How I escaped the giant Tesheti Bee!

How I escaped the giant Tesheti bee

In a land far far away there once lived the most peculiar species of bee that has ever been seen or heard. 

It was the size of a tennis ball and its giant bumbling body was striped in golden yellow and black. So it was very easy to see from afar. 

This bee however couldn’t fly very well or very long. So it would hitch hike on top of a head. Now this head could be the head of a cow or a goat or a dog… but at times it could be a human head that it took a liking too. And once it settled on that head it was very very difficult to get off. 

Because this giant teshiti bee you see had a very poisonous venom that if it stung you with its giant stronger…you would surely die a most excruciating and hallucinating death. There was simply no cure. Now you might be thinking that all you had to do was to catch it by surprise and smash it with a shovel thereby crushing it in an instant. 

But that would be very foolish you see… because the giant tesheti bee could see 360 degrees up or down and long before you had brought down your weapon of choice whether it was a shovel or a bat… it would inject its great stinger into the depths of your brain… Well you say perhaps its possible to shoo it away without inflicting a mortal blow?

 THAT has been done but by people who are deft at distraction… but they were lucky or skilled at the art because not only can this bee see in all directions …it can feel too. 

It may be that it also chooses which head to sit on and which not too… because if it likes you it may sting you anyway and then it lays its eggs inside your head all at once and dies itself. 

But that of course is only if it finds a mate or is pregnant at the time. It prefers to lay its eggs in big oak trees if they can be found. What happens when it gets thirsty or hungry this big tesheti bee must fly away you say… ? NO.. not really because the bee is clever it is a clver bee is this one…. For it has two long probiscis sprouting from the sides of its head which can go as long as two feet or more in length… and they suck up everything from pollen to water to anything at all…and this giant bee has very hairy legs to collect all the pollen it can find from every flower in the field. It’s a giant thing that brings terror to the one it has decided to sit on.

 That is if he knows what it can do. But this bee also has a weakness known only to a few. It likes a tune or two to listen to and if the tune is sweet he falls asleep where he is. And if the head is clever enough …he will shake it once or twice and it will fall off at once bouncing on the ground below.

But of course, I did not know all this at the time. I had hiked through the mountains in mid September in Georgia when the air was clear and the nights were cool to see this magical city in the valley hidden in the range of high mountains beyond the horizon of the Caucasus. 

 Let me tell you a little about getting to this village in the mountains… not only was the road treacherous to drive and indeed many had not made it through these difficult passes but once October had come any day and a snowstorm could block the road for the entire winter. 

And if you could not get through this pass that day you would wait a long time for salvation to come. For over winter only a few families lived in the small village in this region far away. 

Indeed during the winter time the women would knit famous postcards of their houses and the mountains and they would post this complete with a hard board inside to tell of their long winter waiting for the first flowers of spring. 

As far as I knew no one else in the whole wide world would knit a post card and send it to their friends and family or sell it to the odd passer by that stumbled upon this mountain beauty.

 But Tesheti was not only famous for its picturesque walks and woollen post cards… it was also famous for the honey of this giant bee that lived no where else on the planet we call Earth. 

And it was indeed only a few that had even seen this bee or could coax it to make honey in a box for the few who tended.

 Of course, there was the normal honey bee but this particular giant bee made honey so sweet and honey that was medicine to the sick and ailing and its secret was kept by only a few for this honey could heal the most difficult of ailments. 

Some say it could even heal diseases that could not be healed by doctors themselves.

Would you like to know more ? 

Come to Georgia and find out.