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!