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Between reasons, between scenes
This afternoon I had a bee caught in my hair. It was an extremely loud experience, like a tiny panicked turbine in my ear. When finally freed, it immediately entangled itself in my mother's hair. Once disentangled, it flew into the car. Banging out of the car, it buzzed back into my hair. Then back into my mother's. Then it clung to her jacket from which I was able to coax it away with a head of white clover for about fifteen seconds before it reattached itself to the jacket, which we abandoned over the railing of the porch in order to escape inside before the bee started on its rounds of hairdressing again. We have no idea what was attracting it. Please enjoy this much less aggressively local turkey which I passed en route to my mother's to help with household chores.
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The turkey has the dignity of one who has never been subjected to the confused amorous attentions of a bee.
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Not as far as we know! It's two different shampoos! And her jacket doesn't shower!
The turkey has the dignity of one who has never been subjected to the confused amorous attentions of a bee.
Maybe the bee will be less clumsy in making friends with it.
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I don't think I have any lemon balm in my life, but I do hold a microwaveable heating pad against my face at regular intervals that's full of things like cinnamon, chamomile, lemongrass, peppermint, willow, and yarrow, if those also interest bees.
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Several of those are delightful to bees, especially lemongrass!
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Thank you for quite possibly clearing up this mystery!
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you're very welcome! lemongrass smells similar to the queen bee, and is used to lure swarms when a beekeeper needs to move them.
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I feel bad for both of you!
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I don't even think we looked particularly flowerlike in ultraviolet.
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Not at that point! Only afterward did I haul a bunch of yard waste around.
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Edited to add, because of course these things occur to a person after they've hit post: I love the 'pollenators welcome' sign your family's got up, doubly so because you used benevolent magic to hoist it, but you might want to shrink the font a smidge. That or stop rolling around in goldenrod. :P
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I shall take both of these suggestions under consideration.
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(On the other hand, that bee thing would have Freaked Me The Fuck Out when I was a kid. Go you on the sangfroid.)
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They are not unknown in my parents' neighborhood, but not common, so I was happy to see it. Later on we saw one loft itself into a tree, which looks completely aerodynamically unreasonable.
(On the other hand, that bee thing would have Freaked Me The Fuck Out when I was a kid. Go you on the sangfroid.)
It doesn't feel like something I can take credit for because it didn't freak me out, but thank you. It was very loud.
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That is a great turkey, too.
P.
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I'm not even sure it was aggressive! It might just have been confused! I just don't know what was inspiring the confusion.
That is a great turkey, too.
Thank you.
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Thank you! It had a lot of poise.
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I don't know! There are more bees in my parents' yard than there used to be thanks to the increase in clover, but I would have assumed the actual flowers would have been of more interest!
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The turkey was en route to my mother's; the bee was shortly after I arrived.
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Thank you! Perhaps it was conscious of posterity.