...was supposed to see the felling of a tree. But when we arrived home today, it was still standing, at its sadly crooked angle. Ours had been trimmed (lopsidedly, if I may add), but the doomed tree stood.
We discovered yesterday that the doomed tree actually harbors a bee hive! The city workers had filled part of a hollow with a foamy substance that hardens -- I had mistaken it for some sort of tree sap profusion -- ostensibly to kill or eject the bees. Well, it nailed about fifteen of them (visibly), but plenty of others were buzzing around the open hole on the other side of the hollow limb. I wonder if that's why they didn't take the tree today.
It seems sad to kill or displace the bees needlessly when we're in such a bee crisis lately. (Don't know if you heard about the bee truck accident near Sacramento yesterday -- lots of bees lost!) Would it be so hard to capture and relocate the colony? God forbid our city spend money on something that makes sense to the food chain and the city's beauty! Sometimes I wonder if I'm in the wrong career.
I will miss both the tree and the bees. I think the ecosystem probably will, too.
We discovered yesterday that the doomed tree actually harbors a bee hive! The city workers had filled part of a hollow with a foamy substance that hardens -- I had mistaken it for some sort of tree sap profusion -- ostensibly to kill or eject the bees. Well, it nailed about fifteen of them (visibly), but plenty of others were buzzing around the open hole on the other side of the hollow limb. I wonder if that's why they didn't take the tree today.
It seems sad to kill or displace the bees needlessly when we're in such a bee crisis lately. (Don't know if you heard about the bee truck accident near Sacramento yesterday -- lots of bees lost!) Would it be so hard to capture and relocate the colony? God forbid our city spend money on something that makes sense to the food chain and the city's beauty! Sometimes I wonder if I'm in the wrong career.
I will miss both the tree and the bees. I think the ecosystem probably will, too.
The bee-killing foam that hardens
The other side of the hole where bees were entering and exiting...I just couldn't time my shot to capture any of them.
1 comment:
I don't like the bee killing foam!
It is stupid to kill bees.
They are good pictures though.
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