{"id":134,"date":"2007-03-25T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-03-25T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T01:08:08","slug":"bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was up shooting approaches this morning with my favorite CFI and we saw a pretty amazing thing on the ramp when we got back.  A swarm of bees was attached to one of the aircraft parked on the ramp, in full on &#8220;protect the queen&#8221; mode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bees.jpg\" title=\"Bees on a Cirrus\" alt=\"Bees on a Cirrus\" align=\"middle\" height=\"379\" width=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That whole dark patch is bees.  I hope for the owner&#8217;s sake that the bees are just moving the hive somewhere and that they haven&#8217;t decided that they&#8217;d rather have a moving base of operations.  Man, what a potential nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Practical matters aside, I&#8217;d really hate to have this happen.  When I was younger I had a serious phobia about stinging insects &#8211; I sat on a hive full of ground-based bees at an impressionable age.  I&#8217;m pretty well over that now, but I still wouldn&#8217;t like have to deal with a hive in the Archer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be hosing my plane down with wasp and bee killer for the forseeable future.  (Image courtesy of Andy Hoover.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up shooting approaches this morning with my favorite CFI and we saw a pretty amazing thing on the ramp when we got back. A swarm of bees was attached to one of the aircraft parked on the ramp, in full on &#8220;protect the queen&#8221; mode. That whole dark patch is bees. I hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}