This amusement park attraction was swarmed by bees!!

Queen just found a new home. Find her and move her to a proper hive, and the rest will follow.

I believe they were peacefully transporting them thankfully!! They didn’t even have suits on, just straight up walked up to it (which is insane to me but they seemed fine 🤷‍♀️)

Bees that are swarming are pretty docile since they have no hive to protect.

If that’s not a hive are they just… all on each other in a pile??? Damn! That makes sense though, thanks for informing me!

Yeah, that’s just a ball of bees with a queen somewhere in there. They left their old hive for whatever reason and are looking for a spot to build a new one. Most likely the bees in your video would have moved along on their own.

Queening is intense!

I’ve captured a swarm. Did it in a hoody and jeans. Literally just scooped them into my hive. All of them are juiced up with nectar to survive the journey and get the next hive “jump started”. This makes them extremely docile. I actually remember my sleeve and chest covered in bees. I could feel them all buzzing, it was quite an interesting sensation/feeling. Another funny anecdote from this experience – they are all stuck together in a “bee ball”. It makes it easier for them to…. Hang out, for lack of a better word. When I broke the surface tension of this bee ball with my scooping hand the ones in the middle fell out. Only, it wasn’t so much of a fall as it was a… pour It looked like someone had CGI’d bees coming out of a faucet. Hard to describe, super cool looking. Keeping bees is a trip

Bees love to pile on top of a queen. This is actually how that whole beard of bees stunt works. They keep the queen in a tiny wooden box with mesh walls to allow the pheromones to get out. Then tie it around your neck and the rest just swarm on top of it, and you. One really neat thing I learned a while ago is that a hive can sometimes have 2 or more queens. Which causes the hive to develop into multiple factions, each supporting their own queen and actively destroying members of the other Queen’s faction in a civil war sort of deal. Beekeepers have to look out for any cells in the hive that have a queen larva and kill it before it’s born to prevent civil war and subsequent collapse of the hive. Bees and ants never cease to amaze me.

Yep! It’s called a swarm. When a hive gets big enough it’ll make an extra queen. That queen and some workers will leave the hive to go establish itself somewhere new. Eventually the queen will get tired and have to land… And the workers just follow with her. And then they make a new home, usually wherever they stop.

You’re right in broad strokes, but here’s a couple of things for your information. In reproductive swarms like you’re describing, which makes up almost all swarms, it’s the old queen that leaves with the swarm. She leaves with about half the colony before the new queen emerges from her cocoon. Also, in most cases the bees don’t set up shop at their first stop. They will stop in a temporary location for a few hours to a few days, and from there scouts search the area looking for a good location to start the new hive. Scouts will share the location and vote on the site they like best. Source: beekeeper

> She leaves with about half the colony before the new queen emerges from her cocoon. Another interesting tidbit: The hive typically produces several new queens. The first one to hatch from her cell will go all Game of Thrones on her slower sisters.

What happens is that in the warm season when I hive is doing well, it will produce an extra queen and that queen will fly off and part of the hive workers will follow her. They fly off to find an new location for a new hive. It’s called a swarm. They are typically not aggressive because they have no hive to protect yet. As they fly, the queen may get tired and rest somewhere and all the other bees will stay with her and wait with her until she is ready to fly again. So they just land on something and may stay there for hours. If it’s not a good spot for a hive, they will move on eventually but it’s also a good way to get a free bunch of bees, you can just carefully scoop up the queen and the others will follow her and you can haul them all away and set them up in a hive box, beekeepers can get a new starter hive of bees for free and they were just sitting there out in the open easy to grab.

That’s what he said.

Swarms are pretty chill. No babies or food to protect

Sounds like someone called the local bee community? My local corner store has an advert about reporting swarms lol. The town I lived before had a literal swarm waitlist of bee-keepers linked with local emergency who could be called in the event. A swarm is really exciting to them because it’s more or less free bees. Easily $400-600 if you would buy the equivalent of a small nuc with a queen. It’s also nice that they are swarming down very low and accessible. I see videos of people more or less scooping up bees like this with the queen in the middle like a semi-solid-liquid.

Peacefully transporting them around and around.

Even quicker way would have been to just run the ride

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“What’s this?!? A fair ride woefully underpopulated by bees?”

This briefcase of bees will put and end to that.

DOCTOR BEEEEEEES

Just send it

I really wish I could see what happens if they started that thing up. Chaos.

Can you imagine how many tickets they could charge a swarm?

I’m thinking a raffle is the only fair way to distribute tickets that high in demand. Maybe raise a little money for bee conservation too. Or a lottery of some sort. “Fell the Sting” scratch-off tickets.

It’ll be like that old gif with Oprah gifting bees

There’s no way the queen is sticking around if it’s running. I think it’s the best idea.

Just imagine, you’re walking calmly through the other side of the fair. Trying to decide if you should buy some candyfloss or have another go on the waltzers…. Suddenly, bees to the face

Maybe that’s this guy’s backstory: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/kIcxSYo7VB

Look, if they have their tickets they should get to ride. If they’re too short for any of the rides why are they being sold tickets?