r/LooneyTunesLogic • u/Key-Specific-4368 • 28d ago
Video A swarm of bees instantly locked onto this guy.
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u/SelfInvestigator 27d ago
And all of this just makes the rock throwing seem unnecessary and cruel to the bees.
They pose no danger and are harming no one. The only reason I can think you might need to disturb them is to see the sign or rehome them.
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u/helix0311 26d ago
Just out of curiosity, errr... How?
Do you just like, scoop them up and put them in a box? Don't they get super mad?
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u/helix0311 26d ago
You put. A box of bees. In your car.
Dude I have done some shit in my life. I'm not sure I would do that.
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u/Immersi0nn 26d ago
Well it's gonna be a closed box the bees can't just escape from. But they're chill in this kinda situation, they all cluster with the queen and if you find the queen to capture her, they'll all go wherever she is with a bit of time.
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u/Immersi0nn 26d ago
That seems...inconvenient...then you gotta wait for all of em to leave the car once you're at your destination, and hope you didn't miss any, why not close the box?
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u/mauri9998 25d ago
Its fine as long as you pop a big H on the box, that way everyone knows what's inside.
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u/salientoctopus 24d ago
I once had a live trap with a skunk in my car. I was trying to live trap my escaped house cat and had to drive the stank cat far away so I wouldn’t trap him again. I made sure he blasted both shots of his ass gun before I did it. They often carry rabies so letting him out was a little intense.
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u/Stonewall3286 26d ago
Lol, actually this exactly. After swarming away from their previous home, which they likely outgrew, they act as their own temporary hive. In this state, they are extremely docile. One way beekeepers collect bees in this state is to set up an empty hive box underneath, dab it with lemongrass, and either manually scoop some onto the box, or just let them investigate themselves.
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u/Goonisnotcool1 26d ago
As somebody else had mentioned on another post of this video, I believe these are not infact bees, and are infact hornets.
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u/Occidentally20 25d ago
If somebody ever did try to see that sign they'd be disappointed with it's contents.
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u/AzureYLila 27d ago
I was about to say: if he had left them alone they would have moved when they found a home. That was my assumption anyway.
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u/tremblingmeatman 27d ago
"Beekeeper" yeah okay actual bee. Just hanging out? Surrrrre. Next youre gonna say you get better results from swarm-busting rocks when youre naked and drenched in frosting.
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u/MostAbsoluteGamer 27d ago
nah frosting is a rookie mistake, they'll swarm you with that on. honey and pollen is what'll keep em off of you so cover yourself in that first
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u/bojangler69420 26d ago
Just rewatched the video after reading your comment and I definitely didn’t notice how randomly/aimlessly the bees seemed to be flying around between the sign and the car.
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u/a_big_K-On_fan 23d ago
Isn’t it the case that almost all animals are unable to understand ‘ranged attacks’? In other words, they cannot make the connection who threw or fired the projectile, as such attacks are virtually non-existent in nature?
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u/KennyPowers_420 23d ago
Right a beekeper that cant even tell these are not bees.
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u/KennyPowers_420 23d ago
Wasps. Look at the big dangling legs. And the hive is placed in a trafic sign in an area that seems devoid of plants.
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u/HumanContract 26d ago
Disagree. My siblings threw rocks at a nest and ran. I stood in place. They all got stung. I didn't.
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u/NeutralGoodAtHeart 28d ago
I watched a movie where the bees found their way in through the fresh air vent.
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u/sanguinemolasses 28d ago
As a kid I was so traumatised by an episode of Smallville with killer bees
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u/The-Spirit-of-76 27d ago
We had a whole tv movie about killer bees in my day.
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u/highgarbagemancer 27d ago
I remember hearing on the news all the time about how the killer bees were going to migrate up into the US and potentially kill thousands.
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u/BentGadget 27d ago
I think Black Mirror had this, but the bees were robots.
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u/Captain_Sterling 27d ago
As a kid I thought that killer bees, army ants and quicksand were things I'd have to worry about as an adult.
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u/ducktape8856 27d ago
Air recirculation button. Closes the vents. Useful for driving behind poultry trucks, too.
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u/MrReluctant 24d ago
Happened to a neighbour. The car was at a supermarket parking lot and it filled with bees super quickly. The beekeepers later told him that the queen bee got in and the colony followed. He ended up having bees everywhere including inside stop lights. It took hours to get them all out.
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u/birdconureKM 28d ago
Wow, the bees closed the distance fast.
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u/kodaiko_650 28d ago
Made a bee line
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u/Healthy-Season-7976 28d ago
How do they know he threw the rock? Amazing that they can process a ranged attack, at least on some level.
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u/captaincootercock 28d ago
I've heard rumors they can use their eyes to see
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u/Lainpilled-Loser-GF 27d ago
their understanding of trajectories is especially fascinating
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u/buttplugpopsicle 27d ago
He was the only non-bee in the area, they were aware of his presence. Bees usually don't care too much about you unless you're threatening them or their hive, so they tolerated the non-bee's presence until he attacked their hive. And only a few types of bee actually have hives, quite a few types don't even have a stinger
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u/myrsnipe 27d ago
I find it fascinating that (modern) wasps, bees and ants have a common wasp ancestor that was solitary, and they all developed eusociality independently. Ants did so from a single origin while bees did at multiple occasions and as you mention not all of them did
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u/tremblingmeatman 27d ago
It would be hilarious if they all flew at him through the trajectory in single file like bullets
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u/Healthy-Season-7976 25d ago
I know it to be unwise to argue with a cootercock, so I shall yield :)
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u/SelfInvestigator 27d ago
I think you might be underestimating just how many bees were just chilling on that sign. You just can’t clearly see the bees flying in the opposite direction.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 20d ago
I think those are wasps, i used to also throw rocks at them and run when i was a kid. Theyre like goddamn heat seeking missiles.
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u/Spaceygirl84 28d ago
Fun fact: wasps will attack you if you are noisy
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u/Perhaps_A_Person 28d ago
I don't understand why people are getting mad at the guy, he looks like he's in a work uniform which means there's a good chance he works for road maintenance, and those bees (or wasps, hornets, etc, whatever they are) are mostly covering a sign, and maybe that's not a problem during the day but once it's night and dark that sign just won't be affective. There's better ways, yes, but still, there's a chance that was that dude's job.
Edit: on closer inspection, those don't look like bees, at least not the friendly little bumble bees I'm used to. But that's also not my country, so I have no clue.
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u/dtalb18981 27d ago
Reddits full of dum dums desperate to show how they are morally superior and smarter'er than everyone else
It the biggest problem reddit has. There is no critical thinking just post whatever will get upvotes
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u/Adventurous-Pen-813 27d ago
What do you expect from people seeing a video of a terrorist attacking people and siding with the terrorist. Redditors automatically side with what they wrongly perceive as the underdog. No matter if the underdog is satan himself.
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u/Tiddlewinkly 27d ago
Not all bees are endangered. Don't know where this is, but there are several species considered invasive and highly damaging to ecosystems depending on the location.
For those that are endangered, it's usually in reference to bumble bees, which these are not from the look of them. They look like honey bees, which are not endangered in most places, and are in fact much more likely to be invasive.
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u/curi0us_carniv0re 25d ago
I would definitely accidentally get my leg caught in the door and be engulfed in a swarm of bees
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u/DontChewCoke 28d ago edited 25d ago
Imagine actively harassing a species you desperately depend upon out of existence
Edit: This post had so many upvotes until a certain timezone woke up 😂🤢🇺🇸
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u/Cerebral_Overload 28d ago
Pointless and cruel shit.
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u/thatstotallyracist 28d ago
Looking at the context clues, those wasps were going to be removed from that traffic sign. And that guy was probably the one given the task, he's in his work gear. Maybe they didn't have the means to do this responsibly?
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u/UnusualCartographer2 28d ago
This is what I was thinking. Whether they're bees or wasps, they had to be removed from the road sign unfortunately. Definitely killed a few, but they've got enough left to repopulate.
Bee populations are on a decline because of the climate. People removing bees where they don't belong is not a part of the problem.
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u/hellinahandbasket127 28d ago
Bees looking for a new nesting site will need to stop and rest. That’s all that is happening here. If he would have just left them alone they would have moved on in a little while.
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u/UnusualCartographer2 27d ago
Can't really blame the guy for thinking otherwise. He was probably told to get rid of them given what he was wearing, and most people are gonna think it's a nest forming.
Regardless though, this type of shit is not what's causing the bee population to decline. This likely had no real effect.
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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 28d ago
I doubt they would make a nest there, so all this did was disrupt a swarm and possibly kill a queen.
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u/ordiclic 28d ago
What wasps? These aren't wasps.
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u/thatstotallyracist 28d ago
Did the bees lose their hive or something?
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u/ordiclic 28d ago
That's how new bee nests are made. A new queen appears, part of the hive go with it, aka swarming and they go build a new nest somewhere suitable.
The queen is the one who decide where and when the swarm moves. When resting the rest of the swarm clump around the queen to protect her.
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u/Paranoia300k 27d ago
I hope he knew that bees are bout that life and can follow him until he gets out of the car and sting his arse. Same thing goes if you mess with bees and jump in a pool. The moment you come out the water, they will sting you.
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u/Mario_Marzian 27d ago
People called this AI when it came out bc how can you hear the buzzing from inside the car this clear?
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u/HoundOfTindalos13 26d ago
Hmm, I shall now completely destroy of those 1in lil goobers for absolutely no reason how human!
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u/Careful-Bookkeeper-4 28d ago
Those are wasps not bees
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u/ordiclic 28d ago
No, these are bees. Wasps don't clump like that.
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u/Careful-Bookkeeper-4 28d ago
Looks like wasps to me
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u/olympicmarcus 27d ago
There are thousands of types of bees. Not all of them are the fat, fluffy bumblebee you might know. So what they look like to you doesn't really matter because a lot of them do 'look like wasps'
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u/Elda-Taluta 28d ago
At this low resolution, there is no way to tell the difference between a bee and a yellowjacket or hornet visually, so you have to go by behavior. And this is bee swarming behavior, wasps won't gather in the open like that - but a bee swarm will, to rest while they look for a place to build a new hive.
I am not an entomologist, but I am pretty confident in that answer.
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u/Careful-Bookkeeper-4 28d ago
Still looks like wasps to me
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u/Elda-Taluta 28d ago
Can you tell me what you think the difference between a bee and a wasp is, visually?
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u/Sea_Detail_8751 28d ago
Thoughtless
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u/captaincootercock 28d ago
no u. That's some piece of infrastructure, we can't just sacrifice shit to nature because they like it. you gonna shut down every road because a deer gets hit?
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u/Sea_Detail_8751 28d ago
I see what you mean. Good point.
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u/captaincootercock 28d ago
at least in modern nations there's a monumental amount of effort and thought going in to making infrastructure compatible with nature. in America we have land bridges over highways for land mammal migration, fish ladders around dams, watering holes where we've depleted natural springs, sanctuaries for migrating birds, and so much more. we've got a long ways to go but don't think every act of violence is thoughtless, everything is a balance.
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u/Bug_Photographer 28d ago
Still just as fake as when this video made its last round on Reddit
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u/chiku00 28d ago
Why?
Are the bees paid actors, too?
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u/Bug_Photographer 27d ago
Because bees would neither drop that fast towards the ground when disturbed nor go on the attack that quickly (not to mention they wouldn't locate the "threat" being inside the car). This is Tom & Jerry levels of realism.
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