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NOT THE BEES
(thelemmy.club)
Are those zombees?
Or are they boobees?
Leave them alone probably better humans didn't know what they do.
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.
Zombees?
I never knew bees could live that long
Honey bee Queens can live for about 3 years. Workers vary. Winter workers have shorter lifespans due to high activity, while the winter bees which just need to be fat and huddle together in the hive to prevent all the bees from freezing to death can live for about 6 months. As the queen gets older and stops laying as much, the workers will eventually kill her and allow one of that season's new queens to replace her.
This hive us huge though. No one queen could support a hive if 5.5 million so I'm guessing this must actually be a number of hives in close proximity.
I used to keep bees. Fucking stressful stuff.
If we let nature rule we'd have ao many more interesting phenomena and beings to study and learn from.
The curse is now free.
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
Cryptkeeper: and remember kiddies, you’d better bee-have yourselves or you’ll have a real SWARMageddon! AAhhahahahahaha
Should've said "beeneath a cemetery"
So they went and disturbed it. Real nice, assholes. Streak fucking ruined.
Bee 1: bzzzz *wiggle*
Bee 2: bzzz bzzzz *wiggle*
Bee 1: bz-
(Roof tears open)
Science-type person: Ay what y’all got goin’ in here?! 🤩
(Sign, “Days Without Disturbance” rolls over from 36,501 to zero)
buzz kill
Zombees
DON'T PAIN OPEN INSIDE
DON’T HONEY OPEN INSIDE
I’ll do what I want and don’t cal me honey
One day some poor construction workers will do remodelations around that area and be attacked by 5.5 billion wild bees at once.
Hope none of them have allergies
I don't think allergies are gonna matter that much if you're being swarmed by a million bees
So every time a new body is interred they can make themselves a little batch of human meat honey, as a treat.
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
In the night of the river of death
Fly the silent prince electors
Was it Beezelbub’s friend?
Leave them bee?
May they rest in bees
Keep Bees undisturbed, we'll need them after the crash
Yessss the beees....
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.
that sounds like a subplot in a harry dresden novel.
A cemetery suspiciously filled with bees? My tomb of the first English king Æthelstan should put the kibosh on that!
Their queen should be called Odyssa
Well i guess it ain't fucking undisturbed now, goddamn nosey bastards can't leave anything alone.
~~Queenbee~~ Empressbee
Unleash the pharaoh's bees!
Paging Stephen King…. Will Mr king please report to Ithaca NY, your next plot line has arrived.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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