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Kai, 22, he/him/his or bee/bees/beeself
autistic, ADHD, I just Really Like Bees
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World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia
In 1859, while exploring the remote island of Bacan in the North Moluccas, Indonesia, the renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace made an astounding discovery: the Megachile pluto — the world’s largest bee.
Wallace described the bee, which is about four times the size of a honeybee, as a “large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle.” But for more than a century, that was the only known sighting of the Megachile pluto, and some feared that deforestation had rendered the giant insect extinct.
“It was absolutely breathtaking to see this ‘flying bulldog’ of an insect that we weren’t sure existed any more,” Clay Bolt, the photographer who captured the first images of the species alive, told the BBC. “To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible.”
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So I got a beekeeping book because why not and uh. I need to know more about bee anatomy and behavior IMMEDIATELY because apparently
- their alarm pheromone smells like bananas. You smoke bees to cover up the smell so they don’t get the signal to attack. Smoke does not make them sleepy. It’s the equivalent of a signal jammer.
- bees have 5 eyes. Yes you read that right. FIVE. They have 3 tiny ones on the tops of their heads that can only determine brightness, and the two big ones do everything else.
- bees don’t have a circulatory system?? Their blood is loose?? In their skin???? The book literally says it “sloshes around their cuticle, or skin”. The hell????
- AND their blood is part of their excretory system! Theres ‘tubes’ in it that collect waste!
- male bees (drones) are born from unfertilized cells. They’re haploid. They audibly explode when they ejaculate. No, I don’t know how to feel about this either. For the moment I’ve settled on ‘intrigued yet horrified’.
- the queen bee has 160 - let me say that again, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY - ovaries, which is why her body is so long. She also has a spermatheca, like a squid.
-there’s a section of the nest called the beebread and I think that’s adorable.
and last but not least
- bees are most endangered by the emergence of the parasitic varroa mite
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My sister got me this for Christmas last year i love it
🐝 Attention all my cottagecore bee lovers! 🐝
I highly recommend this book. Its got some cool information about bees, beekeeping, and what you can do with honey, and the art is so pretty 🥰
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Little leaf cutter bee waking up in her tiny leaf bed 🐝
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Happy Solstice! Hope everyone is able to get outside today and thank a bee for all their hard work. This print is available here
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Pure gold-green sweat bee (Augochlora pura) pollinating in Maryland, U.S.
Jim Moore
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