My boom is buzzing!!!

[Clancy Moped]

Taken this morning in RCNP

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[jimi]

Looks the bees ness!

 

[Clancy Moped]

The fire brigade have a list of all beekeepers on the island and re-home them apparently.

 

[Bobc]

Is that a honeycomb boom?

 

[Concerto]

Tell them to buzz off.

 

[fredrussell]

Is that a drone pic?

 

[pvb]

Hive run out of puns.

 

[RupertW]

There is nothing more sensual than putting a bare hand into a swarm of bees. If you don’t alarm them they will let you in up to your wrist - amazing warm vibrating living sensation

 

[pvb]

There is nothing more sensual than putting a bare hand into a swarm of bees. If you don’t alarm them they will let you in up to your wrist - amazing warm vibrating living sensation

I can think of something more sensual...

 

[Resolution]

There is nothing more sensual than putting a bare hand into a swarm of bees. If you don’t alarm them they will let you in up to your wrist - amazing warm vibrating living sensation

I think that ranks on a par with putting a ferret in your pocket

 

[Seastoke]

Pro says you are the bees knees.

 

[PhillM]

Bee careful.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Swarm for the time of year, isn't it?

 

[Blueboatman]

It’s a real honey trap, that boat

 

[Stemar]

I can think of something more sensual...

I'm far too much of a coward - or is it sensible? to put my hand in a swarm of stings, let alone anything else ?

 

[mjcoon]

There is nothing more sensual than putting a bare hand into a swarm of bees. If you don’t alarm them they will let you in up to your wrist - amazing warm vibrating living sensation

If you limit yourself to just watching, you may see the scout bees doing their "waggle dance" on the outside of the swarm to indicate the direction and distance to potential hives. Their choice becomes quite democratic. I have seen it for myself and have a book on the subject...

 

[nortada]

We had a cicada take up residence in the boom - very disconcerting.

What was even more frightening was when you looked up the boom a pair of big red eyes peering back.

 

[mjcoon]

We had a cicada take up residence in the boom - very disconcerting.

What was even more frightening was when you looked up the boom a pair of big red eyes peering back.

Maybe it was using the resonance to enhance its loud stridulation?

Since they are sap suckers, I was once happy to let one settle on my hand and was examining it closely when it bit me painfully. Perhaps it was trying to suck my sap...

 

[Stemar]

A friend had a boom with an open end. A pair of birds took up residence and built a nest.

 

[RupertW]

I'm far too much of a coward - or is it sensible? to put my hand in a swarm of stings, let alone anything else ?

If they are calm they won’t sting at all - the trick (and I had a bee keeper with me at the time) is to know when they are calm. I had to be showered without any perfumed soap or deodorant and had my bare arm in the sun for a few minutes. Whether that was because the bees liked that or she did I don’t know.