Painting might not be such a good idea after all...

in #blog7 years ago

It was a temperate day, so I set up to do some outdoor maintenance. The plan was to wash down a window frame and paint it. I grab my (new!) phone, set up a podcast, slip the earplugs in, grab a broom and start dusting.

Over the podcast, I could hear something... buzzing.

Loud buzzing.

Lots of loud buzzing.

So I turned around, looked behind me, then quickly and quietly stepped back in the door and shut it behind me.

Here is the view through the window:
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And the next window:
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For some unfathomable reason, the bees had some sort of obsession with that corner of the house. I'm wondering if a migrating queen has crawled into a crack somewhere. At one stage, bees were appearing inside the window. Not sure how they were doing it, but the house is moderately old (built in the mid-1970s); there are lots of gaps and movement.

It's all quiet out there now, we'll just have to see if they reappear in the morning.

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Eep! Any nearby local hives swarming?

Not that I've seen, but it is swarming season and this one has turned into a proper swarm. See the new post

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