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I get along really well the with bees, hornets and yellow jackets in my yard. I have a juice trap to keep the hornets from building nests in the doorway, but aside from that, they have free reign. I have always been able to work around them until the past 2 summers. There’s one area right in the center of my garden where, if I try to work, one big bumblebee will come out and start browsing. That’s fine, but if I don’t leave the area within a few minutes after that, it’ll bonk me. It doesn’t seem to matter what time of day, and it’s only ever one bee. I can’t hear buzzing elsewhere, although I can’t rule out a ground nest because the area is pretty heavily vegetated with a few small decorative structures. I was hoping it would be a one year deal because I heard they move their nest every year, but this is the second summer. If I stay and ignore the bee, will it eventually sting me? Is there a nonviolent way to keep it as bay until I get my work done?
LOL I will not be moving any hive.
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Ed, I am pretty sure it’s a bumble. I have bees, hornets and wasps of all shapes and sizes in my yard, and the one that bonks is a big round fellow. I live in Maine, so we don’t have the Africanized bees yet.
Thank you everyone, with that behavior I guess it has to be honeybees.