The best sting protection available is a bee suit. It has a suit, gloves and a tight-fitting veil. The changes of getting stung in a bee suit are very small. While you might enjoy watching your new bee colony grow and work, you can make money from the bees, too. You can harvest and sell the honey.
Some people sell bee nucleus colonies.
Others make money by renting the bees to local farmers to help pollinate their crops. Still others make bees a career by becoming entomologist and studying bees. Keith Delaplane at the University of Georgia began his beekeeping career at 13 and today is an authority of honey bees. Bees are fascinating insects from the dance they do to communicate to their social nature and labor division. Pollen - a fine yellow powder formed inside a flower.