My RATIONAL fear of bees

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thats why you wait till the sun goes down then you raid their nest like a commando

It still sounds irrational to me. Unless you're allergic to bees, they aren't dangerous.

I know it isn't rational. But in my head I think it is since they can hurt me badly. I said that title because I think it is a rational fobia even though it obviously isn't.

I hate bees as well, I have never been stung and never want to be. I hate anything that flies and stings. Thats more rational than people that freak out over harmless spiders(I will however promptly kill stuff like Black Widows, but most other spiders around here, no big deal, yet people are afraid of them). and definitely more rational than someone I dated who was legitimately afraid of dinosaurs.... Jurassic Park would have been the scariest movie of all time to her.

Well, nothing is true for all people.
Sometimes my claustrophobia seems very rational to me and in other times it doesn't, but of course I also wish I wouldn't be afraid of.

I got stung by a bee one time when I was 6, and I've been scared of them ever since.

I guess you've never heard of Little Red Riding Hood lol!

Anyways, I too have a fear of bees and was stung as a child. Once, just a few weeks after we moved into this house when I was 3 going on 4. ( I'm 17 now) These things that looked like tiny bees but they weren't bees I think there were yellow jackets or something built a hive in my window that we couldn't see. The, when I was sleeping, they all flew out of the hive and found a crack to fly into my room. Then I was stung by a whole bunch of them. I was crying in pain in my sleep because they had severely stung my chest and leg. Like I had 5 or 6 stings at least total. My parents had to take the stingers out of my skin. My mom called the exterminator, they were flying all over the house. We got them out of the house and the exterminator came the next day. I slept in my parent's room that night. I was so scared.

Then another time when I was about 6 or 7, there was a bee on my carpet in my bedroom and I put my finger on it.

The last time I got stung which was a few years ago was when I was playing with the shutters. I was sitting in a chair and they were behind me and I kept running my fingers through it up and down for pure enjoyment until a giant wasp stung the palm of my hand.

I was also bitten by a horse fly I think like 2 weeks ago. I was walking when all of a sudden, I felt something stab the side of my foot. Then I saw blood. I still have the mark from it.

So yes, I too am fearful of bees. The only bees I can tolerate now are carpenter bees. Those are the bigger bees that live up in your carport and like to eat wood. The only reason I can tolerate them is because now, I have finally come to the realization that those kind of bees don't have stingers and can't sting you. But other than that I hate all insects.

I am also terrified of the thought of insects flying in my ear. None have yet but I always stick my fingers in my ears whenever a bug gets really close like they might fly in. I don't know why I am scared of it. The though just spooks me.

Guess what, I can completely relate. You see because of something that happened to me when I was 2 with an automatic toilet. I was sucked down. I've been afraid of them ever since. I can't swim now because I'm so scared that there might be toilets in the water. If I go under water, I have to have goggles so that I can see what's under the water, otherwise, I will have a panic attack and freak out because I will see toilets and amenities( flushers, stalls, handicap signs, etc.) It helps when there are people around because wherever there's a person. there can't be a toilet. Yes, it is irrational because I can't really explain it the right way to an NT no matter how hard I try. It's just too hard. No one understands. So I completely agree with you and could not have found a better post to quote and comment on.

When bees and wasps come near me I gain superhuman reflexes to dodge them. I hate bees and wasps.

Real wolves are very unlikely to eat people. There's actually a theory that the legends of wolves eating people came from dire wolves, a prehistoric relative of wolves that went extinct. Dire wolves were considerably bigger than regular wolves, big enough to hunt humans. Regular wolves have to be absolutely desperate to even consider going after a human.

Step one: Become a beekeeper
Step two: Fight crime
Step three: ?

I hate bees to, but they are necessary for humans to exist.

bee stings are extremely painful for some folk, so it is indeed rational to want to avoid the pain of them even if they are not fatal.

not quite, just our diet would be quite diminished but we as humans would still find a way to survive.

Bees wasps and other flying stinging insects terrify me. I used to work at a place that sold ice cream, and in the summer there were always wasps flying around the picnic tables outside because of the sticky melted ice cream everywhere, so I was always afraid to go and wipe down the tables when I saw them buzzing around out there. I never told anybody though, I just waited until they all cleared out. I used to have a peaceful spot under a tree behind my school's campus library that I could go and be left alone in, but I had to clear out when wasps started hanging out there.

if the cost of no bees [or at least just having stingless bees left behind] is vastly reduced variety of food, then i'd be willing to accept that trade-off.