I hope those bees go off and build good lives for themselves out there in the wilderness and pollinate lots of flowers
How many bees would it have been of this would have been a “full” crash I wonder…
Too bad it didn’t happen in DC.
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
“Drive more safely, you bastard!” zap
Power to the beeple 🐝
Beads?
GOB’s not on board…
SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR DOCTOR BEES!!!
What’s this? Nearly 2 million bees let loose after a semi-truck crashed on the interstate? My Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus full of bees oughta put a stop to that!
Something like this was depicted in Chicago Fire television series. It was crazy. Turned into a Beenado taking down planes and shit. Fun to watch.
Hope everyone is okay here.
They can finally doo-doo.
Fuck the honey industry; wish it were the owners who got stung instead of the driver.
The bees are not enslaved. They can swarm and leave at any time.
This is a common misconception. Technically, yes, the bees can physically leave, but because of that, it’s common practice for beekeepers to clip the queen’s wings – thereby the queen can’t leave and a hive’s chance of success in swarming decreases drastically. By the nature of how bees work, it is an artificial ball and chain.
Most apiaries are just people, not corporations that bottle honey. The very very vast majority of bee keepers have zero to do with the poor practices of honey bottling businesses that adulterate honey and ruin the industry. Most commercial honey comes from private beekeepers who rent their bees to pollinate crops so Americans can actually have affordable food. Those beekeepers are not out there adulterating honey or acting irresponsibly with their bees. Most adulterated honey comes from out of the nation and is imported by a select few shit corporations. Fuck the corporations, not the people working hard to get your quality honey and pollinate your food so you don’t have to rely on poorly functioning vitamin substitutes to avoid diseases humans get when they eat limited selections of produce and hyper processed “food”.
Those beekeepers are not out there adulterating honey
I care about bees, not how pure the product of their systematic exploitation is. It’s not “my” honey or yours; it’s theirs.
I’m a bee keeper and it’s clear you know nothing about bees and how they work. They don’t use all their honey, and you leave them enough plus some extra to use and survive on all year and through the winter. If you leave unused honey it attracts mice and other pests that destroy the hives, eat the honey, the larva, and cause much stress and eventually encourage disease in the bees. A well managed hive is actually better, safer for the bees than just leaving them to their own devices, which runs on reproducing in such high numbers that their species survives and replicates based on swarming, dividing the hive so often that they can continue on as a species despite disease, some colony collapse, some suffering.
A good bee keeper is safer and healthier than a natural selection process because nature can be a bitch, especially if your species isn’t about the individual but is instead a numbers game.
Fellow beekeeper here and I concur.
Having said that, my heart sinks when I read about these crashes, and the bees are described as “loose” or “escaped”. Very few of those colonies would survive. They’ve lost their home and their queen.
Hey, you forgot to mention the part where beekeepers clip queen bees’ wings so the hive physiologically has essentially no choice but to stay.
I have never ever known another bee keeper to clip wings of queens, especially because they only live a few years, swarming is healthy, and clipping is pointless when you manage the hives properly. A seasoned bee keeper will just manage the hives to do artificial splits and the queens will just stay in the new split because it mimics a swarmed hive in a new home. This complaint is like saying i don’t trust doctors because some use motor oil to perform ass and bicep and breast augmentations. Yeah, a few shady assholes do, but not the majority, so why are you judging and condemning an entire group based on a limited few who perform a very rare practice? Because you don’t know what you’re talking about and want to be angry about something on the internet, because it’s easier to do that than actually get out there and talk to people in the industry first hand. Stop getting your news and information from anger engagement sources.
Stop getting your news and information from anger engagement sources.
I literally got it from a blog called “The Apiarist”. It’s a common practice. From the University of Florida: “Queen management practices include monitoring the queen, queen replacement, marking a queen, and clipping the queen’s wings.”
Queen clipping isn’t nearly the only thing wrong with the honey industry, but quit pretending it doesn’t exist just because you don’t personally practice it.
Edit: And to clarify, this is from what amounts to a propaganda piece for the bee industry written by apiculturists, declaring that beekeeping of an invasive species is actually (so conveniently) a necessary practice. They still own up to queen clipping, because why wouldn’t they? It’s commonplace.
I made it this far down and appreciate your patience with the other poster and I learned about bees!
Except you didn’t, because they’re lying. Queen clipping is a common practice.
Do you get this worked up about other topics?
Actually, yeah, I do, usually ones involving widespread abuse and exploitation. Glad you asked.
Can a man not advocate the rights of bees while also hoping that two million of them descend upon Benjamin Netanyahu?
“OW! Fuck! I didn’t mean it, I’m sorry!”
Driver must have been pretty buzzed. :P
It’s really interesting to describe bees as “loose”. What actually happened was a spontaneous pollination event.
Maybe that’s what makes them “loose”. Using their labor in such a way that can’t be exploited by capital.
What…
Are we doing bee communist theory now?
If anything, bees are happy to contribute to something greater than the sum of its parts. That’s how hives work.
I’m not a vegan, but I can appreciate the values concerning animal welfare. Extending that to bees is just kinda silly to me. Nobody forces them to stay in the hive. They make more honey than they could ever use.
And if we’re talking about stolen labor value, should farmers be paying for all the animals that work to pollinate their crops? What about the ladybugs that eat aphids? Or the worms that turn waste into compost? Or the spiders, centipedes, wasps, and countless other critters that keep crops free of pests?
In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.
Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.
North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.
Guess who doesn’t have arthritis anymore.
Please explain.
There’s some evidence that bee stings help with arthritis. Also anecdotally, every beekeeper I’ve met credits bee stings with the fact that they’ve never had Lyme disease.
Weird and awesome.
Some believe bee venom (from stings) helps with chronic pain of arthritis.
Ah. I thank you.
