Bees, bees and more bees
Sep 12, 2009 Pet Peeves
This summer Cheria and I have had a great many unwanted guests on our property. I’m talking about the kind of guests who just show up and make themselves right at home, building nests and then protecting them from anyone and everyone who ventures too close with a swift, painful sting. Yeah, that’s right, I’m talking about those rascally bees.
Cheria was mowing the lawn the other day with our lawn tractor when a swarm of yellow jackets appeared out of nowhere and stung her 3 or 4 times on the hand. I’ve never seen her move so fast, and for good reason: she had just mowed over a yellow jackets’ nest that had been hidden beneath the tall grass. She hurried into the house and held some ice on the affected areas, and except for a little swelling and some moderate pain everything turned out ok.
We also had a couple of bumblebee nests in the back yard as well as several wasp nests under the eves of the house and our outbuilding. Perhaps it’s the weather we’ve had throughout the summer, but it seems like those little critters have been everywhere this year!
Using methods that would probably give the folks at PETA a major stroke, Cheria and I quickly destroyed the bees’ nests as we found them. I’m sure we’ll have a few more unwanted guests before the weather turns cold enough to drive them into hibernation for the winter, and when they do show up we’ll be ready to send them to that great hive in the sky as well.
Now let me tell you about the snakes. Well…maybe not.
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