Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Your Wasps are swarming!


On my allotment is a beehive.
My neighbouring plotter George came over to watch me filling up the feeder and as I flicked away an intruding wasp he wonderedwhy I was being so rough with my bees
I was so surprised when I had to point out, to a senior citizen, the difference between the yellow and the black insects.
He assumed they were all bees.
It was just that the wasps were thronging the hive, eager to get at any of the honey that they could reach.

George is a countryman and has led a thoroughly out door life but I realised that the general public has no experience any longer with bees.

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