My wife told me about this one.
May
21
2010
21
2010
So, the bee people came…
…and the bees… apparently swarmed away in response. Interesting facts:
- Bees can slap together a hive fairly quickly.
- There’s anywhere from 10K to 20K bees in a swarm.
- That’s a lot of freaking bees.
- And apparently bees are ninja: they can just… disperse, and you’ll never know where they went until they swarm again.
- You can tell European bees from African bees from the lack of bodies associated with the former.
- People who collect bees are very, very eager to collect more bees.
- And, generally, people who collect bees are kind of nice. Everybody I talked to about this was of cheerful temperament and civil demeanor.
That’s it. I just wish I knew where the swarm went.
Moe Lane
PS: I got my wife to admit today “Yeah, Moe, that’s a swarm.” She knows I’m phobic – big time – so she half-thought that five or six was my swarm.
HA!
May
20
2010
20
2010
There is a swarm of bees outside my front door.
Excuse me while I freak out for a bit.
Bees. Freaking bees.
Aug
06
2009
06
2009
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So, bees are getting drunk in Tennessee?
There are worse things to do on a nice mountain in the summertime then get drunk, not that I have actually done any of them. For that matter, have I ever gotten drunk on a mountain in the summertime? I’ve been to SCA events on mountains, so I’ve almost certainly gotten drunk on one once; but whether I’ve done it in the summertime is another question.
Anyway, it sounds more like the bees are doing the… apiary?… equivalent of chewing locoweed, which I have not ever done. That entire phytotoxin thing.
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
This Drunken Bee
Jan
23
2009
23
2009
Words cannot describe the level of freaking out this would cause me.
No, really. I’d probably be almost catatonic:
(Via Glenn Reynolds, who very nicely noticed the site yesterday. Thanks, Glenn!)
, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.