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the bees and wasps are back
it's about this time of year when i try to become a man and adopt the nonchalant 'whisk' technique, but it never really goes to plan.
i've always been the 'statue' person. it's much safer and there's mutual respect when the encounter is over. the major con is the amount of time the twats cling to your arm sometimes.
what kind of wasp person are you?
I'm a bee person rather than a wasp person
I'm like one of those crazy old bee ladies who keeps loads of bee hives and leaves all her money to the Bee homes.
http://telling-the-bees.blogspot.com/
i'd much rather have a bee companion
i like bees.
bumble bees on the other hand make me run so fast. it's mostly because they're like flying tanks.
lets bee friends
Beece
as in peace.
^awful
incase anyone didn't click the link to my blog, i'm gonna post some things about bees
Bees are born out of corruption, from the decaying flesh of calves or oxen, and have no sex. A simple monarchical social and legal framework underpins the world of Bees, and is based on custom. Unlike most traditional custom-based legal systems however, Bee law is enforced entirely autonomously: discipline, punishment and justice are administered by a self-inflicted and fatal sting. This does little to abate the obsequiousness of Bees to their King however. The religious designation of Bees has been widely debated, though evidence exists of Bees humming at midnight on Christmas Eve to honour the birth of Jesus.
Crimes include failing to fulfil duties of guarding food, monitoring weather patterns, making honey and making wax. Other offences: intentionally stinging without reasonable grounds, swearing and breaking the smoking ban are seen as capital. Bees were the first known culture to establish such a ban, in the 2nd century CE, which is reportedly due to their fear of smoke. Once dead, it is possible to revive a bee with the body of an ox or bull if he is sufficiently covered with mud, according to the Franciscan monk Bartholomaeus Anglicus.
Bees have (been) kept (by) humans for thousands of years for their honey, beeswax and good company. Every monastery had an apiary to make wax for the church candles (though honey did not go to waste, as it was either used in the making of mead or trickled on weetabix). Farms and noble households also kept swarms, but for some reason it's not that popular today. Bees were caught in late spring and kept in 'skeps' until the honey was ready in autumn.
During this time, Bees would listen to any stories or information their keepers thought necessary to tell them, such as death in the family. If anything crucial was omitted, it was quite within the rights of the Bees to swarm and leave the hive forever. To break the news of the death, the teller would knock on the hive with the key to the house and say, for example: "Bees, bees, your master's dead, and now you must work for your missus".
There is even record of bees attending the funerals of their keepers, inside their hives draped in black and lifted at the same moment as the coffin. Although these customs are not still observed today, it is common politeness to inform your Bees of any drastic changes in the household.
and
In much of the iconography of bees, a swarm of bees is shown flying around a person's head to indicate that the person is prone to idle, flattering or even homicidal thoughts. In the half century between c. 1480 and c.1530 there are at least fifteen known examples of this in art. The earliest known, dates from the early 1480s on the bas-de-page illustration of a calendar, in the month of September. It shows an old man with straggly hair offering wine to a young girl, whose hand he is holding. In his other hand he waves a branch to ward off what look like flies or bees. The use of the animals in this picture serve to point out that the couple are "Unequal Lovers" and he should get aff with someone his own age.
DarwinDude
did you know that Bees possess five eyes. Also they can't recognise the colour red. And fur allows bees to fly in the chilly conditions of early spring.
trufax.
yeah
3 simple, 2 complex
Marriage, birth or burryin'
News across the seas,
All you're sad or merry in
and stuff on the internet,
You have to tell the Bees
Smithers
arrives almost half an hour late, out of breath, claiming he was chased by a SWARM OF BEES. He says he's allergic to bee stings and had to seek medical attention. I tell him off for having unsavoury thoughts and prompting the attack, and he gets mad. I can tell he's going to give me a low score.
i have a girly reaction to any wasp
and then cover it up with FUCKING WASPS and turn it into a radge rammy
I grew sunflowers last year and when they bloomed I had 30/40 honey bees all over them. It was cool to watch them go about their business.
My friend has a bee hotel in her back garden.
oh dear
I actually run away from them, usually squealing/shouting in what could be described as an over the top way and if they get too close I really don't like it...I'm terrified of them :(
I have spheksophobia
I really am shit scared of wasps
I just run, beer gardens aren't the best when they're buzzing round and I'm kinda buzzing round in the opposite direction.
this bee has stung itself by mistake
silly bee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvEgWINUFc
oh no
the worst is when there's a bee or a wasp on the bus and you want to run off the bus so much but you're too embarrassed, or like when they're was 3 in a Science lesson with Mr.Astill and he was really no-nonsense and we we would all get lashed if we caused a scene, so I sat all casually as if I wasn't petrified.
no one else's interior thoughts contrasted with their outward body language as much as mine did that day.
also-I was up till 2 trying to get a weird fly thing out of my room last night it was so loud I initially thought it was a motorbike outside - new species? should I have reported this?
maybug?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Maybug.jpg/740px-Maybug.jpg
<3 maybugs
Eek I'm getting panicky imagining these scenarios
it's like the time there was a spider crawling on my desk towards me in Science and I left the room. I hate being in situations like that I need someone with me all the time to keep them away from me and calm my panic :(
I don't like weird flies either...that sounds awful!! Did it look weird too? I'm imagining some sort of prehistoric looking thing
it was pretty normal-looking actually, I tried to see if there was something else lurking because it didn't look like it was capable of all the noise
it was a bit like a daddy long legs only much smaller
oh I think I met one of those once...
although I can't be too sure, I run at the first sign of something with too many legs
also things with thin wings
paper thin wings make me sick
i.e.moths & butterflies
I don't mind them
until they come too close and then I get all panicky again...one day,I'll be able to compose myself around these creatures
did you really get lashed??
I've never been stung
probably because I don't run around like a jackass when I see one, making yourself a clear and obvious target.
^ this
Although the fact I haven't been attacked by Mr Wasp has rendered me with a slight fear of the bastards.
I also noticed some midgies the other evening as well :(
i'm not really scared of them
more just annoyed that when one is near i'm always keeping an eye on it rather than just enjoying my pint/food/wasp attracter thing
I was woken up by a
bumble bee this morning. It must have flown in through my window yesterday and got trapped inside overnight. It was buzzing against the glass trying to get out, I managed to let it out with a bit of coaxing. I don't mind wasps, I try to ignore them, however if I do get stung I swell up and it's not very fun.
i'm a mild discomfort sort of wasp person
downgraded from high panic when I was younger.
i'm a mild discomfort sort of wasp person
downgraded from high panic when I was younger.
whats the most common wasp species in UK?
German? nasty buggers those ones, highly aggressive.
Vespula germanica
Oh bollocks
My epipen is a good six months out of date, should probably get that sorted. Being allergic to wasp stings - lamest allergy ever?
Eek
Sacriest! At least I'm allergic to something I can avoid, if I was allergic to wasp stings I would be scared to leave the house...what if I am allergic to them? I never want to find out, I'm going to continue running away from them in a girly panic :(
i cannot stand wasps, i run around firing off rockets at them when they start attacking me
Bees on the other hand are lovely, espacially bumble bees, i have a lot of love and time for them.