That is not a honey bee. It looks like a bee in the megachilid family (leaf cutting and mason bee family). They are solitary and dont live in hives, though they can nest in aggregation in wood cavities. They ( and bees in general) are docile and will not sting unless you try to touch them. Really. I cannot stress enough that there is no need to remove bees from children's environments. There actually are stingless honeybee species in central and south america.this is not one of those.

It looks like a carpenter bee. We have them here in So. Cal. I don't know about the Mexican kinds, but ours are a solitary bee, less likely to sting than a common honeybee

Oh My! These are so stunning! As always, SC Francis Busby is my favorite.....I LOVE that one more every time you post it. After that it's hard to narrow it down to second place. It could be Willow Dean Smith since I have admired that one every year you've shown it and it still 'wows' me. But then, your seedling is really special too. And Corolla Light is bright and cheerful. And I collect late bloomers and have never seen Belated Greetings before and I love it. And the others are gorgeous as well. You really make it a challenge to pick a favorite....lol. I have had bees do that to me too. One time I had a honeybee attach itself to the back of my shirt right between my shoulder blades and I was alone in the garden and couldn't figure out how to get it off without getting stung. It just clutched to me for the longest time and I didn't want to go inside with it on me so I stayed out til hubby came home and he got it off (with gloves). I don't know if it fell asleep on my back or what. It's so weird and I could never figure it out either. Maybe we are just as sweet and appealing as a flower?

We had a nest of the little suckers in the kitchen wall earlier this summer. I couldn't figure out why I kept finding wasps in the kitchen but chalked it up to them coming in through open doors. One morning I was outside watering plants and saw one crawl into the pipe that functions as a drain for the water heater that is under one of the kitchen cabinets. My husband blocked the opening with some wire mesh and they managed to chew through it so he then capped the pipe. They finally stopped getting into the kitchen, so I guess the nest eventually died. The area where the water heater is blocked by an access wall, but they must have been small enough to squeeze through the area where the wall met the inside of the cabinet. Once we found the nest, we had an explanation of why there were so many wasps hanging around the deck and why they seemed more aggressive than usual. It also explained the sting hubby received between his toes when all he was doing was standing out on the deck minding his own business. Hope the horse is feeling better, Bob. A few years ago, one of our dogs got into a nest and was stung several times. They would not let go and I was trying to brush them off of her when she got away from me. She ran all the way to the neighbor's house, which is over half a mile away, before she stopped running.