Do Bees Have Funerals?

They attended Gloria Swanson's funeral in "Killer Bees" but weren't entirely respectful of other mourners.

Can I have your stuff, OP?

Yellow Jackets aren't bees, OP.

Was it bees hovering outside, or other wasps?

So, was it yellow jackets or bees?

Why didn’t you video it and make a bee movie?

[quote]Do Bees Have Funerals?

Yes.

Bumblebee!

[quote]So, was it yellow jackets or bees?

Yellow Jacket.

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.

Yes.

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.

Crows do.

[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.

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.

[quote] Do Bees Have Funerals?

No, but little children who are killed by bees do.

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.

This post’s title is fabulous, and also should become a Hallmark TV-movie starring Melissa Gilbert and Bowen Yang!

"Do Bees Have Funerals?"

I keep hearing it in one of those NPR voices.

[quote] other bees hovering

Yellow jackets aren’t bees.

Does anyone know if yellow jackets are actual bees?

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.

[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.

No, Rose, they hold memorial services.

They'd be drinking Bee's Knees at the wake, R21.

RIP🐝

Are honey bees bees?

Former DL fave Drew Bees?

Fatty Arbuckle is the bees knees.

Yes and they sit shivah.

Shit shivah.

If it was bees they were shaming and cheering. If it was other yellow jackets they were commiserating.