What Is My Love-Hate Relationship With Bees

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My recent visit to the children’s garden has brought up my love/hate relationship with bees. Most younger kids have poor experiences with bees when they are younger. Just being around them anymore gives me chills up my spine. There are over 70 different species of bees and wasps found in Ohio. These can be helpful or harmful things of society. Wasps just are pests and do nothing. On the other the hand honey bees and carpenter bees contribute to the life cycle of human nature.

The relationship all started when I was five or six. My uncle was finishing up his senior year of high school. One day a few of the kids from his school were jealous of his success throughout high school. So they came up with a plan to ruin his day. Their father was

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