in Australia)

I understand that there are over 4,000 types of American Honey bee in North America alone. Q: Do any produce honey in quantities large enough for Bears to eat?

Summary: I've always heard the stories about Bears eating Honey, but if there were never American Hives producing copious amounts of honey, did American Bears harvest honey from Bees before Europeans brought honeybees to America?

Thank you!

Excuse my language. They are so cool. I think they are so similar to humans. I think in some ways we are eusocial just like them. Cities are like big beehives. We have so much in common. Bees are smart too. Bees can do a wiggle dance and tell other bees where stuff is and how far away it is. That means they have a system of distance units. I wonder what their unit system is called, Imbeerial or Bzzetric. Ha!

One time when I was around 11 I was at my friends house. We were outside jumping on the trampoline. I was chewing gum and I put the gum on my cheek (dont ask why), like on the outside. A freaking wasp came up and stung me through the gum and got stuck. That freaking sucked. I’ve never been stung by a cool bee (honey ones).

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Had caution tape at the base of the tree but I was still pretty taken aback bc I’ve never seen anything like this here ever. I’m thinking they probably have plans to remove it bc it’s a public area, but haven’t been back to see. Also, does anyone know if this pattern of hive has a name? What would you call it? I’m thinking blanket?

Last night this bee was on the trunk of my car. I gave it some sugar water on a q-tip, that it did drink a little of. Was being lethargic and it was going to be in the 30s last night, so I let it stay in the garage. Went out this morning and she’s(?) still moving around, but still in the same spot. Went out just now to get some sun and now this? Seems lively, just unsure if it’s doomed or what? This is in central FL btw.

Ever since the last few days there have been bees coming into my house from almost every window and door on the first floor. It started with my room, there were suddenly 10 bees in my room then I sealed the windows with tape. Now theyre getting in from the front and back terrace doors as well as windows in the upstairs lounge. They seem to be dying, I keep taking them out only to find more inside. We checked the entire outside of the house and there is no hive so I have no idea where they’re coming from. What should I do? I have dogs and a cat. The cat is going crazy after them.

Location: Sarawak, Malaysia

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I received this bee pollen in my grocery order today, I’ve never had black pollen before. Has this gone bad or just unique batch?

Thank you!