Then it jumped onto the top of my phone!
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That looks like a hilarious found footage horror movie.
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Do you ever get stung?
Only once, and I’m fairly sure only because it got tangled in my shirt.
Bees will sting if you squish/roll them. As far as they know you are attacking them and it’s all they can do (although stinging you kills them).
Otherwise they might sting if you threaten the hive. They are defending their honey stores and/or brood from an invading threat, like a bear/wasps/robbing bees from other hives.
When you see bees out foraging, they have nothing to defend. There is no reason for them to sting you and there is zero natural selection advantage.
The least dangerous bees are those that have swarmed recently, because not only have they no comb/honey/brood to defend, they have gorged on stored honey to allow them to make wax at a new hive site when the scouts finally choose one and they leave the temporary perch on a branch or your car or fence, and this gorging makes them slightly groggy (they say). Once they have started making comb they can be cranky, but if they’ve just settled freshly on a branch , you can wander up, lift handfuls of them carefully and you should never get stung.
If they are on a strong nectar flow, you can inspect the hives without gloves or even a veil if you are slow and careful. They are too busy putting away stores to get annoyed.
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Did a bee write this?
Never forget!
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Shepherd’s warning…
Sounds like a free kick against Essendon.
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I reckon there is at least two of you, between travel, pets and concerts.
The World is a better place with more Koalas.
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Zip up!
Self-portrait?
Could be. Similar amount of hair at least…
I haven’t visited this thread in a long time. I have also held off posting in here until l found a particular photo. I thought it was lost forever but l just found it this morning, typically at the bottom of a box, under a pile of DVDs.
This photo was an absolute fluke and taken almost by accident. It is from the 1996 Melbourne GP at Albert Park and is a picture of the winner Damon Hill in a Williams (he went on to win the WDC). It was taken somewhere along the back straight with Hill doing 300 km plus. I had a new camera at the time, a Nikon F4. I reasoned that there was no way l could possibly get a clear, clean picture of him. So l decided to shift my focus on to the palm tree on the other side of the track. Then because of the tree l decided to turn the camera side on to take a portrait style shot. Then l turned the shutter speed to the minimum speed l could hold without shaking the body, about 1/30 dec. I wanted to get one of those cool looking blurred car shots in front of the palm tree. However because the camera was new to me, and l had turned it side on, l turned the shutter speed the wrong way, up to about 1/4000 or 1/8000 of a second. I took one photo only, this one. Somehow l managed to capture the entire car, sans obscuring fence post. A total fluke like l said, look closely and you can see the lettering on the tyres. The second picture is of Eddie Irvine from the same race.
)It will take me a little while to post the photos as l have to switch over to my phone.)
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