Why not, though? It's not like cargo planes will be regularly flying in millions of bees; rather, what used to be a comparatively deserted series of strips of grass is now going to have added bees and shrubs.
Non-sequitur. While the wider-remit "Make O'Hare suck less" committee might be stuck in a quagmire of mutual recrimination and vested interests, and has yet to have delivered its recommendations, the far more niche and significantly lower-budget "is there anything cheap and nice that we could do?" committee went talking to the people who noticed previously-endangered peregrine falcons nesting in tower blocks, and thought of something cheap, low-maintenance, low-impact and warm fuzzies-generating, and said "hell yes, let's turn our sterile tracts of lawn into places where we can grow flowers and bees".
Incidentally, aside from those with near-fatal allergies, most of the people I know who HATE BEES don't realize that wasps are not bees, they are wasps. Whenever pinned down about the creatures they can't stand, they inevitably mention those of the Hymenoptera order-- hornets, yellowjackets or some variety of wasp-wasted thing that is not a bee.
I know the difference, am not allergic, and still don't like bees.
Yes, a bee doesn't want to sting me because it will die and it knows it, that's fine - the point is, it *will* investigate me, it *will* crawl around my head and ears, and if I do anything at all to it, I need to kill it instantly and cleanly without driving the stinger into myself, or it will sting me.
Bees basically interrupt everything I'm doing until they're done checking me out. It's... inconsiderate.
(I don't "HATE BEES", and in fact I'm quite happy to have bees. Over there, please. Behind a screen, perhaps.)
Bees basically interrupt everything I'm doing until they're done checking me out. It's... inconsiderate.
I love bumble bees, I think they're totally adorable and I'm not particularly afraid of being hurt by one. But yes, this is an issue: they know they're bright yellow and black striped and have great faith that this means everyone else will treat them carefully. Like skunks and porcupines, this makes them fearless.
And then I end up with some adorable little bee doing something really kind of annoying right then.
But I"ve had good luck with gently picking them up and relocating them.
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Date: 2011-08-25 12:16 pm (UTC)Incidentally, aside from those with near-fatal allergies, most of the people I know who HATE BEES don't realize that wasps are not bees, they are wasps. Whenever pinned down about the creatures they can't stand, they inevitably mention those of the Hymenoptera order-- hornets, yellowjackets or some variety of wasp-wasted thing that is not a bee.
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Date: 2011-08-25 01:20 pm (UTC)Yes, a bee doesn't want to sting me because it will die and it knows it, that's fine - the point is, it *will* investigate me, it *will* crawl around my head and ears, and if I do anything at all to it, I need to kill it instantly and cleanly without driving the stinger into myself, or it will sting me.
Bees basically interrupt everything I'm doing until they're done checking me out. It's... inconsiderate.
(I don't "HATE BEES", and in fact I'm quite happy to have bees. Over there, please. Behind a screen, perhaps.)
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Date: 2011-08-26 12:55 am (UTC)I love bumble bees, I think they're totally adorable and I'm not particularly afraid of being hurt by one. But yes, this is an issue: they know they're bright yellow and black striped and have great faith that this means everyone else will treat them carefully. Like skunks and porcupines, this makes them fearless.
And then I end up with some adorable little bee doing something really kind of annoying right then.
But I"ve had good luck with gently picking them up and relocating them.