Don't Mess

Do you know what sucks? (Well, duh, the Twins losing last night--after I wrote my post--but that's not what I'm talking about.)

What sucks is promising to write about bees and then going to bed, only to find out that you actually have to do it the next morning.

It sucks because, by my own admission, I know nothing about bees, so any post I write about bees involves even the slightest amount of *sigh* research.

Well, screw that.

Instead, I'm going to scavenge the depths of my memory for any trace of a bee story I haven't used yet.

(scavenging......scavenging......Mr. Sparkle box......still scavenging......)

Right. I've got one. I was watching the Discovery Channel with my friend the other day. (No, we don't normally sit around watching the Discovery Channel, but we do normally just sit around. And, well, you know how it goes.)

So on the Discovery Channel was this show where they put a camera inside a beehive.

Great, I was thinking, not only am I bored out of my mind, but now I have to watch 30,000 bees bumble around the screen like idiots.

And bumble they did.

Like idiots.

I was about to get up and leave, when suddenly the music in the background starting playing some ominous chords. I immediately planted myself back down in front of the tube, because anyone even remotely familiar with nature shows knows (haha, "shows"-"knows") that a major bee butt-kicking was coming up.

And it did. But it didn't look like it at first.

When the ominous music played, about 30 hornets entered the hive of 30,000 bees. A little disappointed (I was expecting, like, a giant bear to come and swallow the beehive whole), I consoled myself in knowing that at least I'd get to see a few bees die before the hornets were defeated.

Hoo-buddy, it was more than a few. It was a masacre. Those hornets killed each and every one of those idiot bees--30 against 30,000. One of the greatest things I've ever seen was when the camera showed the entire floor of the hive covered in dead or writhing bees. (Ok, I totally lied. It was the single greatest thing I've ever seen.)

So the lesson was, "Don't mess with hornets." (I think the show actually put that up on the screen.) But, we've all known this already, haven't we? I mean, hornets have generally been considered to be the tougher of the two.

That's why they called those fighter jets F-18 Hornets. Can you imagine joining the Air Force, training for months, and finally, when it's your time to fly, being told you have to pilot an F-18 Bumblebee?

Anyway, if you want to read about killer hornets beating down on little weiner bees, this
is a pretty cool article.