Thursday, July 03, 2008

What is UP with all these bees?

I appreciate a good covered in bees joke as much as anyone, but this is getting ridiculous.

Bees invade the music department of a school. (Paging Mrs. Badcrumble?)

Bees invade a cafe.

Trucks full of bees (aside: There's such thing as trucks full of bees!) overturn in New Brunswick and California.

Someone stole a bunch of bees in Alberta. (A beekeeper who just lost it one day?)

What is going on here? I've heard that bees are sick or dying or have the plague or something - could they be fighting back?

6 comments:

laura k said...

Could it be there are always a certain number of bee events happening, but no one reports on them?

Then one or two bee-related incidents get reported, and it spurs on other bee-related reporting?

So instead of a rash of bee events, what we really have is a rash of bee stories?

impudent strumpet said...

Good thinking, that might be it! I wish there was some way to figure out how many unreported bee-related occurrences there normally are.

Sarah Haendler said...

Could Laura's theory there also be applied to washed up foot events?

impudent strumpet said...

Oh that would be interesting! I'd imagine bees occur in nature more often than severed feet, but surely those weren't the first severed feet ever to wash up on shore in human history.

laura k said...

Could Laura's theory there also be applied to washed up foot events?

Oh my, I hope not.

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