This Box is Bugged

There are so many different kinds of "signs and symbols." I have dozens of other photos of things I've seen that I have yet to write about.  Sometimes it's something huge and obvious, other times it's just some tiny detail I spot that seems out of whack.

Here is a boring old electrical box in the parking lot next to where I work.  Wow.  Exciting.

 

Except that I caught a buzzing sound, and something bounced off my arm.  Bees.

A colony of bees had turned this box into a super secure hive.  I'm sure the workers who maintain these things see this all the time.  I just found it fascinating.  They found a way inside at one of the seams, and made it their own.


 Buzzing toward the hive ...

Now, my Mom would always tell me I am allergic to bees.  Supposedly, when I was about 8 years old, we were visiting Uncle Bob in upstate New York, and I got stung.  I don't remember anything about it.  And I have managed to go 50 years without getting stung again.  I'm not afraid of bees.  I get along with all animals, mostly by remaining calm.  So there I was in the parking lot with bees all around me.  That's about as close as I have come to being out in nature in the last few years.  

That's sad, but I felt it was noteworthy.

 


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