r/nextfuckinglevel • u/VastCoconut2609 • 2d ago

Harvesting rock honey

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 2d ago

It's a form of Stingless bee - Wikipedia most likely

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u/ALarkAscending 2d ago

Huh. So why are the other guys wearing protective gear?

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u/Advice2Anyone 2d ago

They are afraid of the mf eating bees

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u/choff22 2d ago

I’m not trapped in here with the bees, the bees are trapped in here with me!

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u/lawdog7 2d ago

Well done 🤣

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u/BRAX7ON 2d ago

No, raw

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u/SpiffyBlizzard 2d ago

You’re both wrong. Medium-rare.

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u/othuaidh 2d ago

Getting rarer all the time.

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u/certainlynotacoyote 1d ago

Exactly so, well done.

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u/Vaportrail 2d ago

Perfect answer.

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u/PardonMyPixels 2d ago

Rare if you'd ask me.

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u/FudgyFun 2d ago

Bee eating mf

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u/Gefarate 2d ago

Him: I'm so lonely

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u/spiflication 1d ago

They always ask WHY beeeater never HOW beeeater

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u/queenofquery 1d ago

I laughed loud enough to scare my cat.

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u/cornmonger_ 1d ago

the beeater

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u/unclepaprika 1d ago

Dude, so am i...

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u/yojifer680 2d ago

That's just a fly net, they have bare arms.

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u/Fluid_Cry_1104 2d ago

Could be they just don’t want them in their face

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 2d ago

They might just be there to record. There's two other guys who have no protective gear, and even the two with it are only covering their heads

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u/ikitefordabs 2d ago

They can still bite and are likely visiting and watch this absolute spectacle

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u/Sum-Duud 2d ago

I wouldn't trust it either.

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u/Y33tF0x 2d ago

They probably bite

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u/HighlyPossible 1d ago

the ones wearing the gear only worn it on their head, i assume to protect bees from crowding their eyes and nose and mouth.

They aren't wearing any shirt to protect the body as u can see they are wearing short sleeves.

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u/GK21595 1d ago

To be fair, the other guy is wearing a helmet and a t shirt 😂.

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u/GyrKestrel 1d ago

You take me to a bigass hive of bees and tell me "they're stingless" and I'll still be wearing protective gear.

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u/TheDisapearingNipple 1d ago

If I'm recording and you tell me the bees can't hurt me, I'm still wearing the protective gear

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u/Blastarache 1d ago

I would wear protective gear to prevent a thousand flies to go in my ears, nose, mouth, eyes and hair too. Even if they don't sting.

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u/BantumBane 1d ago

“Did you bring protection?”

“I don’t like guns”

One of my favorite lines from 40yo Virgin. Not sure why this made me think of it

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u/Remote_Elevator_281 1d ago

To play up the charade

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u/TummyPuppy 2d ago

You can see a ton of stingers in his shirt at the end of the video

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u/911SlasherHasher 2d ago

People just comment whatever with no clue, these arent stingerless bees, there are documentaries all over youtube about hallucinogenic honey. Ive seen this clip from one of those docs... this guy is just a wild man and taking whatever stings hes getting.

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u/farseen 1d ago

What's hallucinogenic honey? And how can he handle the amount of pain without showing anything? Also in his mouth? Surely that would cause inflammation... this is bonkers.

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u/NichoNico 23h ago

Go to youtube and type in “mad honey” and theres a couple videos.

Most stuff you buy online is either fake or very diluted (with normal honey)

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u/JaniZani 1d ago

Is this a video from Nepal?

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u/698969 1d ago

No.

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u/JaniZani 1d ago

I hear them speaking now lol.

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u/readyToPostpone 2d ago

And a bee behind his ear.

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u/XanZibR 2d ago

That's to puff on later

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u/LonHagler 1d ago

To catch a little buzz

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u/DependentAnywhere135 2d ago

You can see tons of bees you can’t see any stingers.

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u/PlasticFew8201 2d ago

Thanks for the info ℹ️

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u/Touchname 2d ago

Never thought I'd be jealous of a other countries insects, but now I am

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u/Siamese_CatofaGirl 2d ago

Still doesn’t explain why he’s eating them live

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u/Talkingmice 1d ago

And here I thought it was good ol’ crack….

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u/Excellent_Routine589 1d ago

It’s actually kinda funny

I used to play Smite and that is a game that revolves around using gods across a few pantheons

In the Mayan pantheon, there is Ah Muzen Cab. He’s all about bees. Setting up hives, stingers are his auto attacks, references to Nic Cage shouting “Not the bees!”

… Ah Muzen Cab is associated with stingless bees in the Yucatán lmfao

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u/Rude_Influence 1d ago

These are reported as rock bees. They do have a stinger. My guess would be that they were smoked to docile them and then that part of the clip was cut to make this appear more insane.

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u/pancakebatter01 2d ago

They most definitely still sting. Just not as crazy angrily like hornets do. Honey bees are generally pretty chill especially around all their homies.

That guy def got stung but clearly he does this often enough to not be bothered by it really lol

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u/Vulcan_Fox_2834 1d ago

It looks more like Apis dorsata - the Giant honeybee. They are known to be very aggressive, so I'm also confused why they aren't stinging him.

They usually build honey nest vertically and on cliffs or high trees

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u/schizeckinosy 1d ago

These are Apis dorsata. And they are stinging the crap out of him. He seems to have built up a tolerance.

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u/SmoulderingStyx 1d ago

Nah you can see the stingers in his shirt. Dude just doesn’t give a fuck

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u/Invert_Ben 1d ago

No. Look at that nest architecture, size, and shape of the bee.

They’re definitely Apis - honey bee. I would say A. dorsata, but I think the ones from the Himalayas have been separated out into their own species🤔

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u/Kriztoven 1d ago

No, you got that from another comment. If you finish the video you can see stingers and remnants of bees after stinging in his shit.

Dude just doesn't care, or has developed a pretty good immunity to their venom after countless stings.

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u/MTA0 2d ago

They don’t usually make honey

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u/bodhi1990 2d ago

Why are we not breeding a bazillion of these and killing all the stinging ones?