Putting it out of it’s misery.
HI,
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How are you you today. I hope that you have had a good weekend.
Mine was really excellent and yesterday afternoon was a most enjoyable one.
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The sun had been shining down wonderfully again all morning and we were settled reading the Sunday papers when Big H had the grand idea of making a picnic and a flask of tea and taking the Sunday papers out into the garden to read them there.
Once I had dashed off and packed the some ham sandwiches and tea , I added some cans of ice cold beer to the bag , and off we went.
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It was good sitting out at garden table, feeling the intense heat and enjoying a very faint breeze now and again.
I am not really a one for sitting still for hours, so I had intervals of pulling up weeds and snipping the holly bush into a tidier shape.
I find that no matter how carefully you pick up those holly cuttings they always manage to get you.
Perhaps I should prepare for things a bit more and get some gardening gloves!.
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Something very sad happened when Big H was cutting the grass the other day.
I was going around pulling out weeds and things when I noticed a bee struggling on it’s back in the grass. I picked it up in case Big H stood on it and I was horrified to see that the cutter had chopped off some of it’s legs .
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I showed Big H what had happened and he was very,very upset. He said if I put it on the flowers it might still be okay.
I tried but it could not hold on and just fell to the ground and struggled.
I could not bear the fact that it was suffering and in pain so I took it over to a paving slab , put it down gently and stamped on it hard. I felt so sad for it.
I know that I must seem soft but I do not like killing anything, so I even catch flies in the house and put them outside again.
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It is awful so see how afraid people can be of bees and wasps. So much so that they scream and flail around and kill them.
If you are gentle they will not hurt you on purpose .
I pick wasps up too and put them outside and they have never stung me, why should they. I have only been stung by a wasp once and that was when I sat down and it must have been trapped in my skirt.
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A bee dies if it stings you because the stinger gets ripped out of it’s body when the barbs get stuck in the skin.
Historically people deliberately get stung by bees to help relieve their arthritis. Talk about a one way benefit. Not much in it for the bee then.
It is only when the the bee stings mammals or birds that the stinger gets left in the skin.
When different hives do battle they can sting each other with impunity because they have hard plates covering them which do not hold the stinger, unlike a mammal’s elastic skin.
Fascinating stuff.
J
