What Are the Most Amazing Bee Hives Around the World?

[jedishrfu]

Bees are awesome. This article shows the kinds of hives they make in other parts of the world.

https://inhabitat.com/no-one-knows-why-these-bees-build-incredible-spiraling-hives/

 

[jedishrfu]

To bee or not to bee that is not a question that bees worry about but rather other bees stealing their honey.

https://honeybeesuite.com/robbing-bees-questions-and-answers/

 

[jim mcnamara]

A core bee-havior (@jedishrfu - if you can create terrible puns, I can create worse ones) for Apis spp is to defend their honey store, literally to the death.
Members of the honey bee genus all store honey and there are some interesting things about honey defense:
1. a smashed bee releases pheromones which triggers the hive into attack mode by releasing an alarm pheromone
2. bees die after stinging attackers

see the Alarm pheromone section in the very general science report : https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about-bees/the-science-of-bees/how-bees-use-pheromones/

 

[jedishrfu]

Hornets beeware! Honey bees will warm your heart:

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hornet-cooked-alive-bees/

 

[Amrator]

Hornets beeware! Honey bees will warm your heart:

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hornet-cooked-alive-bees/

Wasps (which hornets are) are the most evil things on the planet.

I've always appreciated the existence of bees...then I saw that one episode of Black Mirror (Hated in the Nation). *Shudders*