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Feb 14, 2022 3:04 PM
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GameboyMicro
A honey bee does. Other species of bees can live for several years
The22ndDoctor
From QI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKweqxWUC38
adamt2
What happens to all the dead bee bodies?
soulthreat
A teaspoon is a whole lote more impressive for 40 days, thought they lasted atleast a year
Aelok
I either consume the work of 400 bee lives every morning in coffee, or I create jobs for entire colonies. Perspective.
cardam0m
something something capitalism something
theInternetismyplayground
A worker works for 50+ years and only gets a tiny fraction of the CEO’s ANNUAL salary in their entire lifetime
lordofthegoats
you forgot the tens of thousands of seeds it's efforts produce! bees need more respect they're hard working mofos
goflyblind
CarolHayden
A study found that some urban bees are healthier than rural bees. Because farms limit their diet too much, and gardens are diverse.
MuffyTheHamburgerSlayer
Thanks, bees. Thees.
Stuey1221
Yummy bee vomit
MightyIink
Imagine thousands of bees giving their lifes for a jar of honey that just gets poured over someone in a fetish video...
OrphanGenocide
Make the bees bigger and the flowers bigger and the lifespan longer. Honey Problem solved but it does bring new problems.
uplookdont
I see no problem with cuddle sized bees
peteysodes
Beads?
Twinklepot
ChunkFromTheGoonies
InvalidUsername6
As if they want you to have their honey? I am a former beekeeper and can guarantee you they don't give it to you, to them it's a burglary.
Carl99
Doesn't make thanking them bad though. Maybe a little silly but the thought is in the right place.
GreenFox
that sounds like less energy than it would take to keep a make a bee and keep it alive for 40days...
GreenFox
1teaspoon of honey is enough energy to heat 1 gallon of water by about 9°F
Rex83ll4t0r
Yall remember 3 teenagers destroyed hundreds of hives in hibernation. I don't remember if the 3 teenagers were caught. They killed millions
JohnBigboote74
wazeewa
No, BEADS
keppler38
I love bee vomit!
711isAnInsideJob
Kinda makes you wonder what other types of vomit we could bee enjoying
Mewmus
whale vomit is used to make perfume
DiamondDogLedTasso
Precious Ambergris
SeaSpace
poor worker bee .........works works and works some more and dies.......what does it get in return ? oh wait - death
HUGHgReaction
I feel like a worker bee.
rudejohn
As opposed to all the other insects that have a comfortable retirement and play shuffleboard and sip iced tea?
CallsYouATosser
Sounds familiar...
messica2
I think they enjoy working with flowers and nectar more than if they were to just relax? I like producing and working on things I care about
messica2
Many of us work in jobs we don't really care about and don't see any fruits of our labor. Or there are no fruits bc we are paper pushers.
Psymbionic
Unionization and collective bargaining for bees! No longer should they be bound to the matriarchy.
stankginchfurbuger
You don't understand bee politics. Those workers choose the queen. She's the brood-mare for a whole civ. Of nose to the grindstone puritans
Psymbionic
SeaSpace
bee at least get smell flowers, sleep in them, bask in sun! pollinate so many flowers, they are like life givers or helping
SeaSpace
things to take birth! what am i doing useless human being ........ burden on society and burned on earth
PectorialMuscles
You are a monkey designed to eat a lot, do your share of work, then sleep or cat nap the rest of the time. We're lazy by design! ❤️
Istherenothingleft
If society, the earth, or the earth society, finds you burdensome, they can take it up with me. You tell them I said that. You tell them.
Jawesome19
You're a unique individual with limitless potential. You're talented and beautiful and could contribute in many huge ways
trueunpopularopinions
Or at least provide nutrition to flowers
Goldenteckel
Thank you bees !
whooshy
Oh baby I like it raw!
LordAsshurt
Yummy vomit
Andeyh
as a beekeeper i hate this with a passion. There are ways to collect the honey without destroying the comb...
penut61
That’s the sluttiest speed I’ve ever seen.
Ohhhhyeahhhhhhh
Slower you slu
Putitinyomama
fescamilla89
Slower you slut!!!
ThaWhiteRanger
JaimeLannistersRightHand
Woah Nelly, that looks tasty
Trankia12
Those 5 bees just watched you destroy their entire lives work in moments.
koffiejuffrouw101
And did NOTHING! Was it depression-induced apathy? Who knows?
METROlD
MONSTER
actuallynotirate
And yet.. sugar.
nclu
ButLogicallyTho
Oh my god.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Fun Fact: A lot of discount honey is just flavored high fructose corn syrup... same with cheap maple syrup
bippityboppitybuttsex
https://www.insider.com/fake-honey-problems-how-it-works-2020-9
TheFutureIsDead
This is why we don't buy cheap honey or maple syrup. We like bee spit and tree blood too much
bippityboppitybuttsex
Oddly, some of the expensive stuff is fake too
bippityboppitybuttsex
Almost all olive oil is fake.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Almost 70% https://camillestyles.com/food/olive-oil-fraud/
asm80dfa8sdfj
I buy the cheap stuff that I know is fake, at least that way I'm not getting ripped off. 7 bucks for 2 liters booii
bippityboppitybuttsex
Yes, but you can get the good stuff for like $22 for a half-pint
geoffreyfourmyle
I'm told by apiarists that this video is wrong, as normal healthy comb has wax caps.
Idsertian
Is it not also a bad idea to destroy the comb, as well? That's what I was lead to believe.
ArcaneM37
No, the comb is destroyed by basically every harvest method. It is fine. The bees will rebuild it.
atmcashmoney
The wax caps have been sliced off in one big sheet prior to the scoop video
geoffreyfourmyle
Ah, okay. Cheers!
sebvit
Then why are some of them still capped? And why ruin the mesh instead of just pouring out the honey so the bees can reuse it?
leahatard
My dad used to bee keep. He’d slice with a hot knife. Not all combs are uniform, or human error with angle of blade could be the reason.
leahatard
They replace the frame with a new one, and the bees get to work making more honey!
leahatard
The video is for show. This is NOT how honey is usually extracted. It’s not efficient.
Nuru99
I think that's a rubber mat they're using? Guessing from the fact that none of the comb is being lifted onto the spoon
Idsertian
Look carefully, you can see the crater the spoon is leaving behind.
jamaldo
More than just honey as well, we'd be pretty screwed without their pollination
Hammertulski
I thought we were trying to reduce po...OH nevermind I get it
funkypig
This is literally the plot to the Bee Movie
Paradox1111
That's wild bees. In North America Honey Bees are an invasive species
avavilina
They aren't native, but neither are the many crops they pollinate, so we'd still be screwed without them.
Feralkyn
Honeybees are basically invasive almost everywhere except portions of Western Europe. The US has PLENTY of native pollinator species that
Feralkyn
can pollinate plants. The importance of honeybees is really overestimated. The "save the bees" bull misses the fact that native pollinators
Feralkyn
get fucked over by honeybee introduction, & are dwindling in number while honeybees are doing well. They're used b/c they can be
TheFastpaws
There are other pollinators but it would suck.
PectorialMuscles
Many plants rely on specific pollinators. You can't just stick a beetle somewhere and assume it'll work. Bees are special.
Feralkyn
Honeybees are invasive almost everywhere in the world; they're a domesticated species. Their importance compared to native bees & other
Feralkyn
native pollinators around the world is overestimated, mostly b/c honeybee hives are moved to where they need commercial crop pollination.
YouLoveThat
Never knew about the 40 day lifespan. Knew it was short, but not that short
xyxyxyxy31
3nd3rwiggin
I guess that is why a bee keeper does not worry about getting all the bees when they collect a wild hive.
MattJeffery
there are so many bee species. some live only for a few weeks for a specific flower bloom and then hibernate as egg/larvae until next year
TheAnswerIsPie
They literally work themselves to death. The ones hatched in fall live up to 5 months or so.
genericname1
A few months during the winter when they're less busy, a lot less in summer
moustacheKin
Only in during spring is it that short
honeybrewer
The spring/summer bees live like 44 days while autumn/winter live 260 days thanks to their fat reserves
chudphud
And the honey. The whole point of making and storing honey is to see them through the winter.
VictusVonGuyver
That's actually spot less than a common pavement ant. Those live up to 5 years. I thought maybe the bee was a couple of years.
MrStealUrMeme
Is that the ants capability to live in a controlled environment, or its average life expectancy in the wild.
VictusVonGuyver
Controlled and believe. Wild ants rarely live past a few months due to sending their workers out into our very hostile world. That's why >
VictusVonGuyver
pavement ants can have multiple queens at times to make up for a tougher environment when the usual 15,000 population can't cut it.
TF2215
5 years for an ant is wild
Hendlton
Queens live 20+ years. Record is 28, according to Google.
fudgex
MrStealUrMeme
That is wild! I wonder if that's their capability but if it's much less in rhe wild.
hornpile
it was only under certain lab conditions. generally the workers live a few months. The average lifespan for the queen is 15 years
VictusVonGuyver
Pretty much ideal conditions.
hornpile
but has been recorded as up to 29 years in very rare circumstances.
TF2215
Wtf lol