# BEES!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bees/503424>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 18, 2009, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bees/503424 "2009-07-18T11:36:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bees/503424/21 "2009-07-23T02:45:02Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> When next year’s crop of bees

Despite this comment and the thread title, yellow jackets are not bees - they are wasps.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bees/503424/22 "2009-07-23T03:04:24Z")

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> [@dracoi](#):
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> Really? I’ve lived in coastal CA and WA and they’ve been pretty aggressive both places.
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> Years ago, my brother’s soccer league had a massive gathering for photos and one of his teammates arrived late and took a shortcut that went right over a ground nest of yellow jackets. The late kid nearly died (he was rushed to the hospital with breathing problems after hundreds of stings; at least he wasn’t allergic) but he kept running into the crowd far enough that most of the kids got stung a few times.

BEEn there, stung by that. You’re talking a whole different subject. You can’t trounce around the hive of any stinging insect and expect honey on your toast. But when they’re buzzing around my ice tea I just smack em like a tennis ball with my hand.

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