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<\/a>dug up grass in our orchard, a job for which they will be well compensated, but still under difficult working conditions. They did choose the day, btw.<\/p>\nBut. \u00a0In the orchard I have my one bee colony. \u00a0I decided to help them by clearing out the grass in front of the hive after smoking the bees. \u00a0Smoked the bees, knelt down and began using my Japanese weeding knife to pull out clumps of grass. \u00a0Fine. \u00a0Then I got closer to the hive where some of the girls were hanging out on the ground, enjoying the cool sand there. \u00a0I had put on the veil (all the stings on my head two years ago convinced me that was a good idea.) but no gloves.<\/p>\n
This won’t take long. \u00a0He thought. \u00a0And, yes, soon after I began digging up the grass near the lounging workers, some of them got up from the sand and lanced my left hand. \u00a0Ouch. \u00a0One sting right on the fleshy part of my thumb hurt like, well, like ouch! \u00a0So, this is the way the slow learner gets the message, always always always wear gloves if digging in front of the hive. \u00a0In behavioral psychology they call this aversive conditioning. \u00a0It works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>dug up grass in our orchard, a job for which they will be well compensated, but still under difficult working conditions. They did choose the day, btw.<\/p>\n