{"id":15758,"date":"2019-04-25T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15758"},"modified":"2019-04-27T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T02:30:48","slug":"the-truth-about-green-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15758","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Green Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Among the insects that visit my yard are little green bees<\/a>, and what I call them is “little green bees.” I know that they’re technically “sweat bees,” but I usually don’t call them that, because it’s an icky name. That name comes from their supposed attraction to sweat and other salty fluids. There was actually a story in the news recently about a women who was experiencing pain in her eye. When she went to the hospital, the doctor found four bees living in her eye. They were a type (very tiny) of sweat bee. Gross, but interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing about sweat bees is that they can sting. I have not yet been (and I hope I never will be) stung by one. Yesterday I was a little concerned that I might be, though, when a green bee landed on my foot and seemed disinclined to leave. I gently shooed it with my finger.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
The little green bee responded, “Oh, you want me on your hand instead? Okey-dokey.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(No, Bee, that was not what I wanted.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily for both me and the bee, I did eventually convince him to fly away. He did not sting me or try to take up residence in my eyeball, and I did not swat him. Peace continued in the yard.
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the insects that visit my yard are little green bees, and what I call them is “little green bees.” I know that they’re technically “sweat bees,” but I usually don’t call them that, because it’s an icky name. That … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[582,226,124,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15758"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15774,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions\/15774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}