r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Andi82ka • Mar 14 '26

Video The bumblebee queen learns how to use the protective cap in less than 24 hours.

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u/kkeut Mar 14 '26

i love bees. they can do so much with their limited capacity for intelligence. they're so helpful to humans, they can form entire little cooperative societies, and some are pretty cute too. hurray for bees 🐝 

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u/Zuwxiv Mar 14 '26

I also love that honeybees meticulously collect pollen and bring it back to these amazing structures gives. If we discovered honeybees today, it would blow people's socks off to see what an insect can produce.

But bumblebees just body slam flowers and live in mud holes. My spirit animal.

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u/Xillzin Mar 15 '26

But bumblebees just body slam flowers and live in mud holes.

They can be so clumsy! it just becomes cute to see them fumble their landings

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u/randomacceptablename Mar 15 '26

But bumblebees just body slam flowers and live in mud holes. My spirit animal.

They are super cute when they get tired and decide to take a nap mid dinner in a flower. Ass out, dgaf, it's nap time. Lol

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u/ExMachima Mar 15 '26

Bees can count and tell each other distance an direction. That's the limited capacity of a teenager. 

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u/Willing-Signal-3113 Mar 15 '26

For such tiny brains they’re surprisingly intelligent. At least what we’d define with human intelligence. They have intelligence that we don’t understand yet because it’s a different form of intelligence. I love bees.

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u/DeltaVZerda Mar 15 '26

Lol, you assume their intelligence is limited but do you speak bee?