I’m both allergic and still slightly phobic, and I would totally want to meet the bees. I have met bees as part of exposure therapy to diminish that phobia. They are cool as hell.
Not just honey bees either. I’ve even developed a fondness for bumblers. I still don’t want them on me, but I smile when I see them.
My parents taught me to leave them alone. I’m Indigenous Canadian and I grew up seeing my parents talking to creatures like they were people. They’d see a bee nearby and just ask it to leave … and most of the time it would. But other times, the bee would linger and they’d start getting mad at it and almost negotiating for it to leave until it eventually did. They would only kill it if it was endangering someone like a small child or baby or if the bee actually stung someone.
I do the same now … if I see a bug or a bee where it shouldn’t be, I just open the door or window and ask it to leave. Funny part is … 9/10 times, the bee takes the advice and just leaves.
Wasps on the other hand set of panic alarms, even with my parents because everyone knows these things are just born angry and will sting you relentlessly no matter what you ask of them.
I think it has a lot to do with pheromones and energy and phenomenon we haven’t fully discovered or explained yet … I don’t go too far into the science of it but I do believe that between humans we can ‘sense’ certain energies, personalities, feelings or anxieties between ourselves … and I think that same process happens between species as well. If we feel fear, anxiety, apprehension or aggression, I think most animals and insects would be able to sense that. There is even some research that suggests that same kind of energy or connection also happens between plants and with plants and trees.
There is a lot of science and biology that leans towards the possibility that there is more to our natural world than what we see, hear, touch and taste. And I think that is why we have these kind of unusual interactions with animals and insects more often than would be explained by chance.
When I come across bees I always talk to them too!
I’m like
hello Mr Bee! How are you today?
And then just keep going with my day.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one who does that.
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I’ve become convinced that bees know how cute their butts are and wiggle them just to give the world a little beauty
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