July 24, 2020

Bees at the beach.

13 comments:

Fernandinande said...

As they look for a new home, are the bees pitiful (im)migrants, or naughty colonizers?

The guy with empty bee-hives says they're immigrants; the guy with the beach towel says they're colonizers.

tim maguire said...

It's the bees' towel now.

mikee said...

Swarming bees are much calmer than bees in a hive or out foraging. These bees can be put in a box, a bucket, a hive with wax, and they'll be happy. Where the queen goes, there goes the rest of 'em.

Temujin said...

Probably unleashed by some Karen beekeeper who did not approve of people gathering with less then 6' spacing.

Curious George said...

Bees!

Dude1394 said...

Kinda funny quip at the end.

Richard Dolan said...

It's Jersey. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Rick.T. said...

Bees are pretty harmless when they are swarming and have no hive to defend. Free the queen and the rest will follow.

Wince said...

Bees at the beach, what do you get?

Beeatches!

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

"Air Bee and Bee" - lol

reader said...

A few years ago my sister was stung by a bee in our backyard. I remembered my mom saying to use Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer mixed with a little bit of water on stings. My sister said it made the pain nearly disappear within minutes.

readering said...

The beachgoers were remarkably calm about it. I guess the frightened ones had left.

Michelle Dulak Thomson said...

mikee,

Exactly. We had a couple hives, but our place was mostly wooded, so they had to forage far. I remember when they swarmed. Terrifying for me (I was a kid), but no biggie for my mom; she climbed the tree where most of them eventually alit, retrieved the queen, put her back in the hive, and the rest followed.

She had beekeeping gear (netted headgear, padded suit), but I still don't know how she managed to thrust her hand into a few thousand bees, look till she found the one with the bit of nail polish on her carapace, and box her up, all while twenty feet above ground.