If a giant spinning blade noisily hovered directly over my house, I don't think I'd be chill.

I've actually found ground bees to be incredibly chill. You can walk among their little nests and they mostly won't pay you any mind (of course, mowing changes the equation a bit). Now if they had been yellow jackets nesting in the ground...

Why were you fucking bees? Great way to get your dick stung

Using a riding lawnmower as a kid was how I found out that some bees lived in the ground. My face was so swollen due to all of the stings.

To top it off my uncle had disabled the safety switch that turns the mower off when you stand up so that stupid thing just kept going as I ran to the house. Stupid kid me ran back to the mower to turn it off which meant I got stung even more!

you endanger their lives and ask them to chill?

guess they could ask the same of you

Plant more flowers so they are occupied while you are mowing.

It totally won't bring in more...

The dog found a nest of 'em in the backyard once. She started digging at the hole then stuck her nose in it. Got rewarded with a snoutful of bees for the effort.

Pooch looked like a happy hamster for a few days but recovered ok. She stopped rooting around after that though!

Bee (hah) happy they weren’t wasps 🙏

I was set upon by fire ants while I was mowing. I'm glad the hose was nearby.

For some reason, giant Asian hornets seem to love to dive at my tractor when I'm doing fieldwork this time of year. It's always nerve-wracking. So far, they haven't attacked me, but I'm sure my day will come.

Spicy sky raisins! They have been a problem this year here too. I have a dog that likes to try and eat them sometimes.

Core childhood memory incoming:

When I was kid, I got swarmed by ground bees when another kid leaped on their hive, and they ALL came after ME. Not one other kid got stung, but I got stung around 3O times. Also, while I was running through the woods, I got tangled in a some old rusty barbed-wire, which tore up my legs (wearing shorts).

So despite Benadryl shots (didn't know if I was allergic or not, my grandfather was), I needed a tetanus shot, too.

I didn't say it was a fun core childhood memory.

There’s a wild bees nest in the bole of a tree where I sometimes walk my boy and I’ve been stung twice in passing. Once on the back of the head and once on the back. :/

I've heard they remember who delivered slights against them. Might be time to move indoors and wait for winter to erase the memory, though it may be passed down.

I have one of these for such occasions. Works on spiders too...

https://youtu.be/FcEpB39HqJw