I don't recall ever getting stung by a bee in my life, but over the past two weeks I've been stung twice. Both times, I had emptied my compost bucket into my open-air compost pile and was shoveling the "green" food under. The bee was a small honey bee (I think it was a honey bee)--not a wasp or bumble bee.
My neighbor told me that bees sometimes make homes in dirt??? I never heard that.
Has anyone else ever had this problem? And what should I do about it? Now I'm afraid to use my compost pile.