Bee careful out there
Apr. 26th, 2011 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearThere is a bush in from of the house (I forget what it is at the moment, somethingsomething japonica) that draws bumblebees by the dozens. Since you have to walk past this bush on the way to and from the driveway, you have to avoid the bumblebees (which have never gone aggro, they yield the path in all their clumsy, friendly glory). These guys are fun to watch, they are often rather playful it seems. But today I saw something that had me rolling. One been was hovering perfectly away from the plant between hauls of pollen, as if making decisions where to go next. Well, one of his compatriots comes bombing in at hyperspeed, the hovering bee turning around just in time to get a fast and furious, yellow-and-black headbutt.
*klack*
One bee drops to the concrete, sliding on its back, the other goes careening into the trash and recycling wheelie bins. The collision sounded like someone shelling a peanut and tossing the shells. I had no idea where the one bee went, but the other that had hit the floor was clumsily trying to right itself and eventually succeeded, then was staggering around just as disoriented and awkward as anyone could ever anthropomorphically imagine. If humans see birds and starts when they get their bell rang, what do bees see? X-D
*klack*
One bee drops to the concrete, sliding on its back, the other goes careening into the trash and recycling wheelie bins. The collision sounded like someone shelling a peanut and tossing the shells. I had no idea where the one bee went, but the other that had hit the floor was clumsily trying to right itself and eventually succeeded, then was staggering around just as disoriented and awkward as anyone could ever anthropomorphically imagine. If humans see birds and starts when they get their bell rang, what do bees see? X-D
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Date: 2011-04-27 04:53 am (UTC)Pieris japonica, with dangly white flowers?
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Date: 2011-04-27 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-04-27 09:51 am (UTC)I have a friend who after seeing a bee exhibit made up the bee dance. She squooches down and shakes her butt, spins around, squooches down and shakes her butt again. She then tells you the title is
"This is where the honey is..."
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