Thought I would enjoy a few hours soaking up the sun today and then flying ants invaded the garden, bees went mad, the garden was full of bees and flying ants, can't really call it a dog fight in the RAF sense, but had to beat a retreat to house, thank god it was mid afternoon and the neighbours didn't notice!
Opened hive later on for a check up and this time did manage to see queenie, sleek looking body, very fit:-), I can see why the drones want to give it one shot.
One shot? OK Drones are the male bee, they lounge about all day doing no work and then about 2pm they nip off to see their mates from other hives on the off chance that a virgin queen flies past!
Don't get the idea that you want to come back to Earth as a Drone, if they do have rumpy pumpy with the queen their tackle is ripped out and they fall to earth to die and those that don't catch up with queenie, well the workers (female bees) kick them all out of hive in late August as the Drones are a drain on bee society during the winter!
It's not good to be a male bee! :-)
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