Is this where all the bees have been disappearing to? Did we unintentionally find the honeybee Zion? Are we the sentinels?
the CCD, likely was due to a combination pesticides, climate change and forced to foraging only specific flowers, and it only mostly affected the european honeybees. other factors include a specific type of virus, the Varroa destructor mite and inbreed. it seems other types of honyebees are more resistant, like africanized or more aggressive type of bees.
Paging Nicholas cage…
Are those zombees?
Or are they boobees?
It was already sorta mentioned once, but worth doing again.
This isn’t a colony. These aren’t honey bees or bumblebees, these bees are wild and native and live fairly independently of each other.
I wanna go to some wild bee parties with the anarchy bees!
You made my go find the article. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/04/55m-ground-nesting-bees-make-home-ithaca-cemetery
Yep, not a colony. The is an aggregation since this a solitary.
Leave them alone probably better humans didn’t know what they do.
So they went and disturbed it. Real nice, assholes. Streak fucking ruined.
Bee 1: bzzzz *wiggle*
Bee 2: bzzz bzzzz *wiggle*
Bee 1: bz-
(Roof tears open)
Science-type person: Ay what y’all got goin’ in here?! 🤩
(Sign, “Days Without Disturbance” rolls over from 36,501 to zero)
buzz kill
Correct me if I’m wrong because English is not my first language, but my understanding from reading this article is that this is NOT a colony. It is a large area where over 5 million bees are living spread out. Link
You understand correctly, journalists just don’t care about getting stuff wrong all the time here as long as it gets clicks/views.
Good. I thought colonialism was bad.
I never knew bees could live that long
Honey bee Queens can live for about 3 years. Workers vary. Winter workers have shorter lifespans due to high activity, while the winter bees which just need to be fat and huddle together in the hive to prevent all the bees from freezing to death can live for about 6 months. As the queen gets older and stops laying as much, the workers will eventually kill her and allow one of that season’s new queens to replace her.
This hive us huge though. No one queen could support a hive if 5.5 million so I’m guessing this must actually be a number of hives in close proximity.
I used to keep bees. Fucking stressful stuff.
It’s not a hive, those mining bees (andrena regularis) are solitary and all the females can lay eggs. It’s just a big population of them.
Cryptkeeper: and remember kiddies, you’d better bee-have yourselves or you’ll have a real SWARMageddon! AAhhahahahahaha
So every time a new body is interred they can make themselves a little batch of human meat honey, as a treat.
In one detailed study of Trigona hypogea in Brazil, the vulture bees mixed sugary plant products with a proteinaceous paste from regurgitated meat, and let it mature to form a sweet substance that was used as food; however, the two resources were initially kept in separate “pots” in the colony, neither being true honey (i.e., not derived from nectar), but they were then mixed together.
Bees mastering necro-tweaking
probably dint want the protein/meat to spoil plant fermentation.
If mellified man is a thing, turnabout is only fair play
Metal !
“…And when the tiny one from heaven comes Crawls inside the chosen skull And when the tiny one it summons the others…l”
Amorphis - the bee
In the night of the river of death
Fly the silent prince electors
Zombees
DON’T PAIN OPEN INSIDE
DON’T HONEY OPEN INSIDE
I’ll do what I want and don’t cal me honey
Yeah! Tell you where you can and can’t open your own personal umbrel— floomf
Ah. Well, then.
Should’ve said “beeneath a cemetery”
Zombees?
If we let nature rule we’d have ao many more interesting phenomena and beings to study and learn from.
