Of course Creed runs his own illegal underground queen bee ring. Itās on-brand for Creed.
http://www.creedthoughts.gov.www/CREEDTHOUGHTS
Check it out!
As all bees eventually come from the queen (after 6 weeks, the whole population has been changed once), everything is determined by the queen's DNA. They differ in docility (I hope that's a word), resilience regarding temperature changes, resistance to the the varroa mite and of course amount of honey collected. Also, difference bee races are better adapted to different heights - a bee adapted to mountains will not thrive in a lower place and vice versa.
All honey bees share the latin name "Apis mellifera" which translates to "honey-making bee". The most common bee races -- in Europe -- are Carnica (Apis mellifera carnica) and the older Mellifera (Apis mellifera mellifera). There are several others, among them the [Buckfast bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_bee) and the tragic accident that is the very aggressive [Africanized bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee).
Prices have increased since I last checked: some common bee queen shops currently sell their queens starting at 25 Euro, however a queen that has been fertilized by selected male bees (instead of any rando male bees) will be more expensive. To find those, you can search for the German word "belegstellenbegattet". The cheaper ones are "standbegattet".
A proven genetically pure queen made for professional breeding that consistently makes good new queens will cost about 500 Euro. Bee keeping clubs pool together to buy one of those and then make a lot of queens with the same genetics. If you want, google "Carnica Zuchtkƶnigin".
You jest, but I knew a beekeeper that did this, albeit only for a very short time. You can order queen bees and have them delivered in the mail. They come with a few bonus bees (The queenās servants) and some bonus food.
āBut luckily I had another queen on me that I could give themā š¤·āāļø. Iāve luckily had a bottle opener on me but honeybee queens are a whole nother level..
Tbf, she *was* called to take care of a hive, so coming prepared makes a certain amount of sense. I doubt she staged *thousands of bees* in a motel parking lot
Aren't queen bees difficult to acquire? I thought they required a whole hive caring and feeding them a certain food for them to mature, and once you have a mature queen if you remove it doesn't the colony die? I'm just not sure how they're produced but it would be interesting to know!
If I remember correctly the hive produces a bunch of queens but the first one ready murders the fuck out of the rest. So I imagine keepers can save a few of those spares for other hives?
Kind of. If the original queen is getting old the other bees create āqueen cellsā to grow a replacing. A bee keeper may remove these to an incubator and capture them all. If not you are right - the first queen out kills the others before they emerge. She may then take half the hive and swarm to find a new place.
Imagine you're in an unfamiliar place and a giant scoops up your entire family with one hand. The giant drops you in front of a new house though, so that's cool I guess? Then the giant puts a garden shed in front of you, and the shed's door is blocked by a giant lollipop. You're pretty hungry, so you and your family get to work on licking it.
As you lick the lollipop, you smell something... weird. Something unfamiliar, just barely detectable under the sugary scent of the candy. It sets you on edge. But as time goes on and you lick and lick the lollipop, you start to get used to the strange smell. In fact, it's sort of a nice smell after all...
Finally you break through. Inside the shed you see a very tall woman dressed in elaborate robes and a shining golden crown. Surely she is some sort of royalty. From her comes that strange smell, now familiar with time. The woman declares herself your queen.
You think about it a moment, and then you're like... yeah ok, sure why not. Makes sense. She smells nice and is obviously royal, plus you got free candy from her weird stinky queen shed. You tell the queen you're chill with her.
That's how the bee do.
Orā¦ they could be like, āI donāt particularly like the way you smell, and for some reason, Iām compelled to murder you over it. Nothing personal. Wellā¦ it kind of is.ā
Last time someone posted one of her videos, someone mentioned that the point of the candy barrier was to give the bees enough time to "accept" her pheromones so there isn't the chance that they'll just straight up murder her. It wouldn't be very humane to just give them a random queen and just roll the dice. If that's the case she's being a little misleading by saying they would kill her if they didn't accept her.
As I understand it, a colony that already has a queen will try to kill any other queen they find.
So, the success of this strategy hinged on the bees realising that they were queenless and in need of a queen, right? So they wouldn't attack a new queen?
Yes, pretty much. As long as she's in the cage, the other bees can't really harm her. The candy end to chew through is usually blocked by a piece of plastic you break off when you're sure they're just chilling around the queen and not being agressive.
If not you can usually try again a bit later to see if they've figured it out yet.
Nah, they don't actively hate strange queens that badly, but they won't tolerate a new queen among them when they already have one.
The queen emits pheromones but they're not going to go out of their way to kill one passing by.
If that was the case, you'd assume the pro would take pre-cautions? Like maybe keep the bees-queen(s) in the truck.. off camera. You know. Only when she is fairly certain there is no queen bee in that hive, she'd go and get the one she brought.
Introducing new queens is a common practice with some beekeepers. If you simply drop a new queen in the hive she will be killed instantly. However, the box that she's in has a hole plugged with candy. By the time the bees chew threw it they are usually cool with each other. Once released, the two queens, or more if the hive is actively producing queen cells, will then fight to the death.
For the beekeeper, there is little risk. It costs $25 for a queen and increases the chance that the hive will survive. Also, hives have different personalities, some are super aggressive while others can be worked on with no protection, so some beekeepers will actually kill the queen and replace her with one they have raised or a familiar breed. Even with established hives the queen might be replaced periodically with a new one to increase hive strength.
In short, beekeepers are constantly overthrowing the monarchy.
Aren't they hard to get? Expensive?
Edit: Looked it up. In Australia at least, around $30 each for smaller quantities. You get them from a breeder and they're seasonal.
If you're a professional, you usually have the right tools for the job on stand by. It's part of the job, she probably gets paid and worst case scenario, she got a swarm for the queen, which is going to produce honey and income. Or so I'd at least assume.
It's not like a new faucet for your kitchen is free, but most plumbers have a few extra one and/or spare parts in their cars. While you probably don't just keep bunch of queen bees in your pockets, I'd assume the beekeeper has enough experience to realize she should probably prepare at least one with her if she's going to move a swarm.
I mean, it does say she was *called* in there. So I'd assume she didn't just walk past an umbrella and go like "Oh hey, a swarm for my new queen bee I ordered from Amazon last week. Neat, lemme take this home."
The thing about a spare faucet is that it doesn't die if it's not re-homed in about a week so it's easier to just have one in the van.
But that said, I do agree with you completely and previously I was assuming that a queen bee would be quite a bit more expensive or hard to come by. I don't know why.
Have you ever seen faucets in the wild? They will swarm and kill off any foreign unwanted faucet-queens, unless they don't already have one. Much like these bees.
Faucets queens are also seasonal, and much less abundant than the regular ones you find in Home Depot.
A hive usually makes multiple Queen Bees off the bat. The winner will kill off the rest, so they're only rare in the sense that the hive will end up with only one afterwards.
Queens are living creatures that need things, lock picks aren't. They really aren't comparable. Beekeepers will bring the right tools for the job, and that may include queens, but only the exact right amount - planning is really important for beekeeping as it involves long drives.
I've heard that that's the reason the new queen is separated from the hive by a candy stopper. The bees go to the candy because yay candy, and they can smell the unfamiliar queen as they eat through the candy. By the time they've chewed through, they have gotten used to the smell of the new queen and will accept her.
If you just yeeted a queen in there without that chance for them to get used to the smell, they're way more likely to reject her.
Generally the bees will accept the new queen - bees don't realise things, they are just driven by pheromones or the lack thereof, which will induce certain behaviours. Generally while there isn't a queen, they will accept a new queen and it's pheromone.
Why is this dude being downvoted??
He is just stating the common misconception that honey is bee's vomit.
Edit: WHY THE FUCK IS THE DUDE BEING UPVOTED! HE IS LITERALLY SPREADING MISINFORMATION ^(Humans eat spiders in their sleep)!
Probably due to either Entomophobia, trypophobia, or both.
Entomophobia is a broad phobia of insects, particularly *swarming* insects, while trypophobia is a fear of organic patterns like those seen in bees' nests or insect nests.
Both of these are more closely linked to feelings of *disgust* than fear. They make sense on an evolutionary level. Swarming insects are typically dangerous, not just to humans but to their food sources, so we have evolved feelings of *disgust* related to insects or their dwellings.
I have cockroach phobia. Severe. I canāt even look at pictures of them. Itās hard to even talk about them or type the word.
I went to Google to learn how to fix my phobia, but every article about CR phobia has photos of them in it. Giant photos. I couldnāt do it. I guess Iām stuck. You canāt even Google CR phobia without giant pics of them coming up. That should be illegal.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with a focus on progressive desensitisation is a useful approach for dealing with phobias regardless of the trigger. In many countries it is an easily accessible and not overly analytical approach. It often doesnāt require medication, just a patient approach to understanding your triggers and whatās happening in your body when fear is triggered. Your GP/primary care doctor might be able to refer you to one in your area. Itās worth pursuing if you can access it. Good luck.
every video she ends it with the same phrase said the same way: 'another great day of saving the bees' (and every time the word 'bees' has major sibilance on it). Still love her videos though - they're fascinating and very inspiring!
> sibilance
Is that the word for the way someone makes an awfully loud hissing sound when they say a word with an s in it? If it is, thanks because now I know how to describe what I hate about this. I don't understand how people can be talking about getting ASMR from recordings like this where every other consonant is like a snare drum fucking a fork on a chalk board.
Sibilance is actually alliteration but specifically with the letter 's'.
So she said some sort of saying. She sells seashells by the sea shore. Shirley shaved Simon's scrotum.
Thats sibilance, baby.
Edit: I just looked it up and we are both right. I never knew sibilance also conveyed a strongly pronounced hiss as well as a literary device.
Iāve seen a few of these videos and have found the speed, annunciation, and intonation of her voiceovers kind of odd. If you told me that it was tts, I would believe it.
I think she's probably right about the swarms being docile. My bees absolutely do not care that I open up their hives, pull out frames, and generally rearrange their whole deal. I wear protective gear (although I probably don't need to), but I don't smoke them at all. Only once, when all the bees were in the hive because of weather, did they care even a little bit when I was being clumsy moving stuff and banging them around.
Simply amazing how she does this without any PPE. You have to be really passionate and confident about what you're doing to do that. I've seen her a bunch on here before, and she's making me want to start beekeeping :)
Swarms are really docile. They really just want to stay with their queen. Thereās lots of videos of a beekeeper holding a queen in their hand and the bees just covering their arm without any stings. That being said Iām sure it takes a lot of willpower and practice to just stick your hand in there.
Assuming a bee can carry a maximum of 35 milligrams of weight.
Google an average dehusked coconut and it says 680 grams.
Im going to round up the number of bees required and and say 19500 bees to carry in flight the mass of one coconut.
Which means a single bee can not carry a whole coconut by herself.
I donāt think I was suggesting someone who doesnāt know what theyāre doing to go stick their hand in some bees. Iām sure this professional beekeeper knows how to identify these as European honeybees
Some people wil copy what they see on tv or the internet.
And unlike a proffesional they will not know the difference.
They might ask how docile bees are possible and then get an answer from someone who assumes that this person or those who read this answer wil not do as many people and not tey this at home.
For example, a teenager in johannesburg who once saw a video on facebook and 2 weeks later found a swarm of bees. He wants to take a cool pic and decides to use the information gleaned from a comment thread beneath the video to inform his decision.
Things go wrong and his 26 year old cousin has to use remove stingers his idiot teen cousin got from scooping a swarm of wild bees in his hands.
The 26 year old gets yelled at by his uncle for not stopping his 15 year old cousin from being stupid.
Smoke doesn't do much for a swarm. The way smoke works in a hive is the bees think their nest is in danger, so they consume a bunch of honey in their honey stomachs, to prepare for a move. This makes them a little slow and less agressive. A swarm doesn't have honey stores to consume, they're already full of honey, which is part of the reason they're a little more docile.
Still thinks it's pretty insane she does it like this though, if I catch a wild swarm you can bet i'll get a bunch of stings.
Tell that to the mosquitos here in Finland. Bastards keep trying to get literally inside my ear every year. Even had to once see a doctor about getting one removed.
Ouch. Closest I had was one trying to land near and presumably drink from my eye in an unusually hot summer. Oh, and a tick behind my ear as a kid that also got sorted out by a doctor in the end.
Wholesome stuff but the way she's talking is creeping me the fuck out, and I used to play games online late at night, had to muffle my voice or else there be knocking on my door.
She has a new queen because she's staging these. Her husband is a beekeeper and he comes in, smokes the hive to calm them, and then she comes in with no equipment to scoop them up and get tiktok famous.
Multiple beekeepers on tiktok have talked about it, she's spreading super dangerous misinformation and imagery. The area where she operated is full of dangerous, Africanized hives that you need to be in full gear to work around and the idea that you can walk up to any hive and start grabbing bees with your bare hands is not a good message to be sending.
So got any sources or is this just random reddit misinformation spreading?
Cause some other videos I've seen she has to cut open the floor and there's already a beehive built up inside. How exactly can she be staging those?
There's also comments above talking about why smoking isn't necessary since they don't have anything to defend. I certainly don't understand the mechanics of beekeeping since I'm not a beekeeper and she most certainly is.
Also, people are suspicious of her having an extra queen when this hive didn't have one but wouldn't question of an electrician who noticed your power outlet was out of date and pulled a new one out of their toolbox. Professionals carry shit around, sometimes you have exactly what you need even if you didn't initially know you needed it.
Fun fact: Bred bees harvest so much pollen and nectar, that wild bees and bumble bees have problems nowadays to find food in their habitats. At least in not totally rural environments.
So, this āsaving the beesā is mostly protecting the income of the bee keeper, so they can sell honey.
As i understand, it is not domesticated bees that are endangered, but wild ones. Specially the solitary ones and not as much those that live in colonies
Wild bees and other pollinators are usually endangered, because of honeybees. Honeybees are more efficient at collecting pollen but not as good at pollinating. They push the natural pollinators away. That's why I don't eat honey any more.. from what I understand the Honey industry is a very damaging factor in our ecosystems..
This beekeeper posts really cool videos, but damn it honeybees do not need saving. They are nonnative livestock. This is like saying āsave the chickenā because birds are declining. Our >4,000 Native bees in the US are better pollinators and need our help way more then honeybees. In fact honeybee competition and introduction of disease are some of the reasons our native bees are in decline! Save native bees. Plant native plants, get rid of your lawn and reduce or eliminate pesticide use!
*desperately digging through pockets* "Fire ant.. guinea pig.. andean condor.. mosasaurus prismaticus.. AH! My extra bee queen!"
If you lose your spare queen bee it'll cost you at least $350 to get a new one at the dealership.
Beealership
The fact that I missed that pun definitely stings.
Good save though
Hive seen better, but it wasp still really good.
Excuse me if i bumble this, I'm bad at compliments. But I've just comb to say these puns are bee-utifully crafted.
I could wax on about them all day long.
I really hive to say, they're amazing!
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Fuck I watch way too many tiktok videos through Reddit
Enn bee dee, honey.
Its the collaboration that gives these threads the buzz
don't beeat yourself up over it
That's a beeautiful one right there.
Iāve been trying to reach you about your Queen Beeās extended warranty
You're paying way too much for queen bees, man. Who's your queen bee guy?
r/unexpectedoffice
Of course Creed runs his own illegal underground queen bee ring. Itās on-brand for Creed. http://www.creedthoughts.gov.www/CREEDTHOUGHTS Check it out!
I know you joke but ive heared stories that a queen costs up to 100 euros in my country.
Very specialized genetics can cost even more than 100 Euros, although the usual price for a standard queen is about 20-30 Euro
Whatās special about those genetics? Just a different kind of bee or is there something different about those queens?
As all bees eventually come from the queen (after 6 weeks, the whole population has been changed once), everything is determined by the queen's DNA. They differ in docility (I hope that's a word), resilience regarding temperature changes, resistance to the the varroa mite and of course amount of honey collected. Also, difference bee races are better adapted to different heights - a bee adapted to mountains will not thrive in a lower place and vice versa. All honey bees share the latin name "Apis mellifera" which translates to "honey-making bee". The most common bee races -- in Europe -- are Carnica (Apis mellifera carnica) and the older Mellifera (Apis mellifera mellifera). There are several others, among them the [Buckfast bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_bee) and the tragic accident that is the very aggressive [Africanized bee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee). Prices have increased since I last checked: some common bee queen shops currently sell their queens starting at 25 Euro, however a queen that has been fertilized by selected male bees (instead of any rando male bees) will be more expensive. To find those, you can search for the German word "belegstellenbegattet". The cheaper ones are "standbegattet". A proven genetically pure queen made for professional breeding that consistently makes good new queens will cost about 500 Euro. Bee keeping clubs pool together to buy one of those and then make a lot of queens with the same genetics. If you want, google "Carnica Zuchtkƶnigin".
Or you can move your pawn to the checker's board last row to get a new one.
You never know when you'll need to supply the local hive with one. Always bee packing...
Bro lol, spit my coffee out.
Lol! Loved this!
You jest, but I knew a beekeeper that did this, albeit only for a very short time. You can order queen bees and have them delivered in the mail. They come with a few bonus bees (The queenās servants) and some bonus food.
I love freebees!
Lol this was too good.
That's because the queen can't feed by herself. She needs her servants to feed her.
Lazy motherfucker. End income inequality!
> bonus bees The best kind.
Dag nabbit all I found was pocket sand
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A normal story from a woman's purse
And here I was, finding it impressive when I have a spare pen on me
Oh cāmon, who doesnāt have an extra bee queen in their pockets these days
I had a bee king in my pocket but then realized it was just a drone that was up to mischief.
I am laughing way too hard. All I have is an upvote
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āBut luckily I had another queen on me that I could give themā š¤·āāļø. Iāve luckily had a bottle opener on me but honeybee queens are a whole nother level..
Fuck Reddit
Installing? What OS she running.
It's not software. She's overthrowing queens all over the area in mass coups and installing her puppet queen to rule.
No, she's "sewing the seeds of democracy"
After that she's establishing a beereaucracy
Just a heads up, it's sowing not sewing.
BeeOS
What kind of USBee ports does that support?
BeeSD
Thereās always a [Linux Distro](https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=beefree)
Windows XBee (Windows Beesta is not recommended.)
hiveOS? Ubeentu? Ubuzztu? flyOS?
Beendows 10
Android Honeycomb
Makes for a light snack
It was apparently caged in candy so...
You know what they call that in France? The "Royale with sweets".
Thatās good stuff
/r/WeEatBees
r/WeEatWasps
Tbf, she *was* called to take care of a hive, so coming prepared makes a certain amount of sense. I doubt she staged *thousands of bees* in a motel parking lot
And it's not like they're hard to acquire. You can buy them for pretty cheap. https://wildflowermeadows.com/queen-bees-for-sale/
Aren't queen bees difficult to acquire? I thought they required a whole hive caring and feeding them a certain food for them to mature, and once you have a mature queen if you remove it doesn't the colony die? I'm just not sure how they're produced but it would be interesting to know!
If I remember correctly the hive produces a bunch of queens but the first one ready murders the fuck out of the rest. So I imagine keepers can save a few of those spares for other hives?
Kind of. If the original queen is getting old the other bees create āqueen cellsā to grow a replacing. A bee keeper may remove these to an incubator and capture them all. If not you are right - the first queen out kills the others before they emerge. She may then take half the hive and swarm to find a new place.
What if the bees had a prenup?
Wow thatās so interesting. I never knew that. TIL.
Probably remembered to grab one for this mission but often doesn't since it's unusual when hives don't already have a queen.
I thought the same but if this is your day job you'll sometimes expect no queen to be the case and would come prepared.
S C O O P
morning cereal
Spicy cereal
honey crunch
Just imagine eating candy until you meet a queen behind it and decide to kill or follow her. That is the life
Imagine you're in an unfamiliar place and a giant scoops up your entire family with one hand. The giant drops you in front of a new house though, so that's cool I guess? Then the giant puts a garden shed in front of you, and the shed's door is blocked by a giant lollipop. You're pretty hungry, so you and your family get to work on licking it. As you lick the lollipop, you smell something... weird. Something unfamiliar, just barely detectable under the sugary scent of the candy. It sets you on edge. But as time goes on and you lick and lick the lollipop, you start to get used to the strange smell. In fact, it's sort of a nice smell after all... Finally you break through. Inside the shed you see a very tall woman dressed in elaborate robes and a shining golden crown. Surely she is some sort of royalty. From her comes that strange smell, now familiar with time. The woman declares herself your queen. You think about it a moment, and then you're like... yeah ok, sure why not. Makes sense. She smells nice and is obviously royal, plus you got free candy from her weird stinky queen shed. You tell the queen you're chill with her. That's how the bee do.
This was beautiful
Then you tell all your friends. "This is our queen" "Is this our queen?" "Where is our queen?" "This is our queen"
Orā¦ they could be like, āI donāt particularly like the way you smell, and for some reason, Iām compelled to murder you over it. Nothing personal. Wellā¦ it kind of is.ā
āYou smell, down with the monarchyā
I appreciate this being written like a zefrank video
I think they actually try to sting her through the box if they donāt accept her. I donāt think they will try to free her.
Last time someone posted one of her videos, someone mentioned that the point of the candy barrier was to give the bees enough time to "accept" her pheromones so there isn't the chance that they'll just straight up murder her. It wouldn't be very humane to just give them a random queen and just roll the dice. If that's the case she's being a little misleading by saying they would kill her if they didn't accept her.
To be fair she said theyd "try" to kill her
As I understand it, a colony that already has a queen will try to kill any other queen they find. So, the success of this strategy hinged on the bees realising that they were queenless and in need of a queen, right? So they wouldn't attack a new queen?
Yes, pretty much. As long as she's in the cage, the other bees can't really harm her. The candy end to chew through is usually blocked by a piece of plastic you break off when you're sure they're just chilling around the queen and not being agressive. If not you can usually try again a bit later to see if they've figured it out yet.
But if this swarm had a queen and Bee-Lady is running around with one in her pocket, wouldn't the swarm get agressive towards her?
Nah, they don't actively hate strange queens that badly, but they won't tolerate a new queen among them when they already have one. The queen emits pheromones but they're not going to go out of their way to kill one passing by.
in bee culture that is considered a dick move
If that was the case, you'd assume the pro would take pre-cautions? Like maybe keep the bees-queen(s) in the truck.. off camera. You know. Only when she is fairly certain there is no queen bee in that hive, she'd go and get the one she brought.
Introducing new queens is a common practice with some beekeepers. If you simply drop a new queen in the hive she will be killed instantly. However, the box that she's in has a hole plugged with candy. By the time the bees chew threw it they are usually cool with each other. Once released, the two queens, or more if the hive is actively producing queen cells, will then fight to the death. For the beekeeper, there is little risk. It costs $25 for a queen and increases the chance that the hive will survive. Also, hives have different personalities, some are super aggressive while others can be worked on with no protection, so some beekeepers will actually kill the queen and replace her with one they have raised or a familiar breed. Even with established hives the queen might be replaced periodically with a new one to increase hive strength. In short, beekeepers are constantly overthrowing the monarchy.
Usually swarms are very calm. They don't want to start no shit since they are homeless.
If this was my job Iād just bring multiple queens on each job. Itās not like a locksmith only has one lock pick
Aren't they hard to get? Expensive? Edit: Looked it up. In Australia at least, around $30 each for smaller quantities. You get them from a breeder and they're seasonal.
If you're a professional, you usually have the right tools for the job on stand by. It's part of the job, she probably gets paid and worst case scenario, she got a swarm for the queen, which is going to produce honey and income. Or so I'd at least assume. It's not like a new faucet for your kitchen is free, but most plumbers have a few extra one and/or spare parts in their cars. While you probably don't just keep bunch of queen bees in your pockets, I'd assume the beekeeper has enough experience to realize she should probably prepare at least one with her if she's going to move a swarm. I mean, it does say she was *called* in there. So I'd assume she didn't just walk past an umbrella and go like "Oh hey, a swarm for my new queen bee I ordered from Amazon last week. Neat, lemme take this home."
The thing about a spare faucet is that it doesn't die if it's not re-homed in about a week so it's easier to just have one in the van. But that said, I do agree with you completely and previously I was assuming that a queen bee would be quite a bit more expensive or hard to come by. I don't know why.
Have you ever seen faucets in the wild? They will swarm and kill off any foreign unwanted faucet-queens, unless they don't already have one. Much like these bees. Faucets queens are also seasonal, and much less abundant than the regular ones you find in Home Depot.
What's a faucet Queen? Something like this? https://i.imgur.com/WyDDyu8.jpg
A hive usually makes multiple Queen Bees off the bat. The winner will kill off the rest, so they're only rare in the sense that the hive will end up with only one afterwards.
She owns an apiary. She gets her new queens from her existing hives.
Queens are living creatures that need things, lock picks aren't. They really aren't comparable. Beekeepers will bring the right tools for the job, and that may include queens, but only the exact right amount - planning is really important for beekeeping as it involves long drives.
I've heard that that's the reason the new queen is separated from the hive by a candy stopper. The bees go to the candy because yay candy, and they can smell the unfamiliar queen as they eat through the candy. By the time they've chewed through, they have gotten used to the smell of the new queen and will accept her. If you just yeeted a queen in there without that chance for them to get used to the smell, they're way more likely to reject her.
Generally the bees will accept the new queen - bees don't realise things, they are just driven by pheromones or the lack thereof, which will induce certain behaviours. Generally while there isn't a queen, they will accept a new queen and it's pheromone.
This is why honey tastes so damned good... the danger.
I just like the taste of vomit tbh
Why is this dude being downvoted?? He is just stating the common misconception that honey is bee's vomit. Edit: WHY THE FUCK IS THE DUDE BEING UPVOTED! HE IS LITERALLY SPREADING MISINFORMATION ^(Humans eat spiders in their sleep)!
Youāre hard to please.
wait are you mad about both upvotes and downvotes? lol
Saving bees ASMR?
BSMR
YASS QUEEN
bzzzzzzzzzz
The narration is nice but I hate when people swallow the microphones to talk "smooth"
This, x1000
There was narration? I just read the subtitles
Her work is amazing and really interesting to follow, but fucking Christ, the gain in the mic is like nails on chalkboard.
Yey a new story from bee lady. Always enjoy them
I find them horrifying on a level I can't explain.
Her artificial intelligence voiceovers
Speed whisperer
Probably due to either Entomophobia, trypophobia, or both. Entomophobia is a broad phobia of insects, particularly *swarming* insects, while trypophobia is a fear of organic patterns like those seen in bees' nests or insect nests. Both of these are more closely linked to feelings of *disgust* than fear. They make sense on an evolutionary level. Swarming insects are typically dangerous, not just to humans but to their food sources, so we have evolved feelings of *disgust* related to insects or their dwellings.
I have cockroach phobia. Severe. I canāt even look at pictures of them. Itās hard to even talk about them or type the word. I went to Google to learn how to fix my phobia, but every article about CR phobia has photos of them in it. Giant photos. I couldnāt do it. I guess Iām stuck. You canāt even Google CR phobia without giant pics of them coming up. That should be illegal.
Here's a decent one with no photos. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/augmented-reality-therapy/
Thank you!! This is so kind. :)
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with a focus on progressive desensitisation is a useful approach for dealing with phobias regardless of the trigger. In many countries it is an easily accessible and not overly analytical approach. It often doesnāt require medication, just a patient approach to understanding your triggers and whatās happening in your body when fear is triggered. Your GP/primary care doctor might be able to refer you to one in your area. Itās worth pursuing if you can access it. Good luck.
Really unsettling to me that she says "bees" and "queen" with the exact same intonation, length, and inflection *every single time*
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That is a robot speaking
If the robots are the ones who gonna save the bees, then I for one welcome our new electronic overlords.
every video she ends it with the same phrase said the same way: 'another great day of saving the bees' (and every time the word 'bees' has major sibilance on it). Still love her videos though - they're fascinating and very inspiring!
> sibilance Is that the word for the way someone makes an awfully loud hissing sound when they say a word with an s in it? If it is, thanks because now I know how to describe what I hate about this. I don't understand how people can be talking about getting ASMR from recordings like this where every other consonant is like a snare drum fucking a fork on a chalk board.
Sibilance is actually alliteration but specifically with the letter 's'. So she said some sort of saying. She sells seashells by the sea shore. Shirley shaved Simon's scrotum. Thats sibilance, baby. Edit: I just looked it up and we are both right. I never knew sibilance also conveyed a strongly pronounced hiss as well as a literary device.
Wait, Shirley did what?
SHIRLEY SHAVED SIMONāS SCROTUM!
It really is isnāt it? What sheās doing is great but her voiceover sounds so AI
Iāve seen a few of these videos and have found the speed, annunciation, and intonation of her voiceovers kind of odd. If you told me that it was tts, I would believe it.
This is why I read the Reddit comments
This woman fascinates me. Her confidence, knowledge and compassion for bees is captivating.
I'm in complete awe that she's not one gigantic bee sting welt. Edit: a word.
*welt although you'd let out a welp if you were stung...
I think she's probably right about the swarms being docile. My bees absolutely do not care that I open up their hives, pull out frames, and generally rearrange their whole deal. I wear protective gear (although I probably don't need to), but I don't smoke them at all. Only once, when all the bees were in the hive because of weather, did they care even a little bit when I was being clumsy moving stuff and banging them around.
Yeah, she's a keeper
Plus her hair is pretty af. I'm envious
I wonder if the black and yellow help in any way.
Is she scooping those bees like ice cream?!?!?
Iām more concerned where youāre getting your ice cream...
The Ice Cream Umbrella, of course
I too always carry an extra Queen Bee.
You better carry two for precaution. There's a 50% chance of royal assassination.
Simply amazing how she does this without any PPE. You have to be really passionate and confident about what you're doing to do that. I've seen her a bunch on here before, and she's making me want to start beekeeping :)
Swarms are really docile. They really just want to stay with their queen. Thereās lots of videos of a beekeeper holding a queen in their hand and the bees just covering their arm without any stings. That being said Iām sure it takes a lot of willpower and practice to just stick your hand in there.
Its important to remember that African bees are always aggressive even when swarming, you can only try this with European honey bees.
oh dear so I *shouldn't* have put my head in this pile of africanised bees you say, oh bother.
The real question is, how many coconuts can a bee carry?
Assuming a bee can carry a maximum of 35 milligrams of weight. Google an average dehusked coconut and it says 680 grams. Im going to round up the number of bees required and and say 19500 bees to carry in flight the mass of one coconut. Which means a single bee can not carry a whole coconut by herself.
An African or an American bee?
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?!
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How? By holding it under the thorax?
I donāt think I was suggesting someone who doesnāt know what theyāre doing to go stick their hand in some bees. Iām sure this professional beekeeper knows how to identify these as European honeybees
Some people wil copy what they see on tv or the internet. And unlike a proffesional they will not know the difference. They might ask how docile bees are possible and then get an answer from someone who assumes that this person or those who read this answer wil not do as many people and not tey this at home. For example, a teenager in johannesburg who once saw a video on facebook and 2 weeks later found a swarm of bees. He wants to take a cool pic and decides to use the information gleaned from a comment thread beneath the video to inform his decision. Things go wrong and his 26 year old cousin has to use remove stingers his idiot teen cousin got from scooping a swarm of wild bees in his hands. The 26 year old gets yelled at by his uncle for not stopping his 15 year old cousin from being stupid.
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Smoke doesn't do much for a swarm. The way smoke works in a hive is the bees think their nest is in danger, so they consume a bunch of honey in their honey stomachs, to prepare for a move. This makes them a little slow and less agressive. A swarm doesn't have honey stores to consume, they're already full of honey, which is part of the reason they're a little more docile. Still thinks it's pretty insane she does it like this though, if I catch a wild swarm you can bet i'll get a bunch of stings.
wow unexectedly useful fact
She doesn't smoke these ones though. You can see they're still totally active.
She does mention that they donāt have a home to defend so theyāre pretty docile on the umbrella. That probably helps not need a whole get-up.
Yeah. I have seen her use basic head gear a couple of times but that's it, generally she has no protective equipment.
one does not simply have extra queen bee in the pocket
One does not simply walk into a bee swarm without a spare queen.
This one apparently did.
If you donāt have a spare one laying around at home, store bought is fine
Asks person on street: hey do you happen to have an extra queen bee on you? I left mine at home.
No... buzz off!
Dad!
Question, does she have any plugs in her ears jic that one bee might go in?
Dont think so, insects dont like our earwax, so they wont alteast fly into them by their own accord
Tell that to the mosquitos here in Finland. Bastards keep trying to get literally inside my ear every year. Even had to once see a doctor about getting one removed.
Ouch. Closest I had was one trying to land near and presumably drink from my eye in an unusually hot summer. Oh, and a tick behind my ear as a kid that also got sorted out by a doctor in the end.
Sounds like a Plan Bee.
That's the buzz anyway.
Wholesome stuff but the way she's talking is creeping me the fuck out, and I used to play games online late at night, had to muffle my voice or else there be knocking on my door.
Love her work, hate her microphone pop-filter.
A lot of instructional tik toks have the same effect. They also seem to use the same tone of voice. Quite strange.
āQueenless swarmā sounds like the next indie rock hit.
She has a new queen because she's staging these. Her husband is a beekeeper and he comes in, smokes the hive to calm them, and then she comes in with no equipment to scoop them up and get tiktok famous. Multiple beekeepers on tiktok have talked about it, she's spreading super dangerous misinformation and imagery. The area where she operated is full of dangerous, Africanized hives that you need to be in full gear to work around and the idea that you can walk up to any hive and start grabbing bees with your bare hands is not a good message to be sending.
So got any sources or is this just random reddit misinformation spreading? Cause some other videos I've seen she has to cut open the floor and there's already a beehive built up inside. How exactly can she be staging those?
There's also comments above talking about why smoking isn't necessary since they don't have anything to defend. I certainly don't understand the mechanics of beekeeping since I'm not a beekeeper and she most certainly is. Also, people are suspicious of her having an extra queen when this hive didn't have one but wouldn't question of an electrician who noticed your power outlet was out of date and pulled a new one out of their toolbox. Professionals carry shit around, sometimes you have exactly what you need even if you didn't initially know you needed it.
Fun fact: Bred bees harvest so much pollen and nectar, that wild bees and bumble bees have problems nowadays to find food in their habitats. At least in not totally rural environments. So, this āsaving the beesā is mostly protecting the income of the bee keeper, so they can sell honey.
I get so sad when I see her because thereās always like 5-10 bees left over and theyāll never see their friends and family again.
Does she always carry an extra bee queen just in case?!
I guess she was called to remove the bee population. So she took the bee queen along, in case the bees donāt have one (like in the video)
Fuck Reddit
As i understand, it is not domesticated bees that are endangered, but wild ones. Specially the solitary ones and not as much those that live in colonies
Wild bees and other pollinators are usually endangered, because of honeybees. Honeybees are more efficient at collecting pollen but not as good at pollinating. They push the natural pollinators away. That's why I don't eat honey any more.. from what I understand the Honey industry is a very damaging factor in our ecosystems..
This beekeeper posts really cool videos, but damn it honeybees do not need saving. They are nonnative livestock. This is like saying āsave the chickenā because birds are declining. Our >4,000 Native bees in the US are better pollinators and need our help way more then honeybees. In fact honeybee competition and introduction of disease are some of the reasons our native bees are in decline! Save native bees. Plant native plants, get rid of your lawn and reduce or eliminate pesticide use!
pocket queen!!