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SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Bees don't crawl, the technical term is stroll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

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Flannelette
Jan 17, 2010


The honey is in sealed honeycomb cells

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

SopWATh posted:

Don't confuse me with the facts!

What do they do with the honey before the cells are made?

They make the cells. Then they put the honey in them. It's all very organized.

It's not a hard concept. People store their stuff in special compartments too, they don't just dump their poo poo on the floor of their home then wade through it.

I mean, right? Everyone here does that?

nullEntityRNG
Jun 23, 2010

Mostly pseudo-random.
Isn't it puke? Does that mean bees are just lovely freshman after their first keg party?

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Bees have special pouches in their bodies for mites to live in. It'd be like if you had part of your skin folded in and inside the fold it's super hairy and the hairs are swarming with crabs but the crabs mostly just sleep/chill there, they actually spend a lot of time patrolling your body looking for std mites to kill. Just climbing all over you ready to murder interlopers while you go about your day barfing in wax jars as big as you and mixing the barf with crumbs and eating the paste again

Bees are a good animal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

Fluo
May 25, 2007

Roof honey






plain blue jacket
Jan 13, 2014

IT DOESN'T STOP
IT NEVER STOPS
that's one hosed up owls nest

frenton
Aug 15, 2005

devil soup
Holy poo poo, the bees built a loving roof for their honey combs!?

The Bible
May 8, 2010

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

They make the cells. Then they put the honey in them. It's all very organized.

It's not a hard concept. People store their stuff in special compartments too, they don't just dump their poo poo on the floor of their home then wade through it.

Not since I got married, anyway.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

frenton posted:

Holy poo poo, the bees built a loving roof for their honey combs!?

obvs carpenter bees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Frog Act posted:

you can't fly in honey dude. bees only have those two means of locomotion: crawling and flying

air is a fluid. honey is a fluid.

a dog from hell
Oct 18, 2009

by zen death robot

Tevryr posted:

cell phone towers are annihilating the bee at an apocalyptic rate when you think about it

I'm thinking about it.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
Bees are cool because they make honey. Honey is cool because it makes Mead. Mead is awesome because it makes me drunk.

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

Fluo posted:

Roof honey








wow, I see the cops have finally had a successful sting against that honey smuggling ring good

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Fluo posted:

Roof honey








i know ppl generally like bees but that is loving horrifying

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

there is one bug im scared of it's bees, man

nobody, not even the beefiest bros looks cool in a swarm of bees tho so

CoolCat
Jun 29, 2015

OT, but I'd love to be a bee for a day.

Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

Hobohemian posted:

My instinct is to hate on apiarists but honestly bees are kind of dying at an alarming rate and they need all the help they can get.

Why would you hate apiarists? Is it a vegan thing? I've never understood why vegans hate on honey, it seems like a pretty mutually beneficial animal human relationship to me.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Moon Atari posted:

Why would you hate apiarists? Is it a vegan thing? I've never understood why vegans hate on honey, it seems like a pretty mutually beneficial animal human relationship to me.

Because man, you can't own bees.

Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead
Bees like to dance because they have no vocal cords to communicate with. They have been known to "cook" predators by swarming them. How? Dancing.

Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jul 31, 2015

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Scalding Coffee posted:

Bees like to dance because they have no vocal cords to communicate with.

i post for the same reason

Fluo
May 25, 2007

basement jihadist posted:

there is one bug im scared of it's bees, man

nobody, not even the beefiest bros looks cool in a swarm of bees tho so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtXuBN1Hvc

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald
no OP, the honey is INSIDE the honeycombs as evidenced by that man literally cutting the top off it. you think the bees chill inside that somehow? lol u dum

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer
bee safe out there today guys

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002


lol

the worst thing about a bee sting is the way it suggests there are probably more bees around

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Scalding Coffee posted:

Bees like to dance because they have no vocal cords to communicate with. They have been known to "cook" predators by swarming them. How? Dancing.

They'll do that to their queen in the middle of a communist revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DobxqhczJyQ

Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

Bees are pretty cool. I bought a book on backyard bee-keeping but haven't made the effort to try it out yet. I think I have some relevant experience though because when I was a kid I had a trampoline and wasps liked to nest in the hollow metal tubes, they would angrily fly out of the spring holes when I would bounce on it.

logical phalluses
Mar 18, 2009

The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks
curiously on the corpse.

dao Jones posted:

They put honey in a honeycomb cell, and then they put a wax cap on it. So they walk around on the wax

it's actually even cooler than that, they all fan the honeycomb with their wings to dry the honey and then they seal it up.

SopWATh posted:

Don't confuse me with the facts!

What do they do with the honey before the cells are made?

they make the comb first then they put the honey in it

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

Tevryr posted:

i think the bees gently caress-piss more honey into the comb and they also slurp it up and spit it into each others mouth and use it to make babies?
between this, the industriousness, the neatly ordered hives and the subservience to a supreme leader bees are natures germans

I Greyhound
Apr 22, 2008

MusicKrew Dawn Patrol
do people just swim around in wine inside wine cellars?

PsionicAnt
Jul 16, 2001

Tevryr posted:

i would buy honey nut and cum cheerios

Redundant

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.

I Greyhound posted:

do people just swim around in wine inside wine cellars?

Only if they're doing it right.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

XMNN posted:

between this, the industriousness, the neatly ordered hives and the subservience to a supreme leader female bees are natures germans Betas

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
I love bees.

But gently caress hornets. No good pieces of poo poo. Also wasps.

Here are some bees smothering a hornet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m40W1s0Wc

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos
When you think about it, the way bees produce honey from pollen is super gross, especially when you remember that pollen is just plant cum.

I still put it on toast though. Because toast is an even greater abomination.

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬
Do you think bees get mad when we steal their honey? Is it like some kind of Attack on Titan level of indecent for the hive?

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

yeah but we're like, come at me bitch, im wearing canvas and i got smoke to spray u all day with bitches, gimmie that mana

then i take it online after work and cyberbully them till the colony collapses from the anguish

IronClaymore
Jun 30, 2010

by Athanatos

Panfilo posted:

Do you think bees get mad when we steal their honey? Is it like some kind of Attack on Titan level of indecent for the hive?

Nah, it's a medieval thing. Feudalism maybe. We take a certain toll from them, they give us honey, and in exchange we protect them from invaders.

Ever seen a beekeeper look for mites or parasites in a hive? That guy or girl is utterly obsessed with finding parasites in the hive. Viral, bacterial, fungal, whatever, other organisms have learned to exploit bees long before we came around. But they're our bees now, under our protection, and ours to exploit!

[Edit:] Bees are like dogs, we owe it to them to keep them safe. Also they're cute so that helps.

Tevryr
Dec 5, 2009
Pollinate this, savage bees! *shits in a beebox hive*

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FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy

IronClaymore posted:

When you think about it, the way bees produce honey from pollen is super gross, especially when you remember that pollen is just plant cum.

I still put it on toast though. Because toast is an even greater abomination.

It's not gross, neither are fruit or eggs. Don't try to make food a weird metaphor for your dick.

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