Bee Butts & A Baby Scare
☆ June 24, 2012
Sometimes you just need to look at a couple of bee butts. Or at least I do.
Sir Baby got tangled in barbed wire which has absolutely consumed my last two weeks. He was on the spring pasture with the cows. I’m just so grateful I found him in time. He’s here with me with a nasty cut-up hoof but healing beautifully.
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June 24th, 2012 @ 10:52 pm
Oh geeze, glad to know Sir Baby’s okay!
June 24th, 2012 @ 11:06 pm
BEE BUTTS! Those are spectacular little bumbles you have there. I recently found a whole nest of yellow-headed bumble bees in my backyard the other day. So exciting.
Good to know your big baby is ok!
June 24th, 2012 @ 11:40 pm
How scary, so glad he’s ok!
June 24th, 2012 @ 11:53 pm
Sending best wishes Sir Baby’s way. Love the bee butts! We have ginormous black bumble bees here; yours are more colorful.
June 25th, 2012 @ 6:16 am
Barbed Wire – necessary EVIL.
http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/
If you ever make it to the pan handel of Taxas – this place is a hoot to visit.
Hoof injuries are so serious for our animal companions. Give him a little extra love for all of us fans.
June 25th, 2012 @ 6:48 am
Doh! I thought you were talking about a pregnancy scare!
June 25th, 2012 @ 7:43 am
Please give Sir Baby an extra kiss right on his awesome nose from me! He must have been so relieved to see you come to his rescue.
Keep us posted on his recovery.
June 25th, 2012 @ 8:12 am
I love watching the bees in my flower garden. Had one absolutely rolling, like a dog in horse poop, in the poppy yesterday. Fun to watch. Ew Ew to the barbed wire cuts, he must have been frantic, poor Baby.
June 25th, 2012 @ 8:44 am
OMG! Barbed wire cuts can be deadly! I’m so glad you found Sir Baby in time and that he is healing well. Please give him extra smooches from us, and great big hugs, too.
How lovely to see the bees looking so healthy. It must be that untouched-by-human-hands Wyoming flora.
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:12 am
omg ! gaaaaaaa!
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:27 am
Oh! Glad to hear that Sir Baby is recovering well, happy thoughts his + your ways!
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:30 am
Oh goodness, Baby is alright! Although I have to say cute bee butts are a great way to distract people from less then great news. Also, love the title of the post….
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:35 am
I hope Baby feels better soon. I thought at first it was a baby scare for you too!
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:36 am
Barbed wire cuts are BAD NEWS! Glad Sir B. is doing okay.
Great bee n’ flowers shots!
To Eve: Ha, I thought so, too! :-)
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:38 am
Oh by the way, yesterday I picked up a copy of “Amazing Pets” from “People” Magazine and saw a nice pic of Shreve & baby Charlie in the “Love me, love my…” section about unusual pets. Nice brief blurb, too. Congratualtions!
June 25th, 2012 @ 10:51 am
So glad Baby’s okay!
Bee butts are adorable, so long as they’re not aggressively stabbing at you… :P
June 25th, 2012 @ 11:56 am
Poor Baby! I hate to hear about animals injured in our unnatural environment. I’m so glad you are on the spot, Shreve. You have saved these furkids time and again. Bless you.
June 25th, 2012 @ 11:56 am
well, that got our attention!
glad to hear you are both healing.
June 25th, 2012 @ 12:15 pm
so thankful you found him in time.
i refuse to “weed and feed” by yard because the bees love the clover that has taken over. my neighbors probably hate me, but i just smile at them and silently am grateful that my priorities are different than theirs. (your bee photos really are so much better than mine!)
June 25th, 2012 @ 12:45 pm
So glad to hear Sir Baby will be okay. I’ve wondered if you are affected by the wildfires out that way. I’m guessing not, since I assume you would have mentioned it if it were an issue. Those fires are very frightening. My heart goes out to all the people and critters affected.
June 25th, 2012 @ 3:36 pm
Sorry to hear of the Big Guy’s injuries; glad you are both recovering from the crisis. Love the candid bee shots ;).
Had some honeybees scouting the possibilities of my mom’s wooden fusebox cover a month or so ago; fortunately they decided it was unsuitable (too many spiders, too little room, probably).
June 25th, 2012 @ 3:57 pm
So glad that Baby is ok. At a place I rented for my horses I found some in a back pasture. Thing is the place had been a Arabian breeding farm! Why that was there around horses is beyond me. Have seen some nasty nasty damage done because of that stuff. The bee butts are so sweet. Bumbles I dont mind, the ground dwelling ones here though I just cant deal with.
June 25th, 2012 @ 9:46 pm
I have been seriously bee-phobic my entire life — which is weird, considering that I have never been stung (go figure!). The shrieking, running away and arm-flapping kind of bee-phobia. But over the past few years I have calmed down and learned to love the huge, clumsy bumblebees/honeybees that populate our gardens and pollinate our flowers and bushes. I call them “helicopter bees,” and have even come to think that they’re kinda cute.
Yellow jackets? Not so much . . .
June 25th, 2012 @ 11:21 pm
That is scary, but the bee butts are cute….hopefully he will heal up fast!!
June 26th, 2012 @ 9:12 am
love the bee butts!!! sooo glad Sir Baby is gonna be ok…thanks to his wonderful Momma findin’ him in time and takin’ care of him…:) hope your next two weeks are restful with only happiness!!! :)
June 26th, 2012 @ 9:51 am
@Pat D – Found it:
http://www.peoplepets.com/people/pets/gallery/0,,20491217_20956586,00.html
Seems so long ago he was this tiny! <3
June 26th, 2012 @ 10:15 am
awww. Poor Baby! How old is he now? Any current photos? Take good care of him. And, well, baby scare! THAT would have been an interesting turn in your life.
June 26th, 2012 @ 12:57 pm
Good to hear Sir Baby is recovering. I bet he’s enjoying a bit of pampering! Love to see a picture of him! He will always have a special place in my heart – and I did name him after all! Give him an extra rub for me.
June 26th, 2012 @ 5:12 pm
We had some serious bumblebees or hornets or whatever they were, appallingly large, who built a colony (too big to be a “nest”, LOL) on the back of our house. One or two would escort us every time we passed to ensure (I assume) that we were not up to no good. Suddenly one day they were all gone. Now, I’m talking dozens upon dozens of these huge fuzzy yellow and black things, just … gone. I saw a few bodies on the ground but not nearly enough. We can’t figure out what happened. I’m a bit bee/wasp phobic, too, but I was willing to live and let live and other than the escorts, who were never aggressive about it, they minded their business and we minded ours. It’s kind of too bad, really.
June 28th, 2012 @ 6:36 am
What was “the fire?” I don’t recall seeing a post about that…
June 28th, 2012 @ 9:28 am
A ~ It’s here ~ I’ll be posting about it soon…..
June 28th, 2012 @ 12:38 pm
Shreve,
I have a question. I know how financially economical barbed wire is and that it also has a heck of a life span, but I always seem to hear about injury or death to domestic and wild animals (even more so). I volunteer at a Birds of Prey Center where we can get a number of birds that get mangled in the stuff seeing the damage it can do.
What I would like is your perspective on it and if you think there are better alternatives. If so have you consider using any of them?
I am particularly interested in this subject as my future goal is to have a small personal farm in the next 5-10 years and it’s something I’ve found difficult to get much information on the idea of alternatives that could be either affordable or have longevity and durability.
Hope everything’s shiny on your end!
~L
June 28th, 2012 @ 4:24 pm
HLB ~ I think part of the ubiquity of barb wire is that it’s what WAS used and so it’s what IS used. Tradition is a strong force around here. It’s financially impossible to build wood fences around these enormous pastures but if I owned land, I’d fence it with smooth wire, which is like barb wire without the barbs.
July 1st, 2012 @ 9:31 am
Here in Maine the honey bees are making a comeback, thank god. We have several species of bumble bees and some have orange saddlebags, man are they cute.