When I was five years old and didn't know any better, I would spend recesses at school catching bumblebees in the field at school. Although I was young, my memories of it are quite vivid. At the time there were thousands of them pollinating huge clover blooms. I would catch them with two hands, let them crawl around, and even pet them.
And I never got stung, until...
One day a teacher sees me doing this. In my five year old mind I recall her running across the field like a crazed mad woman, screaming at me, yelling at the top of her lungs. She was likely telling me to stop because I could get hurt, and I'm sure it was less dramatic than my mind remembers, but she grabbed me and pulled me up out of the grass. When she did this, I guess it scared the bumblebee, maybe my hands got jerked and closed on it for a second or something from her yanking me upward, but THEN it stung me!
That was the last bumblebee I ever played with. Fucking adults.
Lord_Of_Awesomeness on August 19th, 2018 at 13:13 UTC »
Wait... so, what the heck am I supposed to do if I see a Yellow Jacket?
flano1 on August 19th, 2018 at 14:12 UTC »
Can you really pet a bumblebee without it stinging you?
Kamots66 on August 19th, 2018 at 15:22 UTC »
When I was five years old and didn't know any better, I would spend recesses at school catching bumblebees in the field at school. Although I was young, my memories of it are quite vivid. At the time there were thousands of them pollinating huge clover blooms. I would catch them with two hands, let them crawl around, and even pet them.
And I never got stung, until...
One day a teacher sees me doing this. In my five year old mind I recall her running across the field like a crazed mad woman, screaming at me, yelling at the top of her lungs. She was likely telling me to stop because I could get hurt, and I'm sure it was less dramatic than my mind remembers, but she grabbed me and pulled me up out of the grass. When she did this, I guess it scared the bumblebee, maybe my hands got jerked and closed on it for a second or something from her yanking me upward, but THEN it stung me!
That was the last bumblebee I ever played with. Fucking adults.