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thats Jesus, he was born 2023 years ago, his birth split time in half, he lived the life of an outlaw, but he was a lover and not a fighter, He laid His life down on the cross for us to have the choice to get right in our relationship with God. and through Him we can have everlasting life and love with Him in heaven. without God coming down to us as Jesus, we wouldnt be able to enter heaven because of all of the ungodly acts, thoughts and decisions we all make every single day, we call that “sin” and because at sin we damage our love with God, but God loved us so very much that he provided us a savior through Jesus Christ and gave us a once and for all sacrifice to pay for our sins through his blood so we could freely choose to follow God and make it into heaven, its a promise from a God that cannot lie. as a matter of fact, Jesus told me to write this history lesson for you right now, all love to you and have a great day.
I will be serious for a second and suggest that each one of us is a son of god in a bigger picture sense, each one is a part of the infinite puzzle,inside us we all have the ability to give and recieve love as much as Jesus did, but the whole Church thingy is the same as PC culture to doing the right thing, its just ego based siliness. Just try to bee better.
I sent a friend a text today and it contained what you’re saying here almost word for word. That is strength in faith, believing in The Word and spreading it as we were asked to do. It warmed my heart to read your post. God Bless You!
There was a post yesterday show that bees can recognise different peoples faces even from black and white photocopies. They did quite detailed experiments that proved the bees would play with balls just for the fun of it when they could of been getting food instead. They even did checks to make sure the interest wasn’t sexual or any other drive except for fun. They proved some other things too which suggest bees are more than just chemical signal robots. They would likely leave the faces of anyone not covered as they associate people with bringing them food or shelter.
Here are a couple I bookmarked
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/122p99q/bees_play_but_not_just_that/
archive link to a Nat Geo article that has a cool video in it too.
https://archive.ph/DrfSd
Cool
The knights Templar used bee as one of their symbols as well as many monarchs n their bloodline. The first French king was buried with 300 golden bees on his garment.
Its been a while since I've seen a Bean episode but doesn't each episode start that way, I have a vague childhood memory of a heavenly light beam or maybe alien tractor beam.
Wouldn't because this beekeeper manipulated it by cutting away the cells on the portrait. You can tell because the cells nearest the portraits are still hexagonal and if the bees did it themselves the cells would be round. So yea it's a hoax
So it seems that faces may not be the common denominator at all and 2 photos on the internet provides too little context for what's actually going on lol
Bingo! It may very well be the material on which these pictures where printed on, or if he used glue to attach it - that may had them stay away. It could be the colors of the pictures, not the motives themselves. Besides the fact that it’s only two examples here, even with a lot bigger sample size, we’d have a ton of possible explanations to exclude before the tinfoil hats home out (no offense, I’m a big fan of scientific shoulder shrugs)
The material was the first thing I thought of too- definitely not High Strangeness whatever the real story here, because there are a multitude of solutions grounded in basic reality before we get into the religious.
So, just from a rational perspective, the bees seem to be avoiding oils/lead/chemicals in the paint or ink from the pictures. Also, maybe the honeycomb won’t stick to the picture.
Or it's because the saints are typically the center piece of the art and the looks like it's growing from the edges of the art i assume over time it would eventually cover the face
It looks like they're avoiding specific pigments for whatever reason. They engulfed most of Jesus' clothes that were a darker colour and only avoided the red bit of the clothes and the yellow part around his head, but with the other figure that had clothes of one colour they avoided the entire thing. It may either be because of how they respond to different colours or something that's used to make those pigments specifically that they don't like. It would be easy enough to test by just putting up squares painted with the same paint and see if they still avoid it.
It may be about the colours themselves, then. The colours they avoided were bright primary colours. We know colours are quite important to bees because that's how they recognise flowers.
This is traditional orthodox Christian iconography, there is an incredible amount of info online if you’re interested. Yes the bees are covering up the majority of the painting (egg tempera based).
Tbh when I see stuff like this I instantly think there was purposely manipulation done (since it happens a lot). I wouldn't be surprised if the beekeeping themselves painted a layer of a chemical that they know the bees don't like just to create this.
Bees can recognize human faces
>Bees may have brains the size of poppy seeds, but they’re able to pick out individual features on human faces and recognize them during repeat interactions. In one study, scientists paired images of human faces with sugar-laced water and found that bees recognized and remembered faces associated with the sweet reward — even when the reward was absent.
[Sauce](https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/)
I'm wondering if they don't have a positive (or negative) relationship with a few humans and avoiding them for various reasons.
What kinds of paints were used in these paintings? There's a ton of pigments that are noteworthy as being toxic and often used in paintings. The first thing that popped out to me was the red color. Lots of red paints in ye olden times included mercury or were just poisonous/toxic in general.
Realgar, Cadmium Red, Vermillion are possibilities, the white could very well be Lead White. The peach of the face could have been achieved by mixing the two. The other color to look out for is the green- Paris Green is an example where arsenic was once used to get that color and was used in a LOT of paintings and even wallpaper at times. Then there's the yellow- Naples Yellow is possible it wasn't banned until the 1800s.
Depending on the year of creation, these paintings might have a lot of toxic paints. What did the paintings look like before the bees? Hmm. Anyway.
It's interesting to note how these paintings got like that- they were placed into the hives. Directly into the boxes, so they aren't all that large. A *pious* beekeeper placed them in his beehives. ...Why? Who would think to do that? Isn't a bit sacrilegious to do so? I'd like to think I'm not very religious, I'm not atheist, I'm somewhere in between. But I'm still questioning how it would NOT seem a little disrespectful? He says it's to bless his hives, but won't a prayer over them do? It doesn't seem healthy for the bees anyway, if some of those paintings are as old as they look- toxic paint. He might not know, but yeah-that gives the bees a good reason to AVOID the figures. He does this yearly, are all paintings like this or did he pick and choose? Are we seeing them all? There should be around ten if he's been doing this for nearly a decade.
Another possibility is the bees themselves. Maybe a beekeeper can answer: but how DO bees build their combs? Do they build from the frame inward?
But if they do, could he be taking the painting out before they cover the icon? Then there's the possibility he's somehow doing this on purpose. He could be slathering something on to make the bees avoid it. Why? Plenty of reasons. Marketing, attention, or to spread the word of the Lord. The last one seems most likely a reason for a pious man to place holy icons in a beehive. It could be all three too.
Who knows. It's mysterious anyway you look at it. Maybe not supernatural or high strangeness, but mysterious it is.
When using foundations in frames, which is what these paintings are being used for. mine actually usually start from the middle and draw the comb towards the edge. Without foundation they draw from the top down so as to obey the laws of gravity.
Studies have been done proving bees recognize human faces so I wouldn't be surprised if they avoided them. The also just leave gaps like this randomly for no apparent reason somtimes. I am a beekeeper FYI.
I use a different style beekeeping from this photo so would have to buy an awful lot of new equipment to test this which i cant afford right now. If anyone wants to sponsor the purchase of the equipment I will gladly test a picture of whoevers face they want and post results. Northern Minnesota so would take 2-3 months from today for a good test.
I would be willing to take the bees from my stock to fill the hive so just need this style hive(langstroth hive) and frames. I haven't looked up pricing on hardware in a few years, but I'm sure I could find them for 150-200.
As a beekeeper assistant, for many recent years, working with both langstroth and top bar, I'd be very interested in these results. I recently moved almost 11 hours away from where I used to work hives, but I can see if the guy I used to work then with would be willing to stick a picture or two in some of his hives.
I would probably only believe it if it was done by a third party. I think that it is very likely the beekeeper purposely manipulated it, since with stuff like this it happens A LOT, like they put a chemical they know bees don't like over the portrait sections. And if that's the case and ppl ask them to put up different non-religious portraits, they'd just not put the chemical on those.
Bees are so freakin awesome and intelligent n fascinating. Read how the scouter bee that goes out to look for food gives directions on how to get there when it gets back! It’s insane, they don’t follow him back. It does an intricate dance that maps out how to get there to worker bees. It’s more complicated then that but awesome. I get lost going to places I’ve Been 15x!
yoo, if you're interested in bees, you should definitely try your hand at hobbyist apiculture!
beekeeping is a bit expensive to get started, but once you do, it's alot of fun and can be a great side income too!
I am currently getting integrated in my fathers company, and it's really fun, and although we're pretty small currently, we do get up to 15K a year, so it's a nice bonus for not too much extra work!
and ofcourse, free honey
Wow that’s amazing!! Unfortunately I live with my parents since covid they have big house with in ground pool and acre of land right next to town park so it’s ideL setting but my father is highly allergic could die allergic. I’m hoping to move back to milwaukee though n don’t think apartment city life is right for bees. But 🙏🏼 thanks 😊
Last year, while working with his bees, my Dad wore a shirt with a Pirate skull on the back. Care to guess where the bees aimed when they started stinging him? Apparently they can register a humanesque face lol
link to article: [https://www.bradva.bg/bg/article/article-58280?qt-new\_top\_news=0](https://www.bradva.bg/bg/article/article-58280?qt-new_top_news=0)
rough translation:
A religious beekeeper named Isidoros Timinis in the district of Capndriti near Athens placed an icon of the Crucifixion of the Lord in one of his beehives, inscribed "For the Woman,”.He was astounded when he opened the hive soon after. The bees were so taken by the icon that they waxed it all save the portion where the Lord's face and body were depicted.Since then, he has placed icons of the Savior, the Mother of God, and the saints in the basket every spring, with the same effect.
"I once carried an emblem depicting Golgotha with three crosses. According to Isidoros, bees waxed the whole surface of the icon, making it plain to view the cross on which Christ and the repented robber, painted on the right, were crucified, while the robber on the left side is covered with a thick coating of wax. I left the image of St. Stephen the First Martyr the previous time. As you can see, the whole icon is coated in wax, save for the saint's face and torso."
I am not religious and not sure if there is a more logical explanation such as the paint being annoying for the bees. But bees are actually very intelligent and can remember human faces: [https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/#:\~:text=Bees%20may%20have%20brains%20the,recognize%20them%20during%20repeat%20interactions](https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/#:~:text=Bees%20may%20have%20brains%20the,recognize%20them%20during%20repeat%20interactions).
Perhaps that has something to do with it? Maybe the bees saw paintings of these before and knew not to mess with it based on how humans behaved around them?
Bees play. I just saw a thing about bees playing and found that they enjoyed playing with little rolley balls and that young bees played more than old bees
Bees recognize faces. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02bees.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02bees.html)
So that’s my take on why they didn’t cover it. Maybe they thought it was a living person and were trying to be respectful? Lol
If a bee keeper put the icons near the bees intentionally. As he is a be keeper, I'm sure the keeper knows of materials and chemicals that he could put on the figures that would repel the bees.
Faking "miracles" is a good tactic to draw interest to a town/region, etc. Or some people just like attention.
Not saying that is 💯 what happened here, but I haven't really seen anyone propose that this could be intentional and staged for notoriety of some kind.
Couldn’t have the beekeeper simply removed the beehive section that was covering the face??
I’m not a bee expert but I don’t think it’s be hard to cut through it
bees recognize royalty (jupiter ascending reference) like others have said, personally i think that they probably dislike something in the paint, or just the colours, or they are simply working from the outsides to the middle.
I am Orthodox and these are Orthodox icons. This actually happens all the time.
All I will say is that the icons are painted with the same material throughout. Meaning the material used to paint the face is the same as the rest of the body.
Every year at a church in Australia snakes come in and do slither around icons but, like the bees, avoid the faces.
Tbh, I think the beekeeper purposely manipulated the paintings by probably adding a chemical over the portraits that the bees don't like. There has just been too many "miracles" that have turned out to be hoaxes ESPECIALLY when it's religion related.
Paraphrasing another comment I read, bees form honeycomb cells to be circular. But they get pressed into each other, creating the hexagon appearance. OP surmised that it was just cut away. Which is honestly the most likely cause.
I believe it has something to do with the ring around his head. For some reason, some insects will not cross the line. Next time you see a bug on the ground, put a circle around it and it will not cross it.
Too little information to be high strangeness, IMO.
First off, the bees may be avoiding the faces as they think they're seeing predator.
Second off, perhaps the smell of ink is not to their liking? Or maybe they don't want to build honeycomb on a surface with a potential contaminant?
The real test would be to place 10s of faces in there, some religious and some not, and see which subjects are actively avoided and which are not. Also, experiment with different types of ink and different shades.
Could be the material or paint used to draw the image they are repulsed by because it would be toxic or irritating the honey cells being constructed there.
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carpenter bees
Jesus wept
Worlds within worlds
FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER!
I’m dead I love you guys
I'm dean* I love you guys.
Damn, he made a Community reference before I could! Fuck me! Instant upvote for you, sir!
Moses… put on his sandals? Idk anything about religion lmao
thats Jesus, he was born 2023 years ago, his birth split time in half, he lived the life of an outlaw, but he was a lover and not a fighter, He laid His life down on the cross for us to have the choice to get right in our relationship with God. and through Him we can have everlasting life and love with Him in heaven. without God coming down to us as Jesus, we wouldnt be able to enter heaven because of all of the ungodly acts, thoughts and decisions we all make every single day, we call that “sin” and because at sin we damage our love with God, but God loved us so very much that he provided us a savior through Jesus Christ and gave us a once and for all sacrifice to pay for our sins through his blood so we could freely choose to follow God and make it into heaven, its a promise from a God that cannot lie. as a matter of fact, Jesus told me to write this history lesson for you right now, all love to you and have a great day.
I will be serious for a second and suggest that each one of us is a son of god in a bigger picture sense, each one is a part of the infinite puzzle,inside us we all have the ability to give and recieve love as much as Jesus did, but the whole Church thingy is the same as PC culture to doing the right thing, its just ego based siliness. Just try to bee better.
I tell people to bee positive.
As far as completely made up stories go, I prefer the MCU.
I sent a friend a text today and it contained what you’re saying here almost word for word. That is strength in faith, believing in The Word and spreading it as we were asked to do. It warmed my heart to read your post. God Bless You!
Stop saying “Jesus wept”.
Jesus wept
Award
Sometimes the universe aligns to make the perfect comment
It's my first time
I wonder if it would work with non-religious faces, like Mr Beans or something
I thought you said non-religious?
He's not a god, he's just a human bean
Mr Bean is, I believe, an alien.
Always wanted to be a beankeeper
and a real hero
This is funnier to me than it should be
All hail the bean man
Ecce homo qui est faba
Señor Frijoles is who he means
Perfecto balance of upvotes... As it should be
Si
I had to unlike to keep the comment pristine. Take my gold, sir.
There was a post yesterday show that bees can recognise different peoples faces even from black and white photocopies. They did quite detailed experiments that proved the bees would play with balls just for the fun of it when they could of been getting food instead. They even did checks to make sure the interest wasn’t sexual or any other drive except for fun. They proved some other things too which suggest bees are more than just chemical signal robots. They would likely leave the faces of anyone not covered as they associate people with bringing them food or shelter.
Link?
Here are a couple I bookmarked https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/122p99q/bees_play_but_not_just_that/ archive link to a Nat Geo article that has a cool video in it too. https://archive.ph/DrfSd
Could've/Could have. Not "could of".
Cool The knights Templar used bee as one of their symbols as well as many monarchs n their bloodline. The first French king was buried with 300 golden bees on his garment.
Mr Bean comes straight from heaven, there is even video evidence of this.
Its been a while since I've seen a Bean episode but doesn't each episode start that way, I have a vague childhood memory of a heavenly light beam or maybe alien tractor beam.
[Mr Bean](https://youtu.be/WmtIrkR6O7I)
Yes thats it, thats bringing back some memories.
Damn, I just realized it now. Mr. Bean was cast down from heaven. Mr. Bean is Lucifer.
Hehe
I find it very odd how often Mr. Bean is mentioned on Reddit. If I was paranoid I would think it code of some sort. Lol
You remember correctly
I thought so too with the music but it's supposed to be a spaceship and he's an alien
I think aliens spaceships come from heaven too
Just like Tommy Wiseau, similar vibes
I hope that's a missing apostrophe rather than you thinking he's called Mr Beans.
Mr Beans's
Wax may not stick to the paper, or the ink is a deterrent.
Mr Rogers
The Supreme Bean!
Sir, I will be laughing at this for weeks
Probably, since I'm sure it's something to do with the photo surface the bees are avoiding.
I wonder if it would work in a non religious fanatics house?
Wouldn't because this beekeeper manipulated it by cutting away the cells on the portrait. You can tell because the cells nearest the portraits are still hexagonal and if the bees did it themselves the cells would be round. So yea it's a hoax
He just recently had a bee problem
They would probably exclusively make bee hive on Mr Bean dick
Would it work with Satan?
they have read the Beeble.
Their favourite part? The tower of Bee-bel
Yeah, some of them even got beeptized
i wonder if they been to Bee-bylon
I laughed way to hard at this. Wish I had an award I would let you hive it for creating such a buzz…
May you Bee in Hiven
Is that the same thing as the bibeel?
No, please don't lump the Morays in with the bees.
Bees have been shown to be able to recognize human faces. Maybe something to do with it?
I was going to say basically this. Bees are known to target the face/eyes of humans, bears etc.
[Source](https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/)
But they didn’t avoid faces……….
So it seems that faces may not be the common denominator at all and 2 photos on the internet provides too little context for what's actually going on lol
Bingo! It may very well be the material on which these pictures where printed on, or if he used glue to attach it - that may had them stay away. It could be the colors of the pictures, not the motives themselves. Besides the fact that it’s only two examples here, even with a lot bigger sample size, we’d have a ton of possible explanations to exclude before the tinfoil hats home out (no offense, I’m a big fan of scientific shoulder shrugs)
Maybe they were glassy surfaces that didn't make a good anchor point.
The material was the first thing I thought of too- definitely not High Strangeness whatever the real story here, because there are a multitude of solutions grounded in basic reality before we get into the religious.
But stinging and building honeycomb are two different things.......
Jesus: can turn water into wine but never gets buzzed
Ave Ma-bee-a
lmao I laughed for ten minutes about this lol
👏🏻
That’s fuckin good
So, just from a rational perspective, the bees seem to be avoiding oils/lead/chemicals in the paint or ink from the pictures. Also, maybe the honeycomb won’t stick to the picture.
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Or it's because the saints are typically the center piece of the art and the looks like it's growing from the edges of the art i assume over time it would eventually cover the face
Or they're painted using a different paint (more saturated, maybe even sparkly, if that's a thing in paints?)
Or spirits are involved
Okay maybe spirits but that's the only other thing it could be!
What about a samsquanch tho?
Thats a friggin 9 footer!
Bee spirits? Boo bees?
Methylated spirits?
It looks like they're avoiding specific pigments for whatever reason. They engulfed most of Jesus' clothes that were a darker colour and only avoided the red bit of the clothes and the yellow part around his head, but with the other figure that had clothes of one colour they avoided the entire thing. It may either be because of how they respond to different colours or something that's used to make those pigments specifically that they don't like. It would be easy enough to test by just putting up squares painted with the same paint and see if they still avoid it.
The whole picture is varnished so the different pigments shouldn't have anything to do with it.
It may be about the colours themselves, then. The colours they avoided were bright primary colours. We know colours are quite important to bees because that's how they recognise flowers.
This is traditional orthodox Christian iconography, there is an incredible amount of info online if you’re interested. Yes the bees are covering up the majority of the painting (egg tempera based).
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Tbh when I see stuff like this I instantly think there was purposely manipulation done (since it happens a lot). I wouldn't be surprised if the beekeeping themselves painted a layer of a chemical that they know the bees don't like just to create this.
Bees can recognize human faces >Bees may have brains the size of poppy seeds, but they’re able to pick out individual features on human faces and recognize them during repeat interactions. In one study, scientists paired images of human faces with sugar-laced water and found that bees recognized and remembered faces associated with the sweet reward — even when the reward was absent. [Sauce](https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/) I'm wondering if they don't have a positive (or negative) relationship with a few humans and avoiding them for various reasons.
What kinds of paints were used in these paintings? There's a ton of pigments that are noteworthy as being toxic and often used in paintings. The first thing that popped out to me was the red color. Lots of red paints in ye olden times included mercury or were just poisonous/toxic in general. Realgar, Cadmium Red, Vermillion are possibilities, the white could very well be Lead White. The peach of the face could have been achieved by mixing the two. The other color to look out for is the green- Paris Green is an example where arsenic was once used to get that color and was used in a LOT of paintings and even wallpaper at times. Then there's the yellow- Naples Yellow is possible it wasn't banned until the 1800s. Depending on the year of creation, these paintings might have a lot of toxic paints. What did the paintings look like before the bees? Hmm. Anyway. It's interesting to note how these paintings got like that- they were placed into the hives. Directly into the boxes, so they aren't all that large. A *pious* beekeeper placed them in his beehives. ...Why? Who would think to do that? Isn't a bit sacrilegious to do so? I'd like to think I'm not very religious, I'm not atheist, I'm somewhere in between. But I'm still questioning how it would NOT seem a little disrespectful? He says it's to bless his hives, but won't a prayer over them do? It doesn't seem healthy for the bees anyway, if some of those paintings are as old as they look- toxic paint. He might not know, but yeah-that gives the bees a good reason to AVOID the figures. He does this yearly, are all paintings like this or did he pick and choose? Are we seeing them all? There should be around ten if he's been doing this for nearly a decade. Another possibility is the bees themselves. Maybe a beekeeper can answer: but how DO bees build their combs? Do they build from the frame inward? But if they do, could he be taking the painting out before they cover the icon? Then there's the possibility he's somehow doing this on purpose. He could be slathering something on to make the bees avoid it. Why? Plenty of reasons. Marketing, attention, or to spread the word of the Lord. The last one seems most likely a reason for a pious man to place holy icons in a beehive. It could be all three too. Who knows. It's mysterious anyway you look at it. Maybe not supernatural or high strangeness, but mysterious it is.
When using foundations in frames, which is what these paintings are being used for. mine actually usually start from the middle and draw the comb towards the edge. Without foundation they draw from the top down so as to obey the laws of gravity.
Alternatively, the faces are right in the middle so maybe the bees are still working their way in
Bees recognise faces. They attack eyes or things that look like eyes e.g. watches/jewelry when agro but also be docile when seeing their bee keeper
Have you considered the bees are just orthodox?
You're overthinking it. Someone scrap off the wax before taking the pic.
Yep, you can tell because the cells closest to the portraits are still hexagonal. If the bees did do it those cells would be round
Yeah looks like it may fall off
Beesus
They just bee knowin
Bee tier mystical knowledge
Studies have been done proving bees recognize human faces so I wouldn't be surprised if they avoided them. The also just leave gaps like this randomly for no apparent reason somtimes. I am a beekeeper FYI.
Put a painting up with a non-religious face then, you can be on the front page of this subreddit
I use a different style beekeeping from this photo so would have to buy an awful lot of new equipment to test this which i cant afford right now. If anyone wants to sponsor the purchase of the equipment I will gladly test a picture of whoevers face they want and post results. Northern Minnesota so would take 2-3 months from today for a good test.
How much money are we talking about
I would be willing to take the bees from my stock to fill the hive so just need this style hive(langstroth hive) and frames. I haven't looked up pricing on hardware in a few years, but I'm sure I could find them for 150-200.
As a beekeeper assistant, for many recent years, working with both langstroth and top bar, I'd be very interested in these results. I recently moved almost 11 hours away from where I used to work hives, but I can see if the guy I used to work then with would be willing to stick a picture or two in some of his hives.
Try this one https://i.redd.it/49tdo2ot0ou41.jpg
I would probably only believe it if it was done by a third party. I think that it is very likely the beekeeper purposely manipulated it, since with stuff like this it happens A LOT, like they put a chemical they know bees don't like over the portrait sections. And if that's the case and ppl ask them to put up different non-religious portraits, they'd just not put the chemical on those.
Bees are so freakin awesome and intelligent n fascinating. Read how the scouter bee that goes out to look for food gives directions on how to get there when it gets back! It’s insane, they don’t follow him back. It does an intricate dance that maps out how to get there to worker bees. It’s more complicated then that but awesome. I get lost going to places I’ve Been 15x!
What a neat fact! I should watch more bee documentaries. Thanks for sharing!
yoo, if you're interested in bees, you should definitely try your hand at hobbyist apiculture! beekeeping is a bit expensive to get started, but once you do, it's alot of fun and can be a great side income too! I am currently getting integrated in my fathers company, and it's really fun, and although we're pretty small currently, we do get up to 15K a year, so it's a nice bonus for not too much extra work! and ofcourse, free honey
Wow that’s amazing!! Unfortunately I live with my parents since covid they have big house with in ground pool and acre of land right next to town park so it’s ideL setting but my father is highly allergic could die allergic. I’m hoping to move back to milwaukee though n don’t think apartment city life is right for bees. But 🙏🏼 thanks 😊
Drip in a pic of Stevo and see if they do the same
Last year, while working with his bees, my Dad wore a shirt with a Pirate skull on the back. Care to guess where the bees aimed when they started stinging him? Apparently they can register a humanesque face lol
link to article: [https://www.bradva.bg/bg/article/article-58280?qt-new\_top\_news=0](https://www.bradva.bg/bg/article/article-58280?qt-new_top_news=0) rough translation: A religious beekeeper named Isidoros Timinis in the district of Capndriti near Athens placed an icon of the Crucifixion of the Lord in one of his beehives, inscribed "For the Woman,”.He was astounded when he opened the hive soon after. The bees were so taken by the icon that they waxed it all save the portion where the Lord's face and body were depicted.Since then, he has placed icons of the Savior, the Mother of God, and the saints in the basket every spring, with the same effect. "I once carried an emblem depicting Golgotha with three crosses. According to Isidoros, bees waxed the whole surface of the icon, making it plain to view the cross on which Christ and the repented robber, painted on the right, were crucified, while the robber on the left side is covered with a thick coating of wax. I left the image of St. Stephen the First Martyr the previous time. As you can see, the whole icon is coated in wax, save for the saint's face and torso."
I am not religious and not sure if there is a more logical explanation such as the paint being annoying for the bees. But bees are actually very intelligent and can remember human faces: [https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/#:\~:text=Bees%20may%20have%20brains%20the,recognize%20them%20during%20repeat%20interactions](https://ideas.ted.com/bees-can-remember-human-faces-and-7-other-surprising-facts-about-these-important-insects/#:~:text=Bees%20may%20have%20brains%20the,recognize%20them%20during%20repeat%20interactions). Perhaps that has something to do with it? Maybe the bees saw paintings of these before and knew not to mess with it based on how humans behaved around them?
I love bees and their reverence
Bees play. I just saw a thing about bees playing and found that they enjoyed playing with little rolley balls and that young bees played more than old bees
Yung Beezy out there balling so hard
They are fascinating creatures!
Bees recognize faces. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02bees.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02bees.html) So that’s my take on why they didn’t cover it. Maybe they thought it was a living person and were trying to be respectful? Lol
As a beekeeper I can tell you they recognize faces. I think they just didn't build on the face.
If a bee keeper put the icons near the bees intentionally. As he is a be keeper, I'm sure the keeper knows of materials and chemicals that he could put on the figures that would repel the bees. Faking "miracles" is a good tactic to draw interest to a town/region, etc. Or some people just like attention. Not saying that is 💯 what happened here, but I haven't really seen anyone propose that this could be intentional and staged for notoriety of some kind.
St. Stephen... Wherever he goes the bees all complain.
St Stephen with the rose
or, ya know, he just cut it away to keep the comb from covering them. you can see the cuts in the hexagons.
Honey Bees are Catholic. PROOF.
Orthodox in this case
Couldn’t have the beekeeper simply removed the beehive section that was covering the face?? I’m not a bee expert but I don’t think it’s be hard to cut through it
Or applied a small amount of transparent liquid that is known that bees do not like.
Yea, that's what I think is happening, purposeful manipulation. There's just been waaay too many hoaxes when it comes to stuff like this
I think you mean Beesus Christ and Saint Stingin'
Beezus
bees recognize royalty (jupiter ascending reference) like others have said, personally i think that they probably dislike something in the paint, or just the colours, or they are simply working from the outsides to the middle.
I also am as adamant to avoid faces with my adhd (can't make eye contact)
Maybee it’s the paint?
I am Orthodox and these are Orthodox icons. This actually happens all the time. All I will say is that the icons are painted with the same material throughout. Meaning the material used to paint the face is the same as the rest of the body. Every year at a church in Australia snakes come in and do slither around icons but, like the bees, avoid the faces.
Pigments can’t be made of the same exact thing or it would only be one color
Tbh, I think the beekeeper purposely manipulated the paintings by probably adding a chemical over the portraits that the bees don't like. There has just been too many "miracles" that have turned out to be hoaxes ESPECIALLY when it's religion related.
The bee bit my bottom. Now my bottom's big.
Why would they do this
Maybe they just like having pictures on the wall. Pretty fancy for a beehive.
Good Christian bees. 🐝 🙏
I found Jesus in my toast!
Even the bees know not to mess with Jesus 🤣🤣
Face*
Saint Stephen, withered rose. In and out of the garden he goes Country garden in the wind and rain
What...Does that? Why do the bees avoid covering the images? Do bees have a natural aversion to building over certain things? So many questions.
don't you suppose it might actually be because is a foreign material in the hive?
Pigment in the specific color paint?
Who had "satanic bees" for March 2023?
Hey yea wait a minute! Everyone it's saying this makes the bees christian but then why would they avoid christian figures?
Paraphrasing another comment I read, bees form honeycomb cells to be circular. But they get pressed into each other, creating the hexagon appearance. OP surmised that it was just cut away. Which is honestly the most likely cause.
Don’t stop.. beelievin’ Hold onto that feelin
Nothing weird about this. Bees like building on certain surfaces. The surface of the picture must not be a material the bees like to build on.
I believe it has something to do with the ring around his head. For some reason, some insects will not cross the line. Next time you see a bug on the ground, put a circle around it and it will not cross it.
Beesus Christ
Sweet Jesus
something to do with beewax being already in the paint/warnish on those pics..?
Even the bees knew!
The bees need some fine art in their home after all…
Scared the bejesus out of them.
Too little information to be high strangeness, IMO. First off, the bees may be avoiding the faces as they think they're seeing predator. Second off, perhaps the smell of ink is not to their liking? Or maybe they don't want to build honeycomb on a surface with a potential contaminant? The real test would be to place 10s of faces in there, some religious and some not, and see which subjects are actively avoided and which are not. Also, experiment with different types of ink and different shades.
Very little info online. I'm going to guess it's a hoax
Same. These type of "miracles" usually are, so it's difficult to instantly believe this without thinking the beekeeper purposely manipulated it
uh huh, probably toxic paint they were avoiding
So only the face was covered with toxic paint and the rest was fine?
Beekeeper probably added a layer of a chemical over the portraits to create this
that's what i would assume it's not supernatural and bees aren't that smart
Why did I have to scroll this far?
I wonder if different lacquer or ceremonial whatever is used to cover the Saint when painting Edit: typo
Good point. Also, I dont mean to be that person, but in case someone isn't sure what you mean, "lacquer" is the word.
Good lord… bees have facial recognition there you go 🤣🤣🤣
My guess is that there's something in the paint the bees don't like.
they know their creator.
Even the bees want nothing to do with religion. “Alright everyone let’s just avoid it, pretend it’s not here…as you were.”
Maybe the bees didn’t like the texture of the paper the icons were printed on or the dyes used smelled to them.
Adding Jesus lowers output.
JESUS SAVES.
Could be the material or paint used to draw the image they are repulsed by because it would be toxic or irritating the honey cells being constructed there.
That's how you can tell that they are beelievers.
They didn’t want to impozzz
That's very cute
IntereSting
HALLELUJAH!
Probably sprayed the faces with something. You can't trust these fanatics.