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.
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.
I never knew bees could live that long
One day some poor construction workers will do remodelations around that area and be attacked by 5.5 million wild bees at once.
Hope none of them have allergies
This is the first time I’ve seen “remodelation” and I like it. Is it a portmanteu of remodel and renovation?
Yes it is
Zombees
DON’T PAIN OPEN INSIDE
DON’T HONEY OPEN INSIDE
Leave them alone probably better humans didn’t know what they do.
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.
Cryptkeeper: and remember kiddies, you’d better bee-have yourselves or you’ll have a real SWARMageddon! AAhhahahahahaha
Should’ve said “beeneath a cemetery”
Well i guess it ain’t fucking undisturbed now, goddamn nosey bastards can’t leave anything alone.
Is this where all the bees have been disappearing to? Did we unintentionally find the honeybee Zion? Are we the sentinels?
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.
Are those zombees?
