Sluggish bumblebee

This fellow was very sluggish. It was cool, about 11C.

Later that evening he was walking on the path nearby and my SO's son
picked him up and petted him... then put him in the grass lest someone
step on him...

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9256748&size=lg
Sony a-900, flash, 1/250 f/11 ISO 200.

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On 27-05-09 23:50, frank wrote:
On May 27, 3:07 pm, Alan
wrote:
This fellow was very sluggish. It was cool, about 11C.

Later that evening he was walking on the path nearby and my SO's son
picked him up and petted him... then put him in the grass lest someone
step on him...

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9256748&size=lg
Sony a-900, flash, 1/250 f/11 ISO 200.

[ this may appear as a re-post - something odd happened with the prev.
post ]

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Might be a sugar bee. Kind of big and fat. Had them up in NY, that's
what natives called them. Huge suckers.

Yes they're big, almost 3 cm long and over a cm in diameter.

I woke up one morning with one crawling on my pillow about 5 inches from
my eyes when I was about 15 or so. Talk about WAKE UP!

I was amazed my SO's son didn't get stung when he picked him up...

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Alan Browne wrote:
On 27-05-09 23:50, frank wrote:
On May 27, 3:07 pm, Alan
wrote:
This fellow was very sluggish. It was cool, about 11C.

Later that evening he was walking on the path nearby and my SO's son
picked him up and petted him... then put him in the grass lest someone
step on him...

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9256748&size=lg
Sony a-900, flash, 1/250 f/11 ISO 200.

[ this may appear as a re-post - something odd happened with the prev.
post ]

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Might be a sugar bee. Kind of big and fat. Had them up in NY, that's
what natives called them. Huge suckers.

Yes they're big, almost 3 cm long and over a cm in diameter.

I woke up one morning with one crawling on my pillow about 5 inches from
my eyes when I was about 15 or so. Talk about WAKE UP!

I was amazed my SO's son didn't get stung when he picked him up...

We get lots of those big bumble bees here (New Zealand). Our fox
terrier loves to eat them, but they sting and bite. The technique is to
draw the lips back and try to snap them mid-air between bared front
teeth to stun them. Once on the ground, tap them carefully with paw -
and snap at them again if there's any sign of movement. If it grabs the
fur on your paws and holds on, then run three-legged, shake affected leg
like crazy, and howl like a stuck pig. After about 5 minutes of no
detectable movement, there seems to be about a 50:50 chance they're safe
to eat. The extreme reaction from the dog when she gets unlucky leads me
to believe that either dogs don't understand probability, or bumble bees
must taste very good indeed.

On 28-05-09 23:43, Me wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

I was amazed my SO's son didn't get stung when he picked him up...

We get lots of those big bumble bees here (New Zealand). Our fox terrier
loves to eat them, but they sting and bite. The technique is to draw the
lips back and try to snap them mid-air between bared front teeth to stun
them. Once on the ground, tap them carefully with paw - and snap at them
again if there's any sign of movement. If it grabs the fur on your paws
and holds on, then run three-legged, shake affected leg like crazy, and
howl like a stuck pig. After about 5 minutes of no detectable movement,
there seems to be about a 50:50 chance they're safe to eat. The extreme
reaction from the dog when she gets unlucky leads me to believe that
either dogs don't understand probability, or bumble bees must taste very
good indeed.

!!!


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Alan Browne wrote:
On 28-05-09 23:43, Me wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:

I was amazed my SO's son didn't get stung when he picked him up...

We get lots of those big bumble bees here (New Zealand). Our fox terrier
loves to eat them, but they sting and bite. The technique is to draw the
lips back and try to snap them mid-air between bared front teeth to stun
them. Once on the ground, tap them carefully with paw - and snap at them
again if there's any sign of movement. If it grabs the fur on your paws
and holds on, then run three-legged, shake affected leg like crazy, and
howl like a stuck pig. After about 5 minutes of no detectable movement,
there seems to be about a 50:50 chance they're safe to eat. The extreme
reaction from the dog when she gets unlucky leads me to believe that
either dogs don't understand probability, or bumble bees must taste very
good indeed.

!!!

Looks like we're even exporting some of them.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10575865