Monday, March 28, 2016

Easter "Eggs" citement

Saturday afternoon we finished watching a movie (ain't Redbox grand?) and I was chatting with Marsha on the phone when the biggest flies you can imagine invaded the motor home!  Of course I was nagging Les to get those flies!!  Well fast forward, turns out the flies were honey bees and we were being swarmed.  I quickly hung up and as we started to get out of the RV we discovered we couldn't as the bees were all around the door.  We motioned over our neighbor for some spray (of course ours was outside lol) but he didn't have any.  Finally Les ran out as I was swatting inside to get as many as possible.  Fortunately they were docile for whatever reason but they continued to swarm outside the RV.  Les spent the next hour or so hosing them out.  While we have read about thousands of bees swarming, this was a mini-swarm, a few hundred he thinks.  Anyway, we figured he had chased them off and we were all set.  The next morning, yes, Easter, they were back.  We were shut tight so they didn't get inside but we suspect that the Queen must have been around, dead or alive, not sure.  So Les went directly to the office at 9:00 and they said they would call the beekeeper but they were not surprised, apparently this does happen.  The beekeeper comes and relocates the Queen.  I am using the word apparently since the beekeeper never showed up and we stayed inside the RV all day yesterday.  A check of the area today shows the bees have departed (and so apparently is the Queen).  So it was an eggs-citing Easter!

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