I had a real surprise today when I went to clean and refill the humming bird feeder. As I’ve done a number of times this summer I took the empty feeder down and brought it into the kitchen to disassemble it and clean it before I refilled it. As I opened the bottom part of the feeder a cloud shot up at me that I quickly realized was bees. The bottom of the feeder was full of bees and now I’ve released a swarm inside the house. I quickly jumped back to prevent me from getting a face full of them and the ones in the sink I quickly drowned before they got there senses and joined their friends buzzing around the kitchen and living room.
What a shocking surprise because in the 4 years or so we’ve had a hummingbird feeder I’ve never had anything like this happen. I’ve found the occasional dead one inside the feeder but never 15 – 20 live ones like today. Luckily I killed a number of them by drowning, the ones that were buzzing around had moved mostly into the living room. I turned the ceiling fan on high which made flying for them nearly impossible and then I killed them as they landed on the windows.
Needless to say I’ll not make that mistake again. Although it’s funny now at the time it wasn’t and I had to figure how to kill all these bees before my wife got home for lunch.
