Imagine it is a beautiful summer day and you are sprawled out across a towel in the soft green grass, just soaking in the warm rays of the sun as you are reading your favorite book and enjoying a delicious snack of watermelon. The air is hot and humid, but there is relief from the heat comes in the form of a cool breeze that gently ruffles your hair as it passes by. You feel completely relaxed and content in your current position, and you feel yourself slowly drifting off to sleep when you hear it: buzzzz. At first the sound is faint and you hold your breath hoping you just imagined it, but then the sound appears even closer than before. Buzzzzzzzzz! It is probably after the watermelon. Why did you decide to eat watermelon outside? And you
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At the time I was around 4 or 5 years old and just teetering around the house when I saw a yellow and black insect buzzing around the ceiling of my bedroom. I remember becoming mesmerized by the seemingly random flight pattern, and for some reason I wanted to hold it. So I proceeded to do what any other 4 year old would do, I climbed on top of my bed and caught the flying bee. This action was unfortunately, then followed by a sharp sting paired with many tears. Many people’s first experience with bees are alike my first experience as it typically involves the bee stinging the person, and because of this people create a connection between bees and pain and develop a fear of bees. For many, bees are small insects that are easily agitated and will not hesitate to sting, but in fact, this assumption is entirely false. While it is true that some bees will sting if agitated, only female bees are capable of stinging, there are many species of bees that are incapable of stinging at all (Bee | Insect). In fact, there are over 20,000 different species of bees in the world (4,000 species are indigenous to the USA alone), and making generalizations that all bees are angry and vicious insects ready to attack at any moment is false, because in reality bees are one of the most helpful insects in the world, and they play a vital role in our planet’s ecosystem and natural balance
At the time I was around 4 or 5 years old and just teetering around the house when I saw a yellow and black insect buzzing around the ceiling of my bedroom. I remember becoming mesmerized by the seemingly random flight pattern, and for some reason I wanted to hold it. So I proceeded to do what any other 4 year old would do, I climbed on top of my bed and caught the flying bee. This action was unfortunately, then followed by a sharp sting paired with many tears. Many people’s first experience with bees are alike my first experience as it typically involves the bee stinging the person, and because of this people create a connection between bees and pain and develop a fear of bees. For many, bees are small insects that are easily agitated and will not hesitate to sting, but in fact, this assumption is entirely false. While it is true that some bees will sting if agitated, only female bees are capable of stinging, there are many species of bees that are incapable of stinging at all (Bee | Insect). In fact, there are over 20,000 different species of bees in the world (4,000 species are indigenous to the USA alone), and making generalizations that all bees are angry and vicious insects ready to attack at any moment is false, because in reality bees are one of the most helpful insects in the world, and they play a vital role in our planet’s ecosystem and natural balance