Honey gatherer. They usually go up to the hive without any protective garment and carry with them a bundle of something that gave out tons of smoke to disorientate the bees. This dude smokey bundle fell off, so now the pissed off bee can easily swarmed him.
For clarity, bees experience an urge to load up on honey and ventillate the hive when they sense smoke (prepare to flee and avoid death from poor quality air). This is why the smoke calms them, even if disruption is happening like what might happen in a serious crisis.
Also, to sting you, bee needs to compress it's body to C-shape (to touch you with it's butt) but there is so much honey in stomach, that bee can't do it.
You'd think right? But then again there wouldn't be survivors to warn the others so unless the bees can associate the two from observation I would imagine not.
If you mean when they seasonally swarm, then that's part of the reason. The bigger reason though bee's are more chill in migration swarms is there's no nest to protect, just the Queen, which they WILL protect.
More to the fact that a sting is fatal to them and they don’t have anything to defend. Now if you started to kill/crush bees and get attack pheromones released they might respond but evolutionarily it’s not to the gain of the hive to throw workers away when there aren’t brood already gestating to replace. Additionally few animals that would have interest in honey less pile of bees can also reach where they typically swarm at.
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u/kekubuk 9d ago
Honey gatherer. They usually go up to the hive without any protective garment and carry with them a bundle of something that gave out tons of smoke to disorientate the bees. This dude smokey bundle fell off, so now the pissed off bee can easily swarmed him.