Bees in a Jar!

[aggienaut]

   Earlier today I have just arrived back at the bee cave from checking on the hives at the new Bee Yard G*
   "You missed a weird call Kris!" says my boss, Dave, "someone wants me to put bees in a jar"
   "What??"
   "Some film crew. I said I'd do it for $150"
   "Bees in a jar?? WTF."
   "Yeah they're going to call back here in just a bit."

   They do indeed call back in a few minutes. Dave's talking to them about it, they need the bees for something they're shooting tomorrow (I still don't know exactly). And I get to thinking.
   "Hey Dave, you should tell them if they want someone on hand to work with the bees I'll do it for [twice my current hourly rate]" ** I say when he gets off the phone.
   "You want to to do it? I think it'll be a good thing for you to do, I told them I'd do it for $150, why don't you do it and you take the $150" says Dave.
   So I'm about to get $150 for putting bees in a jar! And possibly working with the film crew tomorrow which should be fun.

   Am presently waiting for the guy to show up. Might not do anything until tomorrow.

* Bees are doing alright. There's a lot of pincer bugs in the hives (well by a lot I mean one or two in each of several hives), so I think I might look up these critters and see what their presence tells me about the environment. Things like this can tell you things about the moisture temperature or other factors which would be otherwise undetectable to humans. Forensic beekeeping if you will.
** I'm sort on an independant contractor here (well, am paid as one) so it's not weird for me to potentially fly off and work for something else, in fact I do all the time (usually for crazy adventures)

Comments

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

Is that healthy for the bees?

Bees in a Jar!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Being in a jar? Probably not. I wonder if they could lose their "no animals were harmed in the making of this" rating over it.

Depending on how long they're in the jar and how many they stuff in there, there will undoubtedly be mortality. But its one of those things where any time you have thousands of individuals in a place for a period of time, some will happen to die. If the time/place happens to be more stressful than usual more will happen to die at that time. Like how there are always a number of fatalities during earthquakes due to heart attacks and other indirect causes. So jar full o bees, I'd expect half a dozen to a dozen dead bees in the bottom after a few hours. If they want to open it up and do something with them there'll be additional loss simply to bees we fail to get back into the jar.

Re: Bees in a Jar!

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a covert CIA operation -- calculating acceptable losses.