Swarm Thoughts: The Great Honey Heist of Today
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It started with smoke. Not the metaphorical kind, actual smoke. One minute we’re vibing in our cozy wax condos, the next we’re getting hotboxed like it's Beechella 2025.
Our human (you know, the giant, with the box obsession and that overly polite “oops, sorry girls” voice) strolled into the shed like they owned the place. Oh wait... they do. Still rude.
🐝 The Five-Hive Situation:
Hive 1: Mildly annoyed, but cooperative.
Hive 2: Suspicious, but withheld judgment.
Hive 3: Didn’t even try, barely stocked—bless their lazy little thoraxes.
Hive 4: Had just rearranged everything—total chaos.
Hive 5: The overachievers. LOADED with honey and pride. Naturally, we got looted the hardest. Typical.
One by one, our golden treasure was smoked, brushed, and kidnapped. You ever been brushed by a bee brush? It’s like being aggressively swept off stage at a high school talent show, humiliating and oddly tingly.
Our hard-earned nectar was yoinked frame by frame and plopped into a medium box. (Not even a thank-you.)
🍯 Then Came the Extraction Horror Show:
Like a scene from a medieval torture chamber, he took our frames, uncapped them (rude), and spun them like it was Bee Rave 2.0. Honey flew everywhere. We heard screams. We felt screams.
It all landed into this shiny metal cauldron, where he drained our life’s work through a mesh screen like he was sieving gold (spoiler: he was).
The honey dripped, drip… drip… drip… into a five-gallon pail like it was the world's slowest horror film.
And then what? Bottling. Commodification. CAPITALISM.
🐝 Straggler Drama:
Shout-out to the 71 bees who followed him like confused groupies to the processing room. Loyal. Unhinged. Inspiring.
He took the frames back (gee, thanks 🙄), only two were left out and OH. MY. WAGGLE. We swarmed them like there was a “Buy One Get Nectar Free” sale. Wings flapping, stingers twitching, some of us may have cried. Zero regrets.
💬 Final Buzz:
We’ll rebuild. We’ll re-seal. We’ll get sticky again.
But just know this, Human:
Next time you bring the brush, we’re bringing attitude.
And possibly a small, well-organized protest.
Buzzfully Yours,
🖋️ Hive 5, Official Bee Union Spokesbee
