Special Book Review - The Bees of the World
Night before last Crumby stayed up until 4:30 AM to see if there was any way to espy the Crab Nebula. The sky was clear but the turbulence was formidable. Despite not so good skies due to turbulence, either that or defective collimation, Crumby did indeed espy that great arthropod in the sky, the Crab Nebula. As usual, initially, Crumby could not find the great crab. So Crumby screwed his trusty Orion Ultrablock filter into the 30mm Ultima. After that, Crumby found the great crab. Then, once Crumby actually located the great sky crab, Crumby took the filter off. That's because once you find the great crab with the filter on, you can also espy it with the filter off.
Speaking of the Phylum Arthropoda, Crumby’s library copy of The Bees of the World has arrived. It is a sturdy volume, well bound. This particular copy is on interlibrary loan from the University of Tulsa. How weird is that? I bet an actual minority of authentic university libraries have this tome. What a shame.
If you are interested in bees, globally, The Bees of the World is, possibly by default, your tome of choice. For example, on page 568, an average bee enthusiast may learn that Megachile pluto, a resident of Indonesia, is the world’s longest bee, the females of the species stretching to 39mm.
Mercy! Knowing that Megachile pluto is the world’s longest bee put Crumby in a sweat to learn which bee is the world’s heaviest. Like there may be a bee that is fatter than Megachile pluto, or outweighs Megachile pluto, but just is not as tall or long. No help there though. The world’s fattest bee is apparently unknown to science.
Well. Despite no world’s fattest bee designation, The Bees of the World may be a great book. There is plenty of information about bees and lots of diagrams and pictures. So if you are rich, and interested in bees, you should purchase this book. It’s only about $150 retail at this nonce. Also, apparently, if you are really rich, and only interested in the bees of north and central America, you could additionally purchase The Bee Genera of North and Central America for about $590. Mercy!
All is well and good. Or would be. But the only bees Crumby is especially interested in are the CB bees. Crumby does not give two hoots nor a holler relative to Guatemalan bees, much less the bees of other excessively foreign parts. So how hard might it be to produce a bees of Central Tejas document that would be like a virtual document on the internet? Or how hard would it be to produce like a full set of bee cards for these parts? Crumby could sell those cards, ten to a pack and include a Bitohoney minibar in every pack. I mean, how hard could it be to take pictures of the 200 or so bees likely to occur in these parts and then identify those pictures of all those bees to species. Personally, Crumby does not think it would be that hard.
But then, considering the labor that white, or mostly white people consider to be hard work, Crumby's idea for all those bees may actually be really, really hard work. Like just finding specimens of all those bees to look at might be really hard work. Too hard for a nearly completely white person like Crumby. Yep. Crumby would need to sublet some of that hard work of finding all those bee specimens to Karl the Tracker Druid.
Anyway, The Bees of the World might help a person do the above job. So it might be worth $150 as a reference for that type of job or maybe just for its bibliography. In that bibliography Crumby learned about another bee book. And, for $9 Crumby acquired Principal Sunflower Bees of North America with emphasis on the southwestern United States. That cheap tome might be even more helpful than The Bees of the World, once again giving the finger to, Ye git whut ye pay fer. Who knows? Anyway, the Sunflower Bees is on its way to the CB.
In conclusion, The Bees of the World is a swell book if you can afford it. It’s much more than a coffee table book about bees. But Crumby can’t afford it. However, Crumby can afford to make copies of a bunch of the diagrams from the library book.
Today, Crumby spent most of the day photographing Hymenopterans. Only a tiny number of Solidago altissima are still in flower. Mercy! The poor little bees and wasps are all crowded on one plant. Plus it’s cold. So an average amateur Hymenopterist like Crumby can easily take pictures of a bunch of different nearly frozen bees and wasps on that one plant. Course Crumby still can’t identify most of them. Ugh!
Yesterday Crumby had another run in with the CB wheel barrow inner tube and tire. That particular combo was, as usual, flat. I’ll teach you a lesson you dirty bastard, cock sucking mother fucker, Crumby told the wheelbarrow inner tube and tire combo. You twain have fucked me around for the last time you shit eating ass wipe, miserable cock sucking mother fuckers. Goddess damn you I am fixing to teach you a lesson you shall never forget.
Then it was off to Home Depot, the first of twain trips to that particular store. Eventually, as a result of both those trips, Crumby squirted almost a whole can of Great Stuff into that defective inner tube and cock sucker. Now that inner tube is hard as a er, rock. Crumby tested it out by hauling a great load of Buda limestone off to the dump in the wheel barrow. That tire remains hard as a er, rock. If that particular tire seems like it is fixing to stay hard as a rock from now on, then Crumby is fixing to squirt Great Stuff into all the CB’s cock sucking inner tubes starting with the ones on the dolly. No more flats. No more flats. No more flats. No more flats.
So then Ray and Crumby were discussing how hard the wheelbarrow tire is and Ray remembered that Great Stuff is a viable alternative to Viagra or Cialis. Except, the end user will definitely have an erection for long enough to call the doctor.
Ok. Wouldn’t it be great if a responsible party at Dow Chemical, the vendor of Great Stuff, paid Crumby like a kazillion dollars for this free ad Crumby has done for Great Stuff? Yes. That would be great indeed. Then Crumby could afford all those expensive bee books.
Crumby apologizes for the bad language above. But hey, that’s why Red’s CB is x rated.
Speaking of the Phylum Arthropoda, Crumby’s library copy of The Bees of the World has arrived. It is a sturdy volume, well bound. This particular copy is on interlibrary loan from the University of Tulsa. How weird is that? I bet an actual minority of authentic university libraries have this tome. What a shame.
If you are interested in bees, globally, The Bees of the World is, possibly by default, your tome of choice. For example, on page 568, an average bee enthusiast may learn that Megachile pluto, a resident of Indonesia, is the world’s longest bee, the females of the species stretching to 39mm.
Mercy! Knowing that Megachile pluto is the world’s longest bee put Crumby in a sweat to learn which bee is the world’s heaviest. Like there may be a bee that is fatter than Megachile pluto, or outweighs Megachile pluto, but just is not as tall or long. No help there though. The world’s fattest bee is apparently unknown to science.
Well. Despite no world’s fattest bee designation, The Bees of the World may be a great book. There is plenty of information about bees and lots of diagrams and pictures. So if you are rich, and interested in bees, you should purchase this book. It’s only about $150 retail at this nonce. Also, apparently, if you are really rich, and only interested in the bees of north and central America, you could additionally purchase The Bee Genera of North and Central America for about $590. Mercy!
All is well and good. Or would be. But the only bees Crumby is especially interested in are the CB bees. Crumby does not give two hoots nor a holler relative to Guatemalan bees, much less the bees of other excessively foreign parts. So how hard might it be to produce a bees of Central Tejas document that would be like a virtual document on the internet? Or how hard would it be to produce like a full set of bee cards for these parts? Crumby could sell those cards, ten to a pack and include a Bitohoney minibar in every pack. I mean, how hard could it be to take pictures of the 200 or so bees likely to occur in these parts and then identify those pictures of all those bees to species. Personally, Crumby does not think it would be that hard.
But then, considering the labor that white, or mostly white people consider to be hard work, Crumby's idea for all those bees may actually be really, really hard work. Like just finding specimens of all those bees to look at might be really hard work. Too hard for a nearly completely white person like Crumby. Yep. Crumby would need to sublet some of that hard work of finding all those bee specimens to Karl the Tracker Druid.
Anyway, The Bees of the World might help a person do the above job. So it might be worth $150 as a reference for that type of job or maybe just for its bibliography. In that bibliography Crumby learned about another bee book. And, for $9 Crumby acquired Principal Sunflower Bees of North America with emphasis on the southwestern United States. That cheap tome might be even more helpful than The Bees of the World, once again giving the finger to, Ye git whut ye pay fer. Who knows? Anyway, the Sunflower Bees is on its way to the CB.
In conclusion, The Bees of the World is a swell book if you can afford it. It’s much more than a coffee table book about bees. But Crumby can’t afford it. However, Crumby can afford to make copies of a bunch of the diagrams from the library book.
Today, Crumby spent most of the day photographing Hymenopterans. Only a tiny number of Solidago altissima are still in flower. Mercy! The poor little bees and wasps are all crowded on one plant. Plus it’s cold. So an average amateur Hymenopterist like Crumby can easily take pictures of a bunch of different nearly frozen bees and wasps on that one plant. Course Crumby still can’t identify most of them. Ugh!
Yesterday Crumby had another run in with the CB wheel barrow inner tube and tire. That particular combo was, as usual, flat. I’ll teach you a lesson you dirty bastard, cock sucking mother fucker, Crumby told the wheelbarrow inner tube and tire combo. You twain have fucked me around for the last time you shit eating ass wipe, miserable cock sucking mother fuckers. Goddess damn you I am fixing to teach you a lesson you shall never forget.
Then it was off to Home Depot, the first of twain trips to that particular store. Eventually, as a result of both those trips, Crumby squirted almost a whole can of Great Stuff into that defective inner tube and cock sucker. Now that inner tube is hard as a er, rock. Crumby tested it out by hauling a great load of Buda limestone off to the dump in the wheel barrow. That tire remains hard as a er, rock. If that particular tire seems like it is fixing to stay hard as a rock from now on, then Crumby is fixing to squirt Great Stuff into all the CB’s cock sucking inner tubes starting with the ones on the dolly. No more flats. No more flats. No more flats. No more flats.So then Ray and Crumby were discussing how hard the wheelbarrow tire is and Ray remembered that Great Stuff is a viable alternative to Viagra or Cialis. Except, the end user will definitely have an erection for long enough to call the doctor.
Ok. Wouldn’t it be great if a responsible party at Dow Chemical, the vendor of Great Stuff, paid Crumby like a kazillion dollars for this free ad Crumby has done for Great Stuff? Yes. That would be great indeed. Then Crumby could afford all those expensive bee books.
Crumby apologizes for the bad language above. But hey, that’s why Red’s CB is x rated.
posted by ray pistrum at Thursday, November 26, 2009
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