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Knives for Hands, Gay Bombs, Bee-on-Bee Crime

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Returning Robbers Are Bringing Out the Dead Bees

Because the nectar conditions are so bad, which led the colony to start robbing in the first place, they're actually increasing their defensiveness. So it's like these bee gang wars essentially going on. Another cool fun fact about another class of bees and their bee behavior is there are bee undertakers. They carry this dead bee in their, you know, little, little arm things legs. And then they bring it out to the outside of the door of the hive and they just throw it away.

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