Thinking about it from the bee's perspective, this is like raiding the lair of an eldritch horror for gold. A beekeeper is just a funny looking bear-thing that takes honey sometimes, but the shop of a beekeeper is full of devices beyond a bee's comprehension, more honey than a bee would ever see in its lifetime just all sitting around, its own sun which can turn on and off. To find yourself in such a place by accident must be a crazy experience, convincing your brethren to attack it by shaking your butt is on another level.
gus_massa · 53m ago
In a bakery like 3 block away from my home, most days there are like 20 bees trying to steal the sweet cover over the pastries. But the front wall of the business is almost completely made of glass, so they can't escape.
OhMeadhbh · 10m ago
Is it just me or would anyone else buy a video game based on this premise?
It sorta reminds me of "Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees."
russellbeattie · 39m ago
New word for me today: "apiarist"/"apiary". Never knew bee keepers had a more formal name, though it makes sense.
Dad joke: It would be more apt if instead of a-piary, it was "b-piary".
OhMeadhbh · 7m ago
So a "swarm" is the collective noun for bees. But I couldn't find a collective noun for apiarists. I propose "stung" as in "a stung of beekeepers."
duskwuff · 15m ago
Bonus word: if you want to sound all fancy, beekeeping is also known as apiculture.
grilledchickenw · 15m ago
Jason Statham in "The Apiarist" doesn't have the same ring to it
vardump · 44m ago
From a bee's point of view humans are the robbers.
stronglikedan · 2m ago
the good bees know it's symbiotic
Kye · 40m ago
Humans provide a sturdy, safe place to build hives and all they ask for in return is some of the excess honey. Bees make way more than they can use. Humans will also cart them around to food sources so they never have to worry about finding it. Seems like a sweet deal.
yesfitz · 13m ago
This is a bad take on the farming of an invasive species.
Bees don't make more honey than they can use. They make what they can and have reserves for Winter and growing in the Spring. Do you pay your landlord everything you'd otherwise save?
I've never seen a bee colony "worry" about finding food. They'll travel within a one mile radius for foraging, and four to five miles for water. Colonies will also leave a hive, or swarm (split into 2 colonies) if there is not enough resources for them.
It's not a deal. They don't understand what's happening. If you're going to take their honey, at least don't make up some weird fantasy where they're happy about it.
OhMeadhbh · 3m ago
I agree with everything you're saying. But I am a bully who likes the taste of honey. A prisoner to desire, no doubt I will not be liberated from saṃsāra anytime soon.
It sorta reminds me of "Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees."
Dad joke: It would be more apt if instead of a-piary, it was "b-piary".
Bees don't make more honey than they can use. They make what they can and have reserves for Winter and growing in the Spring. Do you pay your landlord everything you'd otherwise save?
I've never seen a bee colony "worry" about finding food. They'll travel within a one mile radius for foraging, and four to five miles for water. Colonies will also leave a hive, or swarm (split into 2 colonies) if there is not enough resources for them.
It's not a deal. They don't understand what's happening. If you're going to take their honey, at least don't make up some weird fantasy where they're happy about it.