30 or 40 ... Thousand!

   "Wow there must be like... 30 or 40 bees in there!" says a guy about a colony which is making buzzing noises audible through the wall after we've irritated them. The next day another guy is looking at the bees hanging out in front of their colony in a fence and says "so, there's like a hundred more in there right?"
   I'm constantly amazed by how often people completely don't understand the scale of a bee colony. The thing probably had 5,000 bees when it moved in, and once its well established could have excess of 60,000.

   Today we got a call at a country club. "So where are the bees?" "Well I saw one over there, and then the manager saw another one over there [points at other side of building]" Are you for reals! They called us out for two bees?! We did a thorough inspection and didn't find anything.


   Back at the garage today, we found an emerald-green Cuckoo Wasp.


   Also, today the Wall Street Journal had someone riding around with boss Dave.


   Exactly seven and a half hours until Kristy should arrive!!