They learn quickly (dogs and parents). Most people aren't as allergic as they think they are, and it would have to be pretty persistently dumb dog to keep bothering a hive that continues to sting it. Anyhow unless you aggressively bother most hives, the bees want nothing to do with you even when you're right up close: if you're not a predator or a source of nectar, you're not interesting.
Even my turkeys, quite possibly the dumbest animals I have around, don't mess with the bees any more after their first time!
I don't know I've been mostly stung by bees, and I had hornets and wasps live in attic of my parents house at different timesand they never stung us. Maybe it's because both my grandfathers kept bees and sometimes they swarm out.
Usually a bee flies into hairs and can't escape, people panic and try to make it go away and then it stings.
It's not that bad, hurts for a few minutes only, if you are not allergic. My grandpa said it helps for reumatism and he tended to bees with only a veil.
I wonder if American bees are the same as European ones.
Trading queens and trying to switch them seems to be very popular here. I remember my parents trying to catch the queen in some grandpa hives.
Reading all this I feel a little bad for never being particulary intrested in bees, my parents even met in beekeeping high school, but they ended up working different jobs.
In my experience dogs can handle bees pretty well. I've never seen a dog get stung by a bee but on many occasions I saw one of our dogs eat a bee flying near him without any problem. They just clap with their mouth and the bee is gone.
A neighbour of some of my bees had a Labrador pup that kept trying to catch bees in its mouth. It apparently reacted badly (which became expensive), and didn't learn. Had to move the hives in the end.
