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HARREDIDYAPUTYOURNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIRA! dumbledore said calmly

@@sgrt12344 HAHAHA YOURE ICONIC FOR THAT

@@sgrt12344 you're pfp coupled with the comment makes you the most iconic person ever. i don't make the rules.

@@sgrt12344 LMAOOO

the antithesis to movie version Dumbledore's dialogue sksksksk

Hello there

@@prakhardevnani7844 HELP

I don't understand.

@@prakhardevnani7844 WHAT

It’s not a Jewish lawyer bee who talks lol… it’s the gender roles

Lol

well, at least it's just two days and not years like corvids

Its extraordinarily terrifying.

what are you scared of? theyre just lil creatures

I think it's amazing, imagine saving a bee and it remembers you

🤣maybe *some-company* missed a hair health bee bi-product opp?

honestly they look more like baguettes to me

@@owo4470 🤣

I mean, it's dyed, so...?

​@@feelin_fineThink they meant the style too. How it cascades down in those swirls. Really pretty.

@@GalaxyAeterna No the comment is saying that if she said she didn't use Bee Smoke to calm the bees and instead used her voice the commenter owuldn't be surprised

*BEElieve

Seriously

she does tho but it doesn't hurt the bees

Trueeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Good one 👍

Like Oogie Boogie, only nicer?

Miss Million Bees, newest member of the Vindicators.

and shes beautiful too!

@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302hahaha😂

Her hair is amazing.

Is this Rizz?

The levels of rizz are Egyptian.... I'm referencing a love song sung by the ancient musical master Peter Pringle

​@@datshortsguy4744 💀💀

You’re a ridiculous person 😂😂😂

It was probably just nearing the end of it's life cycle. Insects generally don't live very long.

Rip jumbles. Im glad it got to eat before its last moments

My condolences 😢

😭😭😭😭

RIP Jumbles. Pretty sure he also had the best hour ever 😿❤️

*Beyonce has left the chat

queen bae*

She’s like the Lorax, but instead of trees she speaks for the bees 😂

She is a bee’s ambassador in a human world )

@@vey5579 "I am Erica, I speak for the bees. I speak for the flowers, and I speak for the trees. I speak for the bees when I speak for the trees"

kim k lol

Came here for this.

Me too

leave em bee!

Yes! Also people don't realize wasps are also very important. They to pollinate and also get rid of excess bug's that kill crops. In fact without wasps we wouldn't have figs

I have borrow bee huts every and I plant an array of stuff for all the bees to enjoy we have a ton of bumblebees around here and they are actually really chill

Giant American Sloths are extinct and they were the only pollinators for Joshua Trees, that's why the Joshua Tree is endangered

Aww thank you for that!

@@candyh4284 really?

Omg yes, The Queen Bee 🐝

Her dress? A bee dress. Either a dress to resemble a bee or a dress made of living bees (obviously a black or yellow dress that is covered in living bees). I like the second idea.

Billy Stokes a dress made of bees would be pretty badass honestly

@@RT22444 Omg it would though!! She could hold her hand out and the bees would fly at people.

And she sings in jazz

"his endophallus is ripped out" but said very calmingly

Thanks someone said it

@@jojopotato6732 It awoken something within me

girlboss

She haven't mentioned that weak male bees are being kicked out of the hive to die or purposely killed by worker bees if they resist. But I guess that is fine not to be mentioned. Having your pee2 getting ripped out with your other internal organs is more gruesome.

🤭

There is no such thing as a stupid question. We don't know what we don't know. You do need to adjust your attitude. People with questions are simply engaged in the discussion: that's important to remember.

@@marilynrowland5197 True

It's a proven fact that people who think they are far competent and more intelligent than other people are in fact NOT....AT ALL.. It's called The Dunning-Kruger effect

None of these questions were stupid…

I'm not a bee keeper, but as a biologist, I hate what they did in that movie jfc

194 Yes :) 10/10/21

I'm 29 years old and have never been stung by a bee or wasp or hornet. It's because I'm respectful of them and they are for the most part also very respectful towards me because of that. My mom has wild bees in her garden and they often just land on us humans and chill for a bit. They were never aggressive as we also leave their small hive alone.

@@DieAlteistwiederda they're insects. They act on pure instinct. It has nothing to do with respecting you lol.

@@Jaymes400 yes thats true, which is why a bee wont sting unless it feels instinctually threatened

@Lyk Dat most people don’t have respect

Yeah, I found the question so funny

This entire video is narrated by a human in love with bees. I don't think that's the inaccuracy in the film.

Hey, if they both like jazz, who are we to judge?

Person probably fell in love with a bee

They probably thought it was the least inaccurate thing in the whole movie XD

well bees in general are important to ecosystems, but really only the native ones. Honey bees are not native to the Americas and increase disease spread and competition with native wild bees that are far more efficient at pollination than any of the like 5 honey bee species on earth. Honey bees have their place in their native ecosystems, just not in the Americas. Our agricultural system needs honey bees now only because our method of agriculture is what is the main driver for decreasing native bee populations. The situation of our wild native bees is dire and we are only making it worse by expanding monocrops and trucking honey bees around spreading disease to what's left of our wild native bees.

Manuka Honey is a lifesaver! We use it all the time in the medical field.

Yes I've heard the ancient Egyptians used honey for wound healing.

It is also flammable, i have seen people use it as a starter in camp

Nope not just you

I'm learning English too and I find the way she speaks clear.

it's bcuz of the mic quality

Nope, not just you. She has a lovely voice, and conducts herself well. Probably great to be around.

@@corniel657 YE, it's a good mic. But her accent its really inteligible. Her pronunciation it's really sharp, and she doesn't unstress her vocals using the schwa sound and for an foreign that helps a lot. And for a person like I who learn English just watching TV shows and movies with subtitles it's also helpfull to learn the correct pronunciation of the words

@@TheCaminoGuide DAYUUUM

@@TheCaminoGuide oof

He won but at what cost?

@@menjii4833 the bee didn't die a virgin

@@bernardmontemor 😅

She did say a responsible beekeeper *always* has a queen on them... 😂

@@poppy-spades I mean she does stumble across hives quite often, so maybe she does just have a queen in her pocket...

She had the spare queen in her pocket because it was planned out beforehand, just like everything else when making a video with professional production quality.

Because she's a beekeeper, so she keeps bees

Well, I am assuming this wasn't recorded live, so she likely read the questions beforehand and prepped for recording this, including gathering props and Queen Bee's on standby.

Reboot of the Bee Movie 🎥

Actually a pretty fire band name

I love that! I can see them being the main act of Coachella.

1.3k people proofread this comment and gave it a pass? Guess I'll like it too.

@@danm8004 3k now

Same

Can relate

😆😆

Yeah, I remember their names but forget their faces.

@@SpaceCadet4Jesus I’m the exact opposite in most cases…

I'm seeing the resemblance as well😁😂

SAME I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

OMG I was about to say the same thing hahaha

Totally

Ohh so that's where I thought I knew here lol!

The way her Body doesn't move and her head moves alot she looks animated and fake!

@@CameronSalazar2113 the hashtags were so unnecessary lmao

@28steps Perhaps Facelift / Botox? Her face looks unnaturally static with zero wrinkles.

maybe you should be more respectful

@28steps I feel like that was kinda stepping over the line into rudeness ngl

As someone whose native language isn’t english (as seen by the fact that i don’t know if “whose” is actually a word but “who’s” just looks wrong) - i love the way she speaks :)))) i feel like she’d have the most accurate autogenerated subtitles as well hahahaha

@@meg1762 I agree!

Right?! ♥️ Prior to finding this, the only person I knew who speaks (and sings) so crystal clear with her words is Lea Salonga.

@Breakfastbean English is not my first language either but I second this! "Whose" is possessive; "who's" is a contraction of "who is"

As a performer, I really respect her pacing of her words. To most people, speaking like this feels really slow, but when you listen to it, it's _so_ clear and well-paced.

Seems strange. Why would the bees accept a queen who isn't related to them? I thought the entire purpose of the hive was to spread their genes.

@@greywolf7577 To spread all of their genes. A bigoted bee is a failed lineage

LOL yeah as professional as possible. I think it might be more along the lines of bees recognizing people they see as benevolent like the keepers rather than being trainable to seek out and attack someone. At least I hope so.

The question was "How do you come by spare queens", and she answers with how the spare queen is introduced to the hive. Completely dodged the question.

@@Markell1991 ya, she is hiding something

@@Markell1991 exactly this ticked me off so much

@@prettypetite she’s probably just excited to talk about bee related topics lol. If you wanna know there’s probably info you can find on it online! :)

that movie is just a mess in general

Oh no ! 😭

@Er-Teeus true but it paints beekeepers as evil when then actually help bees to survive

I found the way you worded this so funny😂😂

@@simonwarren8856 it’s a stupid comedic movie. Big deal

@Not RickRoll 👇 not a rickroll source: trust me bro (bro 1 hour really?)

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She's great....

Yes, a pleasure

Obviously, she birthed them, being a queen themselves.

@Optimistic • Freak but how are there spares

maybe it’s unethical and she doesn’t want to admit that publicly :( I don’t know. I don’t like that she didn’t give an answer

@@GalChanx3 a colony doesn't "birth" just one queen bee. There are multiple ones, and the strongest one is accepted and the others are killed by the worker bees, along with their supporters. Basically a Game of Hive Thrones, happens. TLDR: the hives always have spares, it's just that they only need one, so they kill the others.

@@amaramoramei9959 yes I agree since there are multiple queen bees in a colony, it's just that one is picked and the rest will be killed unless a person who distributes queen bees picks the spare ones and sends them off.

I agree. I think the bees would agree 🐝🐝😊

"I passionately keep bees, with a heart" 👸🏻

Very eloquent I like it

Yeah, as someone with an entomology degree I was highly disappointed is most of these answers.

@@amjohnson86 Somebody said she's a fraud, so

@@amjohnson86 Rwally? to me she seems pretty well in informed and she does a lot more on her tiktok

When I was living in a place with a balcony overlooking a big meadow, I would have bees land on me when I had my morning coffee. I would let it chill on my hand and give it a few dabs of coffee. They'd often drink the stuff, hang out for a couple of more minutes, clean up and fly to continue with whatever they were doing. And the pictures are adorable, because they would often stay so still the camera could make a super-sharp photo of them. So, yea, they're actually super chill, I love these little creatures! 🐝 ps. I once found a bee that looked dead on the floor. I picked it up and fed it honeyed water. I would keep it in my palm and just give it small dabs periodically for like half an hour and then the little bee recovered and flew directly out of the window and went on with its life. And I never ever got stung by them, except that one time I accidentally stepped on one. :(

@@NixHarpinger I got stung by a bee when I was a kid. I never got scared of them - my foot hurt, but I was crying because I had manage to crush a bee that was just going their job :( I love looking at bees and bumblebees working: they're peaceful and busy - absolutely love them!

Hah, then there's the totally random exoeriences like what happened to my 4yr old brother. He's in front of the family walkign down sidewalk. Honeybee comes by my ma, we watch (she's allergic). Comes by me, we watch. Flies up to my brother, lands on his ear, he doesnt even react, aaaand it stings him. Whole family saw it. Completely baffling. No idea why it did that.

@@nikkisigmon8090 I,'ve experienced thst too - don't quite remember why that was, but think it had something to do with bees being genetically similar in a hive, and inheriting some kind of agression gene. A family member was a bee keeper, and had a really agressive hive ond year. Usually, we could walk quite close to thf hives and none if the bees cared. However, THESE bees flew atound the house (about 150 feet), where there barely was any flowers and chased humans...! After a couple of months of this, they had to be gassed, as they didn't let people to be outside the house

Love this stuff!! Look forward to the next one

She almost slipped and revealed her masterplan of taking over the world with an army of bees.

I mean if they can only remember faces for 2 days you can't do much to train them reliably lmao

Well the answer would be no because she said that bees only remember faces for up to 2 days

I know, right?! I was WAITING for that answer, dammit...

@@abbyrose1314 well that just means you have to make sure your plan is 2-day doable and foolproof 🤣🤣🤣

Actually my first impression of Erika was bee fairy 🙂

she a Queen Bee

She's very photogenic as well, which I'm sure has helped her media career. I kind of worry about the bees getting in her hair, though. She must have to spend some time after every bee encounter just picking bees out of her hair.

She kinda is a living Disney princess not these new 2020's type though.🤣😂

Quiet 🤫 bee 🐝. 😶

Bumblebees are solitary actually. So that's why you've never seen their nest

@@ghillies4life oooh makes sense! Thanks!

I bet her hair dye color is named Honey Blonde lol

She uses wax

please don’t let your hair out while beekeeping.

Seriously. That is god-tier hair. How does she even style it?

Shut up you're not a beekeeper

It's simple just don't freak out.

I’m ridiculously scared of all bugs but know that honeybees most likely will leave you alone if you leave them alone. It’s when it’s a hornet or something

@@Jeremy-ff3jm it's the same thing, swinging or swatting at them just makes them go after you.

Nah, they’re terrifying

Bees are the only insects I have love for. They’re so hardworking and the only reason why they sacrifice themselves by stinging is to protect their hive (unlike the spawns of satan that are wasps, those just do it for fun). Btw, irene looks lovely in your pfp 😁

She def does. 💀

That's tinnitus

That's Bee-TSD

@@WolfpackOne Ayyyyy nice one

Another great day of saving the BEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS

the opposite of Nick Cage. YES THE BEEES!!

I heard the way she said "the bees" as "number fifteen" ...

Omg YES!!

And its another great day, of saving the beeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Not only that ,but not all the scout bees go to the same location so there are a few to several locations to vote on. And they do vote. After the bees swarm they collect in a mass and land somewhere. And the scout bees do a waggle dance on the face of the swarm. This communicates the distance and direction of their preferred spot. Over time more and more of the bees get persuaded toward one particular choice and off they go.

@@cathymontgomery7295 thank you for explaining it! I have so much more respect for bees and the important role they play on earth. ☺️

Lol

*Beealtors

@@hardmoneyhill 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂😂😂😂

THIS.

It’s basically rent

Yeah, the idea that beekeepers will let a hive starve is pretty silly.

@@thomasbecker9676 have you ever read that thing where a clueless vegan claimed honey was ground up bees?

@@agustinvenegas5238 No, but I can bee-lieve it.

@@agustinvenegas5238 what vegan was this? Do you have a name?

I got stung 5 times the other day and had lots of swelling, than had lots of Hornets try landing on the old stings.

@@nathanielbarrassi4404 That sounds.. most disturbing. My condolences

@@ecvjtv2778 I never seen them so angry like 2021... it must be all the smoke and cellular phone waves

He gonna turn out to be a supervillain someday 😅

Nathaniel Barrassi Maybe the species, there are a lot more invasive species than before so that may explain it

And she still didn't tell us where she got that queen!

@@iwasalllikeomg agree. I was waiting for the answers but she was talking about something else.

The poor bee sitting in her pocket all day till someone needs her 😭

I was like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait

I love in her vids when she just whips a queen out.

She must've already been protected when it was imperative. There are many "pure humans" who weren't, and they go through life like a wasp.

@SEJ_429 Can I ask what you mean?

@@cattiemaxie7160 seriously? It's SO painfully obvious what they meant, if you can't tell with one single glance you're clearly one of the sheltered ones the guy above mentioned.

@@Ice.muffin Thanks for the condescension but I was interested in the second part of their comment, namely the pure humans who go through life like wasps.

​@@cattiemaxie7160White Anglo Saxon Protestant, the most protected species this world has ever seen.

I’m laughing at this so much I’m allergic to bees too🤣

I'm not allergic to anything, but I still don't touch bees. If they land on or around me I just calmly wait for them to leave. Wasps and hornets on the other hand...

@@DanSlotea Ikr. Bees are nice, they produce honey and looks kinda cute. Wasps don't, and they look *horrifying*

@@hey9974 some wasps are parasites

That’s the best mindset for all wild animals and bugs! All animals have a purpose and are good for the environment, but most (if not all!) should not be touched or interacted with. Teaching your kids that most animals aren’t like your pet dog or cat and actually get scared when humans try to hold them or pet them is really important. Lots of wild animals each year get killed or seriously injured due to children trying to “play” with them.

Lol like the murder hornets 😬

@@heysilly1341 yes but hornets are not the same as bees. Hornets are assholes.

@@verbalkint4258 , right because hornets are predators. Honey bees are vegetarians. So...

I remember in another video she made she kind of explains this a little bit. She only goes without protection if the bees allow her and arent aggressive which she has also encountered! She only shows us her favorite cases of course which just so happen to be the ones where she doesn't need protection! :D

Yes, it certainly depends on the hive. However, even aggressive bees won't sting you just because you exist. Like all bees, they'll only sting you if you give them a reason to. Unfortunately, standing too close to an aggressive hive may very well be a good reason for them to get defensive.

LMAO NOOOO

Looool Oh Youu!!

I'M WHEEZING HOW COULD YOU

Casual Geographic?

dude...

change of management lol

She didn't invent it xd you can just buy Queens and they come in there

It's also good if the bees don't like the queen that way it keeps them protected too a bit you can remove the queen cage and try an different queen

When I was 16, I worked at a honey processing plant. I set up my own behive, by buying a queen, placing her queen cage in a 2pound bee box, and setting that box with the top open near a mound of swarming bees. It was fascinating to watch over about 4 hours, how first 1 bee would land on the queen cage, then another, then 2 more, then faster and faster as those first bees dispersed her pheromones, until the entire box was filled with bees, and the swarm was gone. Capped it up, and placed it in my hive.

@@unlimon6382 She didn't say she invented it, just that the invention is neat.

Honeybees are not native to America and many other countries in Europe where they are used. Sure, they pollinate crops fairly well but native bee species are much better at pollinating native plants. Honeybees are NOT good for the environment as honeybees and endangered native bees both feed on nectar and therefore compete with each other. Native bees in my country are already endangered so we can't keep promoting honeybees as if they were good for the environment. Instead, build a bee hotel and plant some native flowers in your garden, that will do much more for the environment. Just so you know. Have a good day😊

@@wha82 That is correct Honeybees are important but are invasive and our native pollinators are the ones that need to be saved too! So all these people spreading honeybees everywhere are overtaking the small wild pollinator and spreading disease . Keep the honeybees in managed areas not in every back yard. I remove thousands of wild feral honeybees and invite people under estimate bees and the danger of trying to remove them. We just had a fatality of a tree light installer in Texas. So dont try to scoop up the bees. Let the professionals do it

Nope no verbal fillers with that princess.

@@wha82 Do you have a source that honeybee compete with native bees in the Americas? As I understood it, most native bees don't target the same species as honeybees (I was told most of them target just one species or genera of flower while honeybees are generalists that don't bother with many of those flowers). The primary risks to native bees are habitat destruction and pesticides I don't remember anything about disease impact, but I imagine it varies depending on the species.

@@pendlera2959 Here's one recent (2022) : "Mounting evidence that managed and introduced bees have negative impacts on wild bees: an updated review" (if i give the link my message may be taken down so i just give the title, normally it's free access). Then i'm gonna be writing with an european perspective, but i think this'll apply to the US too. "Most of them target just one species or genera of flower" Well depends on how you count. Considering species number that is probably true, lots of bee species are specialist of a genera. But considering abundance of individuals, probably not because generalists wild bees tend to be more abundant overall because they can find food in most places. Now of courses there's some other bees that may be generalists considering flower selection, but not considering habitat selection... Anyways given honey bees target a wide variety of flower they will indeed compete with other bees, generalists or not. Now it's just about how much does that affect wild bees : look up at research. Of course, given science need a great amount of data and papers to really be able to draw strong conclusions, it's still debatable whether or not honey bees do indeed cause lots of damages. But i don't think it's still reasonnable to believe that. But you're right when saying that habitat destruction and pesticides are the primary risks for wild bees. Hence why we shouldn't put many hives in places where a great diversity of wild bees still survive...

Hey you forgot running away aswell

What do u mean? Most bee workers love their bees and it would be strange if somebody screamed at those working to produce honey. I would assume almost all those with bee hives try to have more profit with unstressed bees.

@@kumarshanita93 no i just mean people in general get scared of them

@@cardboardbox284 oh lol I just assumed beekeepers as she's one. Yah bees are so sweet it's strange how people can be scared of them. But I guess it's the same with spiders.

@@kumarshanita93 bees are rediculously cute and i love them but I am terrified of them idek why.

Bee socialism

Anarcho-Beeism

A Beemocracy, I'm sorry I couldn't myself. I'll be going now take care!

It works for a colony of ~30,000 bees. Not for 330,000,000+ humans.

@@leilagotspaz socialism is a economic policy idiot

Honey bees are not native to North America they were brought by European settlers so we have no (true wild bee) or feral honey bee populations in North America

@@patrickbone4592 there are plenty. Its just that no beekeper has them. Just in the US there are 25 species of wild bumblebees. Also how ethnocentric can you get? North America is like one part of the world. The entire world is facing problems with bees. Take China for example. They are the country with the most man made beehives. So many that omits wrecking the enviroment. Because there is such a thing as too many bees. And that is no even counting counterfit honey. Something that actually exists.

@@LuckyBird551 I do have to apologize I miss read your comment honey bees are very different than bumble bees the main difference being they don’t produce honey there are lots of native bees in the us but honey bees are not

Suuuuper important comment. Domestic bees are not endangered - and wild pollinators are crucial, vital to the entire ecosystem. And yes, to humans, of course. Gotta do so much more to preserve them and help them thrive

She totally dodged the question about wild bees as well

🤣

Tell us more man you can't leave us hanging like that

Yeah tell us more

Sounds like an anecdote you'd hear in a Wes Anderson movie, haha!

So... who won the war?

its also ironic, she clearly works with western honey bees which are an invasive species in America, they compete with other bee species which kill them off