Originally published at: This amazing bee whisperer scoops up bees with bare hands as if they were candy | Boing Boing
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Is a “honeybee sanctuary” different from a regular beehive sort of setup? Do they not collect the honey? Presumably the bees wander off of the property where they sanctuary is located?
She’s already a Boing-lebrity:
My wife is a beekeeper and assures me that beekeeping doesn’t require you to talk “breathy” as this woman does in her videos.
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There’s a YouTuber who goes by “The Bush Bee Man” who does smart work, although he is a beekeeper. Some beehives are just full of asshole bees whereas others are calm. His videos include both kinds of rescues.
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Has your wife tried speaking this way to bees? If not, why not?
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I love her videos. She clearly cares for the bees she rescues. Her voice is so soothing. It’s like bee ASMR.
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This kind of thing sure would have killed the plot of all those 70s killer bees movies.
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Right?! All they needed to do was carry an extra queen bee in their pocket, just in case.
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I am surprised that the beehive would just take up a new queen that wasn’t their own queen. I’m thinking they can tell the difference. But maybe they just desire an authority figure like f-cking republicans.
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Re-queening a new hive takes a few days. The queen is in a small, vented box with a sugar plug. In the days it takes the workers to chew through the plug and unseal the queen they have become used to her pheromones and accept her.
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Having chatted with a bee keeper who does this kind of thing, my understanding is that there’s nothing “bee whisperer” about it. They don’t care much if you’ve got a special touch or what. Rather, if they’re swarming to find a new nest then they aren’t going to sting you. That’s it.
That’s not to say I don’t have a huge amount of respect for people like this, and also I’d be trembling so hard I couldn’t pick them up, but her having a soothing voice or whatever doesn’t have anything to do with it.
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In her case, the communication is going the other way; the bees are “whispering” [1], and she can hear them just fine.
[1] “Whispering” in this case being: communicating by behaviour and body language that I don’t understand because bees aren’t my jam.
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The Emerging Beef Between the Texas Bee Lady and the Beekeeping Critic Who Argues She’s an Influencer Hoax
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Is there a rule stating that these “takedown videos” have to be done in a car while driving?
This is all very silly.
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