Bees In My Briefs

This is a few weeks late in the posting just like the last time I posted but here we go. I had an interesting run in when I was going to to the gas station and I opened the lid to unscrew the gas cap I was confronted with quite a large looking hornet attached to the beginning of a bees hive on the outside of my gas tank just hanging out very attached to its nest. Thankfully it wasn't hostile. So needless to say before I was stung I calmly replaced the lid and drove away without filling up my tank. Going home to hide for a few hours inside and brainstorming with Tiffany on how to eliminate my bee infestation. Ideas from some sort of bug spray (paranoid about doing it so close to the gas tank) to setting the bee on fire (once again way too scared to do that next to the gas tank) to opening the lid and going for a drive on the freeway in hopes that the bee and the hive would fly out. Until I finally got up the courage to go and do something about it. I brought down the digital camera to get a picture of my predicament and a pair of needle-nose plyers and was faced with this:


Not the same huge hornet looking thing that I saw at the gas station, it looks more like a normal bee so I'm not sure if it was a hornet's nest or a bee's nest and the thing I saw first was the queen. but after taking a few photos I eventually screwed up my courage set the camera on the trunk and tried to crush the hive and the bee in one swift and powerful squeeze of the plyers.... I got the hive but I missed the bee.

Let's just stay I ran for my life leaving the digital camera still on sitting on my trunk and casting away the plyers. There was an extremely angry sounding bee flying around after me but thankfully I made it to the house without getting stung. I couldn't very well leave the digital camera sitting out in the hot sun to bake all afternoon so after one false start where I could still hear the angry buzzing I went out in my winter coat for extra sting protection and recovered the camera. Unfortunately I never found the needle-nose plyers, I'm not sure if I cast them out into the woods or somehow the bees took revenge by conficating them but when I peaked at the gas tank it was empty and the bee and the crushed hive were nowhere to be found either.

I stayed away from my car the rest of the day assuming that would be the end of it since I had destroyed the hive with a mild fear that they might come back and try to rebuild, and behold the next morning when I went on a gas and candy run a bee looking very much like the bee from the pictures was haging out in the opening of the gas tank lid. Very annoyed that I still couldn't get gas I drove to the store first with all kinds of thoughts of a giant colony being started attached to my car. I checked again outside of the store and the bee was in exactly the same place. But thankfully when I returned to the car with the candy the bee was gone I opened the lid and there was no swarm to commit a revenge stinging on my person. So I immedately drove at unsafe speeds away from the parking lot in fear of the bees return to the gas station where I filled up, and made sure to pour end drips of the gas all around the gas opening as a preventative measure in hopes of stoping any of them from coming back. So far its worked!