Reason #534,298 why I love this man

Have you heard of Colony Collapse Disorder? If you take a look around, you might notice more bee carcasses than you used to, and that is bad news for agriculture. Larry learned all about this (and more!) while watching Sixty Minutes.

Anyway, so when a bee found itself trapped in our humble abode on Thursday, my darling husband naturally took it upon himself to do his part to prevent CCD. Come hell or high water, he was going to SAVE THAT BEE!

Methods of "encouragement" used to try to coax the bee away from our skylight:

• Turning on and off lights to try to attract the bee to some other light source
• Trying to get the bee to climb onto a broom
  
• Trying to get it to climb onto a bright piece of fabric
  
• Putting marmalade on the end of the broomstick
• Blowing air from a hair dryer at the bee

In the end, what finally worked was exhaustion. The bee hid somewhere for the night and was too pooped on Friday morning to put up much of a fight. Larry offered the bee the broomstick, the bee climbed on, and Larry released him back into the wild where he belonged.

To paraphrase from the starfish story, it made a difference to that one!