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Old 07-28-17 | 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ooga-booga
and i'll take a gnat cloud over a bee/stinging insect swarm/cloud any day. have ridden through two of those, luckily without incident.
On the weekend Cycle Oregon a few years ago, we returned mid-afternoon past farm fields. Thousands of bees were returning to their hives loaded with cargo, flying up the road at low altitude and doing their bst to miss the hundreds of riders. The bees put on a good show. Very few hits and I heard of no stings (but there were a few panic'd riders). For me, it was fascinating, I'd do it again in a flash. (And I'd love a slo-mo of the dragonfly of my last post. I've never seen the full colors of a dragonfly in bright sunlight that close!)

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