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[alenxa_classic]

Today I found a bee hovering around the kitchen light fixture. Having seen plenty of bees outside in the patio, and figuring it had just come in as Kelson left, I swatted it and made breakfast. Moments later, the refrigerator stopped making noise, allowing me to hear the buzzing and tapping sounds coming from the general vicinity of the stove fan. Like hundreds of bees knocking against things in the ceiling...

Oh fuck.

I went to the office and reported my suspicions, remembering to impart the lessons learned by K's parents when their compost bin became a hive, i.e., those suckers build FAST. The leasing manager promised it would get investigated tomorrow. Best she could do, so I had to say okay.

At lunchtime, there was another bee hanging around. I swatted that one and then noticed that the buzzing and tapping was louder. As if it had invaded the whole kitchen ceiling. It was even audible in the living room on the other side of the wall. Not only that, but I actually saw a third bee appear from nowhere, in the vicinity of the light fixture. Great, they have a direct doorway into the apartment. So I informed the manager, who promised to roust out the maintenance supervisor (who wasn't on site today) to have a look. A couple of hours later, there was some banging and scraping in the ceiling area, but when I went out to see if I could catch the guy, there was nobody.

Since then, I've found a fourth bee sort of vegging on the counter (swat) and learned that bee corpses are very hard to wash down a drain. In a similar vein, ants love bee corpses. I'm now trying to figure out whether it's possible to lure the ants up to the light fixture so I can sic them on the bees. Insect brawl, no holds barred. I'd sell tickets if I were more sure we should even be staying here tonight. :p

Comments

[wayens.livejournal.com]

LOL FIGHT!

Not smart to involve ants. They get other ideas really fast. I once fed ants my swatted flies and I bet they got curious as to where this boon of food kept dropping from. A week or so later my mother found a legion of ants in the kitchen pantry. oops

Never fed them again. ;p

Good luck with the bees. Too bad you can't translocate them... shimmer beaaaaaaam

[kelson.livejournal.com]

For those keeping score at home, I ran into the manager out in the parking lot not long after Katie posted this. She explained that they'd sent maintenance out, and maintenance had realized there were too many to deal with, so they're calling in a professional bee squad tomorrow morning.

[maldis.livejournal.com]

Please tell me this is one allergy you don't have.

[kelson.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, this is one I've managed to miss. Though, as Katie pointed out last night, we do have Epi-pens available!

[sekl.livejournal.com]

Ack. Good luck with the extermination.

[kelson.livejournal.com]

Thanks. We found dead and dying bees in the kitchen this afternoon, which was an improvement. We shall see...