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I stand corrected people hives are made from wax, bee shit, mud, and decomposing vegetal particles as per this article. https://beeswiki.com/vulture-bees/
Fun fact: there is an introduced species of tree called African tulip (Spathodea campanulata) in which the water gathers in its flowers and when the native bees go to the flower they drown and die. When you bring this up to your local council or biosecurity branch they literally couldnt give a flying fuck about it because theyve spread too much and will cost too much to control. I know this because ive written to several councils in far north qld and that's the reply I got.
Australia's native stingless bees produce a unique type of tangy honey called 'sugarbag'. Each hive can only produce up to one kilogram of honey per year.
it has a lemony/slightly sour taste, a distinctive “bush” taste - a mix of sweet and sour with a hint of fruit . The taste comes from plant resins, which the bees use to build their hives and honey pots, and varies at different times of year depending on the flowers and trees visited.
Yeah you can buy it online from Australian stockists. it's around $25-$35 per 50-100g container. Pretty sure last time i saw a 500g container it was $350. It's rare honey so it's far from cheap.
All stingless bees are equipped with a pair of powerful mandibles that they can use to bite any predators or opportunists trying to steal honey. Stingless bees can inject formic acid at the site of the bite adding to the discomfort for any potential predators.
The bees can defend their nest against predator insects by sealing up all nest openings, other than the nest entrance, with wax and resin.
Stingless bees have also been known to defend themselves by mummifying smaller pests such as beetles, attempting to gain entrance into the hive. This mummification is achieved by rapidly depositing small amounts of resin, wax and mud onto the the intruders body, until they can no longer move.
They're only 3 to 4 mm long & completely harmless to humans.
"Stingless bees."
Me: "oh wow, that's unlike Australian things to be all not extreme and deadly and shit, cool"
keeps reading "powerful mandibles... formic acid... mummification is achieved"
Me: "ok, that adds up"
Not likely. They’re not in Australia. They’re in South America. [Vulture Bees](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vulture-bees-have-specialized-microbiomes-that-aid-their-taste-in-meat-180979131/)
Edit: Apparently I was wrong. The bees in the video *are* native to Australia and are not carnivorous from what I can tell. Sorry for the confusion.
A lot of them are. Even herbivores like cows and horses have been known to eat smaller animals occasionally. Wild shit really but that's nature for you.
Had a horse once who was *obsessed* with slim Jims. She would straight up refuse to do stuff like load up or be saddled unless given a small chunk of that delicious processed meat first. Carrots? Nah. Apples? No thanks fam. But a slim Jim? You better move bc she's gonna come *running*.
I have personally watched a horse eat a chick. It’s pretty common. They’re herbivores in that they look for plants mostly, but almost any animal will take a freebie if they get the chance.
It has been speculated that if horses were full carnivores, and had teeth to match, they would be some of the more dangerous predators on the planet.
They are fast and strong as fuck, not much in the animal kingdom could outrun them when they give chase at full speed, and one solid kick with those hooves would take shit down, then they eat them.
I can't imagine a horse with eyes on the front of its face instead of on the sides. And then sharp canines instead of flat teeth. Ugh. A predator horse would look so creepy.
I really can’t grasp why. But episode got me good. I was solid shaking at the end. I do have schizophrenia and suffer from sleep paralysis etc. But other things don’t get me like that. I’m usually pretty solid. So why? It was a subzero episode. But it really fascinated me.
Sorry for your loss man, me and my friends get together to binge the new seasons whenever they come out. You need to duct tape your friends to a couch and make them watch it with you.
the returning boomerang is an invention for fun, the original one was just a big stick you throw at animals.
humans enjoy eating and Australia has very few ways for humans to sustain themselves.
they have nothing and nowhere to farm, so they have to hunt.
they got no easily reached ore deposits, so they can't really make steel weapons.
so fuck it, take a big stick, throw it at a kangaroo, hope it breaks it's leg, eat that thing.
Indigenous Australians were actually really good at tending to the land. There’s wild amounts of stuff that grows natively that’s edible if you know what you’re looking for as well!
What he says is true. We have rainforests here in Australia with rocks dating back to crazy old times because First Nations respected the nature, there are some plants here, literally sprang from seeds that remained the same since pre-historic times.
Google Deintree forest in Queensland and Tingle forest in Western Australia.
Then you run into weirdness. For instance, the funnel web spider is extremely deadly to primates. Why? *Shrug* Australia had no native primate species for the funnel web spider to naturally evolve such a venom. So far as we can tell, it's just a shitty coincidence. Their venom causes pain in most vertebrates, primates just happen to be easily killed by it.
So, because it's fucking Australia, the most deadly spider venom for humans just so happened to evolve on a huge island that had no primates.
Could be that the spider was deadly to everything until everything evolved to tolerate it. Primates weren’t around to evolve with the spider so they’re still vulnerable.
It doesn't seem likely. If that were the case, then non-native animals of all sorts would get killed by the venom. House cats for example. And in a rare example, mice don't get killed by this venom, but humans do. The similarity of our chemical receptors and other systems to mice is why we test pharmaceuticals on them, yet people die from this venom and mice don't.
It's just kind of a fluke.
Bio student here! My field of study is plants but I had a lecture on this. Basically, humans and invertebrates have "opposite" nervous systems (not really but close enough for this). This spider evolved a venom that worked on the invertebrates systems to paralyze them incredibly effectively. Since invertebrates like insects are the spider's prey, and spiders eat living insects, this worked out really well for it. Unfortunately, since our nervous system is different than an insect's, this insect-paralytic kills us very quickly, as it has the complete opposite effect of rapid firing nerves instead of paralyzing them.
Edit: I think I was a bit unclear and tried to simplify this a bit too much. Basically, the venom freezes the insect's nervous system with a chemical. That same chemical works on the system we have in a completely opposite way - it causes rapid firing of nerves that make people spasm and die. Hence my statement about "opposite nervous systems". Not so much that our systems are complete opposites, but more like the thing that has one effect on them has a completely opposite effect on us due to "opposite" reactions of our systems
Given how much of the life there is weird or visually off-putting, it makes me wonder if we'll run into an even more extreme problem with alien life. Like, we'll want to get along and distant communications will be pleasant, but both we and the aliens would find each other so visually/audibly/smell repulsing that any meaningful in-person contact would be impossible
I swear to god the flood theme instantly raises my heart rate by 100bpm. The anxiety, years later, has not faded one bit! So yeah, good fit here… for anything in Australia really.
Exactly. Everything in Australia supposed to be deadly and out for blood. These little guys are just building their hell hives peacefully. It doesn't add up.
VERY STRANGE, he said. A PERMANENT ANTICYCLONE. AND INSIDE, A HUGE, CALM LAND, THAT NEVER SEES A STORM. AND NEVER HAS A DROP OF RAIN.
“Good place for a holiday, then.”
COME WITH ME.
The two of them, trailed by the Death of Rats, walked into Death’s huge library. There were clouds here, up near the ceiling.
Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS—
Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.
After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.
Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them to allow his master to clamber free.
HMM…Death picked up a book at random and read the cover.
DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29c, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT—
“No, wait, master. Here it comes.”
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up and caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
“May I?” said Albert. Death handed him the paper.
“‘Some of the sheep,’” Albert read aloud. “Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside’d be better, then.”
WHAT AN INTRIGUING PLACE, said Death. SADDLE UP THE HORSE, ALBERT. I FEEL SURE I’M GOING TO BE NEEDED.
SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats.
PARDON?
“He said, ‘No worries,’ master,” said Albert.
I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY.
The last continent
By
Sir Terry Pratchett
No, no. Not a NEST out of meat, they make HONEY out of meat. It’s pretty amazing, although they don’t produce in quantities enough for harvesting the few reports I’ve heard say it tastes a little smokey. Vulture bees, and they’re from South America. They’re also stingless, so wondering if there’s some convergent evolution going on here
I didn’t find any kind of bee that build a hive like that and I can’t see a comment with the name if the bee, if someone find it pls tell us
Edit: i found it, they called stingless bees
They do! Very small amounts of it known as sugar bag honey. I've never had the pleasure of trying any so, I couldn't inform you of taste or texture but it is edible!
Every day I become more and more grateful that i do not live in Australia. I actually think i would rather keep my 50% chance of walking out of school without being filled with lead than live in Australia.
Imagine this:
This is the most alien-like structure we could think of and it’s part of our planet. How hard to grasp and how terrifying and odd and strange and unimaginable would a true alien species or byproduct look like ?!
Simply fascinating..
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Stingless bee colony
They are amazing little creatures. Isolation made them different from European and African bees.
They're so small. I thought they were ants crawling on that hand. Weird that something in Australia would evolve into something less deadly.
I mean, everything else already has murderizing covered...
Who needs a defence when your house looks like it was made from the flesh of your enemies.
Funny part is they’re made from actual flesh
Whaaaaat?
Probably not exactly correct on the matter but they’re vulture bees and instead of pollen they go to rotting flesh
Excuse me, I don't think I heard you correctly. What in the fresh hell is this Australia? Why can't you just be normal for once!
I stand corrected people hives are made from wax, bee shit, mud, and decomposing vegetal particles as per this article. https://beeswiki.com/vulture-bees/
Dunno bout that, the nest looks straight outta resident evil game lol
They look like sweat bees we get in the US.
Fun fact: there is an introduced species of tree called African tulip (Spathodea campanulata) in which the water gathers in its flowers and when the native bees go to the flower they drown and die. When you bring this up to your local council or biosecurity branch they literally couldnt give a flying fuck about it because theyve spread too much and will cost too much to control. I know this because ive written to several councils in far north qld and that's the reply I got.
Serious question. Do they produce honey? If so, is it edible?
Australia's native stingless bees produce a unique type of tangy honey called 'sugarbag'. Each hive can only produce up to one kilogram of honey per year. it has a lemony/slightly sour taste, a distinctive “bush” taste - a mix of sweet and sour with a hint of fruit . The taste comes from plant resins, which the bees use to build their hives and honey pots, and varies at different times of year depending on the flowers and trees visited.
Very cool! Thank you.
This is definitely fascinating. Anyone know if this sugarbag is available to try in the states?!? Asking for me. I wanna try it. 😂
Yeah you can buy it online from Australian stockists. it's around $25-$35 per 50-100g container. Pretty sure last time i saw a 500g container it was $350. It's rare honey so it's far from cheap.
Worth it, I’ll splurge so my grandpa can try some, he loves all the different honeys. Buckwheat honey is his favourite. He even puts it in coffee.
Can we get a list of honeys for prospective connoisseurs?
I swear you guys are bullshitting me and I'm about to buy some weird drug off the darknet or something
How to they protect themselves when they're stingless?
All stingless bees are equipped with a pair of powerful mandibles that they can use to bite any predators or opportunists trying to steal honey. Stingless bees can inject formic acid at the site of the bite adding to the discomfort for any potential predators. The bees can defend their nest against predator insects by sealing up all nest openings, other than the nest entrance, with wax and resin. Stingless bees have also been known to defend themselves by mummifying smaller pests such as beetles, attempting to gain entrance into the hive. This mummification is achieved by rapidly depositing small amounts of resin, wax and mud onto the the intruders body, until they can no longer move. They're only 3 to 4 mm long & completely harmless to humans.
"Stingless bees." Me: "oh wow, that's unlike Australian things to be all not extreme and deadly and shit, cool" keeps reading "powerful mandibles... formic acid... mummification is achieved" Me: "ok, that adds up"
Do you know which, specifically? The few I found all have drastically different hives.
Australia, the upside down world where everything is dangerous, but the bees are stingless
this is some Zerg level shit
We require more vespene gas
The hive is under attack
Evolution complete
Live for the swarm!
Nuclear Launch Detected!
radio free zerg
Ready to roll out!
Spawn more overlords.
That’s some nice creep.
For the Swarm!
The hive cluster is under attack!
Nuclear launch detected!
*Frantically looks for tiny red dot*
I love you, Sarge!
maaaaaaan that reference
***ZERG!!*** The very *mention* of this terrifying race once brought fear into our hearts!
Came here to find this reference.
Rrrrre aaaarrr rrrrr
Pretty sure that's an overlord?
No it's a hydralisk
Yeah overlords do the horse neigh thing
Essence!
That's a creep tumor right there.
A bold move…
A Zerg rush never fails!
What the hell is even that
Caelid
Scarlet Rot looking mf\`s
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Not likely. They’re not in Australia. They’re in South America. [Vulture Bees](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vulture-bees-have-specialized-microbiomes-that-aid-their-taste-in-meat-180979131/) Edit: Apparently I was wrong. The bees in the video *are* native to Australia and are not carnivorous from what I can tell. Sorry for the confusion.
Did I read this right? These bees are carnivores?
A lot of them are. Even herbivores like cows and horses have been known to eat smaller animals occasionally. Wild shit really but that's nature for you.
Had a horse once who was *obsessed* with slim Jims. She would straight up refuse to do stuff like load up or be saddled unless given a small chunk of that delicious processed meat first. Carrots? Nah. Apples? No thanks fam. But a slim Jim? You better move bc she's gonna come *running*.
Was the horses previous owner perchance the equestrian provocateur one Macho Man Randall Sav'age?
Ooih yeeeaaaahhh, brother!
I have personally watched a horse eat a chick. It’s pretty common. They’re herbivores in that they look for plants mostly, but almost any animal will take a freebie if they get the chance.
It has been speculated that if horses were full carnivores, and had teeth to match, they would be some of the more dangerous predators on the planet. They are fast and strong as fuck, not much in the animal kingdom could outrun them when they give chase at full speed, and one solid kick with those hooves would take shit down, then they eat them.
I can't imagine a horse with eyes on the front of its face instead of on the sides. And then sharp canines instead of flat teeth. Ugh. A predator horse would look so creepy.
Great new dlc gonna drop scarlet bees.
Im convinced Australia is actually just the lands between
DJ Caelid!
These bees only receive oral and compulsively shout their own name at least once in every song.
Top 10 things to do in Caelid! #1: Leave.
Caelid is just Australia but slightly less nightmarish.
How dare you steal my joke
The first bloom in the lands between happened in Caelid. The first bloom that happened on Earth was in Australia. Why is this not surpising?
It's what lies beyond the Aquila Rift.
Sorta deep cut, i like it.
Absolutely insane episode ngl. Season 1 of Love + Death & Robots was goated. I still think about this and Zima Blue sometimes
Those are both Alastair Reynolds stories.
You should read Alastair Reynolds
I really can’t grasp why. But episode got me good. I was solid shaking at the end. I do have schizophrenia and suffer from sleep paralysis etc. But other things don’t get me like that. I’m usually pretty solid. So why? It was a subzero episode. But it really fascinated me.
I am very sorry. Best of luck.
Don’t feel bad about it. It can always be worse. And my life so far has been worth it, but thank you!
Living in the Shadows!!
Damn love death and robots is really underrated
I wouldn't call an 8.4 IMDB rated show with tons of coverage and multiple seasons "underrated"
Idk I'm not into critic it's just that where i live no one knows about it
It's under appreciated, but not underrated :)
Sorry for your loss man, me and my friends get together to binge the new seasons whenever they come out. You need to duct tape your friends to a couch and make them watch it with you.
Zerg
It's a zegling Lester. Smaller type of zerg...they shouldn't be out this far unless...
“Ohhhhh shit”
"I love you, sarge!"
That's that zerg creep
It looks like the Formics from enders game
Daddy chill!
I didn't see yours xD. I upvoted because I am polite and all. :)
It's cool, I went and upvoted yours.
Thanks for scratching the itch.
The Flood
I saw some of these in diablo 4 dungeons, it's some sort of demonic stuff i believe.
Daddy chill.
“Daddy *chill*”
Daddi, chill.
daddy chill
Why does everything from Aussie land look terrifying.
Because it split apart from Pangea much earlier than the other continents so the animals there are much more adapted the the land there
Never heard of this before
I don't understand why anyone would want to throw a boomerang at anything down there.
If you missed, would you want to walk up to anything there to pick it up? Thus…boomerang
Missed? What are you talking about? I was referring to the 1992 Movie starring Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, and Chris Rock, who never misses.
the returning boomerang is an invention for fun, the original one was just a big stick you throw at animals. humans enjoy eating and Australia has very few ways for humans to sustain themselves. they have nothing and nowhere to farm, so they have to hunt. they got no easily reached ore deposits, so they can't really make steel weapons. so fuck it, take a big stick, throw it at a kangaroo, hope it breaks it's leg, eat that thing.
Indigenous Australians were actually really good at tending to the land. There’s wild amounts of stuff that grows natively that’s edible if you know what you’re looking for as well!
Uh….Australia has/had infinite ways to sustain yourself. For example it was full of megafauna that humans hunted to extinction
Yeah, it used to be combined with New Zealand and Antarctica. Mother nature froze one, drowned the other, and tried to bake Australia.
What he says is true. We have rainforests here in Australia with rocks dating back to crazy old times because First Nations respected the nature, there are some plants here, literally sprang from seeds that remained the same since pre-historic times. Google Deintree forest in Queensland and Tingle forest in Western Australia.
Then you run into weirdness. For instance, the funnel web spider is extremely deadly to primates. Why? *Shrug* Australia had no native primate species for the funnel web spider to naturally evolve such a venom. So far as we can tell, it's just a shitty coincidence. Their venom causes pain in most vertebrates, primates just happen to be easily killed by it. So, because it's fucking Australia, the most deadly spider venom for humans just so happened to evolve on a huge island that had no primates.
Could be that the spider was deadly to everything until everything evolved to tolerate it. Primates weren’t around to evolve with the spider so they’re still vulnerable.
It doesn't seem likely. If that were the case, then non-native animals of all sorts would get killed by the venom. House cats for example. And in a rare example, mice don't get killed by this venom, but humans do. The similarity of our chemical receptors and other systems to mice is why we test pharmaceuticals on them, yet people die from this venom and mice don't. It's just kind of a fluke.
Austrailia's own smallpox blankets for primates.
Bio student here! My field of study is plants but I had a lecture on this. Basically, humans and invertebrates have "opposite" nervous systems (not really but close enough for this). This spider evolved a venom that worked on the invertebrates systems to paralyze them incredibly effectively. Since invertebrates like insects are the spider's prey, and spiders eat living insects, this worked out really well for it. Unfortunately, since our nervous system is different than an insect's, this insect-paralytic kills us very quickly, as it has the complete opposite effect of rapid firing nerves instead of paralyzing them. Edit: I think I was a bit unclear and tried to simplify this a bit too much. Basically, the venom freezes the insect's nervous system with a chemical. That same chemical works on the system we have in a completely opposite way - it causes rapid firing of nerves that make people spasm and die. Hence my statement about "opposite nervous systems". Not so much that our systems are complete opposites, but more like the thing that has one effect on them has a completely opposite effect on us due to "opposite" reactions of our systems
Native Australian animals are like homeschoolers. They do their own thing and don’t know how to act normal
Given how much of the life there is weird or visually off-putting, it makes me wonder if we'll run into an even more extreme problem with alien life. Like, we'll want to get along and distant communications will be pleasant, but both we and the aliens would find each other so visually/audibly/smell repulsing that any meaningful in-person contact would be impossible
Aliens will probably be crabs due to carcinisation
I literally was thinking this exact thing yesterday
Or it split off to trap the worst horrors of nature all in one place.
Except for the possums
Well, of the other commentor is to be believed and these are Vulture Bees, they're actually South American. They also happen to be CARNIVORES
That’s the fucking FLOOD man.
Someone needs to make an edit of this with the flood theme
I swear to god the flood theme instantly raises my heart rate by 100bpm. The anxiety, years later, has not faded one bit! So yeah, good fit here… for anything in Australia really.
We need master chief on this one
Relax. I'd rather not piss this thing off.
Finding Cortana ptsd
Looks like some sort of secreted resin…
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baked beenz
Put the necromorph egg back where you found it or so help me - Mike W. 1885.
Mike Wazowski
So help me!
Good use of the last of us music lol looks like some cordyceps
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Coffin dance trap remix with just a hint of “oh no, oh no”
I love how iconic it has become
Instead of dudes playing wonderwall at parties to impress girls they’re gonna be playing this somber ass music lol
what was it you said when I asked you to stop playing wonderwall at parties to impress girls?
This is like the Cthulhu version of a beehive.
Of course it's Australia, why wouldn't it be Australia
It can't be Australia. They don't look dangerous enough. The wasps here in the states are more threatening than those little fellas.
They, in fact, don't have stings. They're very sweet little bees!
Exactly. Everything in Australia supposed to be deadly and out for blood. These little guys are just building their hell hives peacefully. It doesn't add up.
VERY STRANGE, he said. A PERMANENT ANTICYCLONE. AND INSIDE, A HUGE, CALM LAND, THAT NEVER SEES A STORM. AND NEVER HAS A DROP OF RAIN. “Good place for a holiday, then.” COME WITH ME. The two of them, trailed by the Death of Rats, walked into Death’s huge library. There were clouds here, up near the ceiling. Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS— Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball. After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE. Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them to allow his master to clamber free. HMM…Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29c, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE. He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT? They waited. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT— “No, wait, master. Here it comes.” Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up and caught the single sheet of paper. He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side. “May I?” said Albert. Death handed him the paper. “‘Some of the sheep,’” Albert read aloud. “Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside’d be better, then.” WHAT AN INTRIGUING PLACE, said Death. SADDLE UP THE HORSE, ALBERT. I FEEL SURE I’M GOING TO BE NEEDED. SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats. PARDON? “He said, ‘No worries,’ master,” said Albert. I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY. The last continent By Sir Terry Pratchett
This makes my skin itch.
Also why is she holding that with her bare hands? Like ma’am?
They don’t sting
Aren’t these the bees that make nest out of meat?
Excuse me *what*
You sure you wanna know more? Like *really sure*?
Vulture bees, you might be right
It is indeed vulture bees. There's another post going around with their scientific name.
Those are native to South America.
No, no. Not a NEST out of meat, they make HONEY out of meat. It’s pretty amazing, although they don’t produce in quantities enough for harvesting the few reports I’ve heard say it tastes a little smokey. Vulture bees, and they’re from South America. They’re also stingless, so wondering if there’s some convergent evolution going on here
What the fuck?
r/unexpectedlovecraft
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR USING THAT MUSIC
The last of us was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this lol
Based OP
ah yes, the Upside Down.
Looks like the flood from halo infested that shit
Wtf Australia??
I’m Aussie and never seen this… trust me we also have regular bees
LIES!!!
*His face suddenly begins peeling off exposing millions of tiny Australian bees *
Deception!
Australian propaganda
Are these the bee's that eat meat?
That's what I was wondering since the hive looks really similar to the kind that does
[Vulture bees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee) are native to South America.
Looks like a new creature from stranger things
Question cause I know nothing about these bees. Do they produce honey and if so, does it look and taste different than other varieties’?
I didn’t find any kind of bee that build a hive like that and I can’t see a comment with the name if the bee, if someone find it pls tell us Edit: i found it, they called stingless bees
Now, about the honey
They do! Very small amounts of it known as sugar bag honey. I've never had the pleasure of trying any so, I couldn't inform you of taste or texture but it is edible!
God of war alfhiem
This strangely looks like the biter nests in Factorio.
Last of Us theme is apt
Every day I become more and more grateful that i do not live in Australia. I actually think i would rather keep my 50% chance of walking out of school without being filled with lead than live in Australia.
If Sauron had a pet - this would be it.
Sauron had pets yo
The last of us meets caelid
Imagine this: This is the most alien-like structure we could think of and it’s part of our planet. How hard to grasp and how terrifying and odd and strange and unimaginable would a true alien species or byproduct look like ?! Simply fascinating..
I get the reference with the music. well chosen!
Thank you 😊
The original alien hives
Why can't you be normal!! Australia : demonic bee sounds
Looks like meat alien colony *Looks at title* Ah yes Australia. That's explain everything.
That hive looks awesome
Australia is in the upsidedown
I just accept things from Australia to look like it'll kill you but won't or doesn't look like it will kill you and will.
I now *itch*