My bee problem
Tuesday March 27, 2007
So I get home tonight and my three-year-old Lucas has told his mother that there's a beehive in the backyard on the hammock. She thinks it might be a small wasp nest or something that the kid is overreacting to. I go out with a flashlight to check, and damned if it's not a bona fide swarm, as big as a small melon, attached to the hammock! Never seen anything like it in my life. The bee removal people are coming tomorrow to take care of them. Do you know how much they charge for this service? An unbelievable $175. But what are you going to do? Drive them to the Superdome and freeze them yourself?
Add to Del.icio.us
Add to Technorati
Add to Digg
Add to Newsvine
Add to Facebook
Add to StumbleUpon
Advertisement
Advertisement
Search This Blog
Recent Posts
About Crunchy Con
Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
Subscribe
Archives
Blogs Worth Reading
- Front Porch Republic
- The American Conservative
- Patrick Deneen
- Conventional Folly
- The American Scene
- First Things
- Andrew Sullivan
- The Plank
- Eunomia
- Get Religion
- Postmodern Conservative
- Alex Massie
- The Corner
- Contentions
- Sharon Astyk
- Barry Ritholtz
- The Oil Drum
- Mere Comments
- First Principles (ISI)
- Brian Kaller
Let's consult Antonio Banderas, who plays a bee on nasal spray commercials. Hollywood is the expert on everything, so maybe Antonio can solve your problem based on his profound experience of playing this character.
Gasoline thrown on the hive actually works wonders. We did that with a large wasp nest a few years back. Those that don't get killed on the spot, scatter. 'Course, the survivors are mad as all get out and lookin' to take it out on someone ...
If you've in fact had them killed, I expect that you will get a stinging rebuke from some queen shrieking "Honey, you shouldn't have!" To which you can simply drone, "None of your beeswax." Besides, particularly if they start getting into organized lines, it's going to be vital for you to mind your bees in queues! Richard
Dear Rod - sometimes I just can't believe you're a true country boy - you've never seen a swarm before? - they're amazing to watch in fight at dusk as they look for a place to roost (what is it bees do - chickens roost - maybe the proper term is "light" - ?) We even have swarms pass thru this time of year in the teeming metropolis of your home town - and I mean in my yard in town! Walter Weller would be shocked - one year at the Homestead at Pilgrimage (you need to bring your kids one year) he made candles from wax from his hives - he said it had taken him 5 years to save enough wax to make a couple of dozen candles - he usually buys his bees wax to make candles with - he had all of the little kids dipping them and pouring them - good luck and I'll mind mine. (Bees wax that is -) (Please don't burn them!)
Oh, I'd never, ever kill honeybees. No way, no how. As I posted today, they were taken away by a Dallas beekeeper. But truly, I never saw a swarm the whole time I was growing up in Starhill. Which is weird, I guess, but true.
Post a Comment
By submitting these comments, I agree to the beliefnet.com terms of service, rules of conduct and privacy policy (the "agreements"). I understand and agree that any content I post is licensed to beliefnet.com and may be used by beliefnet.com in accordance with the agreements.