Eli5: Why do Bees rarely fly into the house? Unlike flies or wasps?

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I always find flies flying around the house. Occasionally wasps. But I have never had a Honey bee or bumble bee enter the house.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

For some reason, I’m irrationally afraid of bees and wasps and stinging insects. No problem with spiders or snakes or other insects.

Once when I was in high school, my sister and I saw a bee buzzing around our living room and I started to quickly depart the room and as I did, the big fat bee changed his flight path and flew right into my forehead.

I fainted!

He didn’t bite me or anything, just that a bee flying right into my face made me so frightened that I lost consciousness.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I actually just found a dead little bee in my room the other day 😞 I don’t know how she got in, but she clearly couldn’t get out either.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because Honey Bees and Bumble Bees (also why they have gentle names) are kind and respectful and understand personal property. Whereas flies and wasps don’t care who you are – they are literally on the earth just to pester and annoy us. Just like mosquitoes – they too don’t respect boundaries. Why else would such small creatures make such loud obnoxious noises, but to annoy us and drive us mad.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Ive captured so many bumblebees over the years and of course safely released them outside and even had one in the room few days ago so not sure if its really rarely

Anonymous 0 Comments

We get bees fairly often, honey and bumble. The honey bees I assume are making a bee-line for their hives in the paddock, and the house is just in the way. The bumbles just bumble in and have to be shown the exits.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve got a video I took of a yellow jacket landing next to a piece of pork I was a to season and BBQ but instead of chasing it away, I filmed it.

This sucker took a size of pork half the size of him and it could barely fly away haha