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Sir David Attenborough uses a thermal imaging camera to demonstrate the ingenious way a queen bumble bee heats up in the cold morning air to beat the insect traffic. Brilliant video from BBC animal and wildlife show 'Life in the Undergrowth'.
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[@MattisProbably]

Got a giant one of those little buggers in my store today... I was busy and when I suddenly saw this massive, flying black thing in the corner of my eye it scared the ever loving piss out of me. But I like them. They are cute and fuzzy, like tiny flying teddy bears!

[@LightningJaguar]

Same thing happened to me today while I was cleaning my aquarium.. I have never ran so fast in my life!

[@MattisProbably]

LightningJaguar She actually crawled into a hollow wall that I have in the store and started buzzing around in there. The wall amplified the buzzing and you could hear her in the entire store! XD

[@87PLS]

+mApppel I'm the same. I love bumblebees and I think they look really cute close up but I've had a massive phobia of bees and wasps for as long as I can remember and when ever 1 flies near me I just freak out and start panicing even though I know bumblebees are really passive and its not going to bother me. Its the buzzing that causes me to panic. But having said that I find bees really interesting and love watching documentarys about them. A couple of years ago I couldn't even watch videos like this without feeling anxious, so educating myself a little about bees has helped alot.

[@Ice_cold42]

Yeah, I remember one morning I was sleeping, and woke up with a bumblebee walking on my arm!

[@dr.robotico7879]

@@MattisProbably when you a mentioned a giant bugger, were you talking about a queen bee/queen bumblebee?

[@dlucky7s456]

Sweet fluffy bumblebee That was a reference

[@bruhpurpleee]

Bumblebees are the friendliest of all the bees. Nothing really gets on their nerves.

[@TSPH1992]

NoVA. As long as you don't provoke them

[@goop_vr3783]

Wasps: I am bout to end this whole mans career

[@ronman_the_great]

@@TSPH1992yeah but it takes a fuck ton of provoking to anger them

[@Lemmetry1234]

Oh, all these good memories I have with bumble bees...when I was younger I used to cuddle them and give them names :D These creatures dont diserve to be called insects, but animals...they always did give me a peaceful feeling when I was around them

[@sinephase]

beautiful bees, bumblebees are my favourite bee! :) I wish there were as many documentaries on them as there are for honey bees :(

[@mrincodi]

I just love to watch videos about bumblebees while installing Ruby.

[@JoachimderZweite]

When I was young I used to see these bees frequently but that world has gone.

[@Lishaaaaaaa]

I love bumbles.

[@Jeremyramone]

watching the bee initially take off is quite remarkable. ive never been stung by a bee in me life because unlike most people who have a fit when bee comes near, i simply ignore it and act calm. the bee hovers close to me and sometimes even come into direct contact but never sting. It might be their astute recognition of a threat-perception.thanks for sharing these videos, cheers

[@organicelectrics]

What would the world bee without these sweet insects?

[@Sovvolf]

Insects are magnificent creatures i dont get why poeple find them icky, they do things that can just simply amaze

[@pimparoo]

@rmephh no, they don't die after they sting. they don't have barbed stingers. honey bees have barbed stingers, so they die, but not the bumble bee.

[@01Weirdguy]

Actually, the bumblebees never lose their stinger. Unlike their cousin, the honeybee which has a barbed stinger, they have smooth stinger so it slips out easier. They're just an extremely tollerant bee.

[@talonakalu]

lol its true, they buzz fken loud. And your right, you run. Especialy tearing up a nest in the ground.

[@jkjkhardcore666]

i had that same problem, till i ripped out the porch and replaced it (termites and bumble bees) but now I see very few termines and bbs. The bb's I do see i swat with a fly swatter they are so annoying.

[@donbasuradenuevo]

Humans should terraform a new planet, like Mars, where the only insects are those gentle awesome bees.

[@peanutkirby]

i wanna go 2 england now D:

[@BanananaDang]

IT'S SO FUZZY I'M GONNA DIE

[@juswolf22]

lol winnie the pooh has a shirt on but no pants

[@bradzilaaaa]

All Bees make honey, just not as much as honey bees

[@sarah20025]

I wanna snuggle a bumble bee DX

[@FlipperBoidSkua]

Yeah, they can sting and they won't die. They can keep on stinging repeatedly, unlike honeybees.

[@Tom6093]

@yac123 Except the Africanised Killer bee, Most bees are pretty harmless unless you hurt the bee.

[@DoubtfulGrace]

What what?! Their wings work like propellers so it actually makes sense they can support the weight and shape of their chubby little bee bodies?? Bee Movie lied to me!! D:

[@iwant2haveu]

They move like helicopters

[@umidontno040394]

i thought all bees stung when they die.

[@Trund27]

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[@seanengland4588]

1 fat bee

[@atheistfromaustria]

@TylerT718 i do hope it did hurt a lot!

[@Lemmetry1234]

They are not counted as animals...but i guess they are

[@EphemeralProductions]

@jkjkhardcore666 Do not kill the bees. They are endangered and their populations are dwindling, and we depend upon them to keep our vegetables and other such foods pollinated so they can grow. Without that we're gonna have a LOT of problems!!! lol

[@holydevil12100]

It's really depressing that the bumble bees are in a population decline, they're the only insect that I like. Screw wasps and even honeybees, we need to try to keep these guys alive

[@REDTEAM22003]

fake...i dont see any bumble bee transforming

[@XxMegaAlixX]

Insects are animals, I advice you to study biology.

[@shelledwalnut1960]

She's so cute and fluffy. >

[@Angelkid190]

Ikr? 😍

[@tashaschneider1419]

Fluffy angels in the garden! This was a beautifully done video. I love watching bumble-bees (or any bee!) pollinate the flowers!

[@rjjcms1]

Me too,I'm just starting to get a few now it's spring. They particularly like the blue flowers of a borage-like plant I've got that grows as a weed,and would take over if unchecked.

[@Trund27]

Tasha Schneider I love this comment 🙏🏼🥰🐝🌸

[@AmShibes]

As long as they aren't wasps I'm okay with them.

[@flyinxgodzilla4029]

I agree but they still hurt like tigers amazing but deadly

[@edthegoomba]

Yeah. Fuck wasps...

[@MB32904]

they aren't wasps, wasps are hairless

[@Eddie-ev9bv]

@@edthegoomba If every wasp on the planet was destroyed, we would require in excess of 200 chemicals to do some of the work that the wasp does. Which would you prefer, more chemicals in your food or a few wasps in your garden? Wasps don't attack, unless they are provoked, so you need not worry about them. The corona virus is much more dangerous than any insect!

[@Torthrodhel]

I love bumble bees and when I need to calm down, I watch videos of brilliant bumble bees. :) so cute

[@cbaha4985]

Jane Ross ikr I feel the same

[@YodaOnDMT]

How and who found out that these bees take their wings "out of gear?"

[@captaincook4199]

I would recommend looking up a biology vid, it was an analogy

[@Kneenibble]

I love bumblebees, and I wish I could shrink down and cuddle with them.

[@brucey5232]

bumble bees, the infant stage of birds.

[@MaartenvanRossemLezingen]

What

[@TSPH1992]

Brucey that doesn't even make sense

[@iainclark8695]

I love the image where she's heated up her thorax only. It's like the glow of life made visible

[@EphemeralProductions]

[@MtnGirl26]

Amazing. I always wondered how the bumble bees were able to be buzzing about on a chilly morning. The gentle little bees are my favorite and I'm always going out of my way to rescue them from the house.

[@brutallica2944]

Bumble Bees, such qute fellas

[@andypeluche96]

bumble bees are the cutest insect ever!! They are SOO fluffy!

[@KerianH]

That's because wasps and bees are two completely different insects despite their similarities and their likely common ancestry. Bees are complete herbivores, and will remain docile if they know that a threat isn't around. Wasps, on the other hand, are carnivorous (usually) from the time they are born, and as such they need to be ready to fight. This aggressive behavior transfers in the way they protect their nests.

[@kowalityjesus]

such beautiful music!!!

[@Lishaaaaaaa]

I love bumble bees, they're so cute and make me cry. ; u ; My friend and I tried to save one once, it was in the rain and we tried to keep it dry. It passed away in the night though. D:

[@carlacullerton1037]

SHES SO SMART SHES DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB

[@BoomBoxDeluxe]

Aaaw! I want one! :-D So cute, fluffy and chubby. YAY for bumble bees! -BoomBoxDeluxe.

[@cookiehead2]

That's awesome. We have a plant on our front porch that always has several bumble bees around it, but over night they all go dormant on the plant. Maybe they don't have that ability.

[@BrinaFlautist]

She's so fluffyyyyy

[@intuitionblue]

Bees: Hi friend! I've come to kiss your flowers! I'll be off in a jiffy! Wasps: Yo fucker. Is that a Coke you're drinking there? Well guess what bitch.

[@MB32904]

here's a message for you wasps: fake you and fake your behavior

[@erzascarlet6652]

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[@arkhalisbananis7054]

cute

[@BigManPigMan628]

It is impossible for me to imagine how you can fear a cute little bumble bee, all they want to do is make flowers happy.

[@CarnivorousPlantsAndGardening]

IT'S SO FLUFFFFUYYYYYYY

[@letudownbetch]

so fuzzy and cute!!

[@Alhazzred01]

If these lil guys all died out, humanity would perish within about 4 years.

[@cbaha4985]

Alhazzred01 just like how old this comment is

[@Trund27]

Beautiful. And lovely music, too! 1:07

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Yes, the strings and violin 🎻 ❤

[@Glamosapien]

bees scare the shit out of me theyre so big they like tony arnold and dotn gimmie shit about ooh theyre lovable and sweet and gentle, theyre also dickheads if u bump into one by accident just walk into they go scitzo, and u have to run coz they get angry enough to fly ike hellish speed at u, one landed on ym head and went under my hair before and i touched it by accident and all i heard was ZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZTHFTGZZZZ!!!! and i fukin ran for it!

[@Glamosapien]

theres nests in the gorund, shit, never knew that, now im even more paranoid, the other week i was walking home fro college by myself and a massive hul hogan bee flew out of the bushes on the wall i was walking next to i jamp and ran into the road, then i was looking around to see if anyone was looking haha

[@rustyshadow7]

I'm in N. Texas, and it's been over 25 yrs since l've seen a bumble bee, and over 30 yrs since l've seen a horned lizard/hornfrog/hornytoad. l've thought about going to west Texas and bring back a couple but l'm not sure that they would survive here now, maybe they'll eat the carpenter ant l have around here.

[@rustyshadow7]

I live in Texas, and it's been many years since I've seen a bumble bee. Why have they disappeared; chemtrails, cellphones, african killer bees? I miss seeing them, just like I miss seeing the horned lizards; who were run off by those dang fireants; who ran off the harvester ants which were the main food of the horned lizard.

[@federalwarhawk]

@Subvert1024 Reason I have been looking for this info, was many years ago, when I was walking thru my clover field, on almost all the flowers were these huge Bumblebees, at least 3 times larger than any one I have seen before,I don't know if these were all Queens, a separate species, or just a hive of common Bumble bees that were abnormally large for some reason,

[@DEMONICHERMITCRAB]

bumble bes are also not very social creatures the only reason that that bee didnt sting your mom was because it didnt have backup bumble bee support or somthing like that also bumbler bees willingly go on your hand if offered if they cant flyalso bees can sting more than once like a wasp i hope that clears up some questions in your mind so see ya...!

[@jkjkhardcore666]

LMAO touch the back of them and get stung! LMao Touch their butts its fun .>.> They don't really attack people though even though I lived right on the next they never stung me once except when I was a kid and tried to pet one.... Yeah i got stung and yeah it hurt. I got revenge by tossing them in a spiders web whenever i Caught one muahaha

[@Chris-kt9yq]

@spektre0 You need to understand what I mean by "create". If your thinking of animals like cows that produce milk or plants that produce fruit, thats not what I mean. Bees actually "create" honey. They collect pollen and with their hard work they make that into honey

[@geomonicdotorg]

@rmephh - FYI, only honeybees die when they sting, because both the stinger and some of the internal organs to which it is attached, are separated from their bodies when stinging. Bumblebees, on the other hand, do not lose their stingers, and can sting repeatedly without dying.

[@TinyCoconut]

@rmephh Sorry to trouble you with good news, but bumble bees DO NOT die when they sting, since their stingers lack the barbs of other bee species. Try doing a Wikipedia search before commenting, so you don't contribute to mis-information, and don't make yourself look like a fool :]

[@Chris-kt9yq]

These bees are the best of all of em. They are hard workers, they rarely bother humans and only are hostile if you constantly bother them. Before you hate on these creatures, just know that these are the ONLY animals to actually create a food for humans.

[@Subvert1024]

@federalwarhawk I've been trying to find the answer to that as well. I want to make a screen that will keep the queen inside my green house while allowing the other bees to leave. There is not alot of good info online about bumble bees.

[@brwniez1]

That was interesting....I love Bumble Bees, Thier huge...i see them all the time around here.... i just wanna catch one ...and pet it.....Lol....i heard u can...an they wont even fly away ,but i also heard they can sting...so maybe not

[@ieguy3]

@yac123 Well, maybe every single type of female bee (males don't have stingers - a stinger is a modification of an ovipositor) that you know of :-) stingless bees (Meliponini) have either no sting or one so reduced that it's useless.

[@HalTheAl]

Not when you're allergic like me. Jumping barefoot on the trampoline then jumping off onto the grass, I landed on a bee... Foot swelled to twice its size and I was unable to go to school or work for weeks.

[@AlbertWeskerfan100]

@lordblazer Yea, the ones around my old house built nest around the wood on my house, and evertime id walk outside they floated around my head a few times and went on thier buisness. kind of cute acctually. :D

[@lordblazer]

@ivanlagrossemoule yea they're not so aggressive. I use to pet them too when I was little. bumblebees are cool. Yellowjackets are assholes.

[@JoachimderZweite]

You are lucky and I wonder where you live. What I liked most was the sound. Their buzzing was very loud, lie a mini plane flying along. The old name for them where I lived was "dumbledore".

[@glashoppah]

@lordblazer If disturbed, however, they can be quite fearsome. I kicked a hive once (not knowing it was a hive - a hissing grass-pile made me curious when I was a kid) and I got mobbed by them. Ouch.

[@Tom6093]

@iamabsFTW - Teaching the bee how to bee Lazy huh. " I'll just win the trust of this human and let it take me to the flower patches. I mean we are just cute and fuzzy bees ......right ?"

[@gregrocks66]

@iamabsFTW maybe it was lazy, lol, still cool tho, im to affraid of any bee/wasp tho so i stay my distance, and run if i even see a bee

[@OneSkiWonder]

@iamabsFTW I would have freaked out when it landed on me. Though that's cool, I think my phobia would have taken over at the start.

[@Ragu2358]

Bees actually have common sense unlike Wasps. You be nice to Bees they be nice to you. You mess with Bees they mess with you. But Wasps are just flat out dicks lol

[@cbaha4985]

Did you know wasp are actually the ancestors of bees

[@zoomerlawns]

I stepped on a bee once and I think it stung my shoe, but I wasn't sure because I didn't ask. I wonder if bees make biscuits to go with their honey.

[@XxMegaAlixX]

Yes they are counted as animals, you see there are 5 kingdoms of life, 1 being animalia which consists of insects, mammals, reptiles, etc...

[@SHOOTRiGARS]

@Scullnblades I Swear I have a phobia of them also, its the buzzing noise it freaks me out alot, when i hear it near me I run like hell lol.

[@gaubrini]

Wait, she has to look for food? She doesn't have slaves that feed her like other bees? I guess I need to do a little more research

[@ThunderPreacher]

they do make honey but because their hives are small and so they make small amounts of honey that are of no value for human predators

[@umidontno040394]

eeeeeh, that may be because wasps can afford to be dicks. if a bee stings, then it dies. if a wasp stings, then it is fine.

[@yamsyamsyamsz]

@rmephh I thought bumblebees don't have stingers or something?? That's sad... they're the only kind of bees I like lol

[@MB32904]

so cute and fuzzyyy

[@Greedsux]

bumblebees dont sting, they use the spikes on their legs to scratch your skin and makes it feel like u got stung

[@Funnyfish66]

i love how magical it is when the bee flys away.

[@KakuKachoO]

bumblebees don't sting you do they? I remember killing bunch of bumblebees just because they looked scary...

[@Sovvolf]

True bee's do alot for the World but i think punching poeple for such a thing is pritty harsh.

[@Lemmetry1234]

Please just forget what I said...this is probably the most stupid thing I‘ve ever discussed with someone

[@babyjess505]

i pick them up all the time they crawl onto my hand then when i put them back on the flower they fly of

[@Banez1991]

there like tiny flying teddy bears ... the only insect that doesn't make me go '' D: /cringe ''