Bee's hideout...or grave?

Spider eats Scorpion

Creepy creeeeeeeeeeeeepy thing.

I went out to the garage this morning...

I had no idea they got this big.

He's now an official science lab specimen at the local school.

Mon Pix

just a bug

Rufus 

tail feathers

yellow butterfly

Courage

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world

and moral courage so rare.”

~Mark Twain

A storm is brewing... there's thunder and rain in the distance.

So before it headed this way, I thought I'd give the patiently waiting hummers a refill...

dog days for Bolt

it's cooler down here..

..and there's something down here

The first monsoon tarantula

Uh oh, I think it got Bolt. She's limping.

She acted like a snake bit her or she got shot...scared me to death.

She laid in her chair and moped for over an hour.

She must have stepped on the fuzzy spider and got the barbed hairs in her paw.

Silly dog.

Now she's hiding under my desk...

afraid of the thunder. Poor doggie.

Bees

bees.

They can stop and swarm like this in 3-6 minutes.

I suppose they are Africanized bees, since the AZ bee

website says that all the honey bees have been taken over by them now.

My pest control people told me they were most likely just 'pollinators'...

passing through to rest the queen on their journey elsewhere.  

They are usually not aggressive at this time, but I kept my distance anyway...

The wind was blowing 25-30 mph yesterday.

They were "breaking off" in clumps..

then quickly flying back to hang on again.

all that was left was this:

 

I "stole" the honeycomb along with it's pheromones... hoping it will keep them from coming back so close to the house.