Wasps

Wasps make people more afraid than honeybees (the sound of their buzz, the more alarming colours, the fact that they can sting and live, the way they fly, etc.), but again, wasps generally only sting when feeling threatened, and they are less aggressive than honeybees. If you can overcome your fear of them and replace it with fascination, you'll enjoy having them around, and you won't be stung.

Bees are mostly after the flowers and not after sugary concoctions that humans consume out in the open during summer, so they come into less conflict with us.

This does not seem to be the case in the microcosm that is my back yard.

I have at least 3 species of honeybees and 3 of bumblebees too. They come out as soon as the frost is gone, while there is only one type of wasp which is around for a bit at the end of summer. Yet every instance of coming across a wasp has been a agressive one, or at least they seem to love flying into my face.

The bees however keep to themselves. I have to walk past two blossoming trees to get to my shed.They are loaded with hundreds of bees. I brush past them flickng the branches as I go. Yet not one even lands on me.