{"id":137,"date":"2007-04-08T10:06:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-04-08T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T18:06:48","slug":"bees-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Bees: The Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I posted about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=134\">bees that seemed to be setting up shop<\/a> at my local airport. Last Thursday, 29 Mar, I was taking a friend up for a tour of LA and heard and saw more.<\/p>\n<p>First, when we got there the formerly bee-covered Cirrus was gone.  We were told that the owner had ripped the cover off &#8211; bees and all &#8211; fired up the engine and gone to another airport.  This left a few perturbed bees running around SMO, but though we were around for a while, none of them bothered us.  They tell me that most of the bees in LA county are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africanized_bees\">africanized<\/a>, so that&#8217;s pretty good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Other than coming back and finding that the bees had taken my parking space that was my whole involvement.  But the story I heard was that our friend with the bee-covered plane had proceeded out to his destination and only found a few intrepid bees still gripping his aircraft on arrival.  On departure to return to SMO, a few more wayward bees had appeared.  When he returned to the ramp, however, the remaining local bees began returning to the plane and re-establishing the clump.<\/p>\n<p>After the clump began re-forming they summoned a beekeeper who, I&#8217;m told, vacuumed them up &#8211; queen and all &#8211; and there&#8217;s been peace in the valley since then.<\/p>\n<p>I would have loved to see the little buggers clomp back on to the plane on return, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I posted about the bees that seemed to be setting up shop at my local airport. Last Thursday, 29 Mar, I was taking a friend up for a tour of LA and heard and saw more. First, when we got there the formerly bee-covered Cirrus was gone. We were told that [&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-137","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\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}