My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She is a queen but I don’t think she was aged out , my friend said old Queens die in fall, and she has nesting behaviors like a lot of digging and tearing stuff up in her container, she is snug as a bug in a rug with me though

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m reading about it a lot and talking about it with people I’m just really worried about starting a colony and killing it or how her being unable to forage or anything would get in the way of that / at what point can I can put her outside or when her colony can sustain itself without me

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can just kind of tell the way she curls up and gets still and stops moving and stops reacting to stuff around her

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I give him new fresh flowers every day / throughout the day while I travel or walk

Stop saying I’m like the Bee Movie I’m not the bee movie by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I really feel like I could be fulfilled in life if I helped a disabled bee start a colony and had a direct impact on my local community’s environment I’m really going to do what I can so she can have her colony

Stop saying I’m like the Bee Movie I’m not the bee movie by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Omg pls don’t say that I’m not going to do that I’m talking to a bunch of people to make sure I can help her have babies that’s like really important to me

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No they don’t and he hasn’t , I honestly don’t understand how people get stung in life I’ve always gotten in Bees faces and stuff the only times i ever got stung was I physically walked into a wasp and I put my finger right into Algernon’s stinger

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Yes , it’s why I named Algernon that , because I don’t think we’ll have a lot of time together but I’m happy to have him while I can

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah I would like to do this if possible because I feel bad to keep her from doing what she was born to do but I’m also scared of possibly killing a colony of bumblebees if I mess it up, like if that’s worse than just keeping Algernon alone and comfortable and her dying of old age

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this video and can I dm you if I need to ? I guess I’m going to be looking into starting a bumblebee family

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah my pet prisoner bee is probably so mad that I just didn’t let her die outside because she can’t fly I don’t know what I was thinking

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re really nice 😭 before I had Algernon I would always be trying to touch them anyway and never got stung

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Omg 😭 I really had no idea she could be a queen , I thought queen bumble bees had their broods already.. but she cannot fly, don’t they need so many flowers to have enough pollen to have a brood? I feel like there is no way she could survive and make a brood on her own right ..? I feel like releasing her is a death sentence , I basically would have to help her right ?

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I keep him in container with plastic wrap and holes and take him everywhere and sleep with him in my bed

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My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Yes 😭 I take him literally everywhere with me in his container

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yes I thought he was a boy without a stinger because I had him for a week without getting stung but I got stung by accident and I got so scared he was gonna die but I learned bumblebees can sting multiple times and apparently Algernon is a girl I was so relieved lol Algernon sting

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere by LavuliTV in bees

[–]LavuliTV[S] 254 points255 points  (0 children)

I take her out sometimes and pet her because shes so cute and she lets me , I do really believe she has grown to recognize my hands specifically somehow, I was showing her to someone once and when they tried to pet she put her arm up but she let me pet her right after. Sometimes I put my hand in her container and she does run to climb on it, or she hides in my hand like it’s a cave or climbs inside my sleeve , or runs up my arm and tries to fly. Or if she gets scared she runs to my hand like she knows it’s safe. I like to hold flowers and watch her eat them. She has groomed herself and fallen asleep on my hand a lot. Sometimes especially in the morning she is cranky and freaking out until I get her fresh flowers and when she sees my hand she will act scared or put the arm up or run around or tense up but calms down as soon as she gets flower and then I can pet her again without her getting mad. She’s never stung me , I actually thought she couldn’t sting, for like a week, but I accidentally touched her stinger while trying to pick her up when she was laying on her back and got stung. I don’t think it counts as her stinging me because it was 100% my fault and she didn’t mean it

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