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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My nextdoor neighbor has bees. I meet them all the time cause they try to come in to my yard to build a new hive lol. My neighbor will come over and talk to them and try to get them to come in to a box. She treats them like little dogs, its pretty cute. Then she gives us free honey for our trouble.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought bees only do that when the hive they have is not good. But I am no expert, and might be reciting some bee propaganda.

[–] tempest 7 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure sometimes they just split like that when they get a new queen, one takes a bunch of bees and heads out and the other stays there.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Saw someone else sharing bees, yo, I got some bees.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm both allergic and still slightly phobic, and I would totally want to meet the bees. I have met bees as part of exposure therapy to diminish that phobia. They are cool as hell.

Not just honey bees either. I've even developed a fondness for bumblers. I still don't want them on me, but I smile when I see them.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

May I invite you to [email protected] ?

Here is a preview:

Edit: Most of my contributions to [email protected] are also adorable bees:

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago

You made my day with presenting me [email protected]! Thanks a lot! I also love the wild bees and especially the fluffy but bumblebees 🥰

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

I love beebutts :) both the actual butts and the community.

I've become convinced that bees know how cute their butts are and wiggle them just to give the world a little beauty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That last picture is so adorable. What a cute face!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bumblebees are fuzzy and cute. Wasps are assholes, though, it's not just a meme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Got stung on the tongue by a wasp as a kid. Never forgave them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have more trouble with hornets than wasps. But, as long as they aren't near me, I respect what they do. From afar. Very afar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Believe it or not, bees, hornets and ants are all wasps. https://youtu.be/u095VH5zp6s

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[–] ininewcrow 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

My parents taught me to leave them alone. I'm Indigenous Canadian and I grew up seeing my parents talking to creatures like they were people. They'd see a bee nearby and just ask it to leave ... and most of the time it would. But other times, the bee would linger and they'd start getting mad at it and almost negotiating for it to leave until it eventually did. They would only kill it if it was endangering someone like a small child or baby or if the bee actually stung someone.

I do the same now .... if I see a bug or a bee where it shouldn't be, I just open the door or window and ask it to leave. Funny part is .... 9/10 times, the bee takes the advice and just leaves.

Wasps on the other hand set off panic alarms, even with my parents because everyone knows these things are just born angry and will sting you relentlessly no matter what you ask of them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Curiously, in my country we are taught that for wasps and hornets you must stay silent and wait still until they leave. Like dealing with a blind predator.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

When I come across bees I always talk to them too!

I'm like

hello Mr Bee! How are you today?

And then just keep going with my day.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Earlier this year I had to catch an absolute unit of a bumblebee inside my house. Must've been a queen that just came out of hibernation, she was very confused that my ceiling light wasn't the outside.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (6 children)

A couple years ago I rescued a yellow jacket from my basement. For the next few weeks, every time I went outside, I had one yellow jacket following me around.

Not a bee story...but cute nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think a good contrast to this is when my dad saved a goose he accidentally snared in his fishing line. If flew straight across mid-cast.

He had to reel it in while it honked and freaked out and and tried to bite him but after that, they were pals.

Brought its goslings to see him on subsequent visits and everything.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First good goose story I have ever heard ever

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a dog, we got as a puppy. He's a mutt. We named him Gus (after the mouse). His nickname became "Goose".

Once he grew up, we noticed his white markings on the underside of his neck (the rest of him is brindle) actually looks like the silhouette of a goose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A dog dressed up as a goose is about the best you can expect from a goose really

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You rescued? Those things are pure evil. It was probably waiting to inflict the most pain.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Would it be better to say I rescued my family from a yellow jacket? Who rescued whom?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You rescued a yellow jacket??? What is wrong with you

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

The bees are happy.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like it was the bees' knees

[–] orbitz 9 points 2 days ago

Not sure how many people will get this, but way back when I have Eve online a go, I made either some containers or markers (guessing markers? Cause otherwise I'd have just took the cargo but can't recall why I had two then), but they were called the bees knees and the cat's pajamas. For some reason I always liked those terms for something good. I'm 'only' in my 40s so not quite from my time lol.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was born with the bees. My father was a beekeeper and showed me and many other curious people his bees. Recently he passed away. Even his burial was bee themed and now the bees come to visit the flowers on his grave.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

beehold, he's watching over your.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think my level of excitement is going to be tied to the person asking me if I want to meet the bees. If it's a nice old German lady, cool. If it's Christoph Waltz, I'm going to be concerned.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

You never really know.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yknow that "not the bees" bit is a deleted scene. Imagine my disappointment when I watched the entire film and it wasn't in there.

Although the scenes of him dressed as a bear made up for it. https://youtu.be/YyigAW-14w0

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I would beed to wear a pretty resistant beekeeper suit 💧

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was looking at some bees working near their hive when one of them decided to take a break by landing on my (closed) eye. I kept still for a while and eventually the bee went back to work.

[–] OutlierBlue 12 points 3 days ago

It liked your iris.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So, like, what... it's a vending machine?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

No, the honey is on a sort of shelf outside and there's a box for you to put the money in. You could steal the moneybox and the honey but in civilised society it doesnt happen. This system is big for eggs around where I live - spare eggs are sold on an honesty basis at the end of driveways and if you are a really good customer you should return the eggboxes for reuse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I've seen videos of some of these for honey, eggs, etc. Sometimes there's a sort of vending machine, but often if it's rural/small town, they can just get by with the honor system: drop money into a box, grab what you paid for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That happens in some places yes, I have seen vending machines for Strawberries, Eggs, Bread, Pizza, Factor like Meals among other things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I live out in the country with a lot of farms and yeah people do this. I've seen apples, peaches, firewood, and a few other "shelf stable" things.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I freakin’ love this! 🐝

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