unBEElievably cute

[samhexum]

This is the world’s smallest McDonald’s – which is too tiny for humans to use.

 

The mini McD’s is actually a hive crafted to house thousands of honey bees.

 

Despite its diminutive dimensions, the restaurant has been expertly crafted to include a scaled down version of every aspect of a McDonald’s branch.

 

It even comes complete with little branded parasols on the dining patio, a Drive-Thru hatch and the all-important Golden Arches sign.

 

And the windows are plastered with impressively accurate posters advertising the McDonald’s menu.

 

The teeny diner was commissioned by McDonald’s in Sweden to celebrate the beehives placed on the roofs of their restaurants.

 

Dubbed the McHive, it was thought-up by Scandinavian ad agency Nord DDB – who also released a behind-the-scenes video of its construction.

 

The clip shows craftsmen working in minute detail to replicate every aspect of a full-size McDonald’s restaurant with amazing precision.

 

It looks sure to create a buzz among the local bees.

 

 

 

 

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NOT so cute...

 

NYPD beekeepers blast MLB, San Diego Padres for killing swarm

 

The NYPD’s beekeepers took a swing at Major League Baseball Monday, when they ripped the league and San Diego Padres for killing a swarm of bees on the field during a game Sunday instead of rescuing them.

 

The beekeepers posted a number of messages on Twitter Monday night after other users brought the situation to their attention.

 

“This was not handled humanely. These honeybees were killed by an extermination company instead of having a beekeeper come and remove them,” the NYPD beekeepers wrote from their official Twitter account, with a link to a CBS News story that said the bees had been killed.

 

“@MLB please have each park have a beekeeper’s number on file for instances like this,” they added.

The account put up several tweets showing how angry they were at the issue, and said: “That’s not a beekeeper and certainly not a bee vacuum that he used to vacuum those bees.”

 

The CBS News report said that the game between the Miami Marlins and the Padres was delayed for about half an hour after the discovery of the swarm of honeybees attached to a microphone near the Padres’ dugout.

 

They called an exterminator who sprayed the bees, killing them, and then vacuumed the dead bees off the field.

 

The NYPD beekeepers, a two-man team who spoke to The Post last week, often take home the swarms of bees they take off of city streets.

Edited June 4, 2019 by samhexum

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I'm always amazed by such artistic abilities. I am also surprised by the action taken at the baseball park. I presumed it was common knowledge that the decline in the honeybee population is a major concern in North American agricultural circles.