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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: I put a picture up on Instagram about a month

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Speaker 3: ago because I got.

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Speaker 1: Some new pets.

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Speaker 4: What did you get?

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Speaker 3: Eight thousand new pets?

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Speaker 4: Wow? And I'm not on Instagram anymore, so I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking.

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Speaker 3: I've got eight thousand cats.

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Speaker 4: No, well, it was only a matter of time before

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Speaker 4: you get crazy cat lady, because you are crazy.

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Speaker 1: Got native Australian bees.

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Speaker 3: A friend of my brother's, a friend of my brother

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Speaker 3: has a company in Queensland called, well, it's Native Australian

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Speaker 3: Bee company and that's not what it's called.

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Speaker 4: But he.

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Speaker 3: Produces breeds what's the word, and then sells native Australian

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Speaker 3: bees so he can divide hives up. And my brother

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Speaker 3: had a stack of them in his house. So those

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Speaker 3: hives have been divided up and one of them came

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Speaker 3: to me and Chris Brown bought one as well. So

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Speaker 3: there's about eight thousand Native Australian bees. They are stingless bees,

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Speaker 3: so you can have them all around your garden, all

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Speaker 3: around your pets, around your kids, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: They are stingless.

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Speaker 4: Ny. Here's your tenth birthday present. I got you a

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Speaker 4: Bee High.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, lots of kids really like them. They are fascinating.

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Speaker 3: It comes in a little house. Harley wants to build

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Speaker 3: a little satellite dish to put on the roof of it.

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Speaker 3: They come into, yes, in a little bee high.

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Speaker 4: Actually keeping up with the Kardashians, and it's.

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Speaker 3: It's quite fascinating the way their social structure works. They're

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Speaker 3: very They're smaller than a regular bee. They look like

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Speaker 3: a slim blowfly. Really, but if you I took a

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Speaker 3: photo on my phone and I sort of enlarged it

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Speaker 3: so I could see these little blue heads and these little.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating to get a picture.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they look like a small blowfly.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but they they're bees. They look like bees, but

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Speaker 3: they're small. And the way there's social structure works. There

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Speaker 3: are some that are the foragers, some that are the soldiers,

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Speaker 3: some that look after the queen, and the minute the

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Speaker 3: queen doesn't produce any more eggs, she's gone. And in

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Speaker 3: the meantime they've raised a whole lot of princesses, potential princesses,

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Speaker 3: and one of those gets elevated.

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Speaker 1: The others get destroyed. They have an extraordinary systems.

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Speaker 4: They don't need to watch the Kardashians.

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Speaker 1: They are all the crown.

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Speaker 3: It's quite a weird and extraordinary system. They don't produce

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Speaker 3: as much honey as classic honey producing bees.

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Speaker 4: So what are the bees that we've got in Australia.

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Speaker 3: Now, well, we have a variety of bees in Australia,

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Speaker 3: but these are the stingless native bees. And these are

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Speaker 3: wonderful because we need these, like all bees. The world's

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Speaker 3: running out of bees to pollinate our crops, our flowers,

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Speaker 3: all of that. So when you first get the bees,

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Speaker 3: I'm saying, well, they're going to need flowers. You look

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Speaker 3: around your garden. And I said to Ian, who'd brought

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Speaker 3: them to our place, what are they going to eat?

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Speaker 3: And he said, you'd be surprised. And in the local

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Speaker 3: park there's banks, HEAs and things. They love all that,

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Speaker 3: and the honey is flavored by what's around. So I

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Speaker 3: gave you a taste of it. Remember this was the

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Speaker 3: honey that came from the bees that my brother had.

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Speaker 1: He pulled a face.

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Speaker 4: It tasted dreadful.

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Speaker 1: I liked it.

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Speaker 4: It tasted like a like a liquea, yeah, one of

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Speaker 4: those lique as you get when you go to the snow.

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Speaker 4: But it didn't have any alcohol.

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Speaker 3: In it, so it was kind of almost like apricotty flavored.

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Speaker 3: And he said that you've drizzled that on goats, cheese

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Speaker 3: or on a bit of yogurt. Just absolutely delicious. So

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Speaker 3: I don't know what the honey flavored from my backyard

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Speaker 3: will be, probably dog poo and teenage running shoe. Well,

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Speaker 3: I think that'll be delicious.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But do you know what.

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Speaker 3: Else is fascinating about bees? And I learned this from

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Speaker 3: a TikTok video I saw last week. They can tell time.

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Speaker 1: Have a listen.

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Speaker 2: College, I did my thesis on time perception and I

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Speaker 2: learned my favorite science story ever, which is how we

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Speaker 2: learned that bees can perceive time. The experiment is pretty straightforward.

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Speaker 2: The scientists put sugar water outside of a bee's hive

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Speaker 2: every day at four pm, and soon enough, the bees

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Speaker 2: learned to leave the hive every day at four pm,

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Speaker 2: even when there's no sugar water. Therefore, these bees must

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Speaker 2: be measuring and perceiving. Oh oh, hold your horses. One

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Speaker 2: of the bees are just doing something else, like measuring

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Speaker 2: the angle of the sun. So they did the experiment

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Speaker 2: again in the dark this time, and the bees still

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Speaker 2: come out at four PM, therefore bees, Well, hold on,

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Speaker 2: what if they're measuring the heat from the sun instead.

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Speaker 2: These back and forth kept happening until they ended up

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Speaker 2: recreating the experiment underground in a salt mine. And still

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Speaker 2: people were like, what if they're measuring the rotation of

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Speaker 2: the earth, how do we prove the bees perceived time?

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Speaker 2: Until one scientist did the exact same experiment, not the

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Speaker 2: salt mine, but in Paris, and then flew the bees

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Speaker 2: to New York City, where they left the hive at

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Speaker 2: ten in the morning because they had jet lag because

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Speaker 2: bees perceived time.

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Speaker 4: His wife must mind him fascinating.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking that we'd get the bees in here

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Speaker 3: to do the time calls for us.

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Speaker 4: Is that what? This is all a bad No.

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Speaker 3: I've got new pets and I'll keep you updated on

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Speaker 3: how extraordinary they.

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Speaker 4: Are named, all six thousand of them.

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Speaker 1: It is eight thousand. Please.

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Speaker 3: You bought a goldfish last week and it died, so

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Speaker 3: don't you talk to me.

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Speaker 4: It jumped out of the tank.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you can't keep one alive.

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Speaker 4: Has to mention that we're going to keep that on

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Speaker 4: the download.

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Speaker 1: Well sorry.

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's Gamnation