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Thinking about it from the bee's perspective, this is like raiding the lair of an eldritch horror for gold. A beekeeper is just a funny looking bear-thing that takes honey sometimes, but the shop of a beekeeper is full of devices beyond a bee's comprehension, more honey than a bee would ever see in its lifetime just all sitting around, its own sun which can turn on and off. To find yourself in such a place by accident must be a crazy experience, convincing your brethren to attack it by shaking your butt is on another level.

To the bee-mobile!

CBE 2025-833

This reads like a future kids animated film. Look forward to it.

From a bee's point of view humans are the robbers.

Can confirm. When you’re removing honey frames or hive parts that have had honey spilled on them you have to be on the lookout for scouts. One or two can quickly escalate into dozens. And they have no qualms about coming indoors.

In a bakery like 3 block away from my home, most days there are like 20 bees trying to steal the sweet cover over the pastries. But the front wall of the business is almost completely made of glass, so they can't escape.

New word for me today: "apiarist"/"apiary". Never knew bee keepers had a more formal name, though it makes sense.

Dad joke: It would be more apt if instead of a-piary, it was "b-piary".

Please tell me there's a video of this somewhere

Is it just me or would anyone else buy a video game based on this premise?

It sorta reminds me of "Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees."