r/interesting • u/VIVIDUFF • Jul 19 '26
NATURE Beekeeper calmly handles a huge bee swarm on his body.
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u/j68noh Jul 19 '26
There's some joke about winnie the poo somewhere in here
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u/yioryios1 Jul 19 '26
“We need to talk about that new lube we’ve been using”
“why as far as I can tell it’s the bees knees.”
“Yeah, you can say that again!”
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u/cayce_leighann Jul 19 '26
He’s got quite the beehind
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u/PoopEnraged Jul 19 '26
applauds aggressively
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u/Grimnebulin68 Jul 19 '26
The farts on this guy, smell like honey..
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u/CommercialLow9783 Jul 19 '26
Attack the void, fill the hole !!!
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u/DoxFreePanda Jul 19 '26
Into the breach!!!
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u/Sure_Lavishness_8353 Jul 19 '26
I was thinking how immature it is of me that I would find it very funny if he just ripped a fart and they all flew off.
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u/ParachutingPiglets Jul 19 '26
Imagine if he had farted and the bees fell to the ground sedated from gas fumes. 😂
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u/PamelaELee Jul 19 '26
This is the evolution of dogs with bees in their mouth, and when they bark they shoot bees at you.
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u/squidlink5 Jul 19 '26
Bees: hole is a hole.
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u/milesbeats Jul 19 '26
yeah thats a nice ass swarm
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u/Regurgitator001 Jul 19 '26
Mumblzzzz something about farting with a lighter, and smoke calming them down.
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u/narco-sub-admiral Jul 19 '26
Goddamnit.
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I got my eye on you pal.
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u/PuppyPower89 Jul 19 '26
Your brown eye?
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u/kochameh2 Jul 19 '26
*farts*
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u/_Bella_1993 Jul 19 '26
This is a little something beekeepers call “fuming”
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u/cconnorss Jul 19 '26
Some say it has calming effects
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u/deltashmelta Jul 19 '26
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
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u/tired_Cat_Dad Jul 19 '26
I was hoping he'd rip a mighty one cause it would be interesting to see what happens then.
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u/st0pmakings3ns3 Jul 19 '26
I can't help but picture some of them getting violently yeeted towards the camera.
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u/CandidPreparation737 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
They don’t sting when swarming. It happens when hives split into two because they’ve become too big.
Swarming bees are totally focused on looking for a new home. As long as you’re calm, so are they. You can easily ‘drape’ them onto anything.
This guy probably found a swarming hive on a tree, and ‘carried’ them back to populate his hive. He probably thought a swarm draped over his ass would be hilarious.
Finally, swarming bees look for empty holes to populate, usually hollow tree branches, but, they’re not all that picky.
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u/JackLong93 Jul 19 '26
looking for a new home up his ass?
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u/Mindless_Log2009 Jul 19 '26
Hey, have you seen the rents at nice places?
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u/Realistic_Patience67 Jul 19 '26
Don't be truthing so hard, brother/sister!
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u/BurlyLumberjack Jul 19 '26
Yeah but that shouldn’t mean you have to move to a shithole of a place though!
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u/randtke Jul 19 '26
That's what I, a non beekeeper, was afraid of when I saw the comment about they are looking for a new home.
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u/celestialgenitals Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
You're less than correct on almost every point.
They absolutely can and do sting when swarming. They just have other priorities above stinging, but those priorities can quickly shift.
There are also many reasons why a colony might swarm. Only one of those reasons has to do with the primary colony becoming too big and splitting.
Bees are extremely picky about where they swarm. A swarm location is driven by scouts and their pheromones, but is ultimately selected by the queen and her pheromones. It isn't uncommon at all to have a swarm gather in one spot, only to ditch it for another spot a few hours later.
Idk how these bees ended up on that guy's ass. But if I wanted to create the same effect, I would put a swarming queen in a queen cage a then put her in my back pocket.
Source: me, a beekeeper, who caught a swarm the other day, and also collected several stings. I also have two swarm traps in my backyard right now that finally caught colonies and I'm headed to deal with them in about an hour.
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u/Jennymint Jul 19 '26
Yeah, I have two artificial hives out back. At one point they swarmed up into the peach tree. I've since had them removed, but they were pretty chill the whole time.
I used to be terrified of bees, but I've never been stung by the ones in my backyard, even when I'm standing mere inches from their hive. Their reputation is far worse than their behavior.
Now, wasps, on the other hand... fuck those guys.
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u/Aware-Asparagus-3823 Jul 19 '26
How lucrative is this kinda thing? About 10 years ago there was a guy in my town who would sell roughly a quarter gallon of honey for $20, how much would a hive of this size produce per year?
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u/Sea-Consequence7156 Jul 19 '26
The real money is the mobile hives. Certain nuts and produce require intense pollinator activity not supported by monoculture cropland so farmers pay beekeepers to driver to their farms with hives on the back of tractor trailers to help pollinate during the critical 2-3 week period
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u/gweeps Jul 19 '26
When I was a child, I had a small, white plastic container. I'd go around and ask folks if they wanted to see a bee. Then I'd quickly unscrew the lid and at the bottom, written in large block script, was the letter B.
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u/jojewels92 Jul 19 '26
My dad told my sister he had a bee in his hand once and when he opened it to show her he had drawn a B on his palm. He did it at least twice more with spiders he drew. Scared her every time.
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u/TheVoidRobedInLight Jul 19 '26
I used to do a similar thing when I invited friends over.
I would ask if they wanted some fresh brownies. Then I'd go to the oven, take out a baking pan, and there'd be a bunch of brown Es printed out.
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u/catchup4thegoodtimes Jul 19 '26
he probably used a honey-based lubricant and didn’t properly clean himself up afterward…
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u/GeleRaev Jul 19 '26
This kind of thing is exactly why I steer clear of honey-based lubricants these days.
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u/Kruiwagenchauffeur Jul 19 '26
In Dutch we say: 'Hij heeft honing aan zijn reet' when someone gets followed. This translates to: 'He has honey on his ass', which might be the reason all those bees are there.
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u/Linus_Inverse Jul 19 '26
Hah, that's great. I can also contribute one: in German we say "er hat Hummeln im Hintern" (he has bumblebees up his ass) to mean that someone is constantly moving about / can't sit still.
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u/GhostMaskKid Jul 19 '26
In English, the expression is "ants in your pants", which is similar, but less relevant here 😂
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u/Regular_Weakness69 Jul 19 '26
Peekeeper
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u/Bingus-Dingus- Jul 19 '26
this is literally so funny to me right now i usually don't actually laugh at a reddit comment
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u/-NarWallace- Jul 19 '26
Seems like a perfectly normal situation to find oneself in.
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u/LizardmanJoe Jul 19 '26
Did he shove the queen up his ass? What's going on here?
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u/YeshuasBananaHammock Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
<Trauma memory incoming>
Reminds me of when I got my 1st period when I was 12, middle of the summer, then the next day I was at softball practice and wearing a pad under my polyester softball knickers.
When we were in the huddle after practice, criss-cross-applesauce, listening to coach jabber at us, I look down to see my crotch swarmed by mothafriggin GNATS. One of the worst embarrassing moments of my fucking life, ishitunot.
It may be because my mom didnt tell me how often to change the pad, or maybe it was the heat of the texas summer. I felt like roadkill.
Anywho, all that to say, crotch swarms arent as fun as the smiling fella in the video is making it seem to be.
P.S. F periods during sports, F pads in general, and F those gnats in particular.
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u/TankApprehensive3053 Jul 19 '26
So bees are attracted to methane? Maybe his butt trumpet sounds like the queen calling them.
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u/KickingItWithKoi Jul 19 '26
No music was needed in this video, I would of rather just hear sound of nature and bees
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u/karenskygreen Jul 19 '26
"THE BEES, NO NOT THE BEES ON MY ASS, NOOOHH, THE BEES"
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u/AlexSmithsonian Jul 19 '26
I mean the worst they would do is vibrate to the point where they generate heat, in an attempt to overheat and kill whatever they're swarming. Usually works on targets that are slightly bigger than themselves...
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u/cyanide1938 Jul 19 '26
Meanwhile on Jackass: Dave and Stevo play behive tetherball wearing nothing but bear caps and furry underwear 🤣
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