Tim and Monica (brother and his cute wife) and their family bought a house down in Gilbert. We are so sad that they are moving but glad they aren't too far away. D and I went down the other weekend with Tim to go look at the house and do some cleaning. He brought some bug killer because he said there was a bee's nest outside their front window. When we got there there were so many bees it looked like this!! And not only were they ginormous bees, but they were Africanized (also known as KILLER BEES)! Scary!
I'm sorry this picture doesn't do it justice but there were THOUSANDS, ok maybe hundreds but still! I have never seen so many bees in my life. D took this picture on his camera phone so the quality isn't great, but you get the picture. Then the neighbor came over and told us that during the storm the previous evening they were swarming around the front yard and they were worried they would start attacking people so they called the exterminator but because the house didn't belong to anyone in the neighborhood they couldn't come out! We could tell right away that the little household spray wouldn't cut it, so Tim called the exterminator to come over and about 45 minutes later we were all outside sitting in our car watching the exterminator who was dressed from head to toe in bee gear spray all the bees. It was actually fun to watch and man did those bees hate him. The update now is there are no bees and the neighborhood is happy. Few!I was laying in bed last Saturday when Donavon got back from a walk with Bear. He told me when they were walking bear starting digging at something and then jumped back really quick and started batting at his nose. D looked down to see what was wrong and there were ants all over his face. When he got home he put him up on the bed with me and told me he was going for a run. After he left I reached for Bear to scratch under his chin and I noticed that his whole face was swollen! This is another cell phone shot so it's not so great, but his face was huge! You can usually see his little under bite. Nope, not now he looked like he was playing chubby bunny. I didn't know what to do so I called my parents and they told me to give him a Benadryl. It worked and now he's back to normal. I felt so bad for him!
Infestation at work! And the culprit is...the Paloverde Root Borer...These giant, black beetles can be up to 3 1/2 inches (8.9 cm) long. I came downstairs one day at work and noticed a HUGE beetle that someone had sprayed bug killer on (and then left it there to slowly die...so sad!) I mean this sucker was big. The next day when I came in there were two more, just as big as the first one, again sprayed with bug killer to slowly die and then these little ones in the corner of the door also sprayed to slowly die. I went downstairs at the end of the day to take a picture of the big ones but someone already moved it. I resorted to a picture of these little lovelies.
But this is what they look like when they are big.
And this is what's left of one of the beetles at the bottom of the stairs. Yes, those are the part of the beetle that covers's it's wings...And they are still stuck on the ground...along with some of the bug killer spray. I just checked the picture info on my phone and the above picture was taken on July 8. The below bug was killed the day before (July 7)...I just took that picture today...Lovely.
