Not seen many bees with a butt that red.
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Little green sneks is my favoritest snecks! 
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That reminded me of this:
(gift link for the New York Times)
…started coming home to their hives looking suspicious. Of course, it was the foragers the adventurers, the wild waggle dancers, the social networkers incessantly buzzing about their business who were showing up with mysterious stripes of color. Where there should have been a touch of gentle amber showing through the membrane of their honey stomachs was instead a garish bright red. The honeycombs, too, were an alarming shade of Robitussin.
I first heard of it from a much longer and fascinating piece in The New Yorker in 2018, but they don’t seem to offer gift links, and it’s blocked on archive AFAICT… here’s the New Yorker link for anyone who can access it…
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I feel like there should be a parody of that (racist) lovecraft story the Horror of Red Hook with some red-butted bees… feels like Zim should be involved…
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Bees Hornets.
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Not true, gardeners love them…
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These bees don’t even have stings…
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They don’t look much like the bees from outside the tropics, do they? But as said they’re stingless bees, one of three main eusocial types along with honeybees and bumblebees, not wasps. They’re also much smaller and in my experience can be difficult to photograph – ObakeBakaNeko did a good job.
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oh! a fantasic shot, indeed!
and i very much appreciate learning about them today.
thanks, @ObakeBakaNeko for the pic and the nature lesson!
i wonder, are they pollenators?
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