Jai Maa Jai, allz'y'allz; here's wishing the fullest measure of HarvestTime reapings for your collective individuated metaphorical root cellars and larders. Happy last NewMoon of Summer; or of Winter for our counter-clockwise brethren. No bees were irritated, belayed, or hybridized in the creation of this video; MIA is a Duplo mix from the Lady's "Piracy Funds Terrorism" mix-tape gift-pack of MP3s from SOINM. Wiggles of camera or subject bees are not (as far as i know) examples or representations of bee-dance; although that would have been cute and really, like, cerebral and shit. ....and NO, the bumblebee is a Native Washingtonian, not Africanized. Racists. [...ok; i say that because 1) i'm probably racist, and 2) the honeybees (in particular the second long-shot one, the one that i looped it's away-home buzz-off) look a tad smaller than the European honeybees i'm used to seeing. i've noticed this over the past few years; of course looking for issues makes one find them and as soon as colony collapse became public i started paying more attention to the specifics of bees i saw. There's always been a healthy variety of bee types around Seattle IMHO, and i think perhaps any size difference i'm perceiving is attributable to a local stingless variety and/or nativized Asian honeybees, What i guess i'm humping around here is i want someone, anyone, to say "there's no chance that those littler ones are Africanized, they haven't made it north of Reno and in fact seem to be <b>...</b>
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