Pop Quiz.
A bee flies into your hair, you hear its buzzing getting more and more frantic. What do you do? What do you do?
A) Attempt to brush the bee out of your hair using your fingers, an uncapping fork or that comb you carry for just such emergencies?
B) Administer a slap (or two) to your Noggin in the general vicinty of the buzzing noise
C) Enquire politely and calmly whether the guy stood laughing next to you will remove the offending bee.
D) Run off down the path, arms flailing, squealing "It's in my hair! It's in my hair" at a pitch audible only to bats and dolphins while your half de-veiled, Beekeeping SO attempts to catch you up.
In my experience the most effective are: B, C and A in that order.
D, while not effective at all, does provide significant entertainment to all around within sight/earshot of the afflicted party. No, I did not laugh as I removed the sting. Certain tender areas were well within striking distance.
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Bait hive has worked for the first time!!
11 years ago
Nice blog!
ReplyDeleteI have a similar theme. See www.novice-beekeeper.blogspot.com.
I keep my bees in Wiltshire, 30 miles from Brizzle.
Your bees seem more aggressive than mine. I can walk around my hives, close up, with no interference at all.
Only been stung once - when I put my thumb on a bee as I was taking a frame out. That HURT. My thumb was nearly paralysed - but I had to carry on.
Since then I use TWO pairs of surgical gloves, not one.
Been stung twice now. Bee in the hair and forgetting to tuck my trousers in. There is a grumpy hive on site which should be leaving over the weekend so things should calm down a little bit but I don't really think I'd call them aggressive. Nice blog too I'll be following with interest.
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