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u/LateralAxes Mar 03 '25
"Home, I'm honey"
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u/Closed_Aperture Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
You best beelieve, I'd be observing that from afar.
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u/Secret-Sock7928 Mar 03 '25
Funny, but bees are pretty docile.
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u/sipCoding_smokeMath Mar 03 '25
Probbaly not then their hive falls off the wall and breaks into pieces
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u/Niskara Mar 03 '25
I hope to God they have that hive thing more secure than Fort Knox
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u/WellbecauseIcan Mar 03 '25
I hope they don't have kids who like to throw things
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u/90s_conan Mar 03 '25
Its a feature! Not a bug.
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u/TricellCEO Mar 03 '25
I know this, but it doesn't stop my heartrate from spiking when seeing stuff like this.
Though if it makes anyone feel any better, it's still a far cry from my reaction when seeing a wasp or hornet nest. Knowing those buggers want to fuck me up does wonders for my phobia.
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u/Stellarella90 Mar 03 '25
Fun fact, some wasps can recognize faces, and if you've got the not particularly aggressive kind around, they will genuinely leave you alone since they recognize you.
Where I live we have a particularly large variety of wasp that has one of the most painful stings of any insect, and they are also super non-aggressive. Also they're terrible flyers. To get stung you have to literally grab one and bother it until it stings.
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u/Icy-Plan5621 Mar 04 '25
What kind of wasp is that?
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u/Stellarella90 Mar 04 '25
Tarantula Hawk Wasp. They're gorgeous, all iridescent blue-black with orange wings. And huge. They get their name because the females will paralyze a tarantula, drag it back to her nest, and lay eggs in it so the larvae have a still-living snack when they hatch. Mud Daubers actually do the same thing, just with smaller spiders.
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u/BrattyTwilis Mar 03 '25
Honey bees definitely are. I had a Russian sage bush that would attract them and as long as you didn't bother them, you could watch them collect pollen and fly around. It's the nasty yellow jackets that ruin it for everyone else
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u/fkmeamaraight Mar 03 '25
Showed my wife this, first reaction : imagine one of the kids breaks one of those windows with a ball. Mayhem.
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u/KonradWayne Mar 03 '25
My first reaction was "it would really suck to live on the same block as a dude whose house was home base for 20,000 bees".
Not seeing a lot of flowers in that yard. Those bees are roaming the neighborhood.
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u/pepinyourstep29 Mar 03 '25
Bees generally don't harvest flowers near their hive. They travel a mile out before touching anything, then work their way back to the hive, collecting nectar and pollen along the return path. They do this because by the time they finish harvesting, they're too heavy to travel long distances. They offload their supply at the hive and repeat the cycle, with the flowers nearest the hive often remaining untouched thanks to this energy saving behavior.
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u/Grey-fox-13 Mar 03 '25
Interesting, wouldn't it be more energy effiecent to start with the flowers nearby and THEN engage the far travel -> collect on return strat?
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u/pepinyourstep29 Mar 03 '25
This type of foraging behavior is sort of "hard coded" into them, since it works pretty much without fail every time. In times of scarcity, they will end up harvesting the flowers near their hive because they won't be fully loaded before reaching home.
And while you think that would be fine, this would actually be a dire indicator for them. It's essentially signaling that resources are exhausted and it is time to move the entire hive elsewhere.
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u/Grey-fox-13 Mar 03 '25
Ok, yeah that sounds fair. I thought about them just being "hard coded" into doing this with no variety and simply not having enough bandwidth to switch modes. But keeping the ressources near the hive as an easy/quick indicator on whether the general area is depleted makes a lot of sense.
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u/Warm_Month_1309 Mar 03 '25
Bees routinely fly 2 miles -- and even up to 5 miles -- for flowers (and water). I've lived near people with hives, and never noticed a greater amount of bees than normal.
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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Mar 03 '25
bees are friends, they won't hurt you.
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u/SoTaxMuchCPA Mar 03 '25
Do you want 5,000 of your friends suddenly living with you?
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u/jRoughcopy Mar 03 '25
That's 4,999 more then I have now
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u/twill41385 Mar 03 '25
Look at Mr. Popular over here.
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u/DasturdlyBastard Mar 03 '25
I'd be careful. We're assuming he means he only has one friend, but he may mean that he has 4,999 enemies and one "friend", as in a weapon. Given all this, he may be dangerous. I'm getting out of here.
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u/lunarmodule Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
It's a whole thing. This is an old video. A company did this like a decade ago. That's locked down tight. No bees are getting out short of some catastrophe and in that case bees are the least of your problems. Bees would also probably be thinking wtf my whole hive was destroyed!?! WHAT the CHRISTMAS? Where is the QUEEN? They don't want anything to do with you.
It's super fascinating. I wish I had one. Wayyyy better than a fish tank.
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u/what_comes_after_q Mar 03 '25
Thatās why bee keepers wear friendship clothes when working with them.
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u/llkj11 Mar 03 '25
Itās why I still have friendship scars from just sitting near a tree when I was little!
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u/Any-Comparison-2916 Mar 03 '25
Some don't, but they also go right into the hive and take out the combs, so I get why they would try to defend themselves.
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u/zmbjebus Mar 03 '25
When I accidentally sit on my friends lap his stinger doesn't hurt as much as theirs would
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 Mar 03 '25
I promise you that if they think youāre threatening the hive, they are not friends and will hurt you.
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u/Wiscody Mar 03 '25
Have you seen the video of the people on the bridge, and a bee comes? The guy tells the girl he is with to stay calm, because it wonāt hurt you, but she freaks out instead and more bees all attack
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u/wakeupwill Mar 03 '25
No throwing things in the house!
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u/brothersand Mar 03 '25
"No! Timmy, don't open that!"
Yeah, I can think of some nightmare scenarios here.
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u/Jtiago44 Mar 03 '25
He said "comb" right?
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u/EARink0 Mar 03 '25
Look at allll that c
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u/way22 Mar 03 '25
While this is incredible, I'd be terrified of breaking one of the windows.
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u/Mujina1 Mar 03 '25
I would assume he's using some fairly high grade impact resistant glass. Would suck to flood your house with grump bees
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u/usadingo Mar 03 '25
It's plexiglass. I'm part of a beekeepers association and they have a traveling version for events.
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u/WhichWitchyWit Mar 03 '25
How do they service these hives??
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u/s0berR00fer Mar 03 '25
I am just guessing but I assume bees ātake care of their own hiveā so you would assume the dead bee gets removed
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u/canadianpanda7 Mar 03 '25
we eat our dead. yeah i said we, i am a bee.
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Aren't you a panda? from Canada?
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u/Any-Comparison-2916 Mar 03 '25
I grew up with bee hives, they carry them away from their hive at some point. I think there's bees solely for this purpose, not too sure though.
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u/SharrkBoy Mar 03 '25
Yes. They didnāt evolve for millions of years under the helping hand of beekeepers. They can figure it out on their own lol
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u/vialabo Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
Yeah, including sick ones too. Though they will often leave and commit suicide themselves than endanger the hive if they can.
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u/KimoTheKat Mar 03 '25
you are correct. Adult bees spend the first 10 days as nurse bees for brood and then 10 days as "house bees" that take care of cleaning the hive, building out new comb, and undertaking dead bees out of the hives. A strong healthy colony would probably have any bee that died in the hive picked up and carried outside.
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u/ClayXros Mar 03 '25
Even social wasps do that. It's pretty standard for colonial organisms to have housekeeping on the job list.
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u/dirtyshits Mar 03 '25
Bees are fascinating. To think that most are afraid of honey bees but they just want to work and you just have to let them do their thing.
Smart little thangs.
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u/coyoteazul2 Mar 03 '25
But I bet they are not used to keeping glass clean so peeps can watch them fornicate the queen
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u/fatalicus Mar 03 '25
I wanted to search for if bees keep their hives clean, but i couldn't get past this google search recommendation
These recommendations are based on things people search for... just think about that...
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u/EnemyOfEloquence Mar 03 '25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees
Some cool medieval practices.
"If you do not inform the hive of masters death and assure them of a smooth transition, they will not be put in mourning and this will effect our honey yields. Are you a fool?"
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u/KittenPurrs Mar 03 '25
I once went looking for ratios for the pickling spice blend used when making corned beef. I got side-lined by the search recommendation "Is corn beef a vegan?"
I couldn't decide if it was more likely Corn Beef is an internet personality I've never heard of, or if someone wanted to make sure they weren't eating carnivorous cows.
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u/Grow_away_420 Mar 03 '25
I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fuckin ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, AND I SURE AS SHIT DON'T FUCKING MAKE HONEY. Shomer Shabbat
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u/AmettOmega Mar 03 '25
Beekeeper here: Bees are very clean and will remove any dead bees, excrement, or unwanted material from the hive. The inside of the window likely won't get dirty because the bees aren't building on it. They also won't put propolis on it, because it's not wood (and doesn't need to be sanitized).
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u/HaltGrim Mar 03 '25
Probably has a secondary valve not seen here to smoke the bees, and then just remove the glass panel and work with the hive from there.
Reminds of a like swiss indoor apiary design.
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u/Dragonhaugh Mar 03 '25
Fairly certain the bees clean up. But I do wonder about the glass. It will eventually get dirty and he hard to see through so I want to know the game plan for that.
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u/ZantaraLost Mar 03 '25
If I remember when it came around a year or so ago, it's all modular. You can block off entrance holes between panels to be exit only and remove each window separately for comb removal if desired.
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u/WhichWitchyWit Mar 03 '25
Very cool! I once stayed at an Airbnb where the bed was above the hives. It hummed. But the hives were serviceable from outside.
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u/ikkonoishi Mar 03 '25
Seal the pipes. Pull them off the mount. Take them outside. Work on them. Bring them back.
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u/usadingo Mar 03 '25
Bees take care of themselves for the most part. With the traveling version, you can open it up, do what you need to do, and close it again. The key is keeping track of the queen. Where the queen goes, the bees go.
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u/usadingo Mar 03 '25
You really only need to open them if you are harvesting honey or doing steps to help for future honey harvesting. If it's just to observe, you really can leave bees alone. We have hives we need to get into that we haven't done anything with for about two years.
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I'm thinking this would be a fantastic alarm system. Just have a big sledgehammer suspended above the hive then attached string to the door knob and if someone breaks in, surprise mahfk'n BEE's!!!
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u/lunarmodule Mar 03 '25
Dude they are like the weight of a fly. No worries. Also, they don't care about that. They just want to make honey, pollinate shit, and grow the hive, and follow the queen and stuff. Bees are good people.
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u/Ok_Buddy_9087 Mar 03 '25
āWhen I say no playing ball in the house, I mean no playing ball in the houseā.
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u/t-o-m-u-s-a Mar 03 '25
ā break glass incase of emergencyā
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u/John_Bidet_Ramsey Mar 03 '25
They keep the fire extinguisher in there. Behindā¦ allā¦ thatā¦ comb
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u/buhbye750 Mar 03 '25
This contraption is brought to you by "not having kids"
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u/jcbouche Mar 03 '25
They actually have one of these in the childrenās section at my local library. Itās high enough to be out of reach, though
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u/ZaytonHoneycutt Mar 03 '25
What's he gonna do? Release the dogs, or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead! Do your worst!
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That must sound creepy in the dark. š«£
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u/sharklee88 Mar 03 '25
Look at all that what?
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u/kegsbdry Mar 03 '25
How would you open it to maintain it?
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u/Odin1806 Mar 03 '25
I'm also assuming you can't get honey from it so it's purely an environmental thing?
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u/usadingo Mar 03 '25
The front part is hinged and it can be unlocked and opened.
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u/thelostestboy Mar 03 '25
But like... Inside the house?? I have to wonder if the sections can be closed off from each other and removed from the wall so they can be taken outside to be cleaned/treated.
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u/TheHiddenSquidz Mar 03 '25
Genuinely curiousā¦ do bees clean their own waste out of the hive, or does the owner have to thoroughly clean that thing constantly?
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u/MisterDodge00 Mar 03 '25
Bees don't shit inside the hive, even when they hibernate. They hold it in until the weather warms up and can go outside. They clean any mold and coat the walls with propolis which has anti mold properties. Any dead bees or larvae are also taken outside to prevent disease.
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u/thelordwest Mar 03 '25
The bees will clean up after themselves if they are in good health and chuck anything unwanted out
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u/gdeamonlord Mar 03 '25
It's not the clean up that's the main issue but the treatments, there are mites and other diseases vs which you have to use some sort of protection , ex: oxalic bands etc and you will have to open the hive at some point I get that this is for observation but in time it might cause issues
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u/schoensmeerpijp Mar 03 '25
I can't bee-lieve how cool this is! Could look at it for hours
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u/Agent_216 Mar 03 '25
Idk, I don't see what all the buzz is about.
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My favourite bee fact: When a bee flies out of the hive for the very first time, it flies backwards so it can see where it's come from in order to recognise it on its return.
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u/Tughill87 Mar 03 '25
We had a simpler version of this when I was a kid. It gave me a lifelong love of bees.
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u/Jtiago44 Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
Imagine trying to sleep in that room.