B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 18, 2012

Damn shame. It was a honey of a property.

no, that’s a bearfaced lie! i never stopped being a busy bee

Just don’t hit it with a stick !

No actually I made the payment TOO EARLY!

About 1000 BofA forclosures!

the market was bearish. they were beetrayed

I was busy…

The bee industry is indeed in troubled times. There has also been mass die offset colonies due to mites, viruses and pesticides used around the plants they work.

Wasn’t my fault, that last plant got me buzzed.

Saint: “The bee industry is indeed in troubled times. There has also been mass die offset colonies due to mites, viruses and pesticides used around the plants they work.”

Is that something else we can blame on Obama?

It’s interesting that with all of the stories about Colony Collapse Disorder, down here in Florida it seems that we don’t have a month go by without a story about a huge, apparently healthy, wild hive found and cleared out of an Urban area.I think part of the problem with Commercial Hives is the way they are used. Trucking the hives from place to place puts stress on them that leave them open to, and spreading, disease, parasites, etc.Apparently there’s not enough profit in setting up hives where they’re needed and KEEPING them there.

rf_eq: and it bounces into the stands for a ground-rule double! Puns like that shouldn’t be out alone this early in the morning…

Take the checkbook away from her.

That’s a hornets’ nest, not a bee hive. Hornets don’t produce honey.

No comments about the bear behind the tree, ready to take over with his hive busting tool to get the honey. Maybe he put up the foreclosure sign.

Don’t believe the sign! It’s all a sting operation.

Better to bee foreclosed than to bee exterminated.

Does the fact that the bear has a stone club and not a modern hammer make this more plausable?

Beegone.

Forgot to mention. The bank already has a buyer, British Petroleum, they are putting up a BP station.

A guy I once worked with told me about when he was living down south, a friend of his (I’d be very suspicious of that type of friend!) would sneak up on a hornets nest, plug the hole, take it where a church service was in progress, get in the crawl space underneath, find a knothole in the flooring, and jam the nest up against it. (You fill in the rest)

I’ve heard that if a projectile hits a hornets nest, they instinctively know what direction it came from, and -—-

Are they in Maybeary ??? That looks like Andy, Opie, and aunt Bee.

I’v seen a lot of bee hives, both wild in trees and domestic, but I’ve never seen a bee hive like that. When we see a hive like that, it’s a hornet’s nest and I’ve seen a lot of them too.

OK, while we have yet another example of B.C. predator vs. prey antics, with implied family dynamics among eusocial insects to boot, and I’m on the record as enjoying this sort of thing in the past, I’m afraid I cannot fully approve of today’s B.C. Mostly I feel puzzled by the role in the narrative of the tree-dwelling … bear … thing. Did the bear-thing put up the fake foreclosure signs in an attempt to con the bees out of their hive and acquire the delicious honey within? Are the foreclosure signs actually meant to not be fake, and the bear-thing is an agent of the bank that holds the mortgage note on the beehive? Is this some kind of opaque political allegory about the ongoing housing crisis? Does the bear-thing have a primitive axe? When did bears start learning how to use tools? Should we be scared of an army of tool-weilding bears, come to take what’s rightfully theirs, like beehives and our foreclosed homes and who knows what else?

No money, no more honey.

Did anyone else notice that is a wasp nest and not a beehive?

Don’t matter. Prez B.O.’s banks will take them all.