Try reading a bee its rights as it lays dying. They do not listen.
No. Once bees are endangered, the resulting ecological collapse will have made the rule of law obsolete.
I have no idea how protection for endangered colony insects works, but it might make the most sense to just protect the hive and queen instead of every individual colony member.
In California we have both the federal and state Endangered Species Acts. The common honey bee will not make the lists because it’s not native to North America. We do have endangered bumble bees, but they rarely sting, and they don’t die from it. So, no.
But in case you’re worried about harming endangered species… It is illegal to “take" one, which means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. So in theory, a bee dying on you is not the same thing as killing it.
if you’re at a point where they’re stinging you you’re probably doing something that would be considered illegal already
I remember being on one particular school trip as a kid, sitting down on a bench distracted, and a bee decided to go under my shirt and sting me in the back. I didn’t even notice it until it stung me, so yeah, no, bees can be assholes too. Though that probably counts for the “probably” exception.
Bee keepers get stung all the time
In the place I grew up in, that “illegal” thing would be going to a train station. Some beehive considered it theirs and would attack anyone going through.
When bees become an endangered species, would it be illegal if one were to sting you?
In this hypothetical system, bees would become akin to cops where it would be up to themselves to enforce rules, moral/ethics, and systems.
ALL COPS ARE BEES!
oh yeah what are you gonna do release the cops or the bees or the cops with bees in their mouth and when they yell they shoot bees at you?
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