Somehow a yellow jacket got stuck in between a window and the screen and expired. What was surprising was that before I could remove it I noticed other bees hovering just outside and kind of staring at it. Maybe a memorial service? I am wondering how they knew where it was and why they congregated there, like they were paying their respects or trying to figure out if they could save it.
Do Bees Have Funerals?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 3, 2024 9:25 PM |
They attended Gloria Swanson's funeral in "Killer Bees" but weren't entirely respectful of other mourners.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 2, 2024 9:19 PM |
Can I have your stuff, OP?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 2, 2024 9:50 PM |
Yellow Jackets aren't bees, OP.
Was it bees hovering outside, or other wasps?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 2, 2024 9:52 PM |
So, was it yellow jackets or bees?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 2, 2024 9:59 PM |
[quote]So, was it yellow jackets or bees?
Yellow Jacket.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 2, 2024 10:24 PM |
OMG. They're coming for me.
[quote]If a bee dies naturally then it will not attract other bees to it, however if you kill a bee then it will produce a pheromone that will attract other bees from its own colony but it will not attract random bees from different colonies because all colonies have a different smell of pheromones.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 2, 2024 10:28 PM |
Yellow Jackets are sometimes attracted to window sills as a site to build a nest.
A secondary consideration is that they are carnivorous, subsisting on dead bees, wasps, or other insects. They probably were interested in eating the dead one, but couldn't get through the window screen.
At least one of them did get through, so you should probably check to see how secure the screen is. Trust me, you don't want them getting in.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 2, 2024 10:40 PM |
[quote]They probably were interested in eating the dead one, but couldn't get through the window screen.
Jeez. They eat it?? I realize how it happened now. No hole in screen. The window was open and when I went out one flew in the door and across the room where it tried to get out. I then shut the window, trapping the poor thing.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 2, 2024 10:59 PM |
You might check the eaves of your house or porch, R13. There might be a nest, accounting for the one who came in by the door, and the several congregated outside the screen.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 2, 2024 11:07 PM |
[quote] Do Bees Have Funerals?
No, but little children who are killed by bees do.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 2, 2024 11:12 PM |
Yeah thanks R14. A few years ago, bees built a hive inside a wooden retaining wall next to the stairs to my house. I got stung a few times and then hired someone to come and seal it up. Every year since then, around this time, I notice the round fuzzy bee (queen?) appears and seems to be looking for the old nest. She never bothers me. Then the yellow jackets come. They are more aggressive but don't sting.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 2, 2024 11:18 PM |
This post’s title is fabulous, and also should become a Hallmark TV-movie starring Melissa Gilbert and Bowen Yang!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 3, 2024 1:45 AM |
"Do Bees Have Funerals?"
I keep hearing it in one of those NPR voices.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 3, 2024 1:59 AM |
[quote] other bees hovering
Yellow jackets aren’t bees.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 3, 2024 2:40 AM |
Does anyone know if yellow jackets are actual bees?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 3, 2024 2:55 AM |
I'd like to see cute furry bees at an Irish wake. They'd be drinking fermented honey and getting wasted. Poor bees lamenting their dead, furry, comrades. Eventually the bitchy queen bee would tell them to get back to work. Poor bees.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 3, 2024 3:32 AM |
[quote] Does anyone know if yellow jackets are actual bees?
I don't know, but I can tell you that American buffalo are land dwellers.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 3, 2024 3:47 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 3, 2024 3:53 AM |
No, Rose, they hold memorial services.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 3, 2024 3:58 AM |
They'd be drinking Bee's Knees at the wake, R21.
RIP🐝
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 3, 2024 4:03 AM |
Are honey bees bees?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 3, 2024 4:51 AM |
Fatty Arbuckle is the bees knees.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 3, 2024 5:00 AM |
Yes and they sit shivah.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 3, 2024 5:06 AM |
Shit shivah.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 3, 2024 5:09 AM |
If it was bees they were shaming and cheering. If it was other yellow jackets they were commiserating.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 3, 2024 9:25 PM |