HUGE. FUCKING. BEE.
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psychickI'd give you a more eloquent title but that's pretty much what just happened to me.
So I'm taking a nap, due to reasons of not sleeping really last night. Angel comes out from under the bed and still, after three years of doing this, thinks that I'm going to let her hang out with me when I'm trying to sleep, I carry her out of the room, etc etc status quo.
Then I hear the buzzing.
Now I will remind my readers that for half of my life thus far, I lived with the certainty that I was going to be an entomologist when I grew up. All I wanted to do when I was seven or so was to go to the Amazon rainforest, and discover bugs that had never been discovered before. The highlight of my young life was impressing the entomologists on hand at the Smithsonian bug zoo to the point that they up and invited me into the back rooms and showed me drawers and drawers and drawers of specimens. I had a bugbox and was known to pick up slugs and save bumblebees from puddles of water with no fear whatsoever. What I'm saying is that I like bugs and I know a lot about them.
Also, I attended college at St. Mary's in Southern Maryland where, also in attendance, are carpenter bees. Carpenter bees, for those who have not had the pleasure, look like hugeass bumblebees, but are solitary and like to nest in round bores that they chew into wood. Hence the name. Carpenter bees are highly territorial, but by and large actually very friendly to people, and can hover in the air like fat, impossible Hueys.
While at St. Mary's, for my final project I created a graphic novel called Apoidia about a girl who wins a vacation outside reality and brings something back with her, and gets mobbed by damned bees. They kill her cat. So really what I'm saying is that I know a LOT about bees.
I still screamed like a girl.
The bee was kind enough to tire itself out between the window and the blind, settle down, and just sit there while I maneuvered the tupperware over it, got the lid situated, and then poked it with a bit of paper until it flew up into the tupperware and was neatly nabbed.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a horizontal shot. That is a vertical bee, and the narrowest angle. It was about as big as my damn thumb.
Now bumblebees are actually larger than carpenter bees, and from the size of this sucker and the shape of her legs, I'm thinking that's what she is. However, a bumblebee has far less reason to be investigating the wood around my window, doesn't tend to hover quite as much as this girl was doing, and while they can be extremely docile, aside from an incident of very aggressive buzzing, this one was really damn obliging.
Whatever she was, she's gone now, but naptime is definitely over!
So I'm taking a nap, due to reasons of not sleeping really last night. Angel comes out from under the bed and still, after three years of doing this, thinks that I'm going to let her hang out with me when I'm trying to sleep, I carry her out of the room, etc etc status quo.
Then I hear the buzzing.
Now I will remind my readers that for half of my life thus far, I lived with the certainty that I was going to be an entomologist when I grew up. All I wanted to do when I was seven or so was to go to the Amazon rainforest, and discover bugs that had never been discovered before. The highlight of my young life was impressing the entomologists on hand at the Smithsonian bug zoo to the point that they up and invited me into the back rooms and showed me drawers and drawers and drawers of specimens. I had a bugbox and was known to pick up slugs and save bumblebees from puddles of water with no fear whatsoever. What I'm saying is that I like bugs and I know a lot about them.
Also, I attended college at St. Mary's in Southern Maryland where, also in attendance, are carpenter bees. Carpenter bees, for those who have not had the pleasure, look like hugeass bumblebees, but are solitary and like to nest in round bores that they chew into wood. Hence the name. Carpenter bees are highly territorial, but by and large actually very friendly to people, and can hover in the air like fat, impossible Hueys.
While at St. Mary's, for my final project I created a graphic novel called Apoidia about a girl who wins a vacation outside reality and brings something back with her, and gets mobbed by damned bees. They kill her cat. So really what I'm saying is that I know a LOT about bees.
I still screamed like a girl.
The bee was kind enough to tire itself out between the window and the blind, settle down, and just sit there while I maneuvered the tupperware over it, got the lid situated, and then poked it with a bit of paper until it flew up into the tupperware and was neatly nabbed.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a horizontal shot. That is a vertical bee, and the narrowest angle. It was about as big as my damn thumb.
Now bumblebees are actually larger than carpenter bees, and from the size of this sucker and the shape of her legs, I'm thinking that's what she is. However, a bumblebee has far less reason to be investigating the wood around my window, doesn't tend to hover quite as much as this girl was doing, and while they can be extremely docile, aside from an incident of very aggressive buzzing, this one was really damn obliging.
Whatever she was, she's gone now, but naptime is definitely over!
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Date: 2008-04-16 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-16 07:13 pm (UTC)Closely followed by: JESUS CHRIST I HAVE NO NET BUT PERHAPS THIS COLANDER WILL WORK.
AAAA.
AAAAAAAAAAA!
AHA!
*blogged*
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Date: 2008-04-16 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-16 07:56 pm (UTC)Which is why I made them stop the car, on an interstate in Mexico, to get a big ass bee out of the car.
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Date: 2008-04-16 08:08 pm (UTC)I feel the logic is simple: there is a big ass bee in the car.
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Date: 2008-04-17 04:07 am (UTC)Just a thought.
btw, if 'refrigerator-magnet' is not a true type font, it ought to be.
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Date: 2008-04-17 10:46 pm (UTC)