@Absolutely_Blakely African elephants in particular are scared of bees, potentially because of the unusual aggressiveness of the Africanized Honey Bee (its also known as the killer bee!) Asian elephants don’t like bees, but they don’t react quite the same way

the bees can’t sting through their skin, but they can swarm them and get their eyes, inside their trunks, all the sensitive spots.

Sometimes wild elephants will wander onto a farmer’s property to munch. the farmer will protect their crop with force and elephants end up hurt or dead

However, elephants are super scared of bees. conservationists use this fact to help protect them

By building bee hives along the property line, the elephants are scared away from the farmland without being seriously hurt. Plus, the farmer gets some income from the hives and the world gets more bees! 🐝