Thinkin' About... Bee Swarms
On Sunday I took two of my nephews and hiked up Iron Mountain here in San Diego. It's a beautiful hike, a bit challenging, but worth every step when you get to the top. That view is glorious!
There is a telescope and a picnic table at the top, plus a mailbox with a notebook where you can enter your thoughts as you sit and contemplate your beautiful surroundings. While one nephew used the giant telescope, and the other drew in the notebook, and a few other random hikers sat on boulders and chatted, I sat on the picnic table enjoying the peace and the view. Suddenly, we heard this noise, which got louder and louder until a MASSIVE swarm of bees appeared from below the nearest cliff. Before anyone could react at all, other than to yell, "BEES!", we were completely surrounded by, I kid you not, tens of thousands of swarming bees. They completely filled the air at the top of the mountain with sound and their little bodies.
Now, I have seen bee swarms when some neighbor kid (okay, it was always a boy) threw a rock at a beehive in the woods. Those swarms would empty the hive and you'd be running from hundreds of bees (maybe it was thousands; who knows?). But this? This was unlike anything I could ever have imagined. I remember having two distinct thoughts: 1) I'm glad I have my cell phone in case anyone gets attacked. We may need to call for help; and 2) I hope the bees don't like the smell of my sunscreen. (I know, the mind works in mysterious ways.)
Funny thing is, those bees were SO not interested in all of us. They buzzed around us for maybe 30-45 seconds, bumping into us randomly as they tried to fly about, and then, as rapidly as they appeared, they flew off down the other side of the mountain and were gone. Basically, "Dude! What just happened?!!" would describe our state of mind, I think.
At work on Monday I googled "bee swarms" and learned that out in nature, sometimes giant bee swarms (up to 90,000 bees!!!) send out the majority of their bees to go start new hives, and this new swarm may be 50,000 - 60,000 bees. Does anyone know if what I read about the massive swarms is even true? I'm guessing that's what we experienced, but who knew?
There is a telescope and a picnic table at the top, plus a mailbox with a notebook where you can enter your thoughts as you sit and contemplate your beautiful surroundings. While one nephew used the giant telescope, and the other drew in the notebook, and a few other random hikers sat on boulders and chatted, I sat on the picnic table enjoying the peace and the view. Suddenly, we heard this noise, which got louder and louder until a MASSIVE swarm of bees appeared from below the nearest cliff. Before anyone could react at all, other than to yell, "BEES!", we were completely surrounded by, I kid you not, tens of thousands of swarming bees. They completely filled the air at the top of the mountain with sound and their little bodies.
Now, I have seen bee swarms when some neighbor kid (okay, it was always a boy) threw a rock at a beehive in the woods. Those swarms would empty the hive and you'd be running from hundreds of bees (maybe it was thousands; who knows?). But this? This was unlike anything I could ever have imagined. I remember having two distinct thoughts: 1) I'm glad I have my cell phone in case anyone gets attacked. We may need to call for help; and 2) I hope the bees don't like the smell of my sunscreen. (I know, the mind works in mysterious ways.)
Funny thing is, those bees were SO not interested in all of us. They buzzed around us for maybe 30-45 seconds, bumping into us randomly as they tried to fly about, and then, as rapidly as they appeared, they flew off down the other side of the mountain and were gone. Basically, "Dude! What just happened?!!" would describe our state of mind, I think.
At work on Monday I googled "bee swarms" and learned that out in nature, sometimes giant bee swarms (up to 90,000 bees!!!) send out the majority of their bees to go start new hives, and this new swarm may be 50,000 - 60,000 bees. Does anyone know if what I read about the massive swarms is even true? I'm guessing that's what we experienced, but who knew?
posted by nobaddays_in_sd | 1:33 PM
9 comments:
I have never heard of that many bees swarming at once. That would be completely frightening to experience, I think.
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When I was a kid, my grandpa raised honey bees. One day, a new queen decided to leave the hive. She landed on a limb in the yard. At that point, all of her loyal fans started to swarm and hang off of her. Basically the tree limb was dripping with bees. My grandpa, cut the limb down, and moved the queen back to a hive. Totally weird experience. I wish I had is knowledge.
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Finally, some replies to all of you!
She Hulk: it WAS frightening, at least for the short time it was happening. Then, it was just way cool.
Agfh: I'm glad you're here and I hope you come back! Of course, the fact that I dropped off the map for so long didn't help.
Drink More Jack: So you've seen the bees move like that, too! I recently read the book The Secret Life of Bees, and it made me (seriously) want to raise honey bees. Somehow, it seems so 'real' to me. What a society they have. Gosh, some days I feel like one of the drones, though.
Larry Jones: thank you for the e-mail and the reminder to quit slacking! About the lingerie: I'm really enjoying myself with this now that I got past the first self-conscious attempts to pull it off (no pun intended)! I now own several very sexy pieces; haven't worn most of them yet but I'm optimistic! Oh, and I am not a skank by any means, but maybe it would do all of us a little good to have a little skank in us somewhere. Loosen up a little, you know? :-)
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