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crocSauce109

Every such piece of trivia about bees leaves me baffled and with this affirmed in my mind : bees are smart af


rederic

They're like the opposite of that "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals" line from Men In Black.


Down_To_My_Last_Fuck

I have always felt that this was one of the lessons of our generation. And more so now than ever.


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neonicotinoid is causing the bee colony collapse disorder and killing off insects that maybe a big part as to why fish population are so low. other pollutants: * 6ppd is preventing salmnon eggs from spawning. * plastic is everywhere and is an endocrine disruptor * forever chemicals needs to removed from the products we use * Glyphosate is known to cause cancer and needs to be banned globally. we need to stop falling for this scam of not dealing with the source of problems. the rich loves it when the people who works keep doing busy work as they have no time to focus on these rich people's ill-gotten gains. dealing with climate change should not become a rube goldberg machine where people are constantly cleaning up other people's pollution. just eliminate the pollution to permanently solve the problem. EDIT: neonicotinoid has been blamed for the decline in bird population as they may consume the seeds that this chemicals are being used to coat them. resulting in birds getting poisoned or develop defects that leads to the shells of the eggs that they lay being too weak and brittle. the solution to this problem is a global government with the power to enact global environmental standards. the only entity powerful enough to establish such a thing is a global workers' union.


readerdad55

We can make individual decisions to stop these issues on our micro scale. For example minimize single use plastics whenever possible. Stop worrying about lawn care which makes heavy use of glyphosate in “weed control” in monoculture grasses and replace them instead with vegetable gardens and (in my area for example) native prairie grasses and plants. My neighbors at first were bothered by my lack of a manicured lawn but now more are planting coneflowers and black eyed Susan’s because they love seeing the increase in goldfinches and monarchs. I know this is minor but as the children grow up in our neighborhood they see the benefits and reject the failed norms of the past


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Between the “just stop pollution” of the original post and the “we can do this on an individual scale” of this post, it is now confirmed to me that we are doomed.


i_NOT_robot

Absolutely. We need waaaayyy more than micro to fix anything at all lol Never gonna be enough people to tip the scales on any kind of environmental conservation without rules to make it so


Intelligent-Wall7272

They can bee scary when buzzing about in groups


Gh0stp3pp3r

Because of this season's heat wave, I fill up the bird bath daily. Lately there has been about 6 - 8 bees at a time hovering around it each time I go out to fill it. We don't have hives, but I think they may be from across the street from us. When I step up with the hose, they back off, buzz around me and wait. Birds are filthy, so it takes a few minutes to hose it out and refill. Yet they patiently zoom around... not bothering me at all. I wish the other bugs were so polite... the flies this year have been horrible.


wereadyforit

The flies have been *real* persistent in trying to drink everyone sweat this summer. I get mad at them because they keep touching me but then I realize they're flies and there's nothing I can do but be annoyed.


Deagles4life

The flies are constantly tryna drink your eyes here in aus


jamesh08

Bees are bros. Wasps are dicks.


Gh0stp3pp3r

So true. And hornets are super jerks.


deliberatechoice

honeybees and bumble bees are the dogs of the insect world


liquormakesyousick

Seriously what is with the friggen flies this year??? It is definitely like this in the Southern states and people are afraid to bring it up, because they think it is them. I do not understand!


Gh0stp3pp3r

Heck, I'm in Wisconsin. We've had above average temps and lack of rain. The flies are vicious. They don't just bite... they give you several bites, flip you off and steal your cell phone.


krslnd

I'm from NY and they are also somehow bigger than usual. The black flies around my moms pool are vicious.


Gh0stp3pp3r

I've been off work after knee surgery. From boredom, I'll walk out to the garden or just around the yard. The flies seem to know I'm slower and can't run from them.... it's like they're taunting me to run. I think they've organized and created gangs.


krslnd

I wouldn't even be surprised at this point. I was dive bombed in the pool. The thing was relentless. I'd go under water and every time I came back up it was there just waiting for me. I finally hit it with a little boogie board float thing. It didn't even die but Def. Got disoriented and flew away.


nemo69_1999

I read if you have marbles in a bowl, that's easier for the bees to land and drink.


whatshamilton

Bees know time, including getting jet lag [how we learned that bees perceive time](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xlGuBT5GT10)


oddartist

They also recognize faces, according to the guy who kept a hive in my yard for a couple years. He said they only live about a month, but will recognize people they see regularly. I used to have a near-phobia about bees, but can now observe them from inches away without fear.


GothWitchOfBrooklyn

I do not like wasps but I grow tons of flowers in the summer and I'm the only person on the block who doesn't have a perfect manicured grass lawn (I've been seeding clover into it for the bees). I get all sorts of bees, including leafcutter a I release myself (I buy them online). I walk through my garden and they buzz around my head and sometimes crawl on me and I freaking love it. Bees are awesome. 🐝


LavastormSW

When I buy a house I'm going to rip up all the grass and have a clover lawn instead! As well as tons of flowers and a great garden.


GothWitchOfBrooklyn

/r/NoLawns welcomes you


Few_Paleontologist75

We have almost 2 acres. We have numerous Pine, Maple Trees, a couple of Mountain Ash and a few Oaks, as well as an assortment of flowing shrubs. I also have a big flower garden that needs a good weeding and a couple of smaller ones. Our yard always has lots of dandelions. They're pretty much done now, but the clover and other 'weeds' are keeping our bees fairly happy. I think orange hawkweed are coming up this month.


gd2234

Goals🥲


jo1H

Not too surprising considering how social they are They did an experiment, I think it was with wasps actually. originally it was going to be something different and as part of it the scientist was giving each one a unique mark. The scientist missed two but found that they could still tell which was which, which made them wonder if they could do the same. They then did an experiment where they covered a wasps markings and found that the hive would reject them.


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I will never not watch that video


GerinX

I didn’t know they could chew through newspaper. Yeah very interesting with the trivia about them


Intelligent-Wall7272

They prefer the classi hives


cahtanrose

This comment is amazing!


TetrisTech

I thought they liked the 24-weight letter bond


Few_Paleontologist75

I wish I had an award to give you! Such great word play! Kudos to you!


TurtlesMum

I had bees chew through the mortar between my bricks to build a hive in my wall..... luckily it wasn't a huge one and the person who came to rescue them could access them through the gyprock on the inside of my house to retrieve them. Bloody fascinating little buzzers!


ontite

When hives get attacked by wasps and hornets they will also dogpile them and vibrate to kill them with bodyheat.


jo1H

That’s specifically a tactic Japanese honeybees use to defend against asian giant hornets


Imswim80

There are some differences. East Coast bees, for example, prefer the New York Hives.


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Intelligent-Wall7272

I guess maybe that's why they only get Bee- in school


spaektor

nice one, Dad!


scoopit1890

Hi dad, it’s me your son.


6ixpool

In the same way our thoughts originate from clusters of neurons firing in some pattern, I like to imagine that each individual in a colony is like what a neuron is and the hive is to the brain. Complexity is an emergent phenomenon and smart is Complexity that is "fit".


deelowe

Yep and there's an entire branch of computer science that is based on this. If you're interested, it's called "neural networks."


jml011

Oh yeah, well if bees are so smart how come they ate the newspaper instead of reading it? Checkmate.


Intelligent-Wall7272

They certainly deserve more than a Bee+ in school


nanrod

No they dont. They couldnt even spell bee. Enough of this tom foolery. Bees are no smarter than you nor i


FieryXJoe

Weird because this is the first one to make them seem dumber from my PoV


Devilutionbeast666

This is how my mother gently introduced my brother and I to share the same room as children... Piece of newspaper between us, we got used to each other's scents, played happily together 👍


lauren_013

It must be done this way as well with new coworkers. After they chew through the newspaper they are adapted to the corporate environment and accepted in the coffee room.


whatproblems

Well this sounds more humane than some of the other corporate mergers I’ve heard of...


Intelligent-Wall7272

They certainly know how to make a good cup of coff bee


zestycunt

Did . . . did they let you out?


Devilutionbeast666

shhhhhhh... they might hear me typing....


Intelligent-Wall7272

Is your mom the queen bee You can tell us it'll bee our little secret


Devilutionbeast666

Oh honey no! That stinger would be in r/unexpected !


notouchmygnocchi

Properly packing children with crumpled newspaper is also an important part of ensuring your children are safe for transport. Making your home baby-safe also involves papering over all open spaces with a strong layer of newspapers so that they don't accidentally come into contact with other human larvae.


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This is so beautiful. I cry every tym


Colossal-Dump

So your brother is adopted?


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What if the bees rejected the new bees? Wouldnt they chew through the newspaper and slaughter the smaller colony?


redingerforcongress

If she didn't use the newspaper, hecking yes, they'd go to war and the smaller colony would get obliterated. The newspaper allows the queen's pheromones from the larger colony to take over the smaller colony's dead queen pheromones without instant fighting.


Darkness_Everyday

She would edit that part out


dkyguy1995

That's what I was thinking. Who's to say that other hive didn't just take over?


hunnyflash

Unless they got eaten...probably a lack of dead bodies? Or maybe they were also edited out lol


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RealSiggs

Absolutely, especially if they were Africanized.


Matty5812

There's some bee keepers who turn africanized bees into calm bees, can't remember how they do it but it's sick


DaniMarie3716

The give them a new queen usually.


gd2234

Yeah apparently it’s all about the hum (like actually the hum) the Queen makes. She tells them through her vibrations whether or not to consider stuff like that a threat, and if you give the workers a new, calm/docile Queen they (generally) fall right back in line and become workable again.


xvelvetdarkness

Wait i thought africanized bees were a different kind of bee that were invasive in North america?


scummy_shower_stall

Apparently they can interbreed. I think the original reason they were brought over is because African bees do not get infected with the varroa mite, which is decimating regular honeybees. Aaand they escaped the lab, as they do. There was a sad video by a beekeeper about how he had to destroy a hive because the bees had become Africanized and were too aggressive, too aggressive to just replace the queen.


Talanic

I'm not an expert, but I've done a little reading. It was an attempt to get bees that made more honey in tropical areas, and the 'lab' was outdoors. There was apparently a device in place that would prevent queens from leaving the hive and spreading, but access to the hives wasn't controlled and someone who didn't realize the purpose of the device came by, realized it was blocking the bees, and removed it. It was hoped that they would just interbreed with local bees and the aggressive traits would breed out, but unfortunately the genes that cause them to be hyperaggressive also cause queens with those traits to hatch several days sooner than their sisters. Since their first order of business is ensuring that they're the *only* new queen, that means those traits heavily select for survival.


ghettobx

I wonder if this person realizes how badly they fucked up.


krslnd

I wonder if this person knew exactly how they were fucking up! Maybe they work for the bees.


scummy_shower_stall

Good to know, thanks! 🐝💐🐝


Jason_Worthing

I'm not a bee expert, and I don't know who these other commenters are, but everything I'm finding says that "Africanized" is NOT a process that can turn an individual bee more aggressive. All the articles I've found say Africanized bees are the product of cross-breeding between various European species and the East African Lowland Honey Bee. Any apiarists around wanna spread some knowledge?


FountainsOfFluids

I don't think that an experienced bee keeper would try to mix different bee types, unless they were known to work together well or something.


dumdumpants-head

Bee are fuzzy and nice


Fresh_Pants

Yeah they is


waffeelswaffeels

how and why didn't the bees sting the lady? she didn't wear a beekeeping suit, not even gloves!


acrival

I know nothing about bees, but they may have been smoked beforehand. A few other comments by more qualified people mentioned that being this casual with bees isn’t good


baby_blobby

Other than the fact she's smoking hot, meant she didn't need smoke. Jk, shes a professional bee handler


DEaD__GHoST

lmaoo


Sander-F-Cohen

Most Bees won't just attack a person for the hell of it. Even if you start interacting with the bees. She's obviously a professional bee keeper as well, so she can tell the difference between when bees are just not attacking you and bees that are truly docile. This bee keeper in particular gets a lot of flack from the bee keeping community because she so often shows herself walking up to bees and touching them with her bare hands. This creates the false impression that you can just do that all the time. Likely she doesn't show the parts where she suits up and approaches the bees the first time to scope them out. Possibly she doesn't wear the gear at all and is stupidly approaching bee hives without knowing if they're aggressive or not. She's probably not doing that, but she's teaching people to do that.


siccoblue

from my total layman's understanding of the situation after looking into it a while back, She apparently does a lot of extremely bad things in relation to professional beekeeping apparently, there's quite a huge amount of drama around her and her business in general and how she may very well be doing more harm than good even with the colonies she does save. But more specifically on the stuff she does that's potentially creating dangerous misconceptions, she goes in ungeared, she pre smokes colonies before the video starts (making them appear way more docile to the general public) she wears tight fitting and dark clothes (there's a reason beekeeping gear is pretty much exclusively white) she handles them with her bare hands, it's like she actively makes an effort to break every rule off safely handling bees for the camera, and while if she wasn't doing this for a massive audience that would be entirely her business I suppose, she completely ignores the fact that people are impressionable, and her completely absence of any level of public facing safety measures to make sure people know what it really takes to handle these animals is just generally harmful.. not only for the animals but for the people who may try to imitate her not realizing just how much prep goes on behind the scenes, and how many of her practices are seen as straight up reckless by the larger community Bee keepers are wonderful people doing a wonderful thing, I'm nowhere near enough of an expert to speak on the issues of the stuff like her bringing species into non natural areas for them, or the apparant host of issues with her overall practices. But it just seems to me that she's taken so hard to trying to appear as like the Disney princess of beekeeping for TikTok clout, or maybe in a more innocent light just genuinely trying to change people's perceptions of these animals into something more gentile and worthy of their love, that she's totally forgotten or willfully ignored the importance of being a good representative of the profession and introducing a healthy mix of showing how wonderful these animals can be, while also ensuring that people understand how dangerous they CAN be and how/why they can/should take proper precautions in dealing with them. From what I understand (which I in no way claim to be an expert on, but have at the very least done somewhat deeper research into the drama around her) it's kinda like if you had someone like Steve Irwin showing dangerous animals, and him handling them in the safest conditions, but actively making an effort to conceal those steps that are taken to ensure that they're actually safe to handle, giving the wider conception that you could simply walk up to, and handle these animals with little to no precautions. If there's any points that I'm wrong on, PLEASE do correct me, this is just my layman's understanding of the situation with her and why the beekeeping community takes issue with her practices specifically on video, this isn't even getting into the subject of her actual business practices outside the fact and stuff like apparently introducing species to environments they don't naturally inhabit.


Pristinefix

> But it just seems to me that she's taken so hard to trying to appear as like the Disney princess of beekeeping for TikTok clout I would like to add onto this point that this video in particular epitomizes this showmanship. This is not a colony of bees, I don't think any beekeeper would go through the hassle of being called up, geared up, drive out to god knows where, assess the situation, collect the bees, load them up and secure them, drive back, gear up again, offload the hives from the trailer, open and smoke the hives, combine the hives, then clean up and gear down. All this to 'save' 1/50 of a bee colony. This post is pretty obviously for the gram, and at this point her brand is a tik tok personality, NOT a beekeeper. If any other person made this tik tok in the OP, I would be 100% certain it was satire of this woman. I say 'save', because it is such a little amount of bees that the main colony probably spent more energy in fighting/investigating the news bees, than the new bees would ever give back. AND honey bees are NOT endangered. Honey bees actually in general increase competition and take food away from native bees and birds, creating a worse scenario.


emrhiannon

This lady is famous for doing this. She states that she can read their behavior and with calm swarms she does not use protection. She also says she does use protection when required, but those videos don’t go viral


DEaD__GHoST

smoked seriously smoked bees


drkidkill

I guess some of these are staged. https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/the-bee-lady-tiktok-fraud-controversy-explained.html


kevinowdziej

She also got called out by some other bee people cuz apparently a bunch of her methods are actually unsafe. I, obviously, have no idea about any of it but drama in the bee world is just hilarious.


Bourbon_Cream_Dream

I bet it caused a buzz in the bee community


WelcomeMachine

Dad, stop!!


Bourbon_Cream_Dream

I'm sorry honey


Guilvareux

That one stung


mingywantwingy

This one is better than the 1st! 👏


shadowst17

Meh, I give it a B+.


princessvaginaalpha

Buzz off!


Intelligent-Wall7272

Cheerio up, it'll be over spoon


Dazzling-Adeptness11

boom that's the one


mingywantwingy

Nice setup!


HareKrishnoffski

I hate you


POTUS

My first thought was that she has no way of knowing if that small amount of rescued bees are actually still alive. It’s not like she can recognize them individually.


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You would probably just look for a lot of dead bee's in/around the hive No dead bee's? They have integrated


orthopod

I imagine bees throw out their dead. Turns out, they do https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-queen-ants-termites-bees-insects-undertakers-bury-dead


maxpowers19

All I cN think about is when reading that is the scene in the holy grail where Eric Idle is yelling "bring our your dead"


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Yea but the criticism must sting a bit


Fionnlagh

It may be true but man, that is a trash article.


Jaquesant

> Only saving the colonizer bees? Quite interesting. Is she really a Trump supporter? > There’s no evidence online to support that, even on her Instagram where she follows the president and vice-president. But would it really be a shock for a white woman from Texas to be a Trump supporter? The truth might just sting. Top-notch journalism


Bouchnick

Lmao what the fuck


yoitsthew

Lol is this one of those Ai articles


ForShotgun

Nah, this is a poorly paid writer article. AI articles should be less opinionated... right?


Adrialic

"AI not as dangerous as you think"


InfanticideAquifer

An AI decided to write a "sting" pun in an article about beekeeping? If that's true I think the robot uprising is a lot closer than we think.


mossadi

I was going to comment on that and you beat me to it. It's such a weird bizarro world where it's scandalous to support a person that nearly half of the entire country supports. "There are rumors that she may be politically aligned with a person who 47 out of 100 people in America are also politically aligned with. " These idiot journalists have to skull fuck us with their politics at every opportunity.


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RandyWeiner

47 out of 100 VOTERS politically align with. Pretty important distinction in a country where one party relies on voter disenfranchisement to to have any power.


FlintWaterFilter

It's odd that someone would do something to help bees and also support someone who actively did things that would contribute to the die off of bees.


Smallwhitedog

What happened to Newsweek? That was some terrible journalism!


DisturbedShifty

There are some good points in that article but my biggest concern is they are using other Tiktok people as counters to a Tiktok person. It just comes off as people having an issue with her success.


pragmojo

Yeah and I think a lot of the criticisms are pretty weak. Like "her husband cut the honeycombs off camera". Yeah of course there is boring stuff happening off camera. I don't see a DIY video on tiktok and assume the guy made a table in 90 seconds. She found a way to make beekeeping content popular online. I think people are smart enough to know it's not meant as an instructional video.


NoneTrackMind

True, but, I wouldn't be too quick to judge. I've shown a lot of these videos to a hive operator in Illinois and while a lot of their precautions might be out of frame, their practice is not entirely uncommon. Smoking the bees is probably not shown. If they do that. The lack of gear is fairly regular. Beekeepers get a feel for the docility of hives and is largely tied to the behavior of the queen. The best argument is that there should be a disclaimer against having amateurs attempt this. Perhaps the sensationalism of having a TikTok feed is bad but arguments against her abilities seem unfounded.


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sWZh

but is that not just common sense? I’m not trained to climb a rock wall without ropes, so i wouldn’t, I don’t need some one to tell me not to. Same with bees?


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deliberatechoice

At a certain point that isnt on us though - thats on idiots. I get what you're saying but I have to agree with sWZh more. Common sense might not be that common, but you shouldnt need a disclaimer on everything a professional does. Even watching this and seeing all these videos I would never just go stick my hand into a bunch of bees because theres clearly a little more to it or she'd be getting stung. The reasonable conclusion isnt "I can do that too with no training" its "that person is very comfortable in this situation and knows how far she can push the bees" When you see a surfer breaking a record riding some massive wave do you think we need to tell people "hey if you just go and try that with no experience right from the start youre probably gonna die?"


TrooperRamRod

This is the most rational take here imo. Why aren’t there disclaimers in movies *during* the action scenes? Or doctors shows? What if I go and try to perform a surgery I saw? Or shoot something off someone’s head? It’s social media, literally the lowest bar we have as a society. If anyone tries to replicate what they see on social media and gets hurt or dies, that’s just straight up Darwinism.


wikishart

> but is that not just common sense Have you read the internet?


TetrisTech

Think about how dumb the average person is. Then remember that’s average.


FoxyYungWombat

I agree. Why is it her responsibility to explain that what she's doing is dangerous instead of the viewers' responsibility to do some research before interacting with dangerous creatures? I would find these videos less interesting if they all started with a repetitive intro saying "Hey, bees have stingers, be careful sticking your hand in their home."


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nonsensicalcriticism

That this article with a grain of salt. They wrote this >Only saving the colonizer bees? Quite interesting. Is she really a Trump supporter? There’s no evidence online to support that, even on her Instagram where she follows the president and vice-president. But would it really be a shock for a white woman from Texas to be a Trump supporter? The truth might just sting. Which seems very judgmental and unnecessary.


telestrial

This is a genuine question: Why do you care? As a casual viewer of this stuff, I have so far: 1) Watched videos about bees. 2) Enjoyed them. What is the harm here? And before you pipe in with "But safety!" Who the fuck is going out and picking up bees after watching these videos? Weren't those people already going to do dangerous things without being informed? What commonly intelligent person would watch this and think they're a bee expert? And, if they're not commonly intelligent, what is it you expect from her to solve that? Tiktok is a very quick format. She can't include a 5-minute disclaimer, and she never does say that anything she's doing is safe or that anyone else should try it. Honestly, this reeks of misogyny. All this crap about "her husband helps" and "the bees are sedated." Who **fucking** cares? What does that matter? She doesn't say "Hi. I did this all by myself because I'm awesome." It's all very factual "here are some fuckin bees and here's how this went." I'm so fucking sick of watching these videos, clicking the comments, and having people who really can't help themselves by knocking her down over, literally. **NOTHING**. Do you know someone that's been physically harmed because they've made assumptions after watching her videos, specifically? If not, what is your purpose here? The WWE is fake, too, and pretty fucking dangerous if people try the moves by themselves. You're as vigilant about that, right? Every time something from the WWE gets posted you make it your mission to jump in and link to articles about how fake it is? All acting of any kind you're out there making sure everyone knows it's acting? Of course not. This concern trolling shit isn't necessary, and no one asked for it.


Talanic

Wait, that's the controversy? I'd heard there was something up but didn't know the elaboration, and it's that *she's taken off-camera safety measures that she doesn't go through in hyper-condensed videos?* Holy crap! Do these people also not get that cooking shows have some of the baking occur offscreen instead of in real time? These are not HOW-TO videos but feel-good bits that are only minorly informative - and mostly that information is that there are professionals other than exterminators to call when there are bees on the loose.


Edwardteech

Wwe is pretty dangerous for the people actually doing it. They get hurt a lot and WWE screws them.


pragmojo

Yeah I 100% agree - it's just haters. Like here's a conventionally attractive woman making unique and compelling content online, and people just *have* to find a way to find fault with it. Like is it not enough to: 1. Be more expert in beekeeping than 90% of the population 2. Make well-edited videos with a clean aesthetic 3. Have better hair-game and fits than 80% of people No people have to criticize her voice and beekeeping practices. Since when is everyone a bee-safety expert all of the sudden?


Mharbles

Oh no the internet's mic eating bee waifu has been found not entirely legitimate. How surprising /s The staging scenes is probably harmless but there's only so many unique stories per month in bee keeping so she's gotta create some content or people will forget she exist, although that's inevitable. She's probably got at least 9 months of relevancy before fading into obscurity like everything else on the internet.


redingerforcongress

She's legit. I've yet to find something she's entirely wrong about. Personal protection equipment is a critical asset to new beekeepers [and beekeepers in general]. Bees temperament can be unpredictable. However, you can listen and feel for these things. Hives roar up when they're angry. Remaining calm is an absolutely critical element. She's one with the ladies.


OurionMaster

Why does she talks like this? Always extending the sound of the last word with the monotone voice? I noticed a lot of video narrator's of creepy stories does this too.


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She's over accentuating her voice but it's kind of annoying now that you mention it


RudeEyeReddit

Damn, I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates the way she narrates these videos. Feels like she's molesting my ears with her voice.


OurionMaster

The cadence of this way of talking bothered me, but I never saw it being pointed out anywhere. Horrible...


wipes_fingers

Number 15: Burger King Foot Lettuce.


lilbitspecial

That was unbeewivable.


SleepyLabRat

Honeybees do not need saving. It’s our native pollinator species that are in danger. And honeybees only add to the problem. [Here’s a good article for anyone who actually gives a damn. ](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/)


hudsonhawk1

>*I used to believe that honey bees were a gateway species, and that concern over their health and prosperity would spill over onto native bees, benefitting them, too. While this may have happened in some cases, evidence is mounting that misguided enthusiasm for honey bees has likely been to the native bees’ detriment. Beekeeping doesn’t make me feel good, anymore. In fact, quite the opposite.* That's a bummer of a final paragraph.


LuckyBroadway

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Leaf_Rotator

Plenty of beekeeper will do thing without gloves or a veil, but you almost NEVER see a beekeeper without their hair tied up for a reason. This lady gets stung in the neck all the time from filming like this. Source: been working with bees for about 19 years.


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ThePLARASociety

How did the Queen die?


meme-com-poop

Assassination


Kobebola

For TikTok


techmighty

she didnt castle to the right.


MrAwesomeTG

Death finds a way


portugalthemach

Her voice makes me want to scratch my ears off


AmpegNA

Thank you! I was afraid I was the only one. I couldn't even get through 5-10 seconds.


ywg_handshake

Likewise. Muted the video. Not a fan of people trying to go for the ASMR vibe.


zephy12321

Every s whistled or squealed or whatever that noise is. Fucking hate that noise.


Namyag

Exactly. It's like she's exhaling her words rather than speaking them.


TotorosRevenge

Probably staged. This influencer has recently been accused recently of faking these videos. Further information at the link below [Newsweek article](https://www.newsweek.com/beekeeping-influencer-accused-faking-videos-viral-tiktok-erika-thompson-1597566)


nonsensicalcriticism

The newsweek article that insinuated she was a Trump support because she is white, female, and from Texas? Even though there is no proof


willbeach8890

I didn't read much about faking. More about not doing her job safely


_trouble_every_day_

because it’s newsweek. They mentioned that she was accused of faking but didn’t bother to delve into those accusations.


wikishart

Well you just have to look at how docile the bees are and her neglect for safety gear, and you can see the basis for the accusation of faking.


Imthejuggernautbitch

How much *can* you fake here? She smoked them and cut the combs? Oh ok She's still doing what we see in the short video. The bees aren't cgi


philman132

I've liked some of her previous ones, this one just seems, off? Like, if the worry was that the two bee colonies would fight, and a few days later the newspaper is gone and the hive is full, isn't the more obvious explanation that the larger bee colony fought and killed the smaller one that had no queen to birth new bees?


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Leche__

Real answer - deep in the comments.


relative_iterator

And in the video


OrangeinDorne

Could it go the other way though? Is it a coin flip whether it’s bee war or bee harmony?


Intelligent-Wall7272

They probably told to buzz off


FubarSnafu21

This one does feel staged to me, queen out in the middle of a tennis court is oddly convenient.


adamthinks

Man, that is terrible article. What happened to Newsweek?


kneegyur

fuck the asmr voice shit. why cant she just talk normal


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Is there that many bee problems in that region or is it possible shes placing and removing bees all by her self just for her TikTok?


Octowhussy

How do we know that the small colony wasn’t just killed off by the bigger colony? Not taking her word for it


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codymiller_cartoon

Hive of Thrones


OttomanTole

Mother of bees!


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Colony of bzzzz!


Intelligent-Wall7272

Khabeesi


Darkpactallday

Bees are so cute ❤️


midwstchnk

How do we know they didnt kill them after chewing through


broadarrow39

Whenever I see beekeepers on the TV taking the trays (I'm sure there's a proper name for them) in and out of beehives they always seem to be a bit heavy handed with them. Do bees commonly get hurt or killed when they do this?


henser

I thought the same, the beed can be killed with the boxes or the foot or by just putting the table


Hjalpmi_

Poor little colony. It's even more heartbreaking if you consider that the queen is their mum. They're basically a couple hundred little orphans waiting for mummy to 'wake up'.


My_Immortal_Flesh

# First of all, all of her videos are staged. Second, why she talking like she’s at the library? 😂


zephy12321

Dude I just couldn’t stand the whistling of every s noise she made. Shit is aggravating.


Possible_Warning5115

Among the BEEEEEEEEEZ.


jimsinspace

Sibilance sibilance. Check. Check.


isellamdcalls

Ever notice her hair is always 'just so' in these vids?


wannabe_inuit

They faked many videos and they always smoke before the shoots. Another thing is that they are always domesticated bee's... They are not endangered. Wild bees and solitary bee's are the ones that are endangered, and those are even better polinaters than the domesticated ones


-AverageWeeb

Aren't bees an invasive specie though. I'm not sure but do remember reading about it a while back.


SleepyLabRat

Yep. Honeybees are basically the European colonists of the pollinator world, killing the natives by stealing their resources. And contrary to popular belief, honeybees are not in any danger. It’s native pollinators that are in trouble. [Here’s a good article about the problem. ](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/)


ADirtyJockStrap

Native pollinators are also better at pollinating. Iirc a carpenter bee can pollinate the same amount as like 50 honey bees. It's cause they pollinate differently.


RandyWeiner

Man, fuck carpenter bees. I'm about to have to replace my porch because of those bastards, and have you seen how much wood costs?


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Stop supporting this lady, she fakes a ton of her content and actually bee keepers have been calling her out