Freezing June bugs? LOL I thought the fun was tying string to them and then
letting them fly like airplanes in a circle overhead. June bugs are
considered garden pests - closely relates to Japanese beetles. You are
talking about the greenish large beetles?
Bev

Bumbles will sting but only as a last resort as it is their death sentence.
So no, you don't want to pick one up and hold it.

While working at the estate one of my guys hit a hive of bumbles. They came
swarming out and got on me and under my loose shirt. I was on the ground
right next to them. Well, so much for being modest - that shirt came off and
quickly. But I was never stung as I tried to keep from squishing them
between my skin and the material. I just kept telling myself that they don't
want to sting me. Everyone I worked with knew I was deadly allergic to bee
stings. Not a single sting. I was lucky. They were panic stricken because we
hit their home a perfectly logical reason to sting. We left them alone and
moved what we were going to place there to a different spot. I would not
allow someone to destroy their hive or kill them.  Had that been
yellow-jackets or wasps I'd probably not have been here to tell anyone.

Carpenter bees, I believe, do not have stingers but the problem is they look
very much like bumbles. But carpenters are very territorial and therefore
keep the other nasty wasps and yellows-jackets away. Honey bees (American
and English) are also very tranquil except for the African honey bees (aka
killer bees). Fortunately the African bees have not migrated this far north.

I've made my husband keep some of the old fence posts. We've dropped them
into the garden so the carpenters will stay in my back yard. I'll use the
old unpainted fence posts for vines, etc.

It's so important to teach the children to respect nature. If I don't who
will?
Bev