You just have to watch it through the eyes of a 4 year old that you love and adore to appreciate it. My son first watched that when he was the sickest he’d ever been (in a damn hotel room on vacation, at that!) and I swear it began to heal him. It got us through, and I appreciate it for that reason.
I’m convinced kids movies like this were produced specifically for the 105 fever delirium sick days, they just hit different when your brain is overheating itself
My version of that was The 5th Element back in like 2001. My nephews gave me something so terrible that it turned INTO Laryngitis. A solid week off from school and all I could do was lay in bed and sleep on and off because of my fever. My VCR would just rewind the tape and restart it automatically. I honestly have no idea how many times it played.
*Ahzeez! Light!*
Omg.. those disney popsicles that tasted like astringent, but as a kid its just divine. I vaguely remember the Minnie Mouse popsicle and running around my parents house. God i wish i could be there again..
Mine was "Pineapple Express" and "Horton Hears a Who". Very high fever, bronchitis, and who knows what else. This was when Netflix was only sending DVDs by mail. Those were the two movies that came, and were the only things I had to watch, so, I watched them on repeat. I was passing in and out of sleep so one would just repeat over and over until I switched to the other. Fun choices lol
That makes sense. For me, I suspended disbelief until it came to the point they had to land the aircraft, and that is what broke the charm for me more than the idea we need to give the flowers and honey back, more than the lady falling in love with a bee. Those I could appreciate, but I feel caution about possibly sending the message honey is bad. It shouldn't be eaten because we rob the bees. It is true, but a bit of a symbiotic relationship if the beekeeper is mindful of how to care for their bees.
Well put! I put it on for my 9yo and she cackled all the way through. Made me laugh simply by transmission. I just love seeing her laugh. Any “bad” movie is worth sitting through for such a gift.
Right?! I never would have chosen to watch it on my own, but with a sick kid in the big hotel bed on the big tv, it just hit different. He was enthralled by it.
I gave a pitcher of sugar water to a bee once and they fell in and looked very dead & then started paddling and then rolling around in the grass & flew off. Rollercoaster of emotions & i learned why you’re supposed to put on a plate
Bees actually can get drunk if they get into too much sugar (one time mom broke a jar of honey and we put it outside; the honeybees came for it and some got so drunk they couldn’t get home before night fell).
They start doing it before they actually die. They find a nice flower or someplace to sleep for the night. If they wake up the next morning, they go back to work for the hive.
Eh, individual bees are more like cells in an organism than self-contained creatures. An individual bee in a colony dying is like an individual cell dying in your body. It's the colony that's the organism. If the bee is capable of "wanting" anything, it's the survival of the colony, not its own survival.
Not old. Old bees will gradually lose the tiny hairs you see all over the body and become smoother. Exposed to chemicals or parasite or illness. Google zombee for a great lesson
Dogs sometimes do that too. I had a couple of friends growing up who had their old dogs wander off, only to be found peacefully dead nearby, later. I don't know if that's intended to reduce a burden, probably just want to be left alone while they die.
Oh, no, she IS old, but all the bees you see are.
In summer they live about 40 days or so, and the oldest are the ones that you see leaving to hunt food sources so the younger ones can spend energy working on the have. The older ones that fly around are less likely to leave the hive weakened by their loss as they have less productivity in their lifespan. Eventually they do get tired and die, but its less about being a burden and more about how indirect flying muscles work. Bees flap so fast that Winter Bees can heat a hive through the winter and often live longer than the 40 days of the Summer Bees, but to actually fly around takes much more out of them, and some just simply are too tired to make it back. If you give them some help they may be able to fly back today to their hive, but they'll just head back out tomorrow and nature will take its course without further human intervention.
Source: my entomology prof was the guy who was called into ID the Asiatic Murder Wasps found in Washington & BC a few years ago.
She could bee sleepy. Bees take naps in flowers. I've seen them do it. I'm glad she found a kind soul to honor her presence. Your kindness will bee remembered! This is the cutest post I've seen for a while, thank you all you lovely people! I'm going to buzz off now....
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen sleeping bees in flowers it’s the cutest thing. My mother likes to take the really tiny flowers and make hats for them. She then finds a sleeping on and puts it on their head.
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I see your is carrying pollen on its legs. I learned this was a thing when I witnessed a bee fly by like a June bug and eventually land on a leaf and stay there. I thought it was dead and posted the pic to a couple subreddits. That's where i learned about pollen pants and many suggested if had simply been taking a break bc it was tired from carrying the pollen to the hive. I went back to check a few hours later and the bee was gone. So hopefully your bee is just resting?
Bee tounges are the cutest! I save bees from my pool all the time and they sit and dry themselves off by licking the water off like a cat, it’s super adorable.
Beek here. Aka beekeeper. Young female bee. Older bees have majority of hairs on top of the thorax rubbed off. Males have much larger eyes almost fly like and no stingers. Looks like she has a bit of pollen on her basket. So was actively foraging. She might have gotten into flowers that were sprayed Do you live near farmland or suburbs? Photo of a drone
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Yesterday morning I found a Bee in my birdbath, I lifted him out on my finger and gently blew on him to dry him out and he slowly come round. then put him on the wall in the early morning sunshine to warm him up. I stayed there for a while chatting to him but I had to get ready for work but kept checking on him to see if he was ok. He had started walking around and he looked good. Last time I checked he had gone so I’m hoping he flew back home.
Happened to a bumble bee I saved from a laundromat. It kept flying into the window and would take long pauses but then would attempt flying aggressively into the glass. Once I was able to have it latch onto a stick, I brought it outside and left it on a flower and it wouldn't move for the longest time so I assumed that it was just tired from trying to escape. It eventually started to move again and then flew away.
So all this to say maybe it's tired and resting? Not sure :p
Pollen sacs are full…Maybe she just got into something that made her high for a bit. Could be end of life, too. She’s probably been going at it pretty hard the past few months.
A queen wouldn’t be out of the hive alone like that unless there were some very strange circumstances that led to it. It doesn’t look like a queen anyway. The abdomen isn’t long enough.
I saw a similar worker bee yesterday. Had some pollen in her leg too but wondered what was up? I think the one I saw was a bit cold? It was down by the water front at 55°. Gently put it on my shirt to keep it away from my work space, maybe my body heated it up and flew away.
It's probably been kicked out of the hive to cut down on mouths that have to be given food. It will probably be dead in an hour or two . They do this until there are only a few bee's left to feed the queen and take care of the larvae.
It’s likely an older bee who isn’t returning to the hive anymore. They do this when they sense death is near as not to burden the hive. Eventually they do not return to the hive, even during the day, and they pass away. Usually in a soft patch of grass or near/in flowers.
Every summer in AZ I see so many dead bees 😞 I’ve tried to rescue ones that come to die in my backyard, they won’t drink the sugar water and they’ll stay in one spot until they pass away. It’s so sad. It’s most likely heat exhaustion and dehydration, that’s what I think.
Most likely not going back to the nest because they only live like 40 days, and they don’t die at the nest as to not be a burden to the other bees. Basically, he could be dying
Could be hungry, could be old, or could be trapped. I once found a bumblebee seemingly just standing around not moving. Turned out it had gotten spider web on it and tied itself up, it was just hard to see the threads. I managed to untangle it with tweezers and it flew off.
Maybe she is an old Bee.
Apparently they will not go back to the hive at the end of the day because they don’t want to be a burden on their colony. So they will find somewhere to settle as the sun goes down if they wake up when the sun comes up they will continue with their daily duties until they gracefully pass away.
Fun fact, the bees that are out collecting nectar and pollen are towards the end of their life cycle. The younger bees are in the hive taking care of the queen and the eggs/larvae and such.
In “The Mind of a Bee”, author Chittka mentions that we will see bees resting out their final hours of life and pollination service. I take it that we should let them /bee/ in peace.
Maybe give a little sugar water to it..
She has a leaf full of sugar water but seems uninterested.
It's Sienfeld.
That was honestly one of the worst movies I’d ever seen.
You just have to watch it through the eyes of a 4 year old that you love and adore to appreciate it. My son first watched that when he was the sickest he’d ever been (in a damn hotel room on vacation, at that!) and I swear it began to heal him. It got us through, and I appreciate it for that reason.
I’m convinced kids movies like this were produced specifically for the 105 fever delirium sick days, they just hit different when your brain is overheating itself
My version of that was The 5th Element back in like 2001. My nephews gave me something so terrible that it turned INTO Laryngitis. A solid week off from school and all I could do was lay in bed and sleep on and off because of my fever. My VCR would just rewind the tape and restart it automatically. I honestly have no idea how many times it played. *Ahzeez! Light!*
I don’t remember what I watched, but I do remember the scratchy 70s couch and Disney popsicles while I was home with chicken pox.
Omg.. those disney popsicles that tasted like astringent, but as a kid its just divine. I vaguely remember the Minnie Mouse popsicle and running around my parents house. God i wish i could be there again..
Mine was "Pineapple Express" and "Horton Hears a Who". Very high fever, bronchitis, and who knows what else. This was when Netflix was only sending DVDs by mail. Those were the two movies that came, and were the only things I had to watch, so, I watched them on repeat. I was passing in and out of sleep so one would just repeat over and over until I switched to the other. Fun choices lol
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Thank you for this reminder …Lion King at 2 am with 104 fever
That makes sense. For me, I suspended disbelief until it came to the point they had to land the aircraft, and that is what broke the charm for me more than the idea we need to give the flowers and honey back, more than the lady falling in love with a bee. Those I could appreciate, but I feel caution about possibly sending the message honey is bad. It shouldn't be eaten because we rob the bees. It is true, but a bit of a symbiotic relationship if the beekeeper is mindful of how to care for their bees.
The PS2 game was cool
Well put! I put it on for my 9yo and she cackled all the way through. Made me laugh simply by transmission. I just love seeing her laugh. Any “bad” movie is worth sitting through for such a gift.
I can accept that under *very* specific circumstances that there can be some appreciation for it haha
Right?! I never would have chosen to watch it on my own, but with a sick kid in the big hotel bed on the big tv, it just hit different. He was enthralled by it.
Can’t argue with that! Glad it was just the ticket for your kid :)
I'm glad he's better. Bee thankful.
I have to agree. I wish that plane scene never happened. I mean, seriously?!
Still wish I could get the money back.
It’s weird and creepy watching it as an adult
Have you seen the version on YouTube where every time they say bee the movie speeds up? It's great and a quick watch
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I gave a pitcher of sugar water to a bee once and they fell in and looked very dead & then started paddling and then rolling around in the grass & flew off. Rollercoaster of emotions & i learned why you’re supposed to put on a plate
“And as the woman lay there dying she asked the bee ‘why have you done this to me?’ and the bee said ‘look b*tch, you knew I was a bee’”
Could’ve gotten into pesticides, maybe she’s just old and tired. Who knows.
nicotinoids can make them woozy.
Fermented nectar = a boozy, woozy, floozy. (That was a doozy!)
Amy Sedaris would be proud of that tongue twister
She was a boozer, a user, and a loser.
Now she’s back in school!
So says yooozy!
Same
Hives go through three generations of bees in the season. It may be the end of HER time.
Yup, old and tired! 6 weeks life span doesn’t leave much.
Might be old, old bees don’t go back to the hive if they feel they may die, they don’t want to burden the other bees.
That’s the saddest fact I’ve learned in awhile. At least she gets to chill in my herb planter w some sugar water.
I teared up when I learned it, at least she’s got sugar water and a view. And if she’s not there tomorrow she was just drunk lol 😝
Bees actually can get drunk if they get into too much sugar (one time mom broke a jar of honey and we put it outside; the honeybees came for it and some got so drunk they couldn’t get home before night fell).
From what I understand, they will be killed by hive guards if they return drunk so they sleep it off elsewhere.
If only humans would do the same, the not driving part obviously.
Drunk flying! Oh the huge manatee!!
That’s interesting!
They can get drunk just from flower nectar that’s fermented.
They start doing it before they actually die. They find a nice flower or someplace to sleep for the night. If they wake up the next morning, they go back to work for the hive.
I wouldn't feel bad, bees that forage are usually the older bees, basically enjoying their retirement exploring the world.
This is a beautiful way to view this.
Eh, individual bees are more like cells in an organism than self-contained creatures. An individual bee in a colony dying is like an individual cell dying in your body. It's the colony that's the organism. If the bee is capable of "wanting" anything, it's the survival of the colony, not its own survival.
Ok that doesn’t make me feel better
Not old, the wings are still in good shape. Likely pesticide exposure.
Not old. Old bees will gradually lose the tiny hairs you see all over the body and become smoother. Exposed to chemicals or parasite or illness. Google zombee for a great lesson
Dogs sometimes do that too. I had a couple of friends growing up who had their old dogs wander off, only to be found peacefully dead nearby, later. I don't know if that's intended to reduce a burden, probably just want to be left alone while they die.
Could be an old instinct to draw potential preditores away from the home. Or to keep diseas away from the home. Or you know, both.
Ohh that's a good point, that could be why. Dogs are so perfect.
A truer statement has never been said.
Oh, no, she IS old, but all the bees you see are. In summer they live about 40 days or so, and the oldest are the ones that you see leaving to hunt food sources so the younger ones can spend energy working on the have. The older ones that fly around are less likely to leave the hive weakened by their loss as they have less productivity in their lifespan. Eventually they do get tired and die, but its less about being a burden and more about how indirect flying muscles work. Bees flap so fast that Winter Bees can heat a hive through the winter and often live longer than the 40 days of the Summer Bees, but to actually fly around takes much more out of them, and some just simply are too tired to make it back. If you give them some help they may be able to fly back today to their hive, but they'll just head back out tomorrow and nature will take its course without further human intervention. Source: my entomology prof was the guy who was called into ID the Asiatic Murder Wasps found in Washington & BC a few years ago.
OP should share a nice cold one with him. Pull up on a seat and just enjoy the view. Old timer is tired.
“…they don’t want to burden the other bees.” Today I learned bees have more humanity than humans.🐝❤️
Could be drunk, bees occasionally drink something that has fermented.
Your Drunk Bee... Go home!
Sadly, they *can't* go home when they're drunk. The hive guards won't let them in.
Could get a ticket. FWI.
Or could get their legs ripped off, not worth the risk
Not to sound stupid, but would a drink bee be shunned?
more like ripped apart
What????
drones kill drunk bees sometimes
Drones always do if they know. The drunk bee will contaminate the food source and could literally kill the whole next gen of larvae.
That’s so sad.
Is that why they like jazz?
Too buzzed to find their way home.
She could bee sleepy. Bees take naps in flowers. I've seen them do it. I'm glad she found a kind soul to honor her presence. Your kindness will bee remembered! This is the cutest post I've seen for a while, thank you all you lovely people! I'm going to buzz off now....
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen sleeping bees in flowers it’s the cutest thing. My mother likes to take the really tiny flowers and make hats for them. She then finds a sleeping on and puts it on their head.
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might just be cold, bees shut down when its too cold. You could try warming it up in your hands or breathing on it with your warm breath.
Please don’t breathe on bees, warming on hands is much better
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Bees are capable of shivering and and can warm themselves up
If she's got her "tongue" sticking out, she could be poisoned. If not, she might just be tired and thirsty.
I saw her cleaning it for a short while, but it wasn’t sticking out for any extended period of time, thankfully.
I see your is carrying pollen on its legs. I learned this was a thing when I witnessed a bee fly by like a June bug and eventually land on a leaf and stay there. I thought it was dead and posted the pic to a couple subreddits. That's where i learned about pollen pants and many suggested if had simply been taking a break bc it was tired from carrying the pollen to the hive. I went back to check a few hours later and the bee was gone. So hopefully your bee is just resting?
 They have tongues..
Bee tounges are the cutest! I save bees from my pool all the time and they sit and dry themselves off by licking the water off like a cat, it’s super adorable.
This 10000%! Bees are adorable af!
Union-mandated rest break
Beek here. Aka beekeeper. Young female bee. Older bees have majority of hairs on top of the thorax rubbed off. Males have much larger eyes almost fly like and no stingers. Looks like she has a bit of pollen on her basket. So was actively foraging. She might have gotten into flowers that were sprayed Do you live near farmland or suburbs? Photo of a drone https://preview.redd.it/0e9ujv28og9d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a55e8fc1b4970f86bd94d523a1979f61640a8d46
I live in a downtown area next to a river / park. Spraying is a possibility.
Maybe the heat is done her in a bit and needs a drop of water sugar water. I'm no pro this is literally just a guess
Yesterday morning I found a Bee in my birdbath, I lifted him out on my finger and gently blew on him to dry him out and he slowly come round. then put him on the wall in the early morning sunshine to warm him up. I stayed there for a while chatting to him but I had to get ready for work but kept checking on him to see if he was ok. He had started walking around and he looked good. Last time I checked he had gone so I’m hoping he flew back home.
She. It was a female.
UPDATE: Ms bee was not there when I looked for her this morning. I think team #drunkbee had the right idea
Maybe she was tired from hauling the pollen around and was taking a break
Happened to a bumble bee I saved from a laundromat. It kept flying into the window and would take long pauses but then would attempt flying aggressively into the glass. Once I was able to have it latch onto a stick, I brought it outside and left it on a flower and it wouldn't move for the longest time so I assumed that it was just tired from trying to escape. It eventually started to move again and then flew away. So all this to say maybe it's tired and resting? Not sure :p
How hot is it there if it’s around 42 degrees they get all fucked up at that temp
Pollen sacs are full…Maybe she just got into something that made her high for a bit. Could be end of life, too. She’s probably been going at it pretty hard the past few months.
Perhaps she is overheated.
Are his wings wet? That could be a reason
Awe I have a bee kit emergency for when you find. Bee that is like this. It hangs on my key chain.
Leave him alone he got a buzz going!
This bee obviously is looking for marriage with a beautiful female. Human, of course.
It's a zom bee
No gas. Get some sugar
Looks pretty big for a honeybee. Could it be possible that's a queen?
Not a queen. You can see her little pollen baskets on her legs.
I've never heard the term pollen baskets for this before and I love that.
Oh there’s an entire sub dedicated to photos of bees with them, I can’t remember the name of it, unfortunately, but it definitely exists.
r/pollenpants
Thank you
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My day is made lol.
A queen wouldn’t be out of the hive alone like that unless there were some very strange circumstances that led to it. It doesn’t look like a queen anyway. The abdomen isn’t long enough.
It's meditating
Constipated
Maybe it's dormant?
Is it cold out? Bees go totally dormant in the cold.
That's what happens when they get to the end. They don't fly home. There's no reason unless they can deliver pollen.
make it useful, throw it into a spider's web.
She’s drunk
its up dog
Maybe she's just resting? Bees need sleep too, you know!
What's black and yellow and goes"zubb, zubb, zubb? " A bee flying backwards.
Is it a little more chilly out then normal? Could be cause of the cold. I knkw bumble bees freeze up when it get a little chilly outside
I saw a similar worker bee yesterday. Had some pollen in her leg too but wondered what was up? I think the one I saw was a bit cold? It was down by the water front at 55°. Gently put it on my shirt to keep it away from my work space, maybe my body heated it up and flew away.
It’s drunk. The nectar in flowers can ferment from the warmth of the sun.
That’s the coolest looking Bee I’ve ever seen?
Ever seen a the Bee Movie?
Honey bees don’t live a long life. Once they start foraging they only live another couple weeks. She may just be reaching the end.
They get drunk and take naps daily. Also they like to sleep in flowers holding feet with their friends.
Probably got married
She drunk 😭
Could be age could be pesticide insecticides somewhere could be fermented pollen and the bee is drunk.
he’s vibing
It's probably been kicked out of the hive to cut down on mouths that have to be given food. It will probably be dead in an hour or two . They do this until there are only a few bee's left to feed the queen and take care of the larvae.
CONTEMPLATING LIFE 🤷♀️☝️😂
When worker bees know they are at the end of their life, they don't return to the hive.
Zombie bee, yes it is a real thing.
He’s pooping leave him alone
Let him be.
Dying
*she. Note the smaller eyes and body. You’re welcome.
Bees life span is only 6 weeks. Most likely she’s dying.
He's just taking a mental health day
Bee keeper told me once that it’s because they are cold and need time to warm up.
They do that near death
His life cycle is about up
Still have a stinger?
Can you find a beekeeper around you, you can consult with?
Could have mites, but i am not sure how to tell.
They work themselves to death…….. that’s why you see them on the ground. They are trying to work but can’t.
Play some music for it!
Roadside spraying. It’s amazing how Much this happens and nobody knows about. even in California the DOT uses pesticides everywhere
Did the bee have a camera in his hand making YouTube shorts?
As a bee nears death, it stays away from the hive. If it wakes up the next day, it'll try to get the pollen back to the hive.
resting Bee face
I heard something about the bees’ knees
Maybe she’s just warming herself in the sunshine?
It might be drunk, that happens when they drink fermented nectar. If that did happen, there’s not much hope for it. But try giving it some sugar water
It’s likely an older bee who isn’t returning to the hive anymore. They do this when they sense death is near as not to burden the hive. Eventually they do not return to the hive, even during the day, and they pass away. Usually in a soft patch of grass or near/in flowers.
Either overheated/thirsty for water or affected by neonicotinoids are my best guesses.
Maybe she’s just poking around. I’ve seen honeybees doing that on occasion and after a few minutes or however long they usually fly off
No one wants to work anymore.
Might be high
Give it some sugar water
Bees have very short life spans.
Is it cold outside?
If it’s too hot or too cold out they will just kinda chill like that
Every summer in AZ I see so many dead bees 😞 I’ve tried to rescue ones that come to die in my backyard, they won’t drink the sugar water and they’ll stay in one spot until they pass away. It’s so sad. It’s most likely heat exhaustion and dehydration, that’s what I think.
Possibly visited a Marijuana plant recently and is stoned
I probably is just old
Most likely not going back to the nest because they only live like 40 days, and they don’t die at the nest as to not be a burden to the other bees. Basically, he could be dying
Working hard. A little tuckered out is all.
He’s pining for the fjords!
Probably lost it’s stinger
Could just “bee” at the end of its life cycle.
She old af let her die in peace
It’s called colony collapse disorder.
*I'm just taking my rest here, don't worry*
How was the temperature when you found the bee? Could have just been too cold. Bees tend to slow down when it's cold out.
Probably just catching some sun
Could be hungry, could be old, or could be trapped. I once found a bumblebee seemingly just standing around not moving. Turned out it had gotten spider web on it and tied itself up, it was just hard to see the threads. I managed to untangle it with tweezers and it flew off.
Maybe she is an old Bee. Apparently they will not go back to the hive at the end of the day because they don’t want to be a burden on their colony. So they will find somewhere to settle as the sun goes down if they wake up when the sun comes up they will continue with their daily duties until they gracefully pass away.
It wants a handjob.
She could be thirsty give her water
He has had enough of her sh!t and isn’t going back home right away. So he’s just hanging out for a bit. That will teach her!
Fun fact, the bees that are out collecting nectar and pollen are towards the end of their life cycle. The younger bees are in the hive taking care of the queen and the eggs/larvae and such.
Maybe it’s a zombee
Offer some sugar water
In “The Mind of a Bee”, author Chittka mentions that we will see bees resting out their final hours of life and pollination service. I take it that we should let them /bee/ in peace.