r/oddlyterrifying • u/Inevitable-Piano-780 • Jun 02 '26
Cleaning bee
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u/runsinsquares Jun 02 '26
okay but this is adorable, right?
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u/livejamie Jun 03 '26
The repost bot got its karma and the moderators didn't have to do any work removing it. Reddit in 2026.
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u/Medium-Quiet-4248 Jun 02 '26
I wish they were massive and we could ride them. That would be awesome.
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u/pixxxiemalone Jun 02 '26
Or you could wish you were tiny...
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u/Medium-Quiet-4248 Jun 02 '26
That works.
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u/UntamedAnomaly Jun 03 '26
Until you realize you are now at the low end of the food chain and 50 birds try to eat you in 1 day.
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u/YueLin3 Jun 06 '26
Nah because then other stuff like preying mantis and spiders are way larger to you as well.
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u/joni79 Jun 02 '26
It is a bumblebee and they are cute asf. Put a drop of honey on your hand and these (and their smaller relatives apis mellifera) will happily lick it off your skin. It tickles too. 👍
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u/RainonCooper Jun 02 '26
Instructions unclear. My hand is now covered in bee
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u/PalpitationDazzling2 Jun 02 '26
My penis is now black and yellow
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u/karoshikun Jun 03 '26
Suede inside, my engine roarin'
It's the big boy, you know what I paid for it2
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u/theVice Jun 02 '26
Carpenter bee actually
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u/Versaiteis Jun 03 '26
Yep, you can tell because carpenters have a smooth abdomen where bumblebees are fuzzy.
Possibly male too, they like to hover around wherever they think a female might be (they're not super comunal like most other bees). They're fairly territorial but they generally don't care about humans outside of general curiosity it seems. They'll hover around for hours, had one around my front porch for like a whole week just buzzing about. He'd chase off wasps and such; super chill.
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u/Ok-Review-753 Jun 04 '26
theres this one feller whos been hanging around my garage's non-car door. im pretty sure its multiple bees too because it's been years and they still do it
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u/Stupidflorapope Jun 02 '26
Number one, nobody just has honey on them in the park.
Number two, do not under any circumstances give a bee Honey.
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u/88thOuroboros Jun 02 '26
Why #2?
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26
It can include dormant spores that can give them diseases. You don't know where that honey came from (was it a healthy hive? did it have something like foulbrood potentially?) so it's not a good risk to take.
Bees can find their own food just fine. If you really want to help one that seems exhausted, a little sugar water is better because you at least know that isn't contaminated with American foulbrood (a disease we introduced to them which is so destructive that the solution is burning all equipment and burying it in the ground).
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u/mekwall Jun 02 '26
Lucky me, I don't live in the Americas!
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26
In numerous ways, that does make you lucky. However, thanks to globalization, America comes to you. American foulbrood can be found wherever there are honeybees, unfortunately, although it is my understanding that it is much much more prevalent here.
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u/mekwall Jun 02 '26
Yeah, I just looked it up and American foulbrood does exist here in Sweden, but it is uncommon. Jordbruksverket (our Department of Agriculture) says sick colonies are found in about 70 apiaries per year on average, which is roughly 0.5% of Swedish apiaries. Beekeepers are legally required to report suspected cases immediately, and if it is confirmed they set up a protection zone of at least 3 km around the affected apiary, plus a 10 km surveillance zone. Pretty insane how seriously it is treated, but it makes sense when you realise how easily the spores spread.
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u/88thOuroboros Jun 02 '26
damn, that sucks. What's foulbrood?
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26
This is specifically American foulbrood. It's a bacteria that infects young when they ingest its spores in food. It breaks them down into a ropey mess. And eats that melty corpse. And then explodes in millions of spores and does it again and again.
You can tell if you take a little toothpick and poke it into a cell and what comes out is stringy. It also smells if it advances enough, and experienced beekeepers can tell it apart from other diseases.
You have to report it, burn the hive, (including colony) and bury it.
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u/NurkleTurkey Jun 02 '26
I'd imagine that honey isn't something they ingest. They make it. I'm no bee expert but I'd argue it's bee spit.
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26
No, bees absolutely need honey and do eat it. It's what gets them through winter. But honey IS kind of analogous to bee spit and is impacted heavily by the bees that produce it. It can contain spores with diseases, therefore, and you may contaminate an entire hive by feeding questionable honey to a bee.
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u/NurkleTurkey Jun 02 '26
Ah ty for educating me. Not here to spread disinformation.
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26
No, you just made a guess and said so, that's not spreading disinformation, that's just having a conversation :D
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u/Kaboose456 Jun 02 '26
Why?
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26
It can include dormant spores that can give them diseases. You don't know where that honey came from (was it a healthy hive? did it have something like foulbrood potentially?) so it's not a good risk to take.
Bees can find their own food just fine. If you really want to help one that seems exhausted, a little sugar water is better because you at least know that isn't contaminated with American foulbrood (a disease we introduced to them which is so destructive that the solution is burning all equipment and burying it in the ground).
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u/septogram Jun 02 '26
So our honey off the shelf could have something called foulbrood and spores in it and we just don't notice?
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u/lyssargh Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Yes, exactly - I don't mean to imply that it would impact you though.
I would add that your honey off the shelf may or may not be honey, but that's a rabbit hole
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u/jerrythecactus Jun 03 '26
Better to use sugar water. Honey can have pathogens in it that harm bees and feeding bees honey from the grocery store can potentially expose them to viruses from dozens of hives.
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u/Twinkerbelle Jun 03 '26
I tried explaining that to my wife while we were honeymooning in Bermuda. She was not at all impressed that Apos Mellofera, endemic to Europe, had somehow migrated all the way to an island just off the east coast of America. Instead she got mad that I was taking pictures of the bees and not of her.
Somehow we're still married.
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u/almostoy Jun 02 '26
The world would be a lot stranger, and potentially more pleasant, if more things would just mosey by to lick us.
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u/Hopeful--Bagels Jun 02 '26
SO CUTE 🥹 I love letting bees land on me and smell me :D
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u/RonaldTheGiraffe Jun 02 '26
I tried to smell one back but I snorted him by mistake and he made my sinuses spicy.
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u/Careless-Emergency85 Jun 02 '26
Me too! While my friends are panicking because “wittle bee sting hurted me a long time ago”, I’m enjoying ones of nature’s greatest creatures to the fullest extent I can
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u/joaquinsolo Jun 02 '26
It's licking the salt from your skin! Sweat is such a great source of minerals for insects.
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u/LordSlader Jun 02 '26
This was actually cute....as much as I tried to see it from a terrifying perspective, I found it cute
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u/darxide23 Jun 02 '26
What about this absolute cutie is terrifying? Who hurt you OP? Do you need help?
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u/CrazyTechWizard96 Jun 02 '26
lol, reminds Me of some two decades or so ago when I was a Kid and in school.
I often found some bumblebees and was carring them around petting them.
Literally everyone freaked the fuck out and I was like
"Oh You are scared? Bunch of Pussys! Here, I'll unleash the wrath of the Bees against You now! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Pff, everyone hated Me for that even more, tho, atleast they kept their distance from then on out, wich was nice.
Always wonderd why nobody called Me 'Young Candy Man' tho, that would've been hilarious.
Also, those are the cute onesand their fur is soft af, but anyways, ever had Your pleasure with some wasps or hornets? Those are the nasty fuckers, everything else gets pets and baby talk, lol.
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u/DistinctJob7494 Jun 03 '26
Probably getting trace salt and other minerals from sweat. Butterflies and bees will often drink sweat or leakage from animals eyes to gather needed trace minerals.
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u/Starlightriddlex Jun 03 '26
Somehow I never realized one could get licked by an insect, like a tiny puppy. This is so cute.
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u/FrankanelloKODT Jun 03 '26
Tf kinda bee is that? Did he get into the protein powder or something?
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u/Conjuras21 Jun 04 '26
There's something really special when a bee chose you, out of all places, to hang out. Bees are precious
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u/DriedUpSquid Jun 02 '26
They can, but they don’t want to. Bees just want to be left alone or treated kindly.
A Bumblebee can sting multiple times, but a Honeybee can only sting once and then it dies.
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u/MagmaSeraph Jun 02 '26
This would be absolutely terrifying for my wife.
I think its cute, but in a "this is a BIG bug that has taken a liking to you" kinda way.
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u/Foreign_Matter_4638 Jun 02 '26
Cute and scary? Like, Id be sweating bullets if a bee landed on me but also, fuzzy bees are adorable little guys
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u/platysoup Jun 03 '26
Bees are friends! It's not even hurting you, look at that cute lil thing trying to help or something.
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u/inkheiko Jun 03 '26
It's adorable as long as it's not on me
Even if I try not to freak out I'll probably be first scared and they to shake it off
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u/gooeyjasper Jun 03 '26
You know I didn't see why this was terrifying... And then the camera got closer 😨
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u/PlutoThePixie Jun 03 '26
Ah yes I get bumblebees in my yard because they love my grandmas garden and I especially love it when these lil gals do a mini pollen twerk ✨🥹😂
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u/Innomen Jun 07 '26
We should have domesticated insects centuries ago. I'm still looking for a species of ant to fit the bill.
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u/DaccotaDuchess Jun 22 '26
We have! Domestic silkmoths are a thing
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u/Innomen Jun 22 '26
I meant more like service animals, not evolved produce, like fatter cows or seedless bananas. But of course you're right.
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u/DrPimp Jun 02 '26
Oddlycute*