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[–] 140 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So they went and disturbed it. Real nice, assholes. Streak fucking ruined.

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  • [–] 72 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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

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    Cryptkeeper: and remember kiddies, you’d better bee-have yourselves or you’ll have a real SWARMageddon! AAhhahahahahaha

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    Should've said "beeneath a cemetery"

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Is this where all the bees have been disappearing to? Did we unintentionally find the honeybee Zion? Are we the sentinels?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Leave them alone probably better humans didn't know what they do.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    I never knew bees could live that long

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Leave them bee?

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    So now we're gonna disturb them, right? Is that how this goes?

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    One day some poor construction workers will do remodelations around that area and be attacked by 5.5 million wild bees at once.

    Hope none of them have allergies

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This is the first time I've seen "remodelation" and I like it. Is it a portmanteu of remodel and renovation?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Is that where some guy with a hook for a hand was buried?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You know what, good for them

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Paging Nicholas cage...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    May they rest in bees

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    If we let nature rule we'd have ao many more interesting phenomena and beings to study and learn from.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    No wonder Odysseus had such a long travel home. I always thought Ithaca was in Greece, but it turns out he had to cross the Atlantic on his odyssey.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Unleash the pharaoh's bees!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    that sounds like a subplot in a harry dresden novel.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Well i guess it ain't fucking undisturbed now, goddamn nosey bastards can't leave anything alone.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The curse is now free.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Don't upset Bees, we'll need them after the crash

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    Was it Beezelbub’s friend?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Paging Stephen King…. Will Mr king please report to Ithaca NY, your next plot line has arrived.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Their queen should be called Odyssa

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yessss the beees....

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