[LMB] (chat) Bees! or, Life Imitates Art. Again.

[anmar mirza]

Night is a good time.  Get some wasp and hornet spray and spray the
area where they come out of the ground and within a day the
nest will be dead.  I run into this problem at least once a year
here out at the Ranch.



On 7/28/06, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
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> Or, "When I said I liked backyard wildlife, this was not what I had in
> mind."
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>    So, I was out watering select baby trees in my backyard a while ago
> due to the 98 degree heat today, when I stirred up something previously
> unnoticed -- a nest of ground bees just downslope from my little blue
> spruce.  They came swarming up in a cloud; after brief confusion, I
> abandononed my yellow bucket and retreated, pursued uphill in a bee
> dance by the defenders.  The kamakazis got me in at least 4 places,
> twice on the left leg and once on each bare arm.  (No, I'm not
> allergic.  Apparently.  So far.)
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>    Those of you who have read the _Beguilement_ ARC may now go laugh
> someplace else.  It's all quite useless for research at this stage anyway.
>
>    I am now staring out my back window and brooding over how to
> retrieve my bucket, abandoned still full to the excited, possibly
> thirsty swarm.  That little apple tree wants another dowsing, darn it.
>
>    Ta, L.
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