RETURN FROM HIATUS: Where are we? Where’s that pooch? BARKY!! (Oh, oh – Barky’s gone! Who is that in his place?!!) More on that later. BUT… the dog is gone.
Well, to catch up… Gunslinger left Perth what seems like decades ago. He had a little skirmish with Greenpeace who made him throw Moby Dick back in (Like some damned fish). Gunslinger left with his little skiff and began island hopping. Along the way he managed to snag Barky (the regulators attack dog). Barky put all other whaleriders to shame. He rode them like a champion. He also bit them. He also ate them when he had the right opportunity. Barky singlemindedly pasted himself on the front of the boat and didn’t miss a whale. Gunslinger had contraband on the boat in large cannisters. Somehow he had managed to get one of Spyderette’s killer bee queens. Now as he neared his destination – Pitcairn Island, the bees were getting wet (they don’t seem to like saltwater) and restless. Spyderette, and her assassin girlfriends raise killer bees in Utah. Gunslinger has used that crew before in his eternal never ending search for his most hated enemy, Hunghigh. Spyderette has sent along this message to gunslinger regarding care and transport of bees.
gunslinger, typically bees are transported in two ways: if it is a small enough colony (10,000) they are sent via mail in wooden crates with screened sides. i think if you go back a bit on my site, there is a photo. there is a hole in the top of the crate into which a can of sugar syrup with a mesh opening is inserted — thus you have a foodsource for your bees. if a large hive of bees must be transported, you typically transport them right in the hive, by either stapling or strapping it together and covering the entrances with a fine screen so the bees have adequate ventilation but cannot escape – alternately, the whole hive is draped in a net. it is best to transport them at night because a) all the bees will have returned to the hive and b) they won’t fly out and getcha. it is also best to transport them in cold weather, when the bees will be clustered together inside the hive for warmth and will not be flying out. when transporting bees in the hive, they have their own foodsource. you can find some photos here: http://photo.bees.net/gallery/beemove. also, some plants are pollinated by other insects and by the wind. but many plants are only pollinated via bees. as for water, bees will tolerate a bit of water, but not much. they can drown quite easily and are unable to fly if wet. | |
Posted 7/9/2003 at 1:22 AM by spyderette – delete – block user |
How nice and how faithful of spyderette. Gunslinger has more questions to, and he’d better find the answers! ALSO – Pitcairn Island is pretty damned sensitive about contaminating their resident bees. The bees are escaping. They’re going over to Pitcairn. Gunslinger however manages to keep the queen and a portion of the rest. However, Pitcairn has high wave action and treacherous coastline. Gunslinger is going to end up on the isolated island Ducie. He’ll have barky for a time. However because the Regulators post a different profile picture, the dog pic is not available for our story. We are going to write him off. Or do we? Rumor has it that Snickers has a Barky! Hmm. And Delilah The Regulator stops in for a spell with no (I MEAN NO…) CLOTHES ON!!! Stay tuned. He needs more advice from Spyderette first.
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