h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hard facts about bees: thankyou Coelacanth Not just me then.

Finally got properly harassed by a wasp today - it flew in through the tiniest gap in the curtains and hung just above head height looking tough. Part of me was getting agitated and swishing at it with a rolled up magazine to little effect ... but part of me was glad to encounter a social insect doing a proper job for a change. Well done that wasp!

The ants in our kitchen have been fairly consistent since very early on in the year but they seem to have gone on hols now.

I haven't been harrassed by any kind of yellow-and-black-striped insect so far this year...

Trin, are any of your neighbours growing any *special* crops which might have an effect on the bee's behaviour?

RF

The black and white striped B's we get round here are as frisky as per useualy actually... didn't bees always be a bit soppy?: I remember 'stroking' beas our in the back yard as a kid... they seemed to like it

Where do ants go on holiday? *Wonders whether, even by his own very low standards, this isn't stretching it a bit far as pathetic feedlines go*

Special crops? I may well have to investigate The neighbours don't seem terribly interested in any crops at the moment, including grass (the lawny sort, not the smoking sort)

Don't bees communicate with each other by stroking each other's backs? Or that's a part of the way they communicate anyway - obviously there's buzzing and dancing too. You may well have been sending them off on missions 2legs: random and arbitrary missions

My friend may well have been 'lord of the flies' but I am 'lord of the bees', under my inefferable control I regulate and direct all the bees of the UK towards the one goal of total and utter control of everything and of the finding of nighthoover the bees are our friends

Nah, 'random and arbitrary' sounds more accurate...

*Flicks through Ant Holiday brochure.*
Hmmm... Penzants doesn't look too bad. Antswerp if you like ferries is OK. Frants... Switzerlant... Japant... if you don't mind flying, I've heard Ryant Air is cheap. Flying Ants - that rings a bell.

FLANTS!

Has aonyone been stung or bitten yet this year?

Not by any Flants yet.

I quite miss them.

Aw, they'll be back. It's their flantstiny.

Is there a prize for the first person to get stung? *Prepares to douse self in jam and rush outside*

bitten by the fleas our management denies the building is infested with

Damn *Puts jam down*

Flea bites are horrible.

I've not been bitten by bee or wasp in quite some time, useually get bitten to pieces by the mossys when I'm back at my Fathers, as were near a marsh and the river and the fens and I react hypersensitivly to mossy bites having said which I've been bitten several times today... but that wasn't an insect....

leave that poor badger alone 2legs

no it wasn't a badger.... it wer my 'Friend'

oooooo no more single status? Anyone we know?

shhh! No I don't think its anyone you would kno; its not anyone off here I wouldn't go quite so far as to say I'm not single anymore... due to circumstances we're only having a 'sort of' relationship So I'm still looking as it were (and as have I been all my life) for that 'certain' someone Hmm..... I think thats kind of explained it sort of its still humid here, but every now and then a littel bit of breeze pops through the window and gives me hope that it might cool down one day