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Author: darryoboe
Date: 2014-04-03 22:16
I was making reeds this morning and the weather has gotten nice so I had a couple of windows open. The one in the bathroom doesn't have a screen (I need to fix that).
A bee flew in and started buzzing around me. I tried to leave it alone for as long as I could, hoping it would fly back outside. But it was persistent and kept buzzing around my desk. So I decided I would have to kill it.
The first thing I could find to smash the bee with? A large cake of beeswax.
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Author: Oboelips
Date: 2014-04-04 00:40
Oh--poor bee! Next time, capture it with a cup of any sort. Slide a piece of paper between the table and the cup lip, flip, holding the paper down to the cup, and take outside. Release the Bee! I don' t know where you are, but here in the US, bees are taking a bad hit from herbicides--we want to conserve our bees. Besides...my name is Debra--it means "bee" or "industrious one", so I do have a soft spot for them. 
BTW, if you stop up the hole in your screen with a piece of tissue:
A: Bugs are kept out
B: The tissue looks so annoying that you'll be reminded to fix the screen.
Deb
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Author: darryoboe
Date: 2014-04-05 13:28
Yes, I felt awful about killing a bee.
Actually the screen fell off the window and is sitting on the roof below it. So replacing the screen involves getting out a ladder and climbing onto the roof - something I'm procrastinating doing since I am TERRIFIED of heights. I'm hoping my son will visit soon and I can talk him into doing it.
Post Edited (2014-04-05 17:30)
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