The episode with bees.
Posted by thoburned@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Did anybody else find it slightly uncomfortable watching the build team play with the life of those bees? I always found that episode a little hard to watch, for some reason. I just didn’t want to watch them drowning bees in vodka. And I ended up ceasing watching the episode altogether Anybody else feel this way?
Ragnarsworld@reddit
The bees all had terminal diseases and signed tiny little waivers to have the experiments done on them.
Mikotokitty@reddit
They could've just not done bees(like wasps are close enough) or in the very least got bees from a hostile and already doomed hive. I didn't start marathoning this to get upset, at least there were a majority survivors.
Ragnarsworld@reddit
So bees are special creatures and wasps are scum?
Sweaty_Influence2303@reddit
Yes. Bees do incredible things for the environment. Wasps AT BEST make a terrible snack (fig newton) They can go extinct for all I care
TallOne101213@reddit
I know this post is over a year old, but could someone please find a link or the name of the episode? My grandpa who passed away is in it and I'd love to hear his voice again.
NotRemotelyMe1010@reddit
S4 Ep 5 (paper crossbow)
thatbatperson@reddit
Season 2006 episode 1
deleted_by_reddit@reddit
At the time it wasn’t know exactly how many bees where being killed by pesticides on farms I remember watching that episode at the time and then coming back to it recently and felt like it was wrong
Dudemeister32@reddit
"It wasn't known" is a nice way of saying "Americans don't care!". Mythbusters started in 2003, that episode was in 2006, but bees dying in masses was already observed in 2000
thatbatperson@reddit
Season 2006 episode 1