Thursday, September 03, 2009

Bees

I'm seriously trying to get over my fear of bees.

2 comments:

Robert Croma said...
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Robert Croma said...

Not sure what happened to my previous comment. Ah well, if at first you don't succeed...

Beautiful footage.

I used to keep bees. One of my big loves. If left alone to forage they get on with their lives in relative perfect harmony - so there's little to fear (from the European Apis mellifera, anyway). But of course, certain fears are there for a reason...

Was reading this the other day and sure hope they don't get to the UK. The bees here are already struggling.

But the Asian predatory wasp (vespa velutina) seems like a pussy cat compared to Vespa mandarinia, the Asian Giant Hornet. Oh my.