Bees: The Sequel

[Rosewind]

Restarting this topic by community request. Let's try this again:

• All female society, though males are very special. The Queen can even determine which sex her babies will be.
  
• Spend all day sniffing flowers.
  
• Create massive stockpiles of sugar.
  
• Kamikaze venom harpoons of wrath on butts. Queens are able to sting without dying.
  
• New Queens are created by throwing a normal larva in a special chamber and flooding it with a special food called "Royal Jelly."
  
• Newly hatched Queens will hunt down rival Queens, even pulling them out of their maturation chambers to engage in mortal combat for supremacy of the Hive.
  

How cool is that?!

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[Corsair]

[starswirlthebearded]

Kamikaze venom harpoons of wrath on butts.

HEY! They aren't harpoons of wrath!

Not only has bee venom been used for therapy for centuries, but it has now been discovered that it kills HIV! Bees are bros to humans. They can almost do no wrong! (Well ok... if they swarm at you then that isn't good and it can kill you... or if you're allergic...)

I mean let's look at the positive things bees do...

1) give us honey. Everyone loves honey.

2) They make sure we can breath! If they didn't pollinate we'd have serious issues with plant life successfully growing.

3) They kill HIV

4) Their venom does other awesome therapeutic stuff (granted its the same stuff that kills HIV)

5) Create beeswax (also awesome stuff)

[Rosewind]

Bees won't sting you unless you do something wrong. Same goes for all other animals. They don't just attack at random without proper provocation, intended or not. It's really sad because bees are responsible for a huge part of our food supply, but they are disrespected/feared because of their natural self-defense.

I saw a photo in a magazine once that compared a breakfast made with and without bees, and it was startling how much went missing. I need to find it again.

[TehBbqdPizza]

[colour=#ff0000]Notice: Posting the "Not the Bees" video will result in a warning. It's not appropriate for this site.[/colour]

The newer Wicker Man film is terrible. Don't watch it.

And it's PG-13.

That's a lot of bees.

Einstein says how humankind has four years left to survive if bees went extinct.

[Davroth]

Not the bees

Not the bees

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah

Einstein says how humankind has four years left to survive if bees went extinct.

Whatever happened to that mass media scare about the bees dying last year? It was all about the news for a while, and then I didn't really follow up on it. Apparently they didn't go extinct, since I can still buy honey and get bee stings.

[Rosewind]

You should see Dio's opinion about wasps!

[Davroth]

Anyways, isn't it kinda weird how rare bees are in fiction? I mean, there's a few, but with insects that adorable and fluffy, I find it curious that there are not more then there are. Insects would deserve some more popularity then they have. I think spiders are to blame, they give all the other arthropods a bad name.

[abc]

The Japanese honey bee also kills those hornets, specifically the scouts so they can't go and get their friends!

I looked into this, omg, this is amazing

[colour=#000000]"[/colour][colour=#000000]The Japanese hone[/colour][colour=#000000]ybees ([/colour]Apis cerana japonica[colour=#000000]) forming a "bee ball" in which two hornets ([/colour]Vespa simillima xanthoptera[colour=#000000]) are engulfed and being heated." [/colour]

[colour=#000000]Its like they are hugging them to death! Awwwe![/colour]

[Rosewind]

We need to get Bugmaster in this thread. I wonder where he is?

[abc]

I think spiders are to blame, they give all the other arthropods a bad name.

hmm, i wonder why?

Spiders are weird....

And scary

[Davroth]

Spiders are weird....

And scary

look into these eyes and tell me that's not one adorably looking spider.

[abc]

look into these eyes and tell me that's not one adorably looking spider.

...

i want to shrink to its size, and hug it

[Davroth]

...

i want to shrink to its size, and hug it

Success!!

Also, you probably shouldn't. As a rule of thumb, the smaller the body size of a subspecies of a given species, the stronger the venom. It best be admired from a distance, probably. ^^

[Elderflower]

Spiders: not adorable.

Cannot comprehend. Error error error. Browneh has caused malfunction.

Starting shutdown in 3...2...

*FzzzPOP*

[TehBbqdPizza]

Our school had bees and a beehive before, and about a five yard radius around the tree in which the beehive hung was restricted.

It took two days to remove and move the bees to a bee farm.

[Rosewind]

I think that's great that the bees were moved instead of killed. Respect of nature is respect well directed, and I think it made a great example to the students.

[Davroth]

So, bee beards: Yes/no?

[abc]

i would prefer a bee suit!

[Ciraxis]

Ok...ok....I am cool. But I swear too Celestia, if someone will show a bee spandex I will scream. <creeps>

[SilverSwirl]

Whee! CharmyBelle!

[Stonetribe]

And then the Bugmaster arrived.

Ahhh bees... The winged, yellow and black portion of the arthropod euro-social trio. (The other two being ants and termites) I must say, I prefer ants to bees because they don't have wings and have to be a bit more creative. But I digress. Bees are such amazing creatures, with immensely fascinating behavior. When I compare human society to bee society, bee's excel us in many ways. We wouldn't be able to live without bees, but they certainly could live without us.

[Rosewind]

Bugmaster in this thread just made it 1000% more awesome.

[Davroth]

With rare exceptions, almost every animal species would be better off without us pesky humans.

[abc]

lol, if anything we just destroy, eat and kill other animals for sport, not even domesticated animals need humans XD