So every time a new body is interred they can make themselves a little batch of human meat honey, as a treat.
NOT THE BEES
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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 months ago
kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
probably dint want the protein/meat to spoil plant fermentation.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
If mellified man is a thing, turnabout is only fair play
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
BeatL@pawb.social 2 months ago
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
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 months ago
In the night of the river of death
Fly the silent prince electors
ShyFae@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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.
miked@piefed.social 2 months ago
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.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I wanna go to some wild bee parties with the anarchy bees!
Triumph@fedia.io 2 months ago
Zombees
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Cryptkeeper: and remember kiddies, you’d better bee-have yourselves or you’ll have a real SWARMageddon! AAhhahahahahaha
Caffie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You understand correctly, journalists just don’t care about getting stuff wrong all the time here as long as it gets clicks/views.
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Good. I thought colonialism was bad.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
Should’ve said “*bee*neath a cemetery”
iocase@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Is this where all the bees have been disappearing to? Did we unintentionally find the honeybee Zion? Are we the sentinels?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
the CCD, likely was due to a combination pesticides, climate change and forced to foraging only specific flowers, and it only mostly affected the european honeybees. other factors include a specific type of virus, the Varroa destructor mite and inbreed. it seems other types of honyebees are more resistant, like africanized or more aggressive type of bees.
Zacryon@feddit.org 2 months ago
Are those zombees?
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or are they boobees?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Leave them bee?
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Leave them alone probably better humans didn’t know what they do.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I never knew bees could live that long
Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 months ago
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
woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 months ago
It’s not a hive, those mining bees (andrena regularis) are solitary and all the females can lay eggs. It’s just a big population of them.
Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Betch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So now we’re gonna disturb them, right? Is that how this goes?
nectar45@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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
redparadise@hexbear.net 2 months ago
I don’t think allergies are gonna matter that much if you’re being swarmed by a million bees
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 months ago
This is the first time I’ve seen “remodelation” and I like it. Is it a portmanteu of remodel and renovation?
nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Is that where some guy with a hook for a hand was buried?
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zombees?
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know what, good for them
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Not anymore, I’m sure some dickhead will decide they need to be exterminated.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
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.
hexdream@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Paging Nicholas cage…
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we let nature rule we’d have ao many more interesting phenomena and beings to study and learn from.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Was it Beezelbub’s friend?
homes@piefed.world 2 months ago
May they rest in bees
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 2 months ago
A cemetery suspiciously filled with bees? My tomb of the first English king Aethelstan the Red should put a stop to this!
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
Well i guess it ain’t fucking undisturbed now, goddamn nosey bastards can’t leave anything alone.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
QueenbeeEmpressbeeNotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The curse is now free.
LawfulPirate@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Keep Bees undisturbed, we’ll need them after the crash
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Yessss the beees…
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So they went and disturbed it. Real nice, assholes. Streak fucking ruined.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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)
gnufuu@infosec.pub 2 months ago
buzz kill