Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Yellow stripey sans stinger

Couple of weeks ago, while watering plants on our apartment roof I happened to notice fly like insects buzzing around. I hadn't seen the insects clearly, assumed they were some kind of flies. There wasn't any decaying matter on our roof. So, why these insects?

A few days later when I moved one of the buckets, I happened to notice a colony of insects. Oh those buzzing insects weren't flies. These are bees, the smaller type without sting. I left them alone, didn't even take a photo. A week later I noticed the exposed honeycomb with just a fraction of the colony. I guess the bees migrated to another location to build a new honeycomb. Here's a short video of the stingless bee.

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