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The bee on the can is probably not a honey bee

Yellowjackets want your soda. Honey bees want flowers. If you are standing on a sidewalk in August, the loud one at the trash is often a wasp.

Honey bees are furred, with pollen baskets on the hind legs when they have been working. They go home to a box or a hollow. They do not live in the ground by the playground very often. That is usually something else.

Do not swat a foraging honey bee on a Bidens head. She will go. Do not stick a stick in a hole in the ground.

UF's 4-H book Welcome to the Apiary is written for youth about 8 to 18. The city of Orlando runs an apiary course at its education hives. Those are the youth doors these pages cite.

Welcome to the Apiary https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/4H446

City of Orlando Apiary Program https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Departments-Offices/Executive-Offices/CAO/Sustainability-Resilience/Green-Works-Focus-Areas/Livability/Apiary-Program