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Bees - The only reason you are ALIVE is that the bees decided to let you live.

HELP SAVE THE BEES! 🐝❤️


The Bees Reddit

Bees - flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently considered as a clade Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.

Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.

Wikipedia: Bees


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heyy y'all,Iwant to share my work,I made a bee shaped wire wrap.please give me your feedback about this!!

11 Comments
2024/12/06
04:32 UTC

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Jimerino Honey

Does anyone have any links information or personal experiences with Jimerito honey for the eyes? I tried a web search but found little actual information

1 Comment
2024/12/06
00:18 UTC

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Feel bad for a bee ☹️

a bee was on my school bus, I tried to let it land on my card but this guy smashed it with a binder. The bee survived but was twitching. I grabbed it with my card off the ground and placed it outside.

It twitched a little and got onto its legs. I got back on my bus and watched it, it just started moving around a little, I put it next to this power box and it was on a platform, it crawled onto the side of the platform. I hope lil guy is okay.

I saw it’s wings like going up in a bunny-ear angle but not sure if it’s gonna survive. I hope it does I have no clue why 😭

4 Comments
2024/12/05
22:16 UTC

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Little dude was tired, so I put out some honey and poof gone.

31 Comments
2024/12/05
17:43 UTC

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This bee in my room.

So it's currently night here and a bee just landed in my bed. It walks but doesn't fly and occasionally just stands still for minutes on end with it's back twitching ever so slightly. It repeats this process of walking and standing still, anyone have an idea as to what is happening to this little fuzzy friend?

4 Comments
2024/12/05
13:33 UTC

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Apis Dorsata Breviligula (Philippine giant honey bee)

Not only are they all over my cosmos, but they’re also all over my calliandras!

0 Comments
2024/12/05
09:01 UTC

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Am i over feeding him? 😂

29 Comments
2024/12/04
16:00 UTC

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Electric blue

One of my Favourite species

2 Comments
2024/12/03
22:57 UTC

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Help?

I came across this beauty whom was resting on the wall of my home. Not sure if she’s western or africanized. She’s been here for over 13 hrs, she’s been chilling and her abdomen moves from time to time so she is breathing. She’s also dark in appearance. Is she reaching the end of her life? Is there anything I can do to help her? I’m in Nevada, it dropped to 38° last night.

0 Comments
2024/12/03
20:53 UTC

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A pretty bee I found (Charleston, SC)

6 Comments
2024/12/03
17:35 UTC

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Strange looking bee

3 Comments
2024/12/03
02:11 UTC

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Please help

Can anyone advise on what we should do? We are used to saving bees in the summer but have never seen them out so late in the UK, it was 4C and wet when I found him on gravel this morning. He perked up a little and was moving after warming him up once he dried off, for the last 6 or so hours hes just been moving his legs a little but nothing else. Is it a hibernating queen or is it a worker thats on his last legs literally? Very large for a bumble bee

10 Comments
2024/12/02
19:05 UTC

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Honey Bee captured at Mount Vernon (Washington DC)

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2024/12/02
03:23 UTC

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My bees painting

Honey and bloom 12”x16” Acrylic Thought I’d share with my fellow bee lovers.

2 Comments
2024/12/02
02:32 UTC

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what does this remind us of

1 Comment
2024/12/01
22:51 UTC

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Amazing video outside my parents house.

20 Comments
2024/12/01
22:04 UTC

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A male ashy mining bee (Andrena cineraria) visiting the yellow disks of a tansy [6576x4384]

1 Comment
2024/12/01
21:48 UTC

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There were seven dead bees outside my door this morning. I have not used pesticides, there is no hive nearby, and it's actually quite unusual to see one bee flying in the garden, let alone seven dead ones. Any idea what's going on?

2 Comments
2024/12/01
18:40 UTC

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Terrified of bees and they won't leave me alone.

I've been terrified of bees my whole life, I've never been stung and I don't want to get stung (painful and the bee could possibly die which makes me feel worse). I've just moved into a house with a garden all around it and was very excited to garden and grow food BUT

Bees are always around me, my husband says they're just flying around but I'm literally having bees fly at me and around me after being outside for a few minutes. I can't go outside and stretch, I can't sit outside the door step with a coffee nor can I garden. I don't wear perfume, I wear deodorant that has little to no smell at all, I wear all black all the time, I stand away from gardens when I'm outside and I still have bee's flying at me and around me.

I genuinely don't know what to do, I don't want to get rid of my garden. Is it something I'm doing that makes them interested? are there smells that bees don't like so I can keep them away from me? I like the bees pollinating the flowers and they do great stuff but why are they so interested. Do they need something? I don't want to harm them or "get rid" of them, our gardens are a large source of pollen for them but they also think I'm a source of pollen or I'm an enemy.

I am so unsure what to do and I'd like to go outside.

Edit: I'm in NZ and I'm talking specifically about bubble bees and normal honey bees

32 Comments
2024/11/29
23:42 UTC

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Never seen a bee that has long eyebrows ( sorry for the quality)

any idea what could it bee?

5 Comments
2024/11/29
11:22 UTC

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Native Bees

Hi, everyone. I want to start a garden in my backyard to raise fruits and vegetables. I was wondering what excellent strategies are for attracting native bees and other pollinators to my plants to help with pollination. I live in the northern portion of central Minnesota. Thank you for your time!

2 Comments
2024/11/29
02:15 UTC

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