Reporter Braves Bees for Your Viewing Pleasure
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Here’s the video that goes with my story on local beekeepers who are trying to repopulate Kitsap with pollinators. In the line of duty, I got to take the video of Lisa Knox working with her bees. She had a suit on. Photographer Larry Steagall and I didn’t.
What you don’t see is the camera panning wildly around when a bee landed on my hand. What you don’t hear is me mildly freaking out. I’m not particularly scared of bees, but it is a little unsettling when you get within 10 feet of a hive on a nice spring day and you realize you’re on the outskirts of bee-central.
What you also don’t hear is me explaining to Larry and Lisa that I had run out of deodorant that day – I know, T.M.I. – so I grabbed whatever out of the kids’ bathroom drawer. The product I found and applied in a rush was obviously a reject, and I soon found out why. It had that sickly sweet floral scent, fashionable among 12-year-old girls. “Great,” I thought. “I’m going to do a story on bees, and I smell like an overripe orchid smeared with bubble gum.”
I did my best to wash it off, but still managed to attract the little guys. To their credit the one on my hand and another that landed on my shoulder just sat there for a couple of seconds and flew away.
Oh, well. All in the line of duty. Did I ever tell you about the time I did a story on snakes …
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