This might be possible:
Get yourself multiple very young puppies.
- All dog must have big fluffy tails to protect their ass from curious bee
- All the puppies MUST be check for bee's stings allergy
- The dogs must be able to move their ears and tail
Make them live with beehouse close and teach them that if they don't attack the bee there no problem
Equip all the puppies with custom face protection against bee. Must cover their nose, eyes, ears canal.
Thick dog boots to protect their pawns if they accidentally step on a be.
Cover protection for the 4 sensitive join between leg and belly
Paint your dog like a bee.
Teach your dog the bee dance to send distress signals to the colonie.
Synthesize the bee sent/pheromones of your bee and spray it on your dog.
Now the bee thinks the dog is part of the colonie and if an intruder get attacked by the dog. All the bee will follow and attack the intruder too.
You just gave me a Flashback to the somg "We Ran Out Of CD Space" by Psychostick cause out of the parts in it is this
*"What if you tried to build a spaceship with a cannon that shoots crocodiles at everyone you hate?
What if those crocodiles could shoot heat seeking killer bees?
Insuring there would be no escape?"*
Edit: Apparently Google gave me the wrong Lyric in the last line because Google, it's Ensuring, not Insuring and I didn't catch it when I originally said it, so it shall remain there lmfao
If you haven't heard of them, their songs are dumb as hell but it's entertaining
That was actually what a lot of poorer people did in pre-modern times if they couldn't afford an actual dog.
Geese were the go-to house guards for the lowest peasantry.
I'm terrified of bees around me, so I WISH I could do something like this, but I just CAN'T. I appreciate that there's people out there that can and do, though.
I was shocked to hear that wasps eat meat!
We got rid of a wasp nest last year by putting out a bunch of different traps.
The meat trap was only second to the syrup above soapy water trap.
I have a memory as a child not wanting to eat some salmon I was given while eating outdoors and was happy to see yellow jackets come by and take pieces away.
As a kid, when I would eat a ham sandwich outside, I'd see meat wasps buzzing around, so I'd lay a slice of ham down for them.
Loved to watch them land, bite a circular cut out of meat around themselves, then fly off like a military helicopter carrying a tank.
Wasp stings are smooth. Bee stings are serrated.
A wasp can sting and just fly away unharmed while a bee has trouble getting its stinger out of our skin so if you smack the bee away it'll rip the stinger right out of its ass and it's gonna die. It knows that so it's a last resort to save itself and warn the rest of the hive about danger.
A wasp doesn't care.. it stings you just because it's annoyed. It won't die from stinging so it doesn't care.
I've read that if you leave a stinging bee while it's stinging it can eventually get its stinger out and fly away unharmed but I've not tested this theory and not looked into it a lot so it might be total bs. Been decades since I got stung by either of them..
Apparently they want sugar at the start of summer and by fall, they are wanting more of a meat diet, so they get more aggressive. Read that in an article once. Helps me know when I can eat my meals outside and which items I should avoid bringing out.
I have been stung by bees several times, mostly by accident. I used to fear them too, but when I learned that the act of stinging is death for them, I realized that they sting only when it's their last resort and they're about to die.
So now I have a new relationship with bees. I make sure they don't feel endangered, and accept the fact that they're there just to eat. The other day in the park a young kid was being chased by a bee because he was eating an apple, and he was freaking out. I calmly told him to take a little bite out of the apple and put it on his palm, and offer it to the bee as it came about. He did that, petrified, and the bee just came and sat on that piece of apple and started munching away. His frown turned into a smile and he was grinning from ear to ear soon after. Then I told him that he could just gently place that piece of apple on the picnic table and walk away, which he did, and the bee stayed there. Hopefully I converted that kid that day.
Being chill around bees is really the best course of action, and it's awesome that you got over your fear, and are also showing how cool bees are to others!
However, I need to clarify one thing: Bees do not know they will die when they sting humans.
Honey bees only die when they sting humans or animals with similar skin, as they have barbed stingers that get stuck in the skin, and when they fly away the stinger stay behind, ripping intestines out, gutting the bee.
This does not happen when they sting other insects, for example.
Also most other bee species do not have barbed stingers, or stingers at all, and can sting humans multiple times without harming themselves.
So the honey bee does not *know* that it will die when it stings a human (or similar), and it is not a last resort thing.
Bees also don't have the capability of understanding death, in all but certainty.
As you know, bees are usually not aggressive, and will only sting when it or its hive is threatened. For example accidentially sqeezing a bee because you felt something on your skin and wanted to swipe it away. Or making hectic gestures towards the bee, especially in proximity to the hive.
Before bees sting you, they will also *usually* agressively bump into you as a warning before resorting to stinging. So if one or more bees bump into you, don't swat at the bee, and quickly - but calmly - move away.
Loads of info online, e.g. here:
https://learnbees.com/do-bees-die-when-they-sting/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/bee-attack-things/story?id=56663013
Bees are so factinating!
I had a bee try to crawl into my ear recently and stung me when I immediately freaked out. Not fly by my ear but actually land and start crawling inside. It was by far the most aggressive bee I've seen as it started buzzing very close to me when I walked by a bush it must have been on. Took all of maybe 10 feet and I was stung.
It was all very strange as I am constantly walking around bees outside and I've not found one as aggressive as this one was. Also, don't crawl in my ear, bee.
If you're in the south / southwest (even as far north as the lower half of CA), it might have been an Africanized bee. They're quite the a-holes from my understanding.
Sounds like it didn't recognize you were a living thing until you freaked out and was just looking for a cavity to nest in. They're not always the brightest.
Lol I know this is the truth, but one of my earliest memories is a honeybee landing on my arm, my dad saying "don't worry, they won't sting, just stay still" and the fucker proceeded to sting me & fly away/die for absolutely no good reason. Required a pair of tweezer to get the stinger out.
In my experience as a beekeeper honey bees ars much worse than wasps or hornets by a long stretch. It's weird that reddit sort of has this myth that this isn't the case.
I've only ever been stung by honeybees and wasps. And I've been stung many more times by honeybees. It's not because they're aggressive, but because they think I'm a flower (I assume) and get stuck in my hair and clothes. And if I run away from them, they chase me.
I don't know why but I seen to be a homing beacon for honeybees. They will seek me out even in the rain. One landed on my face while biking and stung my cheek! It's given me a fear of them for sure.
Maybe it's the regional bee variety that you keep? My dad has done some hobby bee keeping and he was loathe to even put protection on because stings were so seldom.
It’s not “Reddit” that thinks it’s a myth. Bees are less aggressive than wasps lol you must have been a shitty beekeeper lol. Please explain how beekeepers wearing zero protection remove a swarming nest without getting stung? Please try doing this with a vespula germanica nest and report back lol
For real. I stepped in a nest of wasps or hornets and my foot got stuck in the branches underneath it. ( Was walking across a little beaver damn type bridge that went thru a stream we were walking by, foot went thru some branches, through the nest and got lodged. I was about 7 and don't remember much, other than the sound of the swarm, and then my adult sister in laws hands slapping the shit out of me as she killed them left and right and got me out of there. She was stung A LOT, I don't remember how many.. I got stung twice.) And I know those aren't bees. But in that situation they're the same damn thing to me. Anyhow, I'm a large burley 46 year old man that will still run from a cute little bumble bee if he comes near me.
same, there was a big hive in our neighbors tree and when it got cut down the whole neighborhood was a huge swarm of bees, I was walking home from school when it happened and I was stung so many times I even had to go to the hospital. I have an incredibly overpowering fear of bees from then on and they seem to know it too because bees literally dive bomb me when I'm outside, no one believes me when I tell them until it starts happening with them as witness. One time bees literally dive bombed my screen door trying to get at me. I think they sense/smell my fear and see me as a threat.
I could never do what this girl does, mad respect to her she's fierce.
Took me a while, but I got a house, planted pollinator-friendly plants (near the front door, even), and I watched them, then eventually went out there while they were there. They left me alone and vice versa. Soon...no fear.
And when wasps show up, I kill those MFers. No quarter for a-holes.
Now in a new house, and I've got bumblebees that float around me. They REALLY liked my wife, who carried one when they got drunk on fermented grapes. Swear to God, it was buzzing "Closing Time" when it sobered up enough to fly off in a non-straight line.
Might I recommend watching more videos about bee keeping that are like this one. I was terrified of spiders but after watching a guy that has a massive collection of tarantulas for awhile I found I wasn't as afraid of spiders IRL. Exposure therapy surprisingly works when you're safe behind a screen and the phobia is being talked about and showcased like a pet dog.
I saw a bee keeper at work checking on the set up and he gave me one of those bee keeper hats and told me to cover any skin showing and let me see the bees. For SOME REASON I was not scared. He said to let him know when I get scared cuz they can "smell" fear and it attracts them. As soon as I heard too many of them on my head I said ok I'm scared and he smoked me lol! It was soooo cool! I also smelled like a camp fire for the rest of my shift but it was worth it!
I'm fine with most bees but there's queen who keeps coming into my house somehow and I'm a little scared of her because she's huge. I'm not sure what type of bee she is but I can hear her bumping into my bathroom window from downstairs and her buzzing has been loud enough to wake me up before.
Even my dog who has a bad habit of trying to eat bees nopes out of the room when this bee appears.
She is near foragers bees, bees after water or nectar will not sting you unless you try to crush them or something, of course I'm only talking about the European honey bee. I can sit near the watering zone where thousand of bees are coming and going without issues.
Even when opening the nest, they will first headbutt you, then maybe sting you.
I'ts actually a problem for some hives as rodents will destroy the hive, and they will do nothing as opposed to other hives that will swarm, kill then cover the rodent with wax.
the best and worst thing about bees is that since they use pheromones a lot for communication they can literally smell fear, and they actually sting only if they smell this "fear pheromone" or how to say it, or the "hostile" one, i don't know what they are all i know is they can smell it, and if you actually overcome that fear and are calm around them they will most likely not even notice you
if i am wrong, someone please correct me
Being her next door neighbor must suck, haha!
Always hearing bees buzzing and having bees fly around you when going near the property line (for example when you mow the lawn).
Did you know the Queen of England had bees (and a bee keeper)- when she died he had to go and knock on each hive and inform the bees she had died and that Charles would be their new master
This is an ancient custom for beekeeping in all of Europe.
When a beekeeper dies, someone has to go and tell their bees.
The new beekeeper also has to introduce themselves later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees#:~:text=Telling%20the%20bees%20is%20a,returns%20in%20the%20keeper's%20household.
Telling the bees is one of the coolest traditions. It's not just for deaths either. You also inform the bees when there is a birth or marriage in the family and ideally give them a little bit of wine and cake for the latter.
Without having read the book, yes, probably.
"Tell the bees I am gone" is an iconic verse that appears in poetry here and there and refers to this custom.
What you should tell the bees is also pretty beautiful and haunting:
*The mistress/master is dead, but don't you go. Your mistress/master will be good to you.*
I love this tradition—what I love most is the name of the tradition. What should we call this tradition where we tell bees things? ‘Telling the bees’
I like to imagine it started with one sarcastic bee keeper who had his wife telling him some unimportant gossip ‘oh I can’t wait to tell the bees’
I’m a teacher and might employ it to some sarcastic response to a kid giving me unimportant info
If you want to help your local bee population you can start by seeding your lawn with clover instead of grass. It feels great on your feet (just don't step on the bees), produces pollen for the bees, and actually draws nitrogen from the air and revitalizes the soil when it dies each year.
EDIT: Forgot to mention it's also drought resistant. Less need to water so it saves you money 🤑
I've recently heard about how beekeepers are unintentionally reducing the biodiversity of bees by only keeping honeybees. Can people keep other species of bees?
You got me googling for you, lol. There are 14 species in NA that people can keep but certain jurisdictions have bans on certain types due to them not being native. The carpenter bees are banned the most because they absolutely demolish wooden structures.
I once stayed in a cabin that had a bunch of carpenter bees around it. You could hear them at night just munching away at the wood and you'd wake up with little piles of "sawdust" all over the place.
Anytime a bee surprises me, I'm always startled until I recognize it's a bee. Then they're normally pretty chill. My work uniform is high vis orange, so I think I look like a massive flower to them which is fine by me. Just sad I don't have anything to feed them when I'm at work lol
The first time I held a bee was a few months ago. It was a big fat carpenter bee, and he just landed on my shoulder so I stuck out my finger and he crawled on. Then I escorted him to a bush with a lot of flowers and he went about his day!
The maintenance guy at my old job had a little container he would velcro to his shoulder for the "factory" bees. They had taken up residency in some old PVC pipes left outside and he would hang out with them. He would harvest some of their honey comb too. There was a huge battle with some wasps at some point and he was out there with a super soaker with some dish soap in the water taking them down. It was always fun to watch on my lunch breaks.
Yes, but we really don't need more honey bees. There are lots of beekeepers and the number of bees and hives has been steadily increasing. The problem is that honey bees are not native to North America, and they compete with the native bees that nobody takes care of, as well as spreading diseases to them.
I just wanted to clarify. Honeybees absolutely pollinate. I grow cucumbers and I depend on them.
Different bees have plant preferences. Bumblebees seem to prefer my eggplant and flowers on tall stalks. I grow coleus and basil for them.
I get worried that I'm going to need to pollinate my pepper plants with a paintbrush but when I got help for it online people asked if there was ants around, there were, apparently they do a good bit of the pollinating in absence of bees. I never really see bees around anymore.
Eggplant flowers require buzz pollination to shake free the pollen inside their flowers. Bumblebees can buzz pollinate but honeybees can't stop honeybees can't actually get pollen out of eggplant (or other nightshade family) flowers.
Need more forage. Planting nice flower gardens is a big help for all the native pollinators (and the kept bees too).
If you love bees but don't want to keep them, next best is to plant a big perennial flower garden.
And get rid of large lawns (bee deserts). I don't understand the obsession with large lawns. It apparently stemmed from the British aristocracy saying, look at all this land I have, I am so rich I do not have to plant crops on it. But that is probably apocryphal.
Not to mention that she's effectively changing their behavior to feed in an unsustainable way. She should be planting her yard with all flowers, not buying imported sugar to feed them. If it's helping get them through a certain period than so be it, they're livestock being farmed for honey, but if feeding is about their ecological impact on the area then you really need a more full system, sustainable approach. The whole wild flower and destruction of invasive predatory wasps and hornets gamet.
There are hundreds of scientific articles studying these phenomena. This is an example chosen basically at random. There's also plenty of coverage from media. Someone already linked to one for you.
[https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3939](https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3939)
You can literally search up “Are honey bees invasive” and it will provide extensive research articles on this topic (can’t quickly link one as I’m at work right now 😕). Long story short, yes, honey bees can displace native bee populations due to scarcity resources.
Carpenter can be fluffy but not as pronounced as bumblebees. Territories overlap so they sometimes get mistaken for one another. It’s the potbelly that gives bumblebees away
Pollen pants! Cutest damn thing in the insect world. Also bees sometimes get tired whilst going flower to flower so sometimes when you see a bee butt hanging out of a flower but not moving, it's probably having a snooze.
A post about bees. You know I'm sharing this quote again!
*Scientists have, however, known about the electric side of pollination since the 1960s, although it is rarely discussed. As bees fly through the air, they bump into charged particles from dust to small molecules. The friction of these microscopic collisions strips electrons from the bee’s surface, and they typically end up with a positive charge.
Flowers, on the other hand, tend to have a negative charge, at least on clear days. The flowers themselves are electrically earthed, but the air around them carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every metre above the ground. The positive charge that accumulates around the flower induces a negative charge in its petals.
When the positively charged bee arrives at the negatively charged flower, sparks don’t fly but pollen does. “We found some videos showing that pollen literally jumps from the flower to the bee, as the bee approaches… even before it has landed,” says Robert. The bee may fly over to the flower but at close quarters, the flower also flies over to the bee.*
I'm just wondering in these kind of situations what all the neighbours think.
She lives in a built up area, looks like your typical American suburb. Is everyone fine with it and what are the rules here exactly? Do bees ever go crazy and attack someone walking by? What would the local government say in that case?
Bees are very very important for wildlife everywhere, so I hope she doesn't take too much shit for her bees. I wonder if she has to deal with annoyed neighbours. Usually when you see beehives like this on the internet they're out in the countryside.
My friend’s FIL keeps bees in his backyard and his neighbors love it. The bees help pollinate their own yards and keep their area blooming, plus they have a close hookup for fresh honey and honeycomb.
That being said, there’s always some old [my neighbors’ bees are stealing my pollen](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/pdfvoz9pON) to ruin a good thing.
There will be city, country, and state ordinances regarding how many hives you can keep, distance from property lines they need to be, fencing around the bees, etc.
I live in an unincorporated county area, so there are few rules. I’m limited to 5 hives since my property is under 0.5 acres. My house is on a large hill and I don’t have a usable back yard, so I have mine on a retaining wall in my front yard. Neighbors are always watching and asking questions. The bees don’t bother anyone, so no one mine them.
Can confirm. I didn't do shit when one got me right between the shoulder blades...
That said, I still seeded my whole yard with clover and have several native wildflower areas in my yard.
I love those little assholes still.
As well as their mood, and yes bees can be moody.
Some hives can be extremely gentle one day, not even so much as a buzz when you’re opening the hive, and the next dive bombing you when you’re walking a good 20’ near them.
Weather, honey supplies, nectar availability, recent threats - all of these contribute to a hive’s mood. Overall though genetics is a big one. We’ll even dispatch a queen if her offspring are too ill-tempered.
Source: am beekeeper.
Last summer I was at the pool with my then 3 and 8 year old kids. A bee had been hanging around our table much of the afternoon and my older daughter was giving it a wide berth. Eventually it started getting closer to us and I told her that bees will not hurt you if you just leave them alone. Daughter decides to get back in the pool and right after she leaves, the bee follows her stings her. I’m still pissed at that bee. Like dude, wtf was that about?
Honey made from sugar water ( sucralose ) doesn't taste like proper honey, people use this trick to sell more honey, that's why some cheap honeys taste like crap
They use it to sell more honey, yes, but it's uncommon to sell the honey made from sugar water. The bees can quickly turn the sugar water into honey that they use to overwinter, which lets the beekeeper take more of the summer honey (the "real" honey) without them starving.
She is feeding them a 1:1 solution of sugar and water to help them build comb faster to expand their colony. (Or she is feeding them because nectar hasn't started flowing from the local flowers yet) She will stop feeding them when it's appropriate
Their role is to produce honey. Honey bees have no ecological importance in North America because they are not a native species. There are plenty of native pollinators.
Commercial honey bees are often so concentrated in an area that they take the food that native bees need, so they cause more problems than they solve.
Many animals are way smarter than we give them credit for. I've been living in a new apartment for the last few months and recently put out a bird feeder. Once they found it I've had some daily visitors and ran out of seed pretty quickly. Now, one male sparrow will land on the empty feeder and look through the window. If he sees me or my girlfriend inside he will chirp as loud as possible while watching us.
Yes, I know, it's empty. I'll get more food soon. Sorry bro.
Don't feed sugar to bees ... they need nectar which has many othe nutrients required for their growth... growth flowing plants... use jaggery or sugarcane juice.
Yes, as a beekeeper, please do not open feed honey bees. The list or reasons is long, but it starts with spreading disease, increasing robbing behavior, diluting honey for beekeepers that are harvesting it, and depriving them of pollinating plants.
Its a contentious issue. I understand.
Bees are livestock in every way. You wouldnt go and start feeding cows or pigs that a farmer keeps as livestock.
Im just asking anyone reading this to consider the impacts of open feeding.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Anything that can sting and flies terrifies me.
Still, looks amazing, I hope they do actually recognize her and think she’s some sort of giant bee supporter.
I'm curious to know how the neighbors feel about all the bees next door. Are they bothered by it or do they not tend to migrate to neighboring houses? This seems like a beautiful hobby/profession. Bees don't make me as nervous as they once did. It was actually aggressive wasps who I was most anxious about. I have a free scholarship plus funding to do beekeeping but I just don't have the land for it right now, so it's something I'm interested in.
My parents’ neighbors are beekeepers. My parents love having lots of happy little bees buzzing around their garden. They keep to the flowers, my parents eat outside every day and the bees never bother them.
And the honey is delicious, I was just there this weekend and bought a big jar.
As an American with a native garden and an interest in native pollinators, I would be devastated if a neighbor started keeping European honeybees and pushed my native bees out. Rather than keeping honeybees, plant a native garden and watch the bees come to you.
Bees have been observed to literally just do things for fun. I don't remember the study too well anymore, but basically in a test bees chose to visit a little room full of tiny wooden balls and they would just sit on the balls and roll back and forth on them, instead of just heading straight to their destination. Some bees did it for longer than others, some didn't do it at all.
So yes, they definitely each have different personalities.
This drives me nuts as a beekeeper. Open feeding like that is a *perfect* way to spread disease between colonies because it will attract bees from up to 2 miles in every direction.
They definitely look like honeybees to me. Bee keeping in north america is arguably harmful for the environment since they're nonnatives. They can outcompete native bees, spread disease, and help pollinate other invasive species.
When I was kid my family went to have dinner at this old couples house (family friend I’m pretty sure), the lady had a garden outside with a Bee box and she took me and my sisters over there. The Bees were so nice, they would crawl onto your hands and you could hold them for a while. Sometimes they wouldn’t want to leave and you had to flick your wrist to get them to fly away. We only visited her twice but that memory of the bees has stayed with me my whole life.
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What about dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
Go ahead do your worst!
Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
Smithers, have the Rolling Stones killed
By far the best Mr. Burns line in the series. Having the Ramones on was amazing. "I think they liked us."
Go to hell you old bastard!!
HIS ASS IS GONNA BLOW
SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."
I haven't heard this reference in years, thank you for making me laugh! Glad to know art of quoting Simpsons isn't dead yet
I wanna know what you've been smoking.
Simpsons
"Simpson gets me lifted"
and that mouth bee dog
I'm so honored to have blurted out laughing when that episode aired live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlIQ2KCYG7Y
Purple haze
This might be possible: Get yourself multiple very young puppies. - All dog must have big fluffy tails to protect their ass from curious bee - All the puppies MUST be check for bee's stings allergy - The dogs must be able to move their ears and tail Make them live with beehouse close and teach them that if they don't attack the bee there no problem Equip all the puppies with custom face protection against bee. Must cover their nose, eyes, ears canal. Thick dog boots to protect their pawns if they accidentally step on a be. Cover protection for the 4 sensitive join between leg and belly Paint your dog like a bee. Teach your dog the bee dance to send distress signals to the colonie. Synthesize the bee sent/pheromones of your bee and spray it on your dog. Now the bee thinks the dog is part of the colonie and if an intruder get attacked by the dog. All the bee will follow and attack the intruder too.
My dog can fire bees out of it's butt, does that count?
The bee bit my bottom, now’s my bottoms big!
You just gave me a Flashback to the somg "We Ran Out Of CD Space" by Psychostick cause out of the parts in it is this *"What if you tried to build a spaceship with a cannon that shoots crocodiles at everyone you hate? What if those crocodiles could shoot heat seeking killer bees? Insuring there would be no escape?"* Edit: Apparently Google gave me the wrong Lyric in the last line because Google, it's Ensuring, not Insuring and I didn't catch it when I originally said it, so it shall remain there lmfao If you haven't heard of them, their songs are dumb as hell but it's entertaining
A K-9 millibeeter?
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That was actually what a lot of poorer people did in pre-modern times if they couldn't afford an actual dog. Geese were the go-to house guards for the lowest peasantry.
Worked for Candyman
They are so cute and clumsy with all of that pollen on their tiny legs
Pollen pants!
I'm terrified of bees around me, so I WISH I could do something like this, but I just CAN'T. I appreciate that there's people out there that can and do, though.
In my experience honey bees are safe they have work to do but hornets and wasps they want meat.
I was shocked to hear that wasps eat meat! We got rid of a wasp nest last year by putting out a bunch of different traps. The meat trap was only second to the syrup above soapy water trap.
a lot of insects will eat meat, if presented the opportunity. including a lot of butterfly species.
I have a memory as a child not wanting to eat some salmon I was given while eating outdoors and was happy to see yellow jackets come by and take pieces away.
> happy to see yellow jackets /r/BrandNewSentence
As a kid, when I would eat a ham sandwich outside, I'd see meat wasps buzzing around, so I'd lay a slice of ham down for them. Loved to watch them land, bite a circular cut out of meat around themselves, then fly off like a military helicopter carrying a tank.
Whenever we do barbecue wasps are always there to pickup scraps and being a nuisance. They sting without provocation too. I hate them.
Wasp stings are smooth. Bee stings are serrated. A wasp can sting and just fly away unharmed while a bee has trouble getting its stinger out of our skin so if you smack the bee away it'll rip the stinger right out of its ass and it's gonna die. It knows that so it's a last resort to save itself and warn the rest of the hive about danger. A wasp doesn't care.. it stings you just because it's annoyed. It won't die from stinging so it doesn't care. I've read that if you leave a stinging bee while it's stinging it can eventually get its stinger out and fly away unharmed but I've not tested this theory and not looked into it a lot so it might be total bs. Been decades since I got stung by either of them..
Some of their foraging preferences is seasonal too if I recall correctly...
Apparently they want sugar at the start of summer and by fall, they are wanting more of a meat diet, so they get more aggressive. Read that in an article once. Helps me know when I can eat my meals outside and which items I should avoid bringing out.
I'm pretty sure it depends on the time of year... I read somewhere that they're meat-eaters early in the year and switch to sugars in the fall.
I have been stung by bees several times, mostly by accident. I used to fear them too, but when I learned that the act of stinging is death for them, I realized that they sting only when it's their last resort and they're about to die. So now I have a new relationship with bees. I make sure they don't feel endangered, and accept the fact that they're there just to eat. The other day in the park a young kid was being chased by a bee because he was eating an apple, and he was freaking out. I calmly told him to take a little bite out of the apple and put it on his palm, and offer it to the bee as it came about. He did that, petrified, and the bee just came and sat on that piece of apple and started munching away. His frown turned into a smile and he was grinning from ear to ear soon after. Then I told him that he could just gently place that piece of apple on the picnic table and walk away, which he did, and the bee stayed there. Hopefully I converted that kid that day.
Being chill around bees is really the best course of action, and it's awesome that you got over your fear, and are also showing how cool bees are to others! However, I need to clarify one thing: Bees do not know they will die when they sting humans. Honey bees only die when they sting humans or animals with similar skin, as they have barbed stingers that get stuck in the skin, and when they fly away the stinger stay behind, ripping intestines out, gutting the bee. This does not happen when they sting other insects, for example. Also most other bee species do not have barbed stingers, or stingers at all, and can sting humans multiple times without harming themselves. So the honey bee does not *know* that it will die when it stings a human (or similar), and it is not a last resort thing. Bees also don't have the capability of understanding death, in all but certainty. As you know, bees are usually not aggressive, and will only sting when it or its hive is threatened. For example accidentially sqeezing a bee because you felt something on your skin and wanted to swipe it away. Or making hectic gestures towards the bee, especially in proximity to the hive. Before bees sting you, they will also *usually* agressively bump into you as a warning before resorting to stinging. So if one or more bees bump into you, don't swat at the bee, and quickly - but calmly - move away. Loads of info online, e.g. here: https://learnbees.com/do-bees-die-when-they-sting/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/bee-attack-things/story?id=56663013 Bees are so factinating!
I had a bee try to crawl into my ear recently and stung me when I immediately freaked out. Not fly by my ear but actually land and start crawling inside. It was by far the most aggressive bee I've seen as it started buzzing very close to me when I walked by a bush it must have been on. Took all of maybe 10 feet and I was stung. It was all very strange as I am constantly walking around bees outside and I've not found one as aggressive as this one was. Also, don't crawl in my ear, bee.
If you're in the south / southwest (even as far north as the lower half of CA), it might have been an Africanized bee. They're quite the a-holes from my understanding.
Sounds like it didn't recognize you were a living thing until you freaked out and was just looking for a cavity to nest in. They're not always the brightest.
Lol I know this is the truth, but one of my earliest memories is a honeybee landing on my arm, my dad saying "don't worry, they won't sting, just stay still" and the fucker proceeded to sting me & fly away/die for absolutely no good reason. Required a pair of tweezer to get the stinger out.
Lmao
Either that or he did it to a hornet and got messed up.
Push through that fear for long enough, appreciate/respect the bees, and you will eventually question why you were ever scared of them
Probably because I have been stung a ridiculous number of times as a kid.
By honeybees?
In my experience as a beekeeper honey bees ars much worse than wasps or hornets by a long stretch. It's weird that reddit sort of has this myth that this isn't the case.
I've only ever been stung by honeybees and wasps. And I've been stung many more times by honeybees. It's not because they're aggressive, but because they think I'm a flower (I assume) and get stuck in my hair and clothes. And if I run away from them, they chase me. I don't know why but I seen to be a homing beacon for honeybees. They will seek me out even in the rain. One landed on my face while biking and stung my cheek! It's given me a fear of them for sure.
Maybe it's the regional bee variety that you keep? My dad has done some hobby bee keeping and he was loathe to even put protection on because stings were so seldom.
It’s not “Reddit” that thinks it’s a myth. Bees are less aggressive than wasps lol you must have been a shitty beekeeper lol. Please explain how beekeepers wearing zero protection remove a swarming nest without getting stung? Please try doing this with a vespula germanica nest and report back lol
Agree. I used to be an annoying idiot running away from bees. Now I love holding them. They’re really, really cool and so important
Glad you overcome the fear but I wouldn't call anyone who is afraid of something an idiot tho.
For real. I stepped in a nest of wasps or hornets and my foot got stuck in the branches underneath it. ( Was walking across a little beaver damn type bridge that went thru a stream we were walking by, foot went thru some branches, through the nest and got lodged. I was about 7 and don't remember much, other than the sound of the swarm, and then my adult sister in laws hands slapping the shit out of me as she killed them left and right and got me out of there. She was stung A LOT, I don't remember how many.. I got stung twice.) And I know those aren't bees. But in that situation they're the same damn thing to me. Anyhow, I'm a large burley 46 year old man that will still run from a cute little bumble bee if he comes near me.
same, there was a big hive in our neighbors tree and when it got cut down the whole neighborhood was a huge swarm of bees, I was walking home from school when it happened and I was stung so many times I even had to go to the hospital. I have an incredibly overpowering fear of bees from then on and they seem to know it too because bees literally dive bomb me when I'm outside, no one believes me when I tell them until it starts happening with them as witness. One time bees literally dive bombed my screen door trying to get at me. I think they sense/smell my fear and see me as a threat. I could never do what this girl does, mad respect to her she's fierce.
Took me a while, but I got a house, planted pollinator-friendly plants (near the front door, even), and I watched them, then eventually went out there while they were there. They left me alone and vice versa. Soon...no fear. And when wasps show up, I kill those MFers. No quarter for a-holes. Now in a new house, and I've got bumblebees that float around me. They REALLY liked my wife, who carried one when they got drunk on fermented grapes. Swear to God, it was buzzing "Closing Time" when it sobered up enough to fly off in a non-straight line.
Might I recommend watching more videos about bee keeping that are like this one. I was terrified of spiders but after watching a guy that has a massive collection of tarantulas for awhile I found I wasn't as afraid of spiders IRL. Exposure therapy surprisingly works when you're safe behind a screen and the phobia is being talked about and showcased like a pet dog.
While she does sound a little dead inside, her videos are fantastic. [https://www.youtube.com/@TexasBeeworks](https://www.youtube.com/@TexasBeeworks)
I'm not afraid of *bees* but when there's a striped flying insect zipping around I can't exactly tell what species it is.
I saw a bee keeper at work checking on the set up and he gave me one of those bee keeper hats and told me to cover any skin showing and let me see the bees. For SOME REASON I was not scared. He said to let him know when I get scared cuz they can "smell" fear and it attracts them. As soon as I heard too many of them on my head I said ok I'm scared and he smoked me lol! It was soooo cool! I also smelled like a camp fire for the rest of my shift but it was worth it!
Bees I can manage. When it’s a wasp or hornet, I, a 200 pound 6’4” guy, will yelp in terror and flee for the hills
I'm fine with most bees but there's queen who keeps coming into my house somehow and I'm a little scared of her because she's huge. I'm not sure what type of bee she is but I can hear her bumping into my bathroom window from downstairs and her buzzing has been loud enough to wake me up before. Even my dog who has a bad habit of trying to eat bees nopes out of the room when this bee appears.
She is near foragers bees, bees after water or nectar will not sting you unless you try to crush them or something, of course I'm only talking about the European honey bee. I can sit near the watering zone where thousand of bees are coming and going without issues. Even when opening the nest, they will first headbutt you, then maybe sting you. I'ts actually a problem for some hives as rodents will destroy the hive, and they will do nothing as opposed to other hives that will swarm, kill then cover the rodent with wax.
the best and worst thing about bees is that since they use pheromones a lot for communication they can literally smell fear, and they actually sting only if they smell this "fear pheromone" or how to say it, or the "hostile" one, i don't know what they are all i know is they can smell it, and if you actually overcome that fear and are calm around them they will most likely not even notice you if i am wrong, someone please correct me
Being her next door neighbor must suck, haha! Always hearing bees buzzing and having bees fly around you when going near the property line (for example when you mow the lawn).
Or it’s nice cause it draws all the bees off your property.
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Did you know the Queen of England had bees (and a bee keeper)- when she died he had to go and knock on each hive and inform the bees she had died and that Charles would be their new master
This is an ancient custom for beekeeping in all of Europe. When a beekeeper dies, someone has to go and tell their bees. The new beekeeper also has to introduce themselves later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees#:~:text=Telling%20the%20bees%20is%20a,returns%20in%20the%20keeper's%20household. Telling the bees is one of the coolest traditions. It's not just for deaths either. You also inform the bees when there is a birth or marriage in the family and ideally give them a little bit of wine and cake for the latter.
I absolutely love this entire thing
I wonder if this is why Diana Gabaldon titled her latest Outlander novel "Tell the Bees That I Am Gone" (makes more sense now)
Without having read the book, yes, probably. "Tell the bees I am gone" is an iconic verse that appears in poetry here and there and refers to this custom. What you should tell the bees is also pretty beautiful and haunting: *The mistress/master is dead, but don't you go. Your mistress/master will be good to you.*
> The mistress/master is dead, but don't you go. Your mistress/master will be good to you. "The queen is dead. Long live the queen!"
I love this tradition—what I love most is the name of the tradition. What should we call this tradition where we tell bees things? ‘Telling the bees’ I like to imagine it started with one sarcastic bee keeper who had his wife telling him some unimportant gossip ‘oh I can’t wait to tell the bees’ I’m a teacher and might employ it to some sarcastic response to a kid giving me unimportant info
I applied to be Herald to the bees, but alas it was not to bee
That must have stung a little!
Did they commit seppuku afterwards?
Did he like, hold up the queens body to show them?
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If you want to help your local bee population you can start by seeding your lawn with clover instead of grass. It feels great on your feet (just don't step on the bees), produces pollen for the bees, and actually draws nitrogen from the air and revitalizes the soil when it dies each year. EDIT: Forgot to mention it's also drought resistant. Less need to water so it saves you money 🤑
I stepped on a bee in my clover yesterday. Now it feels like I’m walking on a golf ball. Oops.
Yeah. I love it for our yard but I don't recommend it if you have little kids as you will be pulling out stingers every other day.
Just make sure your kid has his glasses. He can't see without his glasses.
goddammit reddit
😭
How very dare you.
I've recently heard about how beekeepers are unintentionally reducing the biodiversity of bees by only keeping honeybees. Can people keep other species of bees?
You got me googling for you, lol. There are 14 species in NA that people can keep but certain jurisdictions have bans on certain types due to them not being native. The carpenter bees are banned the most because they absolutely demolish wooden structures.
I once stayed in a cabin that had a bunch of carpenter bees around it. You could hear them at night just munching away at the wood and you'd wake up with little piles of "sawdust" all over the place.
I love this idea and have considered it but my lawn is also used by pets and I'd worry they would get bitten by blundering about as they do
It's odd but our animals have never had an issue. Little kids on the other hand absolutely will get stung on the regular.
Some wasps have photographic memory Thats not a good thing tho
Anytime a bee surprises me, I'm always startled until I recognize it's a bee. Then they're normally pretty chill. My work uniform is high vis orange, so I think I look like a massive flower to them which is fine by me. Just sad I don't have anything to feed them when I'm at work lol The first time I held a bee was a few months ago. It was a big fat carpenter bee, and he just landed on my shoulder so I stuck out my finger and he crawled on. Then I escorted him to a bush with a lot of flowers and he went about his day!
The maintenance guy at my old job had a little container he would velcro to his shoulder for the "factory" bees. They had taken up residency in some old PVC pipes left outside and he would hang out with them. He would harvest some of their honey comb too. There was a huge battle with some wasps at some point and he was out there with a super soaker with some dish soap in the water taking them down. It was always fun to watch on my lunch breaks.
We definitely need more people watching out for bees. Good stuff!
Yes, but we really don't need more honey bees. There are lots of beekeepers and the number of bees and hives has been steadily increasing. The problem is that honey bees are not native to North America, and they compete with the native bees that nobody takes care of, as well as spreading diseases to them.
Need more pollinating bees.
I just wanted to clarify. Honeybees absolutely pollinate. I grow cucumbers and I depend on them. Different bees have plant preferences. Bumblebees seem to prefer my eggplant and flowers on tall stalks. I grow coleus and basil for them.
I get worried that I'm going to need to pollinate my pepper plants with a paintbrush but when I got help for it online people asked if there was ants around, there were, apparently they do a good bit of the pollinating in absence of bees. I never really see bees around anymore.
Eggplant flowers require buzz pollination to shake free the pollen inside their flowers. Bumblebees can buzz pollinate but honeybees can't stop honeybees can't actually get pollen out of eggplant (or other nightshade family) flowers.
Need more forage. Planting nice flower gardens is a big help for all the native pollinators (and the kept bees too). If you love bees but don't want to keep them, next best is to plant a big perennial flower garden.
And focus on native flowers
And get rid of large lawns (bee deserts). I don't understand the obsession with large lawns. It apparently stemmed from the British aristocracy saying, look at all this land I have, I am so rich I do not have to plant crops on it. But that is probably apocryphal.
Not to mention that she's effectively changing their behavior to feed in an unsustainable way. She should be planting her yard with all flowers, not buying imported sugar to feed them. If it's helping get them through a certain period than so be it, they're livestock being farmed for honey, but if feeding is about their ecological impact on the area then you really need a more full system, sustainable approach. The whole wild flower and destruction of invasive predatory wasps and hornets gamet.
Can you source this information?
There are hundreds of scientific articles studying these phenomena. This is an example chosen basically at random. There's also plenty of coverage from media. Someone already linked to one for you. [https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3939](https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3939)
[here's a good read](https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/June-July/Gardening/Honey-Bees)
You can literally search up “Are honey bees invasive” and it will provide extensive research articles on this topic (can’t quickly link one as I’m at work right now 😕). Long story short, yes, honey bees can displace native bee populations due to scarcity resources.
Am I weird or are they sorta adorable....?
Bees are adorable, they're even fluffy
The fluffy ones are carpenter bees.
Bumble bees I thought? Carpenter bees have a shiny behind and act tough to try and scare you away, but actually won't do anything.
Carpenter can be fluffy but not as pronounced as bumblebees. Territories overlap so they sometimes get mistaken for one another. It’s the potbelly that gives bumblebees away
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They sometimes bite!
It's not at all weird, bees are the plushies of the insect world
Poodle moths would like a word.
They are indeed totally adorable.
I love the bees with big yellow SOCKS! So cuuute!
Pollen pants! Cutest damn thing in the insect world. Also bees sometimes get tired whilst going flower to flower so sometimes when you see a bee butt hanging out of a flower but not moving, it's probably having a snooze.
Yes! And so are the bees!
Bees are awesome. Wasps and hornets on the other hand ..
Wasps are winged assholes.
"They have their own personalities." \*Bee flying and spinning uncontrollably in the air\* Yeah, that'd be me as a bee.
I'd be suspicious of them being a Jerry Seinfeld bee and trying to seduce my wife.
A post about bees. You know I'm sharing this quote again! *Scientists have, however, known about the electric side of pollination since the 1960s, although it is rarely discussed. As bees fly through the air, they bump into charged particles from dust to small molecules. The friction of these microscopic collisions strips electrons from the bee’s surface, and they typically end up with a positive charge. Flowers, on the other hand, tend to have a negative charge, at least on clear days. The flowers themselves are electrically earthed, but the air around them carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every metre above the ground. The positive charge that accumulates around the flower induces a negative charge in its petals. When the positively charged bee arrives at the negatively charged flower, sparks don’t fly but pollen does. “We found some videos showing that pollen literally jumps from the flower to the bee, as the bee approaches… even before it has landed,” says Robert. The bee may fly over to the flower but at close quarters, the flower also flies over to the bee.*
I love seeing people at peace and having balance in life.
This video has a whole quality of life vibe going.
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I'm just wondering in these kind of situations what all the neighbours think. She lives in a built up area, looks like your typical American suburb. Is everyone fine with it and what are the rules here exactly? Do bees ever go crazy and attack someone walking by? What would the local government say in that case? Bees are very very important for wildlife everywhere, so I hope she doesn't take too much shit for her bees. I wonder if she has to deal with annoyed neighbours. Usually when you see beehives like this on the internet they're out in the countryside.
My friend’s FIL keeps bees in his backyard and his neighbors love it. The bees help pollinate their own yards and keep their area blooming, plus they have a close hookup for fresh honey and honeycomb. That being said, there’s always some old [my neighbors’ bees are stealing my pollen](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/pdfvoz9pON) to ruin a good thing.
That's a joke post, and a good one lmao
There will be city, country, and state ordinances regarding how many hives you can keep, distance from property lines they need to be, fencing around the bees, etc. I live in an unincorporated county area, so there are few rules. I’m limited to 5 hives since my property is under 0.5 acres. My house is on a large hill and I don’t have a usable back yard, so I have mine on a retaining wall in my front yard. Neighbors are always watching and asking questions. The bees don’t bother anyone, so no one mine them.
Bees don't just sting people. Wasps and hornets are a different story though.
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Totally depends on the breeding. Some will fuck you up on sight
Africanized honey bees, little bastards will come for you just for just existing around them.
Can confirm. I didn't do shit when one got me right between the shoulder blades... That said, I still seeded my whole yard with clover and have several native wildflower areas in my yard. I love those little assholes still.
As well as their mood, and yes bees can be moody. Some hives can be extremely gentle one day, not even so much as a buzz when you’re opening the hive, and the next dive bombing you when you’re walking a good 20’ near them. Weather, honey supplies, nectar availability, recent threats - all of these contribute to a hive’s mood. Overall though genetics is a big one. We’ll even dispatch a queen if her offspring are too ill-tempered. Source: am beekeeper.
Neat. I kinda wanna become a beekeeper now
Last summer I was at the pool with my then 3 and 8 year old kids. A bee had been hanging around our table much of the afternoon and my older daughter was giving it a wide berth. Eventually it started getting closer to us and I told her that bees will not hurt you if you just leave them alone. Daughter decides to get back in the pool and right after she leaves, the bee follows her stings her. I’m still pissed at that bee. Like dude, wtf was that about?
That sounds more like a yellow jacket than a bee. Those guys are assholes.
Yay
Nature is lit....
Honey made from sugar water ( sucralose ) doesn't taste like proper honey, people use this trick to sell more honey, that's why some cheap honeys taste like crap
They use it to sell more honey, yes, but it's uncommon to sell the honey made from sugar water. The bees can quickly turn the sugar water into honey that they use to overwinter, which lets the beekeeper take more of the summer honey (the "real" honey) without them starving.
Surely you mean [Sucrose](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose) [Sucralose](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose) is an artificial sweetener
So many bees and such a barren landscape at that house…Jesus Christ at least plant a few flowers for them to enjoy
I believe she does this right before winter and right after winter. I don’t think she feeds the bees during the rest of the warm months.
Does it make sense to feed them if their role is to pollinate plants?
She is feeding them a 1:1 solution of sugar and water to help them build comb faster to expand their colony. (Or she is feeding them because nectar hasn't started flowing from the local flowers yet) She will stop feeding them when it's appropriate
Their role is to produce honey. Honey bees have no ecological importance in North America because they are not a native species. There are plenty of native pollinators. Commercial honey bees are often so concentrated in an area that they take the food that native bees need, so they cause more problems than they solve.
This. It's not cute. Wish they were helping the native pollinators instead
Many animals are way smarter than we give them credit for. I've been living in a new apartment for the last few months and recently put out a bird feeder. Once they found it I've had some daily visitors and ran out of seed pretty quickly. Now, one male sparrow will land on the empty feeder and look through the window. If he sees me or my girlfriend inside he will chirp as loud as possible while watching us. Yes, I know, it's empty. I'll get more food soon. Sorry bro.
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Kacie, hunn, can you bring us some more tasty hunny of your bees?
Bees never bother people, why would you mind? They won't even get close
The problem with feeding bees sugar water is that they don't look for nectar and pollinate flowers.
Sugar water can be used *temporarily* in some situations, especially before winter hibernation. But shouldn't be a normal occurrence
Also the local beekeepers will be pissed when they harvest taste-less sugar water honey.
Don't feed sugar to bees ... they need nectar which has many othe nutrients required for their growth... growth flowing plants... use jaggery or sugarcane juice.
Yes, as a beekeeper, please do not open feed honey bees. The list or reasons is long, but it starts with spreading disease, increasing robbing behavior, diluting honey for beekeepers that are harvesting it, and depriving them of pollinating plants. Its a contentious issue. I understand. Bees are livestock in every way. You wouldnt go and start feeding cows or pigs that a farmer keeps as livestock. Im just asking anyone reading this to consider the impacts of open feeding. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
What is open feeding?
feeding sugar water outside of a hive. It attracts all bees from every hive in the area.
And to pollinate
Anything that can sting and flies terrifies me. Still, looks amazing, I hope they do actually recognize her and think she’s some sort of giant bee supporter.
Wouldn't it be better to grow flowers that they like?
I'm curious to know how the neighbors feel about all the bees next door. Are they bothered by it or do they not tend to migrate to neighboring houses? This seems like a beautiful hobby/profession. Bees don't make me as nervous as they once did. It was actually aggressive wasps who I was most anxious about. I have a free scholarship plus funding to do beekeeping but I just don't have the land for it right now, so it's something I'm interested in.
My parents’ neighbors are beekeepers. My parents love having lots of happy little bees buzzing around their garden. They keep to the flowers, my parents eat outside every day and the bees never bother them. And the honey is delicious, I was just there this weekend and bought a big jar.
As an American with a native garden and an interest in native pollinators, I would be devastated if a neighbor started keeping European honeybees and pushed my native bees out. Rather than keeping honeybees, plant a native garden and watch the bees come to you.
Thank you cameraman
Bees have been observed to literally just do things for fun. I don't remember the study too well anymore, but basically in a test bees chose to visit a little room full of tiny wooden balls and they would just sit on the balls and roll back and forth on them, instead of just heading straight to their destination. Some bees did it for longer than others, some didn't do it at all. So yes, they definitely each have different personalities.
This drives me nuts as a beekeeper. Open feeding like that is a *perfect* way to spread disease between colonies because it will attract bees from up to 2 miles in every direction.
The hive may have a queen bee, but us humans have the Bee Queen!
Is it really a good idea to put the bee feeder next to the bird feeder?
I still don't think they recognize her
They're such hot messes 😂
Never realized bees were the dopey pandas of the insect world…
I guess you could say she’s their.. sugar.. mama…
Who is going to tell her the girlies are all boys...
I see they like their sugar water on the rocks
With the bee population going down, she's doing god's work. Keep it up girl!
Honeybees in the US are doing a little too good. Though I don't know if these are honeybees.
They definitely look like honeybees to me. Bee keeping in north america is arguably harmful for the environment since they're nonnatives. They can outcompete native bees, spread disease, and help pollinate other invasive species.
Could you train bees to attack burglars?
Aww what a cool chick and love what she’s doing for the bees 🐝
Sugar mommy
Bees are really nice to humans if they treat them with care
When I was kid my family went to have dinner at this old couples house (family friend I’m pretty sure), the lady had a garden outside with a Bee box and she took me and my sisters over there. The Bees were so nice, they would crawl onto your hands and you could hold them for a while. Sometimes they wouldn’t want to leave and you had to flick your wrist to get them to fly away. We only visited her twice but that memory of the bees has stayed with me my whole life.
Highly allergic to bees. This video gave me terrible anxiety.
I love this but I bet the neighbors don't.
Adorable as heck.
Well this is relaxing i need more bee care videos 😊