#Bee butt

[miyrumiyru]

Fluffy bumble bee with butterfly bush

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[flibbleynova]

Buzzy Bee Butt 🐝

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[holeodemony]

This is a photo I got a long time ago, but I feel that people need to see it. @onenicebugperday

[galway-girlatwork]

Jett, oh Jett...I found a bee butt on top of a Scottish thistle for Ezra. Wishing you both an amazing holiday. @morallyinept

[maximum-gothic]

[ill-logic-al]

Every other animal communicates better than us...

birds,

bees,

ants,

mycelium...

A bird will sing a song and every other bird of its kind knows exactly what it's saying. Hide your kids, hide your wife, the hawk is here! There's a threat! Or...I'm a bid dick blue jay here to fertilize your eggs, I'll fuck you, I'll fuck your mom, I'll fuck your sister - I'm the fella you want ladies come and look at my lil dance, my lovely feathers, my lil nest I built for you.

Bees dance the GPS coordinates out to their sisters so they can find the nectar in the woods. They do the fucking hokey pokey and turn themselves around and the other bees all know what their sister is saying immediately - there's a juicy ass field of flowers down in the meadow sis, take two lefts and a three rights and bam you'll be right there. All by wiggling their lil fuzzy butts.

Ants mark and map the world around them with pheromones. All the other ants can smell their way to the tasty treat someone dropped on the sidewalk once the other ants find and mark the path there. They can smell an intruder ant before it invades their nest. They can even smell when one of their own (or several) have been murdered and smooshed - and they find them and bring back their dead to their lil ant graveyards. All ants are Beyonce fans - they are all always in formation.

Mycellium have gone beyond just communication with themselves to fucking talking to trees. Mushrooms have a fucking bartering system with trees and other plants. They have their own fucking wallstreet, their own banking and trade systems and routes. They can figure out what sugars and nutrients a tree needs and trade with them for other items.

Nature has PERFECTED the art of communication in all forms over millions and millions and millions of years.

We, however, just fucking got here. We are the rampaging toddlers of the natural world. And we need to get over ourselves with a quickness.

We are, without a solitary doubt, the WORST communicators nature has ever created. We have this sense that because we have "complex" human language, that because our language is spoken and written on the dead trees the mushrooms were once talking to - that we are somehow superior to our brothers and sisters in the natural world. That because of our "oversized prefrontal cortex" we have capabilities that surpass all other living creatures around us.

But we can't even agree that all people are people. We can't agree on anything. We can't even tell the people we love how we really feel, when we're in love, when we're scared, when we're hurting, when we're lost, when we miss them, when they hurt us. 

The tower of babel might as well have actually happened and yesterday for how "great" at communication we seem to be. We talk past each other, wrapped up in our own lil ape brains, we close off, we avoid, we talk past one another, we talk our way around the issues that need to be addressed. And even when we finally DO say what needs to be said, it often comes out all wrong anyway or the other party is unable or unwilling to absorb it. We can't talk right and we can't listen either.

We've been "communicating" as modern humans with "modern language" for such a short period of time when compared to the birds, the ants, the bees, fucking mushrooms.

We literally just got here compared to the millions of years head start other creatures have on us. 

We think we're at the top - apex predators, homo sapiens sapiens - the wisest of the apes and the most intelligent of all animals. But we still shit where we eat. We still don't get along. We still don't understand. We might as well be deaf, blind, mute - we're already dumb, prefrontal cortex be damned.

I'm not saying we have to revert back to living in caves. We can still have our wonderful modern world, but there's a balance we need to strike and strike soon. We need to get rid of our avarice, our hubris, and our talking past one another...or nature will do what she has always done for millions and millions of years.

Nature always always self-corrects. You abide by her rules, or she recycles you. The end.

And we will either figure our shit out, or get recycled - into something the mycellium can trade with the trees for sugars. Poetic justice for turning their friends into books we don't even read.

So maybe we should learn a new language - one all of our brothers and sisters in nature seem to have gotten down pat..balance, give and not just take...before it's too late.

[lynnswirld]

its a bee butt

[eco-friendly-ghost]

Look at all the pollen! Good job bb ✨

[mori-girl-life]

🐝

(photo by me)

[miyrumiyru]

Cute orange bee on a marigold flower

(F) Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

[geiss1136]

Well timed

[orofeaiel]

Bee butt ❤️

[shayna365x]

Friday, 9/27/24. This morning, my husband taught me how to pollinate our pumpkin flowers and then we enjoyed watching this guy for a few minutes.

[pooksbedamned]

[inthecityofgoodabode]

November 2024: This Week's Images

Perhaps the most abstract bee butt photo I've ever taken:

Garden production has slacked off but we're still getting a handful of tomatoes like this almost every day:

One of our next door neighbor's took down the two large oaks in their backyard. The upside is our garden will get more early morning sun. The downside is less habitat for backyard wildlife:

Look what I found today:

Cute little bugger: