Messing With Bees

When I was about eight years old me and my friend Brady would always fill up a kiddy pool with water and swim in it. We did this about ten times each summer. Sometimes we would get bored of just sitting in a small pool swimming. So we would get out squirt guns and all types of things to keep us entertained. We would have squirt gun fights and play catch with water balls. We would have a great time.

            There was on day in particular that me and Brady decided we wanted to do something else. We thought about many different things we could do, but none of them sounded very fun. As I was sitting there thinking, Brady suggested we hunt bees. There were nests of them all over by the pool. It sounded like a fun idea to me, so we got squirt guns and tennis rackets and readied up.

            We started by finding a small nest and spraying it with water so all the bees flew out. As all the bees flew away from their soaked nest, me and Brady swatted them with the tennis rackets. The first nest was easy to get all the bees since there was only a couple. We were both having the time of our lives hunting bees. But we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into.

            We kept finding bigger and bigger nests of hornets. We would soak the nests and then the hornets that were all stirred up flying around our heads. When the bees got low enough, we would swat them with the rackets and send them to the ground. We took out a lot of bees, and we were also having a lot of fun at the same time. After we had cleared out most of the nests, we found a huge one with a ton of bees on it. We both shot at it with the squirt guns, but this time, there were way too many bees for us to handle. They all came flying out of the nest furious. We tried to swat them with our rackets but there were just too many. We ended up getting stung at least five times each.

            After this experience we still would fill up the kiddy pool and swim. We would still shoot each other with squirt guns. We would also still play catch with water balls, but we would never again hunt bees after being stung so many times. We both learned our lesson not to mess with something that outnumbers you and can harm you.