by Fozzer » Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:32 am
H wrote:Hawkeye07 wrote:napamule wrote:Of course I was kidding (humour forum-dah). But I got you with those African Bees. Ha! Zulu Zuchinni - good one!
Chuck B
Napamule
Sorry, I had to check to make sure. After all, I saw the movie -- also made at your end of the country (never know what to believe in that livery)! Yep, killer bees are real and were originated from Africa and found their way to the southwestern U.S. through Mexico. I've never studied much about them and bees and I usually try to avoid one another; I put my hand up and block its flight and it will usually fly off in another direction. I think bumble bees are too busy defying gravity with their aerodynamically incapable body to be overly aggressive. However, wasps and hornets are a bit more edgy, especially if their nests aren't far off. When I was about eight I got stung in the palm when I queried a small hole in the back lawn by our house. In a summer at Dad's camp in Maine, one kissed my lower lip with its butt as I climbed a ladder to affix an outside radio antenna; unfortunately for it and its colony, we had a large can of spray insecticide inside; the painful swelling lip angered me the more and I made a swift, but heavy, attack -- spraying out to the ladder and continuing with the running, backwards retreat. They didn't die immediately but the cabin, though not quite airtight, kept them out as they swarmed around it.
It seems, and I'm not complaining for this part, that these African hybrids may not like our New England climate but the threat of African bees in America is valid. So, to add to all your other problems -- earthquakes (they told us in the news it was because of your own faults), etc. -- your concern may be quite justified in your west to midwest US areas. Neither would I like these bees infesting my garden with killer plants... oh, my, you had a movie or so made out there about that, didn't you? Again I'm not complaining for our sake but you seem to have all sorts of mutations out there that we're just not familiar with. Anyway, once more, sorry for doubting your concern and my distrust in the land of Hollywood.8-)
Its mostly far too cold in New England for most of the year, so very few nasty's can survive there!....
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...leaving the Southern Californians "quaking" in their boots!....
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At the moment, deep snow and ice in; "Old England" are killing off our nasty's in preparation for the Early Spring Flora!
Paul...snowbound in deep snowdrifts!....
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43445768
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