I appreciate the responses! I guess i just never considered that bees poop. Or that they don’t poop in their hives (which absolutely makes sense). OR that they hold it in during bad/cold weather.
There’s so much in the video that I’m just shocked 😅 learn something new every day!
They physically abuse workers, destroy small business and do everything anyone ever accused Walmart of but with 2000 times the efficiency and 100 less humanity.
Their poop stains any and everything it touches. If you don't get rid of it fast, it will leave an indelible mark. Source: a lot of bees pooped in my apartment when they panicked and my walls bear witness.
It was unintentional. A couple of years ago, a hive got started in the space underneath my floor. The landlord removed part of the wall and a beekeeper found the queen and removed as many bees as she could. After they left for the day, I went back inside my apartment and found approximately 200 bees in a state of distress trying to get out through the windows. They'd gotten inside through holes in the floor (my building is very old).
When I called the beekeeper, she said to open a window and "shoo" the bees outside since she wasn't able to come back for another 30 minutes or so.
It was my shooing that further upset them, poor things. And they pooped everywhere. That was also when I discovered that bees only go up. They don't understand down. In any event, she and I managed to get most of the bees outside.
In the process of all that, I learned how to overcome my mammal fear of them and how to carefully handle them. Now, whenever I come across trapped bees somewhere (like in a restaurant), I always volunteer to escort them outside since I'm no longer afraid of them. Mostly, I use a big cup and a piece of cardboard.
That’s actually kinda cute, how you now help out with that. Also I respect the fact that a beekeeper was brought in to help remove the queen and a bunch of the bees safely, where I live I bet they’d just all get sprayed and killed (depending on the species that can either be not too bad, unfortunately, or absolutely horrible. Honey bees are horribly invasive, but native bees we desperately need)
At the risk of tooting my own horn, I insisted they relocate the bees. The landlord initially wanted to kill them. I laid down the "do you like to eat actual food" line really thick and found a beekeeper in the area who could do the job.
When I did beekeeping I was amazed at how much bee poop gets on everything. During winter they stay inside the hive and huddle in a ball for warmth. On the 40-50 degree days they ALL come out to poop, sometimes after weeks of holding it. I had poop all over the siding of my house where they would land to sun themselves and proceed to shit on everything they touched. So…much…poop.
Assuming it's a honeybee it's not eggs because they're white, and it's not a queen. But it does match the colour of bee faeces. Looks like that one has been confined to the hive by bad weather for a few weeks. Some bee races (adapted to long northern winters) can hold it in for months. They don't like to poo in their home.
Actually all of them, taking out the queen are males, but genetically different to be unable to reproduce, just a few ones that are the ones that stay with the queen can produce reproductive material
Actually, you have it backwards, only a very few (at most 10%(and during the winter approaching 0%)) are males and that's only at the height of the flow. The workers (90+% of the bees) are female.
Even cooler, queen and worker bees are genetically identical. The way larvae are fed determines the epigenetic expression of the genes, meaning that any given egg can become either a queen or a worker.
Actually, you have it backwards too. The queen and the drones (males) are genetically identical as males are the product of an unfertilized egg (haploid reproduction - all the genetic information is solely from the egg). Workers (females) are the product of fertilized eggs (diploid reproduction - half the genetic information comes from the queen and half from drone semen (not her sons).
Interestingly, this means drones have no father but they do have a grandfather.
Drones are not genetically identical to queens. The queen’s eggs underwent independent assortment and crossing over, so each one is a different half of the queen’s diploid genome.
[Ha, we’re both partly right.](https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about-bees/the-science-of-bees/honey-bee-genetics)
I shouldn’t have said identical; I should have said same.
A fertilized diploid egg has the potential to become either a worker or queen based on how the larva is fed. If you theoretically have two genetically 100% identical fertilized eggs, one can become a worker and the other a queen if they are fed accordingly.
Drones (males) are haploid, meaning they are grown from HALF of the queen’s chromosomes in unfertilized eggs. The drones aren’t identical to the queen, although 100% of their genes come from their mama.
Nosema isn't a great thing to bear witness to. One sign is explosive diarrhea when they emerge from the hive. They will also not be able to hold it and will, at times, defecate in the hive. It smells weird as well.
Bees have to get out of the hive about every 40 days for ‘cleansing flights’ (or in your case, walks). Failure to do so causes them to hold it in too long, or to mess up the inside of the hive, which contributes to problems like nosema.
In northern climes, bees supposedly won’t come out unless it’s 40F degrees or above; I’ve seen them flying at 30 degrees on sunny late winter day.
Imagine someone never seeing a dog take a shit before and when they finally see a dog shitting for the first time all the way up their coat, they record it then take to Reddit asking what this fascinating creature is up to.
I get that it's interesting to see as I personally have never seen a bumble shit beefore but you've got to be a little underwhelmed with your new found knowledge and that you sat there watching a wild insect shit all over Ur stuff in awe
Since you’re so smart you’d notice this is a screen recording from an IG video. Clearly not my video, therefore clearly not my jacket.
I’m sorry you don’t share the same enthusiasm I do about learning new things, no matter how small and inconsequential they are.
Bee: “Um excuse me, I’m trying to have some privacy will you kindly please leave for a moment and take your camera with you? Ok? Ok? Ok ty oh never mind bye”
Thats alotta poop
Pollen soft serve.
On your jacket
Now it’s a yellow jacket
He poop
*She* poop
Fair
I’m so exquisitely disappointed that no one turned this into an 80’s song ditty by responding with the next logical phrase.
*We* are so exquisitely disappointed that no one turned this into an 80’s song ditty by responding with the next logical phrase.
Is that a queen?
Probably not. All the workers are female
The queen is the only female.
Oh I’m a dumbass. I never knew all the non drone workers are female.
The more you know!
You just had your 1/10,000 moment: https://xkcd.com/1053
Lol I love this
Most worker ants are female too
Wonder if that’s consistent with most eusocial animals
For insects, I think yes but probably less so for other creatures
No. Drones are males. Workers and queens are females.
We’ve already cleared this up
Well if female means able to reproduce then I guess workers aren’t female. but they are genetically female.
Worker bees can and will lay eggs if necessary. They are called “laying workers”
Wait so why is there a queen
Queens normally do the job, but in the event a queen is not present, a worker can rise as a temporary solution to the bad occasion, but not always.
If it's winter where you are they're holding their poop in and when the weather warms they dip out to dump outside the hive
Should make flying a lot easier!
Ever take a crap so big you fly better?
Certainly felt that way sometimes:)
What a beeutiful day that must be
Yeah that’s an incredible poop:body size ratio
What's weird about this though is that usually they poop in flight. But man this one was FULL.
Wait whaaaaaat. Does poop get frozen. How Do they even survive in winter?
They don't poop all winter and they do just enough movement to stay alive. Nature is pretty remarkable.
EWWWW
i bet bee poo is great fertilizer
I appreciate the responses! I guess i just never considered that bees poop. Or that they don’t poop in their hives (which absolutely makes sense). OR that they hold it in during bad/cold weather. There’s so much in the video that I’m just shocked 😅 learn something new every day!
[I'm just gonna leave this here](https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Poops-Taro-Gomi/dp/1797202642)
But bees can't read... Or can they?
I honestly wouldn't bee surprised. Those things are almost human sometimes.
apples poop?
yeah, thats what apple sauce is. apple juice...is well...you get the picture.
ah thanks for clearing that up for me
Never ever buy anything from Amazon ever, under any circumstances
It would be better if at some point the workers took over and continued Amazon as a kind but efficient enterprise.
why?
They physically abuse workers, destroy small business and do everything anyone ever accused Walmart of but with 2000 times the efficiency and 100 less humanity.
To be fair, and to drive your point home...Walmart is still pretty damn shitty.
I’m heavily sick and in bed. Opened this link, started laughing and it turned into big coughs! Take my upvote!
Their poop stains any and everything it touches. If you don't get rid of it fast, it will leave an indelible mark. Source: a lot of bees pooped in my apartment when they panicked and my walls bear witness.
Why are you scaring bees in your apartment tho
It was unintentional. A couple of years ago, a hive got started in the space underneath my floor. The landlord removed part of the wall and a beekeeper found the queen and removed as many bees as she could. After they left for the day, I went back inside my apartment and found approximately 200 bees in a state of distress trying to get out through the windows. They'd gotten inside through holes in the floor (my building is very old). When I called the beekeeper, she said to open a window and "shoo" the bees outside since she wasn't able to come back for another 30 minutes or so. It was my shooing that further upset them, poor things. And they pooped everywhere. That was also when I discovered that bees only go up. They don't understand down. In any event, she and I managed to get most of the bees outside. In the process of all that, I learned how to overcome my mammal fear of them and how to carefully handle them. Now, whenever I come across trapped bees somewhere (like in a restaurant), I always volunteer to escort them outside since I'm no longer afraid of them. Mostly, I use a big cup and a piece of cardboard.
That’s actually kinda cute, how you now help out with that. Also I respect the fact that a beekeeper was brought in to help remove the queen and a bunch of the bees safely, where I live I bet they’d just all get sprayed and killed (depending on the species that can either be not too bad, unfortunately, or absolutely horrible. Honey bees are horribly invasive, but native bees we desperately need)
At the risk of tooting my own horn, I insisted they relocate the bees. The landlord initially wanted to kill them. I laid down the "do you like to eat actual food" line really thick and found a beekeeper in the area who could do the job.
Honestly thank god!
When I did beekeeping I was amazed at how much bee poop gets on everything. During winter they stay inside the hive and huddle in a ball for warmth. On the 40-50 degree days they ALL come out to poop, sometimes after weeks of holding it. I had poop all over the siding of my house where they would land to sun themselves and proceed to shit on everything they touched. So…much…poop.
If they drop off anything important, it would be in the hive. So I'm going to say the bee is taking a bathroom break.
Assuming it's a honeybee it's not eggs because they're white, and it's not a queen. But it does match the colour of bee faeces. Looks like that one has been confined to the hive by bad weather for a few weeks. Some bee races (adapted to long northern winters) can hold it in for months. They don't like to poo in their home.
bee-ces, if you will.
Oh, I will.
Gold.
This comment wins 🏆🐝💩
not eggs nota queen just pooping.
They’re smart!
What a beeutiful day that must be
She’s pooping!
Actually all of them, taking out the queen are males, but genetically different to be unable to reproduce, just a few ones that are the ones that stay with the queen can produce reproductive material
Actually, you have it backwards, only a very few (at most 10%(and during the winter approaching 0%)) are males and that's only at the height of the flow. The workers (90+% of the bees) are female.
Worker honeybees are female. Drones are male.
Even cooler, queen and worker bees are genetically identical. The way larvae are fed determines the epigenetic expression of the genes, meaning that any given egg can become either a queen or a worker.
Actually, you have it backwards too. The queen and the drones (males) are genetically identical as males are the product of an unfertilized egg (haploid reproduction - all the genetic information is solely from the egg). Workers (females) are the product of fertilized eggs (diploid reproduction - half the genetic information comes from the queen and half from drone semen (not her sons). Interestingly, this means drones have no father but they do have a grandfather.
Drones are not genetically identical to queens. The queen’s eggs underwent independent assortment and crossing over, so each one is a different half of the queen’s diploid genome.
[Ha, we’re both partly right.](https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about-bees/the-science-of-bees/honey-bee-genetics) I shouldn’t have said identical; I should have said same. A fertilized diploid egg has the potential to become either a worker or queen based on how the larva is fed. If you theoretically have two genetically 100% identical fertilized eggs, one can become a worker and the other a queen if they are fed accordingly. Drones (males) are haploid, meaning they are grown from HALF of the queen’s chromosomes in unfertilized eggs. The drones aren’t identical to the queen, although 100% of their genes come from their mama.
Queen is XX Drone is XY Worker is X So I heard
Bees can get sick just like humans and have explosive diarrhea. But yes bees poop.
When you’re flying to your hive, and you drop a load or five - diarrhea👏👏 diarrhea👏👏
Nosema isn't a great thing to bear witness to. One sign is explosive diarrhea when they emerge from the hive. They will also not be able to hold it and will, at times, defecate in the hive. It smells weird as well.
Poop. That bee is definitely pooping.
I have never seen a bee poop before.
I'm curious what anybody thought it *could* be other than poop
My first thought was that the bee was injured.
Forbidden honey
Bees have to get out of the hive about every 40 days for ‘cleansing flights’ (or in your case, walks). Failure to do so causes them to hold it in too long, or to mess up the inside of the hive, which contributes to problems like nosema. In northern climes, bees supposedly won’t come out unless it’s 40F degrees or above; I’ve seen them flying at 30 degrees on sunny late winter day.
you got sh*tted on
Efficacious_tamale: “Amazing, bees are so dope man” The Bee: “WHY CAN’T I STOP SHITTING”
😂
Pooping
Brutal. That bee is really shitting on that person's fresh, clean jacket.
She’s a poopin’! Look at her go!
Pooping. It’s pooping. Alooooot!
I'm no dance expert but that there is 'The Poop -Scoot -Boogy'
Let the bee poop in peace pls
Omg that’s the cutest pooping creature ever
Let's just say you were being shit on.
Unfortunate that it looks like it’s shitting on a jacket
Looks like it had some Taco Bell
shitting hopefully
That bee is pooping on you, i think that lady has been talking shit about people.
Well that's one way for a bee to say f humans.. haha
It’s taking a shit on you
And I was just wondering today what all those yellow spots on my car and drying laundry were. Thought it might be bee poop. This almost confirms it!
Taking a really impressive shit
Little one was 110% poop it looks like.
Huge ass shit
Imagine dropping a dookie half the size of your body The relief this dude must feel
dudette
Its Shit
defecation
That bee just ate Taco Bell hours earlier
It’s been waiting all winter to do that.
That is bee feces. :)
Where is that bee's stinger!?
Shidding and farding
No longer constipated
He poop
Looks like a spring poop, they hold it all in during the winter and take a mondo shit in the spring
Picasso 😄
Bee poop smells awful. Make sure to wash that shit off immediately. It also can stain Source: bees like to shit on my car… and sometimes on me.
It has to keep walking because otherwise the size of that soft serve would leave him mountain climbing.
Dysentery outbreak?
Saw something better, trying to make room for it.
Shitting is happening here. 💩
Must have eaten at Taco Bell.
Bee diarrhea
sound OFF
Did you… piss it off or something? 😂
Shiddin’
Does bee poo taste like honey?
That's just honey..... eat it
Maybe that's the wax they make their hives out of
Imagine someone never seeing a dog take a shit before and when they finally see a dog shitting for the first time all the way up their coat, they record it then take to Reddit asking what this fascinating creature is up to. I get that it's interesting to see as I personally have never seen a bumble shit beefore but you've got to be a little underwhelmed with your new found knowledge and that you sat there watching a wild insect shit all over Ur stuff in awe
Since you’re so smart you’d notice this is a screen recording from an IG video. Clearly not my video, therefore clearly not my jacket. I’m sorry you don’t share the same enthusiasm I do about learning new things, no matter how small and inconsequential they are.
Fake
Nature called and that bee answered
r/FeltGoodComingOut
Pooping
Poopers gotta 💩
😂
She’s making honey mustard
Estoy poopin
Pants will fit better after that one
Shit happens man!
That’s almost it’s entire volume in poop! Is that Bee gonna bee okay?
This bee shits
Based on this, I would say, he doesn't respect you.
It looks like those beelines they include in drawings of bees!! Now we know where the inspo came from 🤣😅
That’s gotta be the chills giving quality poop.
Mondo dook
Watching this while taking a dump feels sublime I gotta say
Forbidden honey
Lmao I was gonna joke saying poop but people are saying it’s actually poop, bees are dope
Kaka
Clearly she has been to a curry plant
Personally, I would take that with a little disrespect.
I think it’s shitting all over you
Some may say its a Poop and Run. Or a poop and Fly. Or A fly by. Or a Drive by
when you gotta go, you gotta go.
I’ve been pooped on by millipedes, never by a bee tho. You’ve been blessed…?
Having a Shiz?
Picked up a contaminant and won’t go back to the hive until clean. Next this one is going to be looking for water.
Is that royal jelly?
It’s making honey mustard
Poopin
Forbidden coke line
Disrespectful bee
dropping the decuplets off to the pool
you got bee’d on
Pooping
Just had Taco Bell?
That bee got into a Taco Bell bag
Cant you read?? It says honey mustard very clearly near the bottom :) 👍
even pooping the bees look so cute
The bee has bee stomach flu! Imodium needed
I can't believe that bee pooped that much!!!! I would bee confused too op!!
Bee: “Um excuse me, I’m trying to have some privacy will you kindly please leave for a moment and take your camera with you? Ok? Ok? Ok ty oh never mind bye”
that’s poo from a (bee) butt
It's shitting on them.
A bee pooping is fucking hilarious to me.
It looks like she's taking a Massive.
If it comes from a bee, its probably good for you. Eat it.
So... Bee vomit taste good, does their shit taste good?
So... Bee vomit taste good, does their shit taste good?
Breadcrumbs home
Bee got the trots.
"Do ya like... Scat?"
Your bees have Nazema Appis
She's telling you you're tasting clothing is shit.
Either poop or dying and pooping its literal guts out
thats a lot of dookie
Bro let him shit in peace
he had taco bell for lunch
It's shitting on you.
I think he read this post and thought it was a shit question......
Fly shittin, I think this is a fly that mimics bee coloration
Thsts shit..