BEES
One baby picture today...
And one picture of a gigantic daddy long legs.
This guy I didn't mind, but otherwise it's been a bad week for me and the insect/arachnid world. The mosquito bites I mentioned earlier this week continued to accumulate, and now I have some spider bites to complement the collection. And today I seriously angered some ants and some bees. I didn't think these were the kind of ants that bit, but apparently I was wrong. Listen, ants, my grandma gave me some plants and told me to plant them around the mailbox. I'm sorry you apparently had an ant colony there, but now you get to have an ant colony around some day lilies. It'll be fine. Calm down.
Then I was trying to wash out the coolers when I saw a bee about to crawl into a hole between two landscaping bricks. Since I had a hose in my hand, of course I thought, "I'm going to kill that bee with this hose. Take that, bee!" So I pulverize the bee. Then another bee lands on the brick. No problem -- your little friend can die, too! I blast the hose directly into the hole.
Then there were six or seven bees crawling out of the hole. Then ten. Then twenty. That's when I dropped the hose and ran.
The problem with that was once I got to the safety of the house, I realized I'd left the hose on. And between me and the valve was now a swarm of hundreds, HUNDREDS of angry bees, all of them flying around the coolers flung on the grass, probably trying to sting the plastic beasts that they thought had tried to drown them.
I eventually, after a long period of staring in horror and remembering the kid who died from bee stings in My Girl, went around the long way and was able to slide around the corner of the house to turn the water off without them noticing me, but it seriously was terrifying. So now that the plants are all planted, I think I'm going to leave the outside alone for awhile. And the coolers are going to stay in the yard for the foreseeable future.
This guy I didn't mind, but otherwise it's been a bad week for me and the insect/arachnid world. The mosquito bites I mentioned earlier this week continued to accumulate, and now I have some spider bites to complement the collection. And today I seriously angered some ants and some bees. I didn't think these were the kind of ants that bit, but apparently I was wrong. Listen, ants, my grandma gave me some plants and told me to plant them around the mailbox. I'm sorry you apparently had an ant colony there, but now you get to have an ant colony around some day lilies. It'll be fine. Calm down.
Then I was trying to wash out the coolers when I saw a bee about to crawl into a hole between two landscaping bricks. Since I had a hose in my hand, of course I thought, "I'm going to kill that bee with this hose. Take that, bee!" So I pulverize the bee. Then another bee lands on the brick. No problem -- your little friend can die, too! I blast the hose directly into the hole.
Then there were six or seven bees crawling out of the hole. Then ten. Then twenty. That's when I dropped the hose and ran.
The problem with that was once I got to the safety of the house, I realized I'd left the hose on. And between me and the valve was now a swarm of hundreds, HUNDREDS of angry bees, all of them flying around the coolers flung on the grass, probably trying to sting the plastic beasts that they thought had tried to drown them.
I eventually, after a long period of staring in horror and remembering the kid who died from bee stings in My Girl, went around the long way and was able to slide around the corner of the house to turn the water off without them noticing me, but it seriously was terrifying. So now that the plants are all planted, I think I'm going to leave the outside alone for awhile. And the coolers are going to stay in the yard for the foreseeable future.