My favorite thing about Beedrill is that, despite being territorial as hell, despite not liking to interact with pokemon outside of their line, despite being related to Combee, who will immediately banish a combee if it decides to befriend / mate with a pokemon outside of their hive, Beedrill are so close to those in their hives that, if a Beedrill ends up befriending / becoming mates with a pokemon of a different species, instead of banishing them like Combee / Vespiquen would, the entire hive just goes, "Well damn. They trust them. That must mean they're good :/" and they'll just... let the other pokemon live with them.
There was a story on the news a couple years back about a Beedrill Hive in Johto that ended up having a male Ledian and their ledyba-crossed weedle children live in the hive with them because one of their soldiers decided to become attached to him, lol. It was quite sweet (except for the fact that the hive made him his own needles by gathering a bunch of thorns and using Weedle silk to keep them together. That part was scary. AMAZING for ecology studies and how Beedrill work together to care for their hive members, but not for a poor unprepared 10 year old seeing a Ledian come flying at them with thorn needles).











