A World Without Bees
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Albert Einstein was a great man indeed!
and Bees make our world go round. I don't like to see them on the decline......They give me this sweet thing called honey after all, and I love the honey sweet hunnies..
and Bees make our world go round. I don't like to see them on the decline......They give me this sweet thing called honey after all, and I love the honey sweet hunnies..
Albert Einstein is brutally correct.
Without those industrious little critters our food table would be severely restricted. Leaving us vulnerable to whatever pathogens Mother Nature throws at us.
Save a bee, kill a wasp.
Without those industrious little critters our food table would be severely restricted. Leaving us vulnerable to whatever pathogens Mother Nature throws at us.
Save a bee, kill a wasp.
Yeah, the wasps / yellow jackets have been going crazy this year. I've been stung multiple times this year. Burn them all I say...
Wasps are onerous.
A queen wasp attempted to build a nest on my balcony, I swatted it off but she got away. A few days later she was back. The location was prime since there was just enough shade to keep the nest cool with enough warmth during sunset - and I couldn't get to it easily just bu standing up. So I destroyed the nest again and she got away again, i figured she wouldn't return.
Sure enough she did, so I said to myself, "now you can't leave". I attached an extension to a flat mop and aimed at her. Direct hit, stunned she fell to the patio and got crushed underfoot. Then I destroyed the nest and rubber the area with garlic. No wasp has ever returned.
A queen wasp attempted to build a nest on my balcony, I swatted it off but she got away. A few days later she was back. The location was prime since there was just enough shade to keep the nest cool with enough warmth during sunset - and I couldn't get to it easily just bu standing up. So I destroyed the nest again and she got away again, i figured she wouldn't return.
Sure enough she did, so I said to myself, "now you can't leave". I attached an extension to a flat mop and aimed at her. Direct hit, stunned she fell to the patio and got crushed underfoot. Then I destroyed the nest and rubber the area with garlic. No wasp has ever returned.
The situation is getting so dire that in parts of the USA they keep portable beehives, transporting them to different farms to get their crops pollinated. Chairman Mao, asshole that he was, considered them vermin. During The Great Leap forward he ordered them exterminated and precipitated the worst famines in China's history. The PRC has been propping up Greece's economy by importing their bee larvae.
I bee nearly flew into my coffee mug this morning.
It sensed the heat and evaded contact. But it stayed on my coffee table to groom itself, it must have been roaming around for a while and needed to catch its breath. It reassured me and troubled me at the same time, there must be a hive in the ravine but I hadn't seen a bee all year. I would have felt better had it been a drone (bubble bee), that would have told me that there's more than one hive. Being a worker bee it didn't have long to live, most of them die off in the fall. So I sat there drinking my coffee, watching it as it preened.
It sensed the heat and evaded contact. But it stayed on my coffee table to groom itself, it must have been roaming around for a while and needed to catch its breath. It reassured me and troubled me at the same time, there must be a hive in the ravine but I hadn't seen a bee all year. I would have felt better had it been a drone (bubble bee), that would have told me that there's more than one hive. Being a worker bee it didn't have long to live, most of them die off in the fall. So I sat there drinking my coffee, watching it as it preened.
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