Giant Mutant Bees
May 2nd, 2005So last Wednesday I got home from work as usual, the only unusual thing was that I had not had a Wednesday (explanation coming soon). I didn’t feel like cooking so I decided to take a bath and then order out for me and the kid.
Much to my surprise, when I went into the bathroom, there was kitten harassing what I believed at the time to be the biggest spider I had ever seen that was not someone’s pet. I looked a little closer and I saw that it was not actually a spider, it was a bug. Now I thought it was a beetle.
It wasn’t until the kid came by that we realized it was a bee… a giant bee, one of which I have never seen the like. I tell you, the bee was the size of my thumb. The whole thumb, not just the first joint.
So, being the adventurous, insane person that I am, instead of catching the bee right then, I decided to stalk it and try to get a picture. None of them are very good, but here we go:
This is the first picture, the bee on the wall in the hallway. Perspective is a little off, but yes, that is the smoke detector behind the bee, giving you some idea of the fact that I am not exaggerating.
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Next up, we have the reason (at this point) that the GMB was angry:
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And finally, where I finally caught the bee, desperately trying to escape the clutches of the cat, smart enough to try the window:
I was seriously too scared to put my hand close enough to the bee to get a good perspective shot, so you’ll have to take my word for it. This bee was the size of my thumb.
~FG };^>