Wet Bees

[aggienaut]

   Been busy killin bees. We work 7am to 7pm 6 days a week. d=


   Today as Jeremy & I arrived at a swarm call, this painter that was working on the house saunters over to us like he's some kind of hero and proudly declares he just squirted the bees with a hose. Great so now instead of one clump of docile bees we have wet irritated bees all over the place, and a wet tree to drip all over me while I work on them, go team!
   So politely that the sauce was completely lost on him, Jeremy responds "yeah actually you just made our job a whole lot harder." To illustrate that he really missed the point the painter cheerfully adds "yeah I was about to hose them down again when you showed up" as if he deserves a medal for even thinking about it.

   So yeah, lesson of the day: please don't hose-down bees. It may amaze you to learn that they've actually adapted to being wet. It just makes the situation messy.


Jenn de la Vega's Fourth of July Farewell Party
   In other news, I finally got around to editing the pictures from Jenn de la Vega's party on the 4th.

Comments

[zombiegodfather.livejournal.com]

Every time I read about your bee killing adventures I think of Dane Cook's bit about someone getting stung to death by bees. "Bees? Fuck bees! I would punch every single bee in the face. Now flying horses, that's some scary shit."

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[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Haha one of the technicians found that on the internet or something and played it for us in our office, we had a huge laugh and played it again everytime someone new came in.