This is basically the first time I've heard of mining bees and it's such a funny picture in my head of a bee in a miner's uniform and hat with a tiny pickaxe.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

You load sixteen grams, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Beeter, don't you call me, cause I can't go
I owe my soul to to the companbee store

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

european honeybees get all the love and attention as pollinators in America (where they're invasive) and it's kind of infuriating. ecological imperialism go brrrr I guess.

there's a beautiful diversity of bees in the americas and they don't deserve to be overlooked in this way! bees aren't even the only pollinators! There are butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, bats, flies, beetles! probably something I forgot too! yells-at-cloud