Pop's Bees

08/23/2025

Might come in handy for old beekeepers

🤖 Japan Is Giving Superpowers to Seniors! 🇯🇵

With one of the world’s oldest populations, Japan is turning to robotic exoskeletons to help elderly workers safely lift heavy loads, reduce injury risk, and stay active on the job longer. 💼💪

These high-tech suits detect body movement and add motorized support — making warehouse and construction jobs easier, safer, and more inclusive.

From Panasonic to Cyberdyne, Japanese tech is proving that age is just a number when innovation has your back! 🔧🦿

Work smarter, lift stronger, live longer.

08/23/2025

08/16/2025

07/08/2025

Honeybee venom found to kill aggressive breast cancer cells. Research indicates that melittin, a compound found in honey bee venom, has potential anticancer effects by selectively targeting and destroying cancer cells while sparing healthy cells. It works by disrupting cell membranes and interfering with cancer cell growth pathways. Further studies are needed to determine its safety and efficacy as a potential cancer treatment.

07/04/2025

They love honey bees

Its eyes are a thousand mirrors—each one watching, each one waiting.

This is the robber fly, nature’s silent assassin. Equipped with razor-sharp reflexes and a hypodermic proboscis, it doesn’t just hunt… it ambushes. One moment you're safe in the sun, the next—you're paralyzed mid-air.

Its bristled beard? Not fashion. It's armor—protection from struggling prey.
Its vision? Near-360 degrees of motion tracking.
Its strike? Lightning fast and laced with venomous enzymes that liquefy flesh from the inside out.

A predator with no web, no nest, no mercy.
Just wings, vision, and a needle for a mouth.

06/29/2025

I breathe through my skin. When it rains, my tunnels flood, cutting off my air.

Every year, I process tons of soil per hectare—free of charge. The vermicompost I produce is so rich it can be worth over $500 per ton.

I can live up to five years. But on concrete and pavement, most of us die within minutes—our skin dries, and we suffocate.

One earthworm like me reshapes the soil in ways that microbes alone cannot. My castings contain up to seven times more nutrients than the surrounding earth, helping plants thrive.

Here’s the truth: I’m not trying to escape.

I’m suffocating. Gasping for air.

06/26/2025

Please plant more flowers to help me....🥲🐝

06/26/2025

Leave the logs, Leave the plant stems,
Leave the leaves, and most importantly Leave the harmful chemicals on the store shelves.

06/26/2025

He was never meant to fly. He was meant to feed.

What you're looking at isn’t a disease, and it’s not some fungus—it’s a biological horror show, playing out in real time.

This is a Tomato Hornworm. And those white cocoons on its back?

They’re the larvae of a parasitic braconid wasp.

The wasp injects her eggs inside the caterpillar’s body. The larvae hatch and eat him alive from the inside out, avoiding vital organs to keep their host alive… just long enough.

When they’re ready, they chew through his skin, crawl out, and spin silk cocoons—on his back—where they’ll eventually emerge as adult wasps.

The hornworm stays alive, paralyzed in slow death, helpless.

This is evolution's darkest contract: one life ending to ensure many more begin.

🔬 This is also a natural pest control. Farmers love these wasps because they destroy caterpillars that would otherwise wreck crops.

A predator doesn’t always need claws. Sometimes, she just needs patience.

06/14/2025

Did some UBeeO testing today to find my next suitable queen for queen rearing.
In UBeeO testing a small section of the brood is sprayed with unhealthy brood odor to mimic brood with mites. The hive that uncaps more than 60 precent of the brood (to remove the mites) in 2 hours is considered a high score.
This hive scored 92%, is gentle, and is on target to make 80- 100 lbs of honey.
I think I found a winner, looking forward to producing some daughter queens from this queen.

06/05/2025

Awesome little critters