Full Bee Communism Now!

Worker bees of the world, unite!

[oysterpe]

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room 😔

[westernmassposting]

you hear about this? https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social/post/3mkl677twkc2v

oh we stan

Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer

🐝🐝🐝🐝Direct Action 🐝🐝🐝🐝

[westernmassposting]

Some other excellent exerpts:

[glumshoe]

do Ents reproduce by sexual intercourse or by pollination

[glumshoe]

But if they reproduce through pollination how can they be sure they no longer reproduce? Maybe they’re anemophilous and are wind-pollinated and if they stand in a strong enough breeze an Entwife, somewhere, conceives an Entseed.

[glumshoe]

oh my god maybe the Entwives were bees

you are a mad genius

[glumshoe]

Ok, so, we have a few options:

1.) Ents reproduce exclusively through sexual intercourse, or something close to it

OR

2.) Ents reproduce via pollination and...

a.) are dioecious, with Ents producing only male flowers and Entwives producing only female flowers, and pollinated either by wind or by animals (or by hand?)

b.) have bisexual flowers, but which are so specialized that they can exclusively be pollinated by one specific species of pollinator...

The Entwives left the forest so long ago that the Ents no longer remember what they looked like. Treebeard says the Shire sounds like the sort of place they would have loved, with its gardens and flowers and agriculture. Hobbits have folklore of giant bees, named after bumblebees. Certain flowers only release pollen to “buzz pollinators”, like bumblebees.

Could it be that the Ents—who notoriously do everything slowly—failed to evolve quickly enough to compete with agricultural crops for the time and attention of their only pollinator species? Did the Entwives dump the Ents to evolve into regular bees faster than the Ents could even consciously process? DOES SAM GAMGEE THE GARDENER’S BOY KEEP ENTWIVES?!

I think we’ve done it. I think we’ve cracked the code. (Shut the fuck up, Jirt, no one asked you.)

[transfem-octopus]

It’s only in the movies that the Ents cannot remember the Ent wives. In the books they’ve described as having golden hair, red cheeks, and eyes like the Ents. Meaning the Entwives probably resembled the ents in appearance.

Likewise in the books the Ents were basically tree like giants instead of giant trees. As seen below

Peter Jackson reimagined the Ents as being giant trees instead of tree like giants so returning to the original question I propose a compromise:

Treebeard from the movies reproduces through pollination by the Ent Wives who are giant bees.

Treebeard from the books fucks. 

[glumshoe]

“Golden hair”?

“Red (butt) cheeks”?

Sounds like a rusty patched bumblebee to me.

[glumshoe]

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[queer-as-city-folk]

Girls, much like their brethren in Bees, are known to wear yellow

[mentemori]

My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

[prokopetz]

The thing about expertise is that it comes with opinions on absolutely everything related to its topic, even if you didn't realise you had one until the moment the subject came up. If you asked someone who knows a lot about eusocial insect species which one would be most likely to be into lifestyle BDSM if they could understand the concept, they'll not only have an answer, they'll instantly become sufficiently invested in that answer to get mad at people who answer differently.

[randomschtuffrepository]

From the replies

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0437

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[sitting-on-me-bum]

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) workers surrounding queen.

PHOTOGRAPH BY KIM TAYLOR, NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

[gracklesong]

Getting the magnifying glass out to see how capitalist this bug is

[fullbeecommunismnow]

:(

[nudityandnerdery]

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[despazito]

White bees!!

[lovedthestars-toofondly]

@elodieunderglass for the leucism channel!!

[elodieunderglass]

Oh my gosh I don’t think I’ve seen one of these before at all! Thank you so much!

[straight-n-arrow]

Cool bee things wow!!

[ms-forever-suicide-deactivated2]

wiggles my ass at you bug style

[birdandmoon]

New comic: how to tell a Carpenter Bee from a Bumble Bee!

For the inside story behind each comic, support me on Patreon.

Thanks watchingbees.com for the help.

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[krudman]

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[theriu]

For as popular as the idea of a "hivemind" is we never talk about how it doesn't exist in nature. There's no animal colony that connects and controls all its members through a psychic connection. Even bees, the eponimous hivemind, communicate by pheremones and, more importantly, interpretive dance. My point is when are we going to get a movie about an intensely organized alien race that mainly communicates via sick dance moves, why are we sleeping on this.