Honey Bee's are super nice, they aren't aggressive at all. They can get upset if you open a more mature hive. But you would be Pissed too if i started taking the roof off your hive often. They can be aggressive, if lets say a skunk keeps pestering the hive? They will get mad they just kinda assume, thats how African bee's became so aggressive, that race of Apis melifera just is that way thats why they are aggressive. But People up north don't have to worry as much about Americanized bee's.
Jlap, They would know that their were bee's in the package they arrive pretty much how you saw the guy holding it. If they dropped it they would probably stay in a lump on ground for a min or two.
But when people here the word bee's they generally just think of something like say a wasp, similar coloring and it is just what comes to mind. Its allot like how you here Skunk, but you can still keep them as pets with out a problem but theirs that bad smell rep with them. Bee's just have a bad rep.
