I hope to someday be this chill about having my garden's residents land on me 😅 What a big, gorgeous bumble. Wish I had such a friend for my tomato beds.
Amazingly, the bumble bee is alive and well this morning! I was really afraid she'd had weedkiller or something. Gonna put her outside near flowers once it's warm enough.
Bees are lovely creatures. My Dad used to keep honeybees at the bottom of the garden, and in all the years we had them, I only recall two stings, when someone accidentally squashed one.
In 1996 I also visited a friend who worked with a bee keeping collective in Zambia. We went to see the hives, and the air was full of bees flying about, but not a single one stung us.
I recall a few years back seeing an old man trying to STAMP on a bee that was on the ground. I angrily intervened and he told me "it could have stung me". Well, no. She was minding her own business and you have shoes on anyway. People. Grrrr.
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I can sit four three feet away from mine and watch them for ages.
No problems.