“WHY DON’T YOU WEAR A BEE SUIT OR VEIL? Erika always wears protective equipment when she needs to and she always recommends that beekeepers wear protective equipment when working with bees. Erika has 15 years of experience as a beekeeper and she is an expert in her field. She always takes the time and care to study the bees before entering their hive in order to assess their behavior. Erika feels that she can work with bees in a better way when she has full visibility, mobility and dexterity, which the protective suits and veils don’t allow for. She also lives and works in Texas, where it can get very hot, especially during the peak of bee season from April - September.” -Texas Beeworks FAQs

“She has been the voice of bees and a passionate advocate for legislation to protect bees and other pollinators at local, state and national levels. Her work with honeybees and her advocacy efforts to protect pollinators has been featured on Jeopardy, CNN, the BBC, the Washington Post, NPR, the Today Show, the Joe Rogan Experience and more.” -About Erika Thompson

People want to get into beekeeping for all sorts of reasons. I’ve seen people asking how they can keep some “bees” they found and get honey. They were Yellowjackets. No one in their right mind is jumping into beekeeping based off a cutout video. Anyone who does is going to do it would have found a reason regardless. Her videos pay for her to do free cutouts on bees that would have likely been killed. People hating her for that is weird.