@beepostsdaily @good-bee-recommendations

We should start a hive!

Uhhh yeah I guess, sure!

only how?

I'm not sure... I didn't plan this far

We could tag each other in the occasional bee post? Or amass as many bee related blogs as possible

@bees-official @fistfuls-of-bees @irespondbees

Official invitations to the hive 🐝

Invitation accepted!!

MAY I PLEASE JOIN?

(I'm also @identifying-bees-in-posts and would love to be tagged in posts with bees to identify :3)

@approximately-84328-bees @that-weird-bee @identifying-bees-in-posts @bees-witch

You get an invite! You get an invite! YOU get an invite!

i am happy to say that they are infact as fluffy as they look :D

bunblebees in particular are very fluffy cus they live in colder conditions, in fact, most of the bees that are in like Norway and Sweden are bumblebees! I think, alpinobombus is really everywhere up north in europe

Our main special interest is chickens, but we do really love cats! Our big brother and little sister are cats!

Honestly, I wish there were like, cat sized bees. I want to hug them but they're small and I might hurt them :(

Did you know silkies were originally bred by Chinese royalty?

With the fancy looking ones, I can believe it, but Chair looks like a ball of lint.

The mental image of some Chinese royal with Chair on their lap is just ridiculous.

chickens and cars!!

I have both in my camera roll :D

These guys are from hawaii! I found them near a coffee plantation

And these guys are probably from texas, I think? Neither me nor my phone remember where they're from, all I remember is they they were from a zoo/snake house :D, mighta been from Pennsylvania or New York....

as for cats, I have two of my own!!

Ron, the one with one braincell, and hermionie! Aka the one with two braincells (named before we knew about jkr and at that point it had been like 5 years or so)

:D

Official bee in a chicken costume post 🐝

Thinking about that day another park ranger and I discovered that

1. we both used the same shampoo and

2. Suave Essentials Tropical Coconut drives honeybees absolutely bugfuck wild

3. He's allergic to bees

It’s likely the scent! Banana scent (Isoamyl acetate) is the same scent as the aggression pheromone bees put out when they’re angry. Never eat bananas near bees! Always check your lotion, sunscreen, etc bottles for banana scent or isoamyl acetate before going near bees

So you're telling me that when bees get mad they start violently smelling like bananas?

Can confirm! In (hopefully) very rare cases, a large hive full of pissed off bees smells a lot like bananas! Usually there’s not nearly enough of them for humans to be able to smell it, though.

@cyber-flow thank you for the funniest tags I've seen all day.

[ID: a digital drawing of a bee with boxing gloves, fighting a sad and confused (and bruised) looking banana. The banana asks "why?" /end ID].

[ID: a screenshot of two tags, reading: you could say - you could say that they go bananas. /end ID].

@bees-with-a-camera

I think this'd pique your interest if you didn't know already.

@bees-official

Official bees hate bananas post! 🍌🥊🐝

“don’t eat honey because it exploits the bees and they can’t consent!!!” bees are literally unionized and will walk out if they don’t like being in the beekeeper’s hives

It's true.

I worked with a beekeeper (not at beekeeping, guy had a day job as a machinist and kept bees as a side thing). One day there was a swarm in the parking lot and people were freaking out because, y'know, BEES EVERYWHERE. Beekeeper guy went to his truck. Pulled a swarm-catching box out. Put it on the ground and walked away. Bees went in the box after a while. Guy put the box back in his truck and drove home with them.

You cannot prevent bees from leaving a hive they don't like the conditions of, without also preventing them from being able to make honey. The latter is dependent on them being able to come and go as they please. If they don't like their hive THEY WILL LEAVE.

Beekeeping is probably the single most non-exploitative animal agriculture in the entirety of human history. I don't know how it's even possible to exploit bees. They answer only to their queen.

They absolutely do not answer to the queen. If she sucks they will kill her and make a new one.

We could learn a lot from bees

Official unionised hive post!

Official bumblebee post

Official top 5 bees post!

Official bumblebee that stepped up post

we won

String identified: ag A at t t a g a ag ct t ag at, at, t, a ga ag ct a tt g atc ctg

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Closest match: Bombus pratorum genome assembly, chromosome: 14 Common name: Early Bumblebee

(image source)

Official tumbl- wait no, official early bumblebee post! 🐝

BEEMMY

Official bee pos- hang on...

Official bumblebee post 🐝 🐝

@official-bee-posts reblogged one of my posts and it reminded me that I haven’t posted these two pics yet! I’m going to miss seeing bees around now that the weather is getting chilly! 🐝🌼

Summertime Pollinators, taken by me (2025).

Official bumblebee post 🐝

*clears throat* Hey my friends, I attended a bee wedding this past weekend. I bet you would like to know how was it.

How was it?

You had two bee there

Official bee post! 🐝 💍 🐝

this digger bee (Amegilla sp.) was using its tongue to poke at a flower for which adjectives such as "old" and "dry" feel too generous, with something like "mummified" being more appropriate. no pollen or nectar could have possibly been found on those crusty leathery remains, so i'm not sure what its objective was

(June 13th, 2025)

Official digger bee burying the dead post 🐝

Official bumblebee post 🐝

I love fall, but I do miss the end of summer blooms and bees.

Official bee post 🐝

Official bee post 🐝

Assorted cute bumbles <3

Yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii): upper row and bottom right California bumblebee (Bombus californicus): center row and bottom left

Northern California, US

Official bumblebee post 🐝 🐝 🐝