April 03, 2008
Spring Swarm
Nature Photography by Jerome du Bois.
Two weekends ago, after I mowed the back yard, we were raking up when we realized we were hearing a growing buzzing around us. Looking up, we saw them --hundreds of bees circling the little tree, and us-- dropped our rakes, and ran inside the house. We watched them circling and circling like tiny crazy planets in sped-up orbits . . . A couple of hours later I went out and found the resting place of the travelling swarm. They were there for two days, seemingly motionless. Then they moved on, leaving a scar on the tree where they hung suspended. When I examined the scar, I noticed a couple of bees still moving around it. And right now, over two weeks later, just before I posted this photo, I checked again, and there's still one bee there, still alive, moving around the scar.
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