So they went and disturbed it. Real nice, assholes. Streak fucking ruined.
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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.
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.
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
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
DON'T PAIN OPEN INSIDE
DON’T HONEY OPEN INSIDE
Cryptkeeper: and remember kiddies, you’d better bee-have yourselves or you’ll have a real SWARMageddon! AAhhahahahahaha
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
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.
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
This is the first time I've seen "remodelation" and I like it. Is it a portmanteu of remodel and renovation?
You know what, good for them
If we let nature rule we'd have ao many more interesting phenomena and beings to study and learn from.
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.
Well i guess it ain't fucking undisturbed now, goddamn nosey bastards can't leave anything alone.
Paging Stephen King…. Will Mr king please report to Ithaca NY, your next plot line has arrived.


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