Thursday, December 16, 2010

PSA: Bees, Death With Wings.

Bees. A scourge to our existance.
In this PSA I will show you what a bee looks like with a diagram of its external anatomy, then I will go on to explain about how a bee will seek someone out, and what it does when it finds someone, and then I will tell you how to protect yourselves against bees, and what you should do if you ever see one.


External Anatomy of a Bee.

Now, lets go through the things that I have labelled on this handy diagram.
Fuzzy Exterior: The fuzzy exterior of a bee is an insidious disguise, a way to trick you into thinking it is a harmless little creature.
Face: It has a face, just like all creatures, but as you can see, the bee has a happy smile and big eyes, more ways to trick you into thinking that it is a harmless cute little creature.
Antenna: The bee uses its antenna to seek out humans, it can detect the subtle vibrations in the air that humans make as they move around.
Wings: The wings are used to give the bee flight, without these the bees would not be as dangerous and deadly as they are. One of the scary things about bees is that scientists are still unsure as to how the bee flies, given that its wings are not large enough to give it flight, which leads me to hypothesize that the bee flies using black magic of some kind.
Legs: The legs of the bee haven't shown up on this picture, which lends more credibility to my black magic theory. Anyway, the bee uses its legs primarily for dancing. I will explain more on this later.
DEATH!: At the back end of the bee there is a stinger, or as I have labelled it, DEATH!. This is where the real danger comes from.

Now that we've taken a look at the anatomy of the bee, we can delve into how a bee hunts, and what it does once it has found a human.
Firstly, the hive will send out some hunter bees. The job of these bees is to seek out unsuspecting people for which to bring death down upon. Using its antenna, it will sense the subtle vibrations in the air created by people. made by them moving around, breathing, and even just by they beating hearts. Once it has found someone, it will fly back to the hive to let the rest of the bees know.
Once back at the hive, the hunter bee will do an intricate dance for the other bees, a dance that is half celebratory, and half directions. The other bees will get the directions from the hunter bees dance, and then they will go seek the person out. When they have found the person, they will turn and all fly backwards towards him or her, trying to hit them with their stingers. This is a dangerous situation to be in.

If you see a bee, just ignore it to begin with, and continue what you were doing. If you are walking somewhere, just continue walking. When the bee leaves, change directions, or go somewhere that you weren't previously. Once the bee can't see you, it won't know where you have gone, and it can only tell the rest of the hive where you are and what direction you were travelling when it saw you last.
If you see a large amount of bees heading in your direction, you're fucked. Just run, run for your life. Try and get inside a building and shut yourself in, as bees don't have the ability to open doors or windows... Yet. If you're near a body of water, submerse yourself, as bees also lack the ability to swim, but we all know that could change.

At some point, you may come across a bee hive, where they live and plot out the demise of humans, if you do manage to find one, let the local authorities know where it is. They will know what to do.

So please people, keep yourself safe. And remember, even though they may look cute and fuzzy, bees are DEATH! With wings!

Thank you for reading.

2 comments:

  1. First of all, not all creatures have faces. Germs don't have faces.
    Secondly, bees are not just machines of death. They avoid people, actually. Many bees don't have stingers. They are harmless. Even if a bee does have a stinger, they won't sting you unless you are seen as a threat. When more bees come after a creature (which is very rare), it is only when the creature is seen as a large threat, and is able to be beaten. This happens very rarely if ever with honeybees. The only records of this happening is when people bother hives, especially more aggressive African bees. Another thing is how much we need bees. Over 1/3 of our food is pollinated by bees, and over 70% of all crops (including livestock feed). If bees went extinct (which they are because of CCD mainly caused by people), millions of plant and animal species would go extinct, and only a few species would be left. Don't kill bees. they don't want to hurt you, you're scary and big. Protect bees so humans don't die.

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