{"id":86,"date":"2005-07-04T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2005\/07\/04\/mowing-the-bees\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T01:17:14","slug":"mowing-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/mowing-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mowing the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/img\/blog\/bee-bag.jpeg\" alt=\"Bees in a bag\" \/>A month or so ago, I loaned my lawn mower to the neighbors. They returned it with the bag full of grass. Since I don't use the bag, I just set it aside and forgot about it. Today, I was going to look for something I thought might have fallen behind the bag, and when I tossed the bag aside, I thought I heard a buzzing sound coming from it. It was faint, so at first, I thought it might just be an echo from one of the nearby lawn mowers that was running at the time, but later when I bumped the bag, the buzzing was unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, I saw two mid-sized bees--perhaps small bumble bees (we've had at least one buzzing around the house recently)--in the area. Needless to say, I was less than excited about dealing with the problem. It seems the bees inside had been trapped by a shift in the grass grass, because no more than two got out.<\/p>\n<p>After ignoring things for a while, I came across a plastic bag big enough to hold the mower bag. Whenever I bumped the bag too much, I'd hear an angry buzzing inside. A little at a time, I wrapped it up and closed it with a few twist ties that I'd connected together.<\/p>\n<p>What's next? Since I don't use the bag, maybe I'll just leave it that way for now!<\/p>\n<p><i>Update: A few of the bees have found their way out of the bag...the grass bag! Here are a few more pictures.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/img\/blog\/bee-sitting.jpeg\" alt=\"Trapped bee sitting around\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/img\/blog\/bee-suffocation.jpeg\" alt=\"Bee in a plastic bag with suffocation warning\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so ago, I loaned my lawn mower to the neighbors. They returned it with the bag full of grass. Since I don't use the bag, I just set it aside and forgot about it. Today, I was going to look for something I thought might have fallen behind the bag, and when...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/mowing-the-bees\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}