People live at the highest end of the biological chain, overlooking everything from above, and once there is a biological intrusion, the first reaction is "is there a risk of harming me" and "whether to clear the risk", so except for professional researchers, few people sit quietly and look at them kindly, missing many interesting details. Maybe it's "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers", or when there is a lack of materials in a young age, "I don't take anything without anything", as long as I can improve my life, I dare to "want" anything. Because I was born in a mountain village, every household is a wooden house no matter how big or small, in the courtyard covered by bamboo and wood, I am accustomed to seeing birds, bees, etc. flying in the sky, rubbing my feet with snakes, ants, earthworms, etc., and I am no stranger to bouncing rabbits, fleeing rats, etc. When you see someone screaming for a cockroach, you are always dismissive.
Mountain village people
In the spring and summer of childhood, busy with the housework arranged by my parents, looking for a bamboo pole, finding a foot to field the pieces, forming an oval into the bamboo pole, looking around for spider webs densely wrapped around the bamboo ellipses, known as "breaking the net of tens of millions of heavens", followed by dragonflies and butterflies flying around in the flowers... Tired of running, I moved a wooden stool and sat in the yard, humming the song "The Most Glorious Labor" that I had just learned from my teacher, and approached the flowers to see the buzzing bees busy in the flowers.
When you can't sit still, put on a bucket hat, put on a coat, take a bamboo pole, from the pigsty to the cow pen, from the cow pen to the chicken pen, look for the bee bag in the corner of the house in front of the house, see the bee bag, stab it with a bamboo pole, and then lie on the ground, wait for the bee door to spread out, and then pick up the bee bag, tear open the bee bag, peel off the bee pupae, take it to the kitchen to fry or fry... Of course, these bee bags are definitely ordinary bees, poisonous bee hives such as horned bees, which we can't afford, and hives like bees, without adults telling them, children will not go to destruction. Growing up and leaving the mountain village, the memories of that life were sealed by various rules and etiquette, and some conditioned reflexes were only some shallow ripples.
Shanshui people's homes
One noon in early July 2021, I went to the balcony to water the flowers and plants, and incidentally took the clothes that had been dried back to my house. Suddenly, more than a dozen long-legged wasps were found flying around on the balcony, and in the direction of the concentration of bees, they found that the bees were nervously building their nests on the keel of the canopy, and the hives were not yet the size of a fist. My first reaction did feel that there was a safety risk, so I advocated removing this hive, but Lao Zhang said: "It is not easy for bees to find a place to nest, forget it, and it is convenient with it, that is, to give yourself convenience, keep it." ”
Leaving the hive, leaving caution. Although it is Lao Zhang who advocates leaving the hive, I have not resolutely opposed it, but the hive is less than a meter away from the clothes rail and the sundries rack, and it is always me who does these things, so every time drying clothes meets the bees that fly in and out, there is still some worry in my heart, afraid that the clothes rail dangling in my hand will annoy the swarm and attack me as an enemy; every time I take something from the shelf, I always worry about taking things or putting things, disturbing the dreams of the swarms in the hive above, and to a general mobilization of the whole, my life will not be saved.
honeycomb
As it turned out, my worries were superfluous. The swarm seemed to know that they were hermits, and every time I went to dry my clothes, they would come in and out of the detour even if they wanted to go in and out of work; every time I went to the utility rack to pick up something, they would choose to come in and out from the side. Perhaps, too, they are afraid of disturbing me and causing me to lose my homeland. After constantly running in and getting along, the bees and people are at peace, the hive grows day by day, and the bee colony is getting bigger and bigger...
Swarms are also light-loving animals. The doors and windows of our bedroom on the balcony were opened every day, and occasionally one or two came into the cruise and quickly flew out to work. Only when night falls, the bedroom lights are turned on, and one or two of them will also fly in through the doors and windows, and if we don't find out, if we don't "invite" them out in time, they will nervously scurry around the bedroom, hovering around the ceiling lights, until they exhaust themselves and lie on the bed. In order to avoid such an accident, Lao Zhang and I every night before turning on the lights, the first task is to close the windows and doors, close the curtains, and then turn on the lights.
Balcony view
Is there honey in the hive? Around the autumn equinox, I took autumn and winter shoes from the debris rack, the shoe box was covered with fine pieces of dirt, when I brushed it off by hand, it felt a little moist and sticky, which caught my attention, and I found that the dirt on the shoe box seemed to have been infiltrated by something, brownish yellow, and shiny, and I guessed that the slag should contain honey. Soon, this conjecture was confirmed, one day, Lao Zhang and his friend's daughter were talking in the living room, a squirrel came in from the bay window window, scratching his head and cheeks, squeezing his eyebrows and making eyes, and the friend's daughter exclaimed: "Uncle Zhang, your family fed squirrels?" Lao Zhang looked up, and a brown squirrel came to a four-eyed opposite, before opening the mobile phone, the squirrel jumped on the roof of the canopy, only to hear a string of "bang bang..." from the canopy.
For the reason for the arrival of the squirrel, Lao Zhang quickly found the answer in du niang, it turned out that there was indeed honey in the hive, and the squirrel came to steal honey! Lao Zhang then remembered that every morning when he opened his eyes, he could hear this kind of footstep on the canopy, at first, we thought that the pigeons raised by which neighbor were playing on our canopy, if it were not for today, I really did not know that squirrels and bees had established a biological chain...
Eight sides overlooking
The survival rules of the bee colony. Before and after the frost fell, there was suddenly a stall of black things on the floor of the balcony, the surrounding color was lighter, the core part was black, when wiped with toilet paper, the liquid in the lighter parts around it felt somewhat sticky, the black parts were tough, and some of them were tightly attached to the ground and were not easy to remove. At first, I thought it was Lao Zhang who did not dry the water on the turtle shell on the balcony when he dried the turtle shell and complained for several days.
One day, when cleaning the flowers and grass on the balcony, this long black thing was found among the branches and leaves of the flowers and grasses, and it was found that it was wronged and should be related to bees. While talking with Lao Zhang, a bee landed in the water receiving tray, and on a closer look, a bee pupa was held on its chest. The bee seemed to feel disturbed by me, and quickly grabbed the bee pupae and climbed out of the water tray with difficulty, stumbled to the edge of the guardrail of the balcony railing, and flew hard, followed by a "bang" from the neighbor's rain shed downstairs. Since then, Lao Zhang and I have been able to pick up a few semi-zombie bee pupae on the balcony floor every morning, and occasionally meet with the worker bees carrying the semi-zombie pupae...
Scenery of the trough fishing beach
Looking up at the hive again, it is larger than the basin, but there are fewer bees on the hive surface than in the summer. Worker bees drag the semi-stiff pupae out when they go out, and then go out to collect pollen... Lao Zhang photographed the hive, and compared it on the picture of Du Niang, he learned that this hive was called a lion's head, and the bee colony left around November, leaving an empty nest.
For bees to build nests, there is a lot of controversy on the Internet, some people say that it is an auspicious omen, some people say that "tit-for-tat" is dangerous, no matter what it is irrelevant, although the bee colony is generally not stinging people without intrusion, but there are exceptions to everything, especially families with children it is best not to keep the hive, when they just build a nest, do a good job of protective measures to remove it.