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Bee Hole: Bees? BEES?!

September 23, 2026 • Ashley & Christy • Season 1 • Episode 47

0:00 | 35:50

You know how sometimes you see one video online and it becomes your entire personality? That’s what happened when Ashley attempted to write a pod episode and decided to pivot last minute and tell Christy just how freaking fascinating bees are.

In this episode, we get into the three different bee lifestyle types, weird and wonderful bee facts, and a whole lot of information that you absolutely did not know you needed to know about our tiny little flying friends.

Then we put our newfound bee knowledge to the test with a Myth or Fact game… where we ask the age-old questions: Do you like jazz?

Naturally, things derail.

There are bees. There are a lot of bee holes. There are also entirely too many references to Arrested Development and one particular misunderstanding involving beads.

So come for the bee facts. Stay for the bee holes.

Resources:

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honey-bee/podcast/

https://www.xerces.org/bug-banter/all-about-bees-celebrating-pollinator-week

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bee_movie

https://www.tiktok.com/@netflixisajoke/video/7269079219160780075?lang=en

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SPEAKER_00 0:40

So I have some things that I want to embroider. Like I bought this cute bag. Like, you know how you go on vacation and they have canvas bags that have like the name of the place where you're at? Yeah. And like a little image, but it's just screen printed on. Would it not be so cute if I like embroidered?

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Yeah, that'd be really cute.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Certain designs over top of it, yeah. So that's gonna be my next endeavor, but I still gotta learn all the stitches. And I'm I'm doing good. Yeah, it's fun. It's relaxing.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Okay. Something about stabbing something a bunch of times feels really good.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

For sure, for sure, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

And uh how's guitar going?

SPEAKER_00 1:15

You know, we have been tasked with with practicing 15 minutes four times a week, and I have done that two times.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Oh, good.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Practice two times for 15 minutes, so not good.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

That's better than what I've been doing.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Which is?

SPEAKER_01 1:30

I think I practiced for like an hour or two on one of the days. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

But like I think about it often.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

I do think about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

I need to make flashcards for the notes so I can learn the notes because that's really complicated.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

The your tip about using a metronome was really helpful.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

I haven't even downloaded a metronome app.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

It's on the I think it's on the app that we use to tune him.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

I think there's a metronome included. The more you know. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

I'll find out. I I think I will maybe try and get 15 minutes in tonight.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Yeah, do it. My the hard part for me is that as soon as I as soon as I pull my guitar out, my kids want to play it. Yeah. They want to stand next to me and well, there's just so many things.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

Like the minute I have free time, there's so many things that I want to do, and then I end up just squandering my time. So that's that's a problem.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Speaking of, I have to tell you something that I've recently become obsessed with.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

Uh what?

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Honey bee colony removal videos.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Oh, with the funny girl?

SPEAKER_01 2:29

I don't know. Is there a funny girl? I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Oh, maybe she's not funny.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

I mean, there's a girl that's cute on there. I'll I'll tell you about it. So this lady and her partner have a company in Florida called How's Your Day Honey? Which I think is also so cute. They have like little stickers, super cute. Um, but they go around people's homes that have been like infested and remove the bee colonies. What like it like I mean like they're cutting floorboards, like they're cutting like people's floors.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Oh, it's not just a little nest, it's a no, it's like a huge. Like what do they call that when it's like uh somebody stays, like they're squatting, the bees are squatting?

SPEAKER_01 3:07

The bees are squatting. And the cool thing is is like in some of the videos that they've shown, they have like a little heat sensor camera.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Oh and you can see like what's that's actually not cool.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Um, anyways, I am obsessed watching these videos, and I had I had told you before we started this, I had a different episode and idea in my life. Yeah, this is completely different. Um, and I just kept getting distracted by these B videos.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

So you're like, just one more, and then I'll write for a little bit of the episode and then like just one more.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Well, you know how well maybe this doesn't happen to you, but sometimes I hyperfixate on things.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Not one time ever.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

I think I might have a little bit of that ADHD. But like the dog in you.

unknown 3:47

I got that dog in there.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Yeah, like I like some like all of a sudden I'm just watching a video about it. Like I'm not You're like, how did I get here?

unknown 3:57

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

I was writing. No, that happens to me. Sometimes, like I'm I'm literally like just so totally focused on something, and then all of a sudden it's like squirrel, and I was and I'm like, No, no, no, and like slap myself, yeah, get back to work.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah, pretty much. That's exactly what it's been. Yeah, so the episode that I've written for you today, I wrote today. Okay, perfect, but it was inspired by my my the fact that I cannot stop watching these big bee videos, they're so cool. Okay, and it's really cool because they try to find the queen. Oh, and then they move it to their apiary, so they they are rescuing these bees from otherwise being like schmurtered because like and they catch them in like the little plastic, like yeah. Yeah, yeah, and then because of the the the pheromones that the queen bee gives off, the colony follows it. So what they do is they find the queen and they put her in like a new box.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

It's crazy. It's crazy. How do they find the how do they find her?

SPEAKER_01 4:56

I don't know, because in these videos, like they're you're seeing like hundreds of thousands of bees, and they're like just like picking up scoopfuls of bees and looking.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

I mean that's why like the internet isn't is doesn't show you all the the things. Like they had to be scooping bees for hours and then all of a sudden they found her.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

But like maybe or they're really no one of the videos though, they they put her, like they put the queen in like the little thing, and the caption said straight to gel. But yeah, so they put it on like this box and then all of the bees follow it because of the pheromones. Yeah, so they rem they leave essentially from where they were investing and move to this safer home for them, which then gets moved to an apiary.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Do moms have pheromones? Because sometimes I will remove myself from a situation and my children still follow.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Probably.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Okay, just asking for a friend.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Maybe. Probably.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Fun fact. Well, I guess we'll find out. Your but fun fact, Ashley's children are at my house right now, and my my my children are watching her children, so we'll see if the kids can smell Ashley and they'll come pawing at the door.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Probably. Actually, they're in heaven. Maybe. Yeah. I told I told your family to give them as much as they can to keep them busy.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So she said there's no sugar limits.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

No, no sugar limits. I'll pay the consequences later.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Yeah. Um famous last words.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

I know. I'm gonna be texting you later. Well, also, we also have a it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

I I put my phone on do not disturb, so you can text me all you want. Yeah. And I'll just do it right when you leave here.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

Hey.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

I got go fuck you so you're single parenting right now. I am single parenting right now. Not because me and my husband are divorced, but because my husband got to go do something fun.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

No, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Yeah, maybe, maybe when he gets home. No, she one of my kids had no nap today, so she's real feral. So um, after just having stitches, we're we're really doing great over here.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah. Oh, how are you doing? Not great.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

I'm alive.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Yeah. Okay, but your hair looks good.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Thanks. I chopped it. If you want to see my my chop, it's cute. Here's the thing about me is one change about me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

It's fun.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

It's fun.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

But your new hair lady, like yeah, yeah. You got my hair lady now. She's a bomb.

unknown 7:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Um, anyways, so these videos, they're really cool. I've watched literally every video that I can get my hands on, and it's really fascinating. So on that note, I'm going to tell you everything I just learned about bees.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Beads? Bees. Bees. Bees. You knew I was gonna do that, right? For anyone that doesn't know that reference, it's a arrested development. There's the funniest episode where Lindsay comes in and says that she's got a new business idea, and she said beads. And Job, out of like melting into the couch, is like bees beads.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Here's how you know it's funny when someone has to explain it to you.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Yeah. Shut up.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Do you have a Simpsons reference that you could give right now?

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Um, I don't, but I bet you there is some type of B episode with The Simpsons.

unknown 8:00

Probably.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Um Never mind. I did just come up with it, but never mind.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Tell me. No, I'm not gonna tell you.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

You don't deserve to know.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

You're gonna wait till I'm in the middle of a sentence and then say it.

unknown 8:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Okay, so just as a disclaimer, this um could likely be like a multi-part series because bees are cool as hell. Yeah. So if I miss anything.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Are they interesting? Yeah, they're they're pretty interesting.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

If I miss anything, maybe we will circle back around or you know, I'm gonna give some resources where you can go look up some of the stuff.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

We actually say that quite a bit of like, I'm I'm just gonna like tell you a little bit about this. Like, this will probably be another episode and then we never come back.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

No, but you know what I did last time that I'm like patting myself on the back for because I'm better than everyone. I actually put resources in the last episode that I posted.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Oh, not me. Oh, find your own sources. Well, I'm your source. I'm your source. You're to find me.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

You can quote me on that.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

You know, and you know, and Michael Scott quotes Wayne Gretzky.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Yeah that's that's how I quote Wayne Gretzky, Michael Scott.

unknown 9:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

So on on the note of resources, a couple of them that I found were actually podcasts, which is pretty cool. So one of them was the two bees in a podcast. Um, it's a it's literally a podcast created by the University of Florida Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

So, what was the name of these? But but what is the name of the the videos you've been watching? How's your buzz? What is it?

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Oh, the the Instagram reels is um Hana How's Your Day, honey?

SPEAKER_00 9:38

How's your day, honey? Not even close. How's your buzz? That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

How's your buzz? There's probably something. Are we changing the name of this podcast?

SPEAKER_00 9:45

No, but somebody can use that and then let me know.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

Um, so yeah, the University of Florida. Focus. I'm gonna need you to lock in.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Locking in.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

So the University of Florida has um an entire YouTube page and podcast dedicated to um helping beekeepers and bee research. So their YouTube page says that their mission is to serve beekeepers through research and education programs related to honey bee health, pest management, crop pollination, honey bee husbandry, and bee ecology. So go check that out if you want to just deep dive on bees. It's way more like extensive than anything I'm gonna give you here. And they're important. And they are so important. And there's so many things I didn't know about them, okay, which is really cool. The other website I found was um Xercees. How's your buzz? No, Xerces. Quit trying to make How's Your Buzz happen? It's never gonna happen. And none for Gretchen Wiener.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Yeah, none for her.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Um, I think it's Xerxes, it's X E R C E S dot org. Oh, you would say that's Xerces, right? Sure, man. Um, they have a podcast called Bug Banter where Do you know what I would have done?

SPEAKER_00 11:01

I would have put that word into Google and said, How do you say this?

SPEAKER_01 11:03

I've done that before and it never helps me. Then I just feel stupid when I say it wrong, and then I'm like, oh, actually, here's the Yeah, never mind.

unknown 11:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Um, anyways, they have a podcast called Bug Banter where they actually had an episode. Yeah. They had an episode called All About Bees celebrating pollinator week, and it was posted in June of 2024. And they had a Q ⁇ A with some of the top researchers in the country that work with like um states and and local like Bureau of Land Management places to help increase their bee populations. So yeah, so those are some resources that I found. But let's get into the three main lifestyles of bees. Because I I bet you didn't know this, but bees, they're gonna lifestyle. Bees?

SPEAKER_00 11:47

Bees, bees, okay, got it. Get out. Sorry. I will do that one more time and then I will put it to bed.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

And then it'll be a Simpson thing.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

So if you're lucky. Yeah, because it's funny.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

Because of that cards against humanity card. Bees?

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Oh, I haven't seen that one. Just anytime any person says bees, I'm always like bees. You know what?

SPEAKER_01 12:21

So unhinged.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

You're my people, if you know that reference. Oh, I just heard a child yell.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

That was my child.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

It's fine. They're fine.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

It's a French sink bird. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

That's all right. Okay. You know what? You lock in. You're over here judging me, you lock in.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

So as we know, bees are actually vital to our survival. But what I didn't know is how many different types of bees there are. So according to the experts on the Bug Banter podcast podcast, there are roughly 3,600 species of native bees in the U.S.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

Wow. Um how many are nice? I don't know. How many do we like?

SPEAKER_01 13:03

I think I mean, I think bees are different than wasps. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

A bee's not a bee's not a bee.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

I mean, I should have looked that up probably, but I don't think wasps and hornets are the same as I mean, I'm talking about like honeybees or bumblebees or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Will you do a different episode on wasps? I hate them bitches.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

No.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Because I don't want you to say bees.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

I get it one more time. I get it one more time. Time it correctly. I will. It's gonna be great. You're not gonna know it's coming. Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

To better organize this, we're going to break it up into three main lifestyles of bees, like I said before. The introverts, the socialites, and the freeloaders.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Did you watch the B movie?

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Sure did.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

When you were doing this today?

SPEAKER_01 13:56

No, but I have a funny B movie joke later.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Oh, I I love the B movie.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

It's good. Yeah, it's good. Who doesn't love Jerry Seinfeld?

SPEAKER_00 14:04

I don't know, George.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Kick over. Newman. Newman. So first let's talk about the introvert, um, introverts first or solitary bees. What we typically think of with bee colonies is massive hives that I mentioned at the top of this episode. But that isn't necessarily the most common. So over 90% of bee species are completely solitary.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

What is that? What does completely solitary mean?

SPEAKER_01 14:32

I'll tell you. So these bee species, they leave their nest, they mate, and then they return to manage the nest on their own. It's basically the single mama bees out there doing the hard work for their babies and clearly thriving. There's no hives, no honey, no queens, other than the obvious queen that's hustling for her bee babies, but they are basically colonies of like a mama and her babies. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Which is and they just go like pollinate and come home.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Oh, pretty much. And basically the entire idea isn't to make honey, but to keep like their babies alive and like which we still need them. They're they're native bees, so they're not. But um, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Oh man, I have a lot of questions, but I will I will refrain.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Feel free to ask your questions. No, I will refrain to the so these solitary colonies are typically found in the ground, usually like small tunnels made in dirt.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Oh okay. Are they aggressive? I don't know. I didn't look that up. Okay. Probably not, because I don't think I don't think regular bees are mean.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

Like it's just those types of jacket assholes. Yeah, there's so many types. I don't I don't know. I think they'll definitely protect their hive if they need to. Yeah. But it's uh the thing.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

They're like the ones that like you're walking through like flowers and you accidentally like knock it and it like bumps you with its butt and it's like, dang it.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Yeah, I didn't mean to do that. Yeah. So have you seen these hives before in the ground? Like in real life? Um, I don't know. Do you know what I'm talking about though?

SPEAKER_00 16:01

Uh not really. Okay, so I see a lot of things in the ground. We have I planted rose bushes at my house, and one of the rose bushes definitely has a bee or wasp. I think it's a wasp nest down into it because I was like pruning and stuff the other like a couple months ago and I got stung all over.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Yikes.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

So I'm guessing that was a wasp because they're pretty aggressive.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

So did they leave their stinger behind?

SPEAKER_00 16:27

I don't know. No.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Because if not, it's not a it's not a bee. It's a wasp.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Oh yeah. So oh, so they so okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Yeah.

unknown 16:36

Jeez.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

So you should have had me do a a morsel of research before this.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

No, I mean I did I barely I'm gonna tell you some stuff. Like I barely did any research, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

What is a bee?

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Bees.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

I say bee all day long, and I don't think it's the same thing. I don't think we're referring to the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

I'm a bee, I'm a bee, I'm a yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

That I think that's a different bee.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

So I have seen these in-ground nests before. At my old house, we actually, and I I'd never seen anything like this, but and it was like you could see the opening.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

How big is the opening?

SPEAKER_01 17:13

It was like this big.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Like oh, like the size of a tuna can. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Right?

SPEAKER_00 17:19

What if I only eat tuna packets?

SPEAKER_01 17:21

God damn it, Christy.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

It's a tennis ball.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Tennis ball for those of us that only eat tuna packets.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

Girl inches, boy inches. I don't know. This big.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

How many hole? How many holes?

SPEAKER_01 17:32

However many centimeters that is. How many holes were running out of holes, Roy?

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Ten centimeters. The nest is ready to hatch.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

So when this happened to me, I lived in my old house. It was an older home in an older neighborhood. Um, and my husband was out of the time out of town at the time hunting. Wow because it was in the fall. He's allowed to have fun. He does a lot around the house, okay?

SPEAKER_00 17:55

Sure. So he's not even the commissioner anymore. Who cares? What does he even do?

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Clearly nothing.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Just cut this part.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

No, he'll think it's funny. Um, but I freaked out because I was like, if somebody mows over that, and it was on the side of our grass, like in the mow strip, where it was on the side of our neighbors that were older people. Oh no. And I'm like, if these if these older people go out and like mow the lawn and mow over these bees, they're gonna get stung to death.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

So I definitely have not seen a a bee.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

I'm a bee. I'm a beehole. She's she's never seen a beehole before. I thought we have to leave that in. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

I stopped myself before I said it.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

I need you to seriously look at me and say that no straight face.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

I've never seen this hole of bees of bees that you've talked about. Like, that's I see ones that are very small, like the size of a peanut MM.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

I thought you had never seen a beehole before.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

I didn't say that. You are making things up.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

But I asked you, have you ever seen these holes before?

SPEAKER_00 19:08

I said no. But I'm just I I'm I'm like, I don't understand that's like big. It's just a hole, like you could like step in that and like trip.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Yeah, when I the one at my house, I don't know if it was the same thing. I don't know if it was a hornet's nest or what, because I think hornets can also make holes in the ground and nests.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Anyways, I had my brother, I freaked out and had my brother come back. Yeah, we don't want to hurt our neighbors spray them. So sorry to the bees for smurdering them.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

Does your brother do that? That type of stuff?

SPEAKER_01 19:38

He did for me.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

I mean, get you a big brother, man.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

I have one.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

Yeah. It's a good time. Will he murder a bunch of bees for you?

SPEAKER_00 19:47

He'll murder those bees.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

In the beehole.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

No.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

I've turned it.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

We're gonna have to now you have to mark this episode explicit. I was going to anyways. I know.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Alright, now that we've laughed about beeholes, let's go on to the social bees.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

The social bees. I'd be a social bee. My nickname in high school. A social bee.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

In warmth ways. That bitch is social.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

And I quote.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

So these are the honey bees and bumblebees that we talked about. Um they live in large, highly organized empires with a strict hierarchy of a queen, workers, and drones. So this is where we get honey.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

And this is where you can you can refer to the B movie for your references here. Yeah. Is that one of your references?

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Oh, it should be. I didn't put it in.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Just do it. It'll be fun.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Um no, but this is like I said with those, like those videos that I'm watching, when they pull those like floorboards up, you can see like the honeycomb. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's really cool. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Organized, very cool.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

So um, something really fascinating that I learned when researching this is that bees work to make honey for winter because there are less plants and food available. And unlike um the the introverted bees, bees that live in like social environments or social colonies, they live for far longer. So they need to be able to hibernate or like whatever through the winter.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Um what's the lifespan of a bee? Do you know? It depends on the bee. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

Yeah. So I also learned that queen bees that are in these social like societal situations can live for a few years in contrast to the hardworking introvert bees. The social hive queens have their most productive A-legging period that lasts between two and three years. And then as she ages and her fertility and hormone output declines, a new and like and the queen slows down. Um, the worker bees usually replace her by raising a new queen.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

How do they choose a queen? Do you know that? I don't know. No. Is that maybe it's a vote system?

SPEAKER_01 21:59

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

Do they vote by mail or do they make them go in person?

SPEAKER_01 22:01

You know what? You can't ask me that. So you already answered this question, but I have written here do you identify more as an introvert bee or a social bee?

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Uh, probably a social bee.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Yeah, me too. I think I identify as a social bee.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

A social bee that likes some introverted to. Time to embroider with my stinger butt. Cut that part. No, uh You're not gonna cut that, and I'm gonna be so mad at you.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

I'm not. So next we move to um the rent-free guests, the freeloaders, the cuckoo bees.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

Hold on, go back to the this is a silly question, but go back to the uh social light bees. Yes. So there's one queen. Are there boy bees and girl bees that are working for the queen bee?

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

So if you think you're gonna be from the bee movie, yeah. Oh, never mind. I get it.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

No, I saw I saw it in the bee movie. I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

I got you already asked the question, so I have to answer it for people who don't.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Oh, watch the B movie.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

So the Queen, so the like I said, there's a queen, there's workers, and there's drones. The drones are the male bees that are essentially just there to provide sperm for the queen. That's it. That's all they're there for. Slay Queen. Okay, so now we're gonna move on to the rent-free guests, the cuckoo bees. So these little shits are freeloaders of the bee world. They're kind of assholes. Wait, so we have introvert bees?

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Socialite. Socialite? Cuckoo?

SPEAKER_01 23:43

Um, we're gonna call them freeloaders.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Oh, freeloaders. Okay, sorry, I forgot the third category, and then you said cuckoo bees, and I was like, I don't remember that. Yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

They're they're I'll tell you why they're called cuckoo bees. So um these guys are the freeloaders. They sneak into other bees' nests, lay their eggs, and then let the host bee do all the work raising them. It's giving men.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Ew. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

And I have written, I know that most bees are female, like the worker bees and everything. Most of them are female. So I can't rag on men too much during this episode, which is just shame.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

It's also the female that's going to drop them eggs, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 24:22

So the the queen makes all the eggs. Oh. The female bees are the the worker bees. They go out, they gather all the honey, or they gather all the pollen. Okay. And then they come back. The the drones are just there to provide sperm. Okay. Um so the interesting thing about cuckoo bees is that they completely lack pollen transporting structures. So they don't have anything on them that they can pollinate with. Oh, they they they need other bees to survive. They're like kind of almost like a parasite. Yeah, they're almost like a parasite. So they're called cuckoo bees because the cuckoo bird goes and lays its eggs in someone else's nest. The same thing with these bees. They go to a different hive, they lay their eggs there, and then they let that host be raise those.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

Single mom that works so hard.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Pretty much. So the part of that though, so they don't have any pollen transporting structures, but they do have some awesome exoskeleton that's like basically armored so that they can fly into these other nests and lay their eggs like stealthily. And if they do get attacked, they can make it out before they don't, before they get stung to death, essentially.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Evolution baby.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

I know it's crazy. What they do instead of like making their own hives is they stalk a host bee, like typically one of these um solitary bees that are like the single moms that work too hard. Yeah. And when the opportunity strikes, they lay their egg in a cell that's already been prepped with pollen for the host bee's offspring. Oh. It gets worse.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Dirtbag.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

I know. These little shits then grow up and they have like larger jaws, and so they're stronger than the host bee. They kill the host bee and its offspring and eat up all the pollen, and then the cycle starts over.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Then that bee goes out and finds a different but it's it's it's what do they call it?

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Like battle of the fittest or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Yeah, nature is brutal, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Um do these bees sting?

SPEAKER_01 26:24

I would assume yeah, I would assume so. Yeah, yeah. They're a bunch of bitches, is my in my opinion.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

So um the title of this episode could be Bee is for Bitches.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

No, the title of this episode is gonna be Beehole. No.

SPEAKER_00 26:39

My kids listen. That's okay. Make your kids listen. They're upstairs listening right now.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Yeah, probably. Okay, so we're gonna move on to just some like rapid facts because I know I got into kind of like the nitty-gritty there. So um now that we know the three lifestyles that bees live in, let's talk about some of the like the funner things that I found on Google about bees. And we're gonna learn things together. Dills. So you probably already knew this. I didn't. Um honey bees communicate using a waggle dance, they shake their abdomen in a specific direction and angle relative to the sun, and they give their hive mates precise GPS coordinates to the best flower patches. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine just shaking your ass with your buddy? And your buddies going, ah, yes, now I know where the grocery store is.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

No, but if you asked my friends, what does Christy do when she eats something good? It's this. It's a little wiggle.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

Everybody, all the women.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

They do all the wiggle motion, and my friends know, oh, she's happy with her meal.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

You should do you, well, you don't have time for that. All of the meals that you make that are gorgeous and delicious, you should do a TikTok channel of you making these.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

Oh, hell no.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

I've sent you a thousand of those videos.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

No, I just I just steal other people's ideas.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

Yeah, no. Sounds beautiful, but not today, Satan.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

So speaking of the um or the shiver the shiver. Bumblebees can fly in freezing weather. They decouple their wings from their muscles to shiver violently, raising their internal temperature to 86 degrees Fahrenheit or 30 degrees Celsius before taking off.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Isn't that cool?

SPEAKER_00 28:23

Yeah, because where do they go in the winter?

SPEAKER_01 28:25

I think the the like um society the introverted bees typically either hibernate or die. One of the two. And then the ones that have hives, they yeah, they can fly in the w in the wintertime, but they're not usually like so. In the Amazon, there are bees that don't eat pollen. What do you think they eat instead?

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Alligators.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Dead meat. They use specialized gut bacteria to digest rotting flesh and turn it into a sweet, edible secretion. Gross.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

So they're like maggots. Pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

Yeah, it sounds like a crossbreed or something. And then the the final um cool fact I found was bees build up a positive electro electrical charge while flying. When they land on a flower, which has a negative charge, the pollen literally jumps off the flower and sticks to their hairs like static electricity.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Isn't that the coolest?

SPEAKER_00 29:25

It's chemistry.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

I have you seen those like slow motion videos of like the bees landing on they're really cool. I'm not on that side of apparently I have a thing for bees now. My algorithm is built by brick by brick.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

Build by bees. Build better bees. Build better beeholes. Beeholes.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Okay, so that's all I have for you, but we're gonna play a game.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

So I have some common myths and some facts.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Oh dear.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

You're gonna tell me which is a myth and which is a f which is true, and then I'm gonna kind of give you like a little explanation. So there's only five of these. Dills, dills, dills. Number one all bees die after they sting you.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

False. Oh wait. True. Because we're Oh, because we were saying bees and wasps aren't the same. I call everything a bee.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

So it's false.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Only female honeybees die after stinging because their stingers are barbed and get stuck in human skin. If they can't get their stinger out, they fly off and it pulls their abdomen out.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Oh gosh. Graphic. So it just falls out.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

There's a like on that same page that I was watching, she gets stung sometimes and she just like holds her finger there and tries to let it get out.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Oh, ow.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

And sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

That's quite the chill. I don't have that chill.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

But what I know, she's really cool. But what happens is if they do leave their stinger in, um, you can see it pulsing the venom into your skin. Like she showed a close-up video. It's really cool. It's really, really cool. Clearly, I have a thing for bees now.

SPEAKER_00 31:07

Beeholes.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Um, so that's just that's just honey bees.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

One interesting fact about me.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

I really like beeholes. That's the sound bite of the century.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

If we had a better social media manager, you're doing great with zero support from me.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

So solitary bees, like the the ones that are the single moms, bumblebees, and wasps have smooth stingers and can sting multiple times without injuring themselves.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

So the ones that leave their stinger in you are usually honey bees. Okay. They're taking a very great sacrifice to sting you.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

So if you have to like flip it out, like out, like say a little prayer for that.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Yeah, sorry, bee. Sorry. Um sorry bee. Which is typically why they're not as aggressive, I think. Some of them are, some of them aren't.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Well, they're they're just there for a job.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Yeah, they're just trying to do their job.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

Because wasps serve no purpose in society.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Yeah. Other than to be bees. Bees.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Bees!

SPEAKER_00 32:16

No, I didn't do it. You I haven't done it yet.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

All right. Round two.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

Deal.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Not all bees live in hives.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

True.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

True. Roughly 70% of wild bee species live underground in tiny tunnels.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

The other 30% live in deadwood, hollow plant stems, or snail shells.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

Snail shells.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Snail shells that's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

Yeah. That's small. All right. Uh, number three, to save the bees, we need to buy more honey bee hives.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

True. False. Okay, cool. I don't want to buy any. So that's great.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Honeybees are a domesticated species like livestock. Introducing millions of managed honeybees can actually crowd out and starve local endangered wild bee species by eating all the available pollen. What I actually found was that they need more flower plant diversity to be flourishing, like a flourishing colony. Um, and they need the competition of that as well. And all of the flowers need multiple pollinators. So, you know, diversity is really important. Funny how that works. Could we maybe move that up the chain?

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Yeah. No, no. I do want to plant more like pollinator-friendly plants, and I always think about that every year, and every year I don't do it. Yeah. Because it gets hot real quick and then I shut down.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Uh round four, male bees don't do any of the work.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

True.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

True. Male bees, which are drones, have only one job mating with the queen. They don't even have stingers or pollen baskets.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

The females do 100% of the foraging, hive building, and nursing.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Which checks out.

unknown 33:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Number five. Bees like jazz. Bees? Beads. Bees like jazz.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

You like jazz? Oh god. Answer is probably. I made that one at once. That's funny. You like jazz. All right. So in conclusion, bees are cool as hell, and I want to learn more. I definitely want to start planting more native plants. I think it's really cool to see like pollinators.

SPEAKER_00 34:30

Put some things out there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

And remember, the important thing is that about saving bees isn't just about honey. It's about protecting the thousands of weird, solitary underground species. Um, and nature finds a way to work together, so we need as much diversity as possible with bees and elsewhere.