Nectar Of The Clods.
Well, I am glad he used the qualifier "about". No "million man" math needed here. I would have just said something like there were a "whole passel" of them suckers or something like that. :-)
When I was about 13, we had a bee infestation in the upstairs of our house. It was between the inner wall of my parents’ room and the shingles. You could hear them in there, and see them coming and going through a crack in the soffit.
My dad bought two pressurized cans of some kind of professional-grade insecticide; the cans had probe-type tips. We waited till after dark, and he drilled a 1/4 inch hole in the bedroom wall, inserted the probe tip of the first can, and flexed the can downward.
What resulted was the scariest humming sound I ever heard. Every few seconds there was a “ping” kind of sound, like a metal peg being plucked. I thought it resulted from a bee colliding with an exposed nail, but I don’t know if that’s a plausible explanation.
I went downstairs and looked out of a window below the hive. I could see the house next door — which happened to be owned by a professor who was a wildlife expert. I could see him peering out of his den window at the hundreds of bees that had landed on the glass (the lights were on inside, of course). If anyone had had a window open in a lighted room on our side of his house, there would have been a tragedy that night.
A few days later, there was a strange smell upstairs. It smelled like the air that comes out of an inner tube when you press the valve stem. It went away after a few more days. That was that.
Six blocks from where I was born in 1935. Also near (the Late)Orange Bowl.
When I was a child, our next-door neighbor died when he fell off a ladder while working to remove or control some bees. I think he was an elderly man, but I was just a child, so he could have been in his 40s, and I would have thought of him as old.
Bee ping
I would hate to bee him.
How did they count them?
His wife left him a message, saying: “Honey, there’s a swarm on the freeway, I’ll bee late!”
Just vacuum the bees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8RVqIty9gA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMkUHrSzcw&feature=related
I guess a can of RAID was out of the question. Lt. Colonel Custer had better odds than this dude.
Dexter strikes again?
Nectar Of The Clods.
Orkin?
