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The Bee GuyEarly!It’s <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friday</a> folks!Have the best <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/weekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weekend</a> you can.You know the drill:Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/kind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kind</a> Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/gentle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gentle</a> Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/true" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#true</a> Be like <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> Oh…and don’t be a little rich stand for nothing bitch that starts a global trade war for attention.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 83<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bumblebees</a> made history when over 130 years ago they were brought from England to New Zealand to pollinate red <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/clover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clover</a> for farmers - the first <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insect</a> to be introduced to a country to <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinate</a> a specific plant.🙁

The Bee GuyMaybe I should ask a bumblebee to chew on a bee fact…then it might arrive early!🙄 What? What? I do this for free!<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 81Research found that tomato plants flowered up to 30 days earlier in response to their leaves being chewed by hungry <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a>. When this behaviour is mimicked by cutting the leaves they only flower 5 days earlier! <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee GuyTold you I’d be back! With today’s fact. Still not sure if it’s late or not but it’s definitely a goodie regardless of the time. And I am… Regardless of the time!🙄 Go easy folks.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 79Recent research suggests that if food is scarce hungry <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> will chew on plant leaves - not to eat them - but to stress the plant causing it to <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flower</a> thus providing earlier <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollen</a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>. Chew on that! 🤯

The Bee GuyLate? Not sure. They’ve been messing with the clocks again…and given my already tumultuous relationship with time…well…it wouldn’t surprise me if this wasn’t even today’s fact! It’s not? Ok I need another fact. I’ll be back!<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 78Unlike females, male <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> don’t perform learning flights on leaving the nest. They fly directly away never looking back. 😥 They do however perform learning flights on leaving <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> to memorise location. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee GuyIt’s been a few days. What’s been happening? Any tariffs on speaking the truth yet? <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/tariffwanker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffwanker</a> Anyhow… It’s <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friday</a> folks. Have the best <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/weekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weekend</a> you can.You know the drill:Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/kind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kind</a> Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/gentle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gentle</a> Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/true" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#true</a> Be like <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 76Bees are able to navigate using the polarised light patterns in the sky by virtue of their 3 ‘simple eyes’ or <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ocelli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocelli</a> which are positioned on top of the head between their 2 larger compound eyes. So 5 eyes in all! 👀

The Bee GuyAnd I get lost in a drop down menu.😂 Go easy folks. Stop and listen to the hum of a passing bumble if you’re lucky enough to still have them in your vicinity. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 75<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bumblebees</a> are able to start foraging earlier in the morning and continue until later in the evening when landmarks aren’t visible as they can use the polarised light of the sky as a GPS for guidance to their nest!🤯 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee GuyLate? Yep! 9 days late. Try that on for size!😊 Been very busy cooking something up. But the facts are back from today so all is good with the world again…isn’t it? Isn’t it? 🙄😔 Thanks for your patience folks.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 74A bee’s colour vision is the fastest in the animal world. Bees see colour 5 times faster than humans. Whereas people have trouble distinguishing one flower from another in a group of flowers <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> see every single <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flower</a>

The Bee Guy<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 72Arctic <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> have adapted to (up to now!) a short cool flowering season. They have large first broods of about 16 female workers that forage continuously all day and overnight during bright <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arctic</a> nights. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a>

The Bee GuyLate? Not in Vegas baby. Not in Vegas.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 71# 70 contd.Carrying heavy pollen loads on the legs makes <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebee</a> flight more stable in windy conditions; but in calm weather bees with nectar-full honey stomachs are more nimble than those carrying pollen loads. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/sanctuary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanctuary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/wildflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildflowers</a>

The Bee GuyLate? Have you seen the pollen baskets on this hard working bumble? Who cares about late when I bring you such wonders. On a regular basis. A very regular basis. All the time. Every day. For free…for free?…wait a second…😂 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 70Bumblebees transport pollen in ‘baskets’ on their hind legs and nectar in their honeystomach. They can carry their body weight in nectar and up to 90% of their body weight in pollen. What they carry affects how they fly. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee GuyEarly! It’s the sunshine. Has me in a positive demeanour. Things starting to move about the place. Colours returning. Birds singing. The odd hum of wings on the breeze. It’s life Jim, but not as we know it…much anymore.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 69If you are lucky enough to have <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/solitarybees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solitarybees</a> in your garden - LOOK AFTER THEM! They build small solitary nests in cavities in the ground/timber/walls, fly for only a few weeks, don’t swarm and are superb <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee Guy<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 65A full <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebee</a> pollen basket can contain over one million pollen grains. The colour of the pollen basket is indicative of the flowers upon which the bee has foraged. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pollinators</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a>

The Bee GuyEarly again. Something’s up. It’s not like me. Could it be a reflex response to the level of fuckery going on presently on this planet I hear you ask. What’s that? You didn’t ask that. Oh…okay…as you were, but I swear I heard…<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 64<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bumblebees</a> store small amounts of regurgitated <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nectar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nectar</a> to feed larvae and for emergencies in wax ‘honey pots’ in the nest. The wax to create these honey pots is released from between the segments of the abdomen. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee GuyReleased early for good behaviour. Enjoy folks. Be good yourselves. And if you can’t be good be better! <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bebetter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bebetter</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 57In some bumblebee species female workers can be up to ten times larger, in terms of their mass, compared to other sibling workers from the same nest. Larger workers are usually assigned the task of foraging. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a> 🐝🌍

The Bee GuyAnd here’s yesterday’s fact. Hope I’m not moving too fast for you - as the king said to the democratic representative busy fretting with his thumb up his ass and his head in the shifting sand. Hold on to your hollyhocks! <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 55Bee brains are smaller than a sesame seed and have less than 1 million neurons (we have 86 billion). They are however highly intelligent - can add/subtract, get the concept of zero, solve puzzles & recognise faces. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a>

The Bee GuyOkay folks. We’ve a bit of catching up to do - a bit like the Democratic Party and the taking away of democracy right in front of their scared-ass incompetent noses. Except we’ll get there this evening! Sunday’s fact:<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 54Solitary Bee stings tend not to be as strong as those of larger social bees. Having no large nests to defend these bees only need enough ‘sting’ to fend off the odd rival or an attack by other insects. Only female <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> sting.

The Bee GuyLate? Yep! Of course!🙄 But…It’s <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friday</a> folks!And we made it through another week without some psychopathic dictator nuking the planet! Yay us!So have the best <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/weekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weekend</a> you can.You know the drill:Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/kind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kind</a> Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/gentle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gentle</a> Be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/true" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#true</a> Be like <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> Oh… And don’t be a Nazi. Can’t forget that one.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 52<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> have hearts but they are not ❤️ shaped. Bee hearts are straw shaped organs and run the entire length of the body. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a>

The Bee Guy<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 50One of the ways in which bumblebee queens maintain their dominance in the nest is by periodically head-butting the more dominant female workers. We’re not so different! <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> 🌍🐝

The Bee GuyRight on the money! Or near enough as doesn’t matter.And not a DOGE-manipulating self-serving pseudo-fascist state-sponsored Europe-dismantling billionaire asswipe in sight!<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> not <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a>!Have a good one folks!<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.# 49Development from egg to adult bumblebee can take anywhere from 20 to 35 days depending on species and conditions. Half this time is spent as a larva feeding and half as a pupa in a cocoon. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a>

The Bee GuyLate today…yeah! I was busy pondering if male bumblebees are considered male in the US now under the new regime. Or do they actually exist at all? Are they merely a figment of the collective imagination there now? Possibly even far left activists? 🙄🐝🌍<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/theBeeAt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theBeeAt3</a> Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 46Male <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bumblebees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bumblebees</a> develop from unfertilised eggs. They have no father. So 100% of their genes will be in common with their mother, the queen. They also have no stinger! <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a>

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