They came to this continent with the European colonists. Today's bees have been carefully bred for gentleness and honey production. If you're stung by a bee, immediately use your thumbnail to scrape away the barb and pulsating poison sac. The less poison that's squeezed into the puncture means a milder reaction to the sting. The best way to get along with bees is to have respect for plants in bloom.
Bees work in and between flowers in the warmer parts of the day.
Do necessary work with plants in bloom in the cool early morning hours. Thousands of hives of honeybees re killed this way each year. Yellowjackets aren't bees, they are wasps. Yellowjackets have patterns of yellow and black on their hairless bodies. Yellowjackets aren't pollinators, they're scavengers of dead insects and animal meat.