# How to live peacefully with bees?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-live-peacefully-with-bees/587074>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 27, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-live-peacefully-with-bees/587074 "2011-06-27T23:25:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-live-peacefully-with-bees/587074/21 "2011-06-28T15:38:30Z")

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> [@smaje1](#):
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> … Any suggestions on how to live peacefully with them? Will the smoke from the grill make the bees angry?

Beekeepers [use smoke to calm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_smoker)bees, so, no, you won’t make them angry. As others have said, honeybees fall squarely into the “live and let live” category (unless you have bad allergies).

And I’m sure **babySmaje** would not be outside alone and unsupervised at this age in the first place, and so would not have the opportunity to mess with them …

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**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-live-peacefully-with-bees/587074/22 "2011-06-28T16:37:00Z")

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You should be fine, they want the honeysuckle, not you. I’ve lived around big bee-filled bushes like this before and have never gotten stung. I’ve been stung many times by bees, but in every case I either trod on them inadvertently, or they got tangled in my hair (not usually a problem, but my hair was down to my knees when I was a kid).

They’re not inclined to sting willy-nilly, because when they sting the stinger and a goodly part of their hind end are torn off, and they die.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-live-peacefully-with-bees/587074/23 "2011-06-28T17:29:27Z")

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> [@Kalypso](#):
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> …they want the honeysuckle, not you.

Until the OP brings a soda out to the backyard.

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