Some more bees by suesa

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Some more bees
<center>![Picture](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2019/05/11/16/53/anemone-4196064_960_720.jpg)</center>*<sub>By Pezibear on pixabay.com</sub>*

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I've left the lab I've been working in as an assistant about a month ago now, and today I noticed that there are still bee pictures and gifs I haven't shown you yet. 

They're not tied to experiments I personally did, I just took some snapshots here and there when someone else was working. Still, I think the images can still be interesting even without knowing the exact experimental context.<sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub><sub>@suesa</sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub></sub>

The first image I want to show you are these restrained bees.

<center>![IMG_20190307_092455min.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa/gWRLTQyK-IMG_20190307_092455-min.jpg)</center>

Sometimes, it is necessary to mark bees (with a green dot in this case), to differentiate between different groups. Naturally, it's not that easy to paint a moving bee, which is why they're first cooled down (on ice), and then put in these restrainers.

The tricky part is then to get them *out* again without being stung. Something that requires quick fingers and occasionally a bit of luck.

<center>![IMG_20190221_094643min.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa/dn9xeIFU-IMG_20190221_094643-min.jpg)</center>
<center>![IMG_20190307_095311min.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa/9V4E14t3-IMG_20190307_095311-min.jpg)</center>

While the bees don't generally seem _too_ thrilled about being restrained, they don't take damage if you do it correctly.

You just have to be careful about freezing them, because if they're left on ice for too long, they might suffer brain damage just like humans do.

But if you're fast enough (and put them on a warm plate), they recover in just a few minutes and continue to run around as if nothing happened.


<center>![](https://media.giphy.com/media/VGF40MedDoPlfpyWrV/giphy.gif)</center>

You likely already knew that bees are super social animals, at least the ones that live in hives. Yes, there are bees that _don't_ form colonies or live in hives! Our honey bee is only one of many different species of bee, and actually not native everywhere.

Those are usually also the bees that are dying en masse, and which we need to be worried about. But I digress. 

As social animals, bees not only work together, they take care of each other. A hungry bee that's returning to the hive can be observed to walk up to other bees and actively *beg* them to be fed.

If the other bee has enough food herself, she will proceed to feed the hungry bee.

Below, you can see four bees feeding each other. Aren't they adorable?

<center>![](https://media.giphy.com/media/Svv9fqlkMpsg261uke/giphy.gif)</center>

It is also possible to feed the bees yourself!

In case you ever wondered how scientists test toxins and other substances on bees (aside from spraying them with the chemicals in question), here is your answer.

Once the bees are restrained, you can fill a syringe with whatever solution you want (but it should contain sugar, so the bee drinks it willingly).

You then proceed to press a small droplet out of the tip and hold it against the antennae of the bee. 

A hungry bee will then proceed to stick out its "tongue" to drink the liquid, until either the droplet is gone completely or the bee is no longer hungry.

<center>![](https://media.giphy.com/media/IhbJ8WIJ49uh3j26Bn/giphy.gif)</center>



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<sub>As with my other bee posts, all pictures and GIFs are mine unless specified otherwise.</sub>

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@brittandjosie ·
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I know its needed but the bees in the cellotape strayjacket is kinds saddd, here the reduce of bees is going to be a problem ! So i suger an insecthouse in the garden. And we have special flowers to attract them i love the hidden world of insects in our garden. I Made a bumble bee set of photos this morning so especially for you :

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@suesa ·
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What an absolute beauty!

Yes, insect houses (or "Bee Hotels") are great, and so is planting the right flowers. Now that I have a garden, I will make it a pollinator paradise too, over the years.
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@apsu ·
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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

Regarding the sociality of bees, I've learned we have mostly less social bees in the nature in Finland. Pretty much different kinds of hermit bees which do not form colonies.

I'm planning to build an "insect hotel" for different kinds of insects and a large section of it will be reserved for bees.
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@suesa ·
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Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Finland has many solitary bees.
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@juanmanuellopez1 ·
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<div class="text-justify">

I really liked the photo of the bees feeding, I never thought that those things would be possible to observe. Bees are animals with many mysteries that have yet to be discovered.

Good thing you can share these photos with us. Thank you very much for sharing them.

**_Regards!_**

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@lemouth ·
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Glad to read from you again. It has been a while.  Have you also "played" with bees during your work? Or are you still more on the mousy side?


If I may, do you think you could use this syntax

```![](link)```

for the images, so that they could also be visible on steemstem.io (see <a href='https://www.steemstem.io/#!/@suesa/some-more-bees'>here</a>). Dropping the URL is actually not a proper syntax for markdown (although it works on the steemit UI), which is why the images are not shown on the SteemSTEM UI. Thanks in advance for your consideration (knowing that this requires almost no effort from you ;) )!
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@suesa · 
The bees were my colleague's animals, I only had a neuronal cell line at my disposal, which is by far not as entertaining!

I usually always use that syntax for pictures because I know most interfaces struggle with it, apparently just forgot it for the gifs. Steempeak showed them anyway so I didn't notice the lack of formatting. Edited that.
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@lemouth ·
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Neuronal cell may indeed be not so interactive :D

Thanks for the edit! Now your post looks lovely on the steemstem app as well.
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