How come nobody ever came out with spray-on to repel bees?
OFF doesn’t seem to work on them.
I don’t know about you but I find bees to be much less of a problem than mosquitoes, blackflies and gnats. Maybe no one came out with a bee repellent because there isn’t much of a market for it?
FWIW I’ve had success using DEET based products to keep yellow jackets (hornets) away.
Here’s a couple of sites advertising bee repellents.
I’ve never had bees be a bother. I’ve had them buzz around me a fair amount from time to time, but rarely do they ever actually land on me.
I have a large garden and many, many flowers on my property.
The bees are beneficial to my plants, so I don’t want to get rid of them. But when I go out to pick some fresh fruit and vegetables they’re all alround me, and yes, they do land of me. I’d rather not get zapped by one of them. I take precautions like not wearing bright clothes or after shave, but that only works so much. I wonder how well those repelents work.
I think maybe you are mistaking wasps for bees. The wasps are pesty this time of year, but I don’t know of any repellents. My folks have been having luck with wasp traps, but there are always some wasps around still.
Bees don’t crave blood as mosquitoes do. Mosquito repellant masks your scent so the biters can’t find you. Bees are more interested in nectar, unless you piss them off. Wasps or yellowjackets are just evil-tempered, in my opinion, and will sting you for the hell of it.
Nope. They’re honey bees and big 'ol bumble bees. I know the diff between a wasp and a bee. If they were wasps I’d want to get rid of them.
Oh, yeah! And aggresive. And their sting hurts like hell.
But that’s not what we got. There’s no nest here either. The bees are here for the flowrs. I just wish I could walk in the garden and they would ignor me more.
I’ll third the vote that yellowjackets are mean little bastards.
They can also sting more than once, unlike bees. I like bees. We leave each other alone.
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You seem to be a little short now 
Earlier today I ran over a yellow jacket nest with a lawn mower. They explained to me how much they dislike this.
Avon’s Skin-So-Soft keeps the bees away, if I’m not mistaken.
In the late summer and fall, a creature the DNR calls a “garbage wasp” becomes troublesome. It looks like a honeybee, but it’s a little bigger. Rather than nectar and pollen, it lives on the food we discard. Sweets and even meat are fodder for this nasty little critter. All wasps and bees will not attack you if you avoid “sudden or hostile moves.” Paper wasps are more touchy than mud wasps, and the ones with the really short fuses are “yellow jackets,” or garbage wasps. If you throw an empty pop can in a trash can at the state fair, you’re liable to meet a garbage wasp who wants to kick your ass. A honeybee or a mud-dauber wasp, by contrast, can be waved out of your way with impunity.
Getting back to the repellant question, though, here’s one. Smoke! The natural reaction of a bee or wasp to smoke is to return to the nest and stay there until the air clears. If you you set up some of those smoky Off!® mosquito coils around your picnic, the bees will leave you alone.
I heard ‘em speakin’ Arabic in their tiny voices, so they might have been West Nile mosquitoes.