Take that bees.

Last year I got tangled up with a hive of Africanized bees in a dead tree trunk. As soon as my tractor came near them, that set them off. Before I realized what was going on they were buzzing around my head. I panicked, and wanted to shift into high, but shifted into low, and I was creeping away from the bees. By the time I got near my truck I ran to it. Those suckers were hitting my window still trying to get to me. I had to leave part of the field not finished. This year they were still there. I told the owner she needed to get the bees removed. So today a exterminator did the job on the bees. We need bees, but not that kind. I have been around a lot of bees, but not like those. Stan

Yes, there's various versions of the bees. Some vicious, some tame. I bush-hogged over a nest of bald-face hornets once, the bush-hog chopped the nest in half, but I was able to yank that throttle back and hunker down and out-run them, no harm.

Are you 100% sure they where bees not some sort of Wasps?? But yes some types of bees can be aggressive to the point they need to be taken care of but MOST are not. But if they where bees I hope who ever took care of them did so in such a way to at least save that liquid GOLD honey

Keep a can or brake cleaner with you that really does a good job on mean bees and wasps

Got the lower half of a hornets nest hanging in a bush with a cycle blade. Didn't hesitate because of hurting the equipment, Found out how fast that 641 could move in 1st gear.

About 7yrs ago I had 3 stinging insect encounters over the summer. I was chopping some thistles in a fence line and ground hornets chased me, very aggressively! I had a wasp nest encounter and got stung, and later in the fall I was plowing and hit a yellow jacket nest. They came after me hard ,fast, and silent-no buzzing at all. I just started getting stung. I backed up the tractor and finally hit the key and jumped and ran, swinging my ball cap at them to protest my face! They were in my shirt even after I got to house . That nest got burnt out! Mark.

It sure sounds characteristic of Africanized honey bees, they will chase for a 1/2 mile at least. They start nailing you, that pheromone they leave on you is their mark and tag for others to find, increasing their attack. They'll kill a person, there is no doubt about that, they swarm, sting and hit with so much venom, the human body cannot take that.

Bald/white faced hornets will chase like that, not nearly as far, but you would have to have made direct contact or disturb them in manner that would rattle the nest or something substantial. They make an obvious paper type nest, very easily seen. I'm not sure what wasp species you have out there, but the small ground wasps, yellow jackets, and brown wasps here, typically are not nearly that aggressive, meaning you'll need to have to make direct contact or really make a disturbance.

In contrast to that, I can recall one brown wasp nest here when I was a kid, that was inside this hole in the side of the dozer blade on the old D7, that if you walked by, one would fly out and nail you, right in the elbow, same place every time. Same with a honey bee colony in the side of the barn, they would nail you walking by, a single one, neither of these 2 came out in masses.

Last years honey bees were pretty good about mowing near them, I was quick about it and did not linger, I'd imagine they might be defensive in the right conditions, hot weather, maybe your wearing dark clothing, a lot of little things can add up.
You never know 100% with any, but from what is written and footage I have watched on those Africanized ones, best to avoid completely. When I took some frames of honey later last season, they followed and buzzed me for 1/4 mile up to and around my house. Was warm and a bit humid that day.

Just shut the window!---Tee

OK, bee stories, I got one. Was bush hogging and ran over a ground bee nest. They swarmed out and I pushed the old IH424 into neutral and ran. The mower kept turning, the tractor kept shaking, and they stung the tires till the tractor ran out of gas that evening.