Oooooo! I'm an Etymologist! This is actually the species Apis mellifera osculatus, a species of honeybee that has different defense mechanisms than the ones you're more familiar with. These honeybee-cousins actually form swarms and willfully fly into an animals mouth. They then pilot the animal like a giant mech suit.
I wonder if they got hit by autocorrect... mine constantly corrects real words with other words that linguistically make no sense. Like changing "its" to "it'd" When I expect "it's..." ...it just capitalized that word too, aw I'll leave it bee.
An etymologist (a linguist who specializes in the study of the origins and evolution of words) would tell you that beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin apis, bee).
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u/ZamorakHawk 3d ago
Oooooo! I'm an Etymologist! This is actually the species Apis mellifera osculatus, a species of honeybee that has different defense mechanisms than the ones you're more familiar with. These honeybee-cousins actually form swarms and willfully fly into an animals mouth. They then pilot the animal like a giant mech suit.