- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) English16•9 months ago
Damn, bees only live 45 days? Ants last 4 years…i did not expect that :/
PS: turns out wasps have an even shorter life expectancy: 12-22 days :p
- stebo02 ( @stebo02@sopuli.xyz ) English6•9 months ago
turns out wasps have an even shorter life expectancy: 12-22 days :p
not god damn short enough
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English5•9 months ago
I’m doing all I can
- ursakhiin ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) English4•9 months ago
Wasps running hot explains so much about why they are such dicks.
“You think you got problems? I was born last week and I’m having a mid life crisis right now!”
- nautilus ( @nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•9 months ago
more bee facts please and thank you
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) English4•9 months ago
bees communicate geometric information by dancing (aka jiggling their butts) C:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg
more detailed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-ozxpIrdI
- Pandantic ( @Pandantic@midwest.social ) English6•9 months ago
Wow, bees live a lot like us humans, right up to the middle age “well, I guess I’m going to work until I die” mentality.
- toxicbubble420 ( @toxicbubble420@beehaw.org ) English5•9 months ago
another cool fact: beekeeping isn’t ethical
- Magiccupcake ( @Magiccupcake@startrek.website ) English6•9 months ago
While not a very helpful comment, its true.
Honey bees displace native bees and pollinators, and are vectors for disease for other bees.
- Rodeo ( @Rodeo@lemmy.ca ) English3•9 months ago
The European honeybee is well and truly naturalized across the world. They’ve been in North America for 500 years now, the ecology has fully adapted to them.
- s_s ( @s_s@lemmy.one ) English2•9 months ago
Lmao
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) English1•9 months ago
There are unethical ways to do it, but it’s not a simple hardline and it hasn’t nearly the philosophically strong arguments like other forms of animal keeping have for being unethical.
- Goodtoknow ( @Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca ) English1•9 months ago
Can you link me to some good readings on this topic? I’m on a path towards veganism, but still use Honey because I didn’t see any major ethical issues with it as I believed it was beneficial for them.