I love Ze Frank's "True Facts" videos about animals, but this one is near and dear to my heart, and half the reason I do #beekeeping. I once asked my master beekeeper a question about a very strange, specific architectural thing bees do, and she said "I'm going to give you the common belief here, but the real answer to these questions is 'nobody knows because bees are a thousand times smarter than they should be capable of being'" https://youtu.be/M6hGjh9SJ_M
True Facts: Bees That Play With Balls And Do Math!

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Just stacked box number SEVEN on the hive. It is positively tumescent.

One fucker stung me on the middle finger. Which felt like she was trying to send a message.

#beekeeping #hiveblogging

@middleclasstool That's a lot of bees. Mine are ramping up like CRAZY. Had to do an emergency split this week because one decided to make - and cap - 6 swarm cells this week. I'm really glad I caught it when I did because I had another hive that didn't successfully raise a new one, so I was able to combine the two šŸ¤ž
@brianb yeah, we did a split a few weeks ago and the master keeper who trained me said we may have to do another. I never saw so much larvae. My first thought was "do they have some kind of X-Files cancer"
@middleclasstool wow! Are you early in your year or at the end of your year?
@amd Early in. I'm a little worried about how the summer will go, because last summer was brutal. But so far it's looking good!

@middleclasstool that’s a wild start. My girls are just getting going.

Good luck!

@middleclasstool to the untrained eye that looks like a lot of bees
@mothninja I got thousands of bees, I got bees for days
@middleclasstool Eddie Izzard covered in bees.gif
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Attached: 1 video Jason Statham is..... The Beekeeper

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@TheBreadmonkey @middleclasstool simulposting! šŸšŸ’•

@mothninja @middleclasstool

Lol. Pretty much every time I've seen bees over the past 27 years I've run around waving my hands over my head saying I'm coveredinbeeees. Such was the power of Izzard.

@TheBreadmonkey @middleclasstool yep yep, it's become such a part of our household vocabulary that a couple of birthdays ago my partner gave me a scarf with a bee design simply so that he has a legit excuse to say coveredinbeeeeeees out loud every time I wear it

@mothninja @middleclasstool
Sharing because I think you’ll appreciate even tho it’s completely off-topic.

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@paninid @middleclasstool I think in the context of Izzard, there is very explicitly no such thing as 'off topic' :)
@mothninja We saw her live in Memphis when Jack was little and got him a COVERED IN BEES shirt
@middleclasstool this makes me so happy
@mothninja Kind of wish I had that in a Matt size now for obvious reasons
@middleclasstool at least I know what to get you for your birthday now
@middleclasstool ...just hypothetically, what size would Matt size be?
@mothninja Matt is typically a size large t-shirt on account of I'm so swole
@middleclasstool @mothninja I don’t have bees, but I DO have a cake or death shirt