#drones are bees

[kates-dump]

BUZZ!!!

So, in spite of sounding completely deranged to both Murder Drones fans AND entomologists, I present a theory/headcanon/"this would be a really cool au" that has definitely been brought up before!

THE "DRONES ARE BEES" (yet-to-be) ESSAY

So let's start with the obvious!

Bees are separated by their role in the colony. So there's a Queen, the Workers (infertile females), and Drones (all male). Worker bees are the ones responsible for collecting nectar, protecting their hive and producing honey, whereas the males' only purpose is to mate with the Queen. Considering just how useless the male Worker Drones are in the show it's honestly pretty fitting /j

Although there aren't that many parallels between Worker Drones and Bees, there are a lot of connections to be made about Drones as a whole and the Hymenoptera order!

Fooor example, the fact that Hornets will attack, kill, and sometimes eat Honey Bees when they are vulnerable outside or near their hive! Most of the time, Hornets will attack hives to steal honey, and are notoriously known for their powerful mandibles, painful stingers and potent venom. Sound familiar? Well, duh, Disassembly Drones.

(Not to mention that Asian Giant Hornets are also called... Murder Hornets.)

"Kate you can't just make name comparisons, say they're both black and yellow and call it a day!" Well first of all, yes I can, second of all, I have SOMETHING ELSE!

APOCEPHALUS BOREALIS!!!

A TYPE OF PARASITOID FLY THAT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO ATTACK BOTH BEES AND WASPS AND MAKE THEM QUITE LITERALLY INTO ZOMBIES! ZOMBEES! SORRY FOR YELLING!!! BUT THIS IS LIKE THE ABSOLUTESOLVER!!!

Now. Where am I going with this? Well, fun fact. Since most (if not all) bees attacked by Hornets are stingless, what they will do to defend themselves instead is usually sacrifice a bee to acknowledge the Hornet's intentions, then swarm it and begin to vibrate their bodies intensely to generate heat. The point inside the ball can reach up to 47°C, literally cooking the Hornet alive! Ouch!

We know Disassembly Drones can die from heat (but apparently not direct boiling hot radiation from the sun?!), so what I'm saying is that, at least once, those Workers should've tried making their own group hug of death to defend themselves 🐝

that's all for now, thanks for listening to my ramblings!

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[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian bee beetle/bandad humlebagge, dor beetle/skogstordyvel, and dusky drone fly/sommarslamfluga. Värmland, Sweden (June 16, 2025).

[astros-arts-inthestars]

⚠️ Feelings Levels: Critically High ⚠️

Just a part mini part two of this comic, that one really blew up yall!! I'm glad you all understand the vision

....anyways. ummm. gay robots

[ghoulinfuschia]

Hits them with a rubber hammer repeatedly

[null-doesnothing]

they are bees now lol peep their tiny hats

[luridon]

Honeycomb

If the height of happiness means death, then he's died a thousand happy, mundane ends by your hand

♡characters: yandere!bee x fem!courier!reader

♡warnings: MINORS DNI, blood, murder, victim-blaming, bugs, this may or may not be some alien/fae thing or just a supremely odd concubine sorta dude who thinks in bee metaphors of all things, MINORS DNI

♡notes: I was gonna put yandere!drone but that could have set false expectations of a robot. This is not about robots this is about bees, no explicit smut but questionable vibes abound, why do I keep writing about bugs

♡w/c: 900+ | ♡masterlist♡

He's harmless.

Something soft and tender, a lover who hasn't known anything but such a life. Something raised precious, given a large room and the sweetest, choicest food. He never learned how to work, beyond the lightest tasks. He never had to. He was supposed to find a queen, and he was to die as he lay with her.

He was born too late for that.

Winter came, and he was cast out by his kin. The sisters that fed and raised him now sent him to die. He would be a burden to the hive otherwise. When he tried to return, they threw him out again. When he tried once more, they chewed away his wings, the only way he had ever been of help to anyone, even if it was a mere task of casting a breeze for his kin.

He was born too late to die happy, and so he would die by the cold, abandoned for being too soft, too tender, too useless, even if he was raised as such, even if he never had a choice but to be so.

He cannot work. He cannot fight. He only knows how to be pretty, and even that has been ruined by the scars from his forceful exile.

He's harmless, so you take him in.

You're a traveler, a messenger, a courier for messages that require the utmost secrecy. In the lull between delivering the words of the elite, you find your pleasures in the pretty sights you see in your travels, and in mundane messages between the common folk.

He is something small and light. It is not difficult to take him with you to southern lands, away from his cold kingdom. You share with him your modest fare, your warmth on cold nights, your words until he understands them, though his mouth cannot quite form your language.

He's a pretty thing with big, dark eyes and soft fur. He's a clever thing, quick to learn, to understand. He is useful the moment he can be, a watchman on dark nights, with his glimmering gaze and the knife you gave him. His frame, thin and frail from the elements and his abandonment, fills out under your care, and he grows to tower over you, and help you carry your heavier loads.

He is useful, isn't he? He is. He has to be, or you will tire of him, and cast him aside.

He will work. No matter the burden or trial or task, he will succeed or die trying. You say you have no such burdens, but he vows it all the same, with his odd, chittering tongue.

He will bite. He will fight with fang and the stinger you gifted him. He will rend and tear until nothing remains of whatever beast may come, and bring you the spoils so that you can praise him for his good work.

He will be soft and pretty if that's what you prefer, something soft and warm to hold onto when the day is long and hard, and you'd like more of a pet than a person to soothe your strife.

It must be his nature that he prefers the last of these. That despite however much he thinks he may have grown from what fate had for him, what he likes best is to be held close by you-

How could he not adore you though? You who saw such a useless creature and deigned to give him the time to learn. How could he not think you as anything but worthy of all his paltry love? You are his wings, his sun, his queen, and he thinks sometimes, of how he was meant to die in the peak of bliss, but that even a peaceful moment just by your side is something that he revels in far beyond any memory of his indulgent youth. If happiness is death then he has died a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand times since you found him, from every moment that he is in your presence, your stern care and steadfast patience that pushed him to change.

It has to mean something, doesn't it? That you have built him up into such a being, a creature strong and capable, that you crafted him with such a heart that beats for you alone. All he is, then, all he does, then, is something born from your own doing, to turn him into this.

Whatever he breaks could only be so destroyed because you fed him until he was strong. Whatever he builds could only stand because you encouraged him to learn. Whether his hands are dyed red by beast or man, they are offerings to the one who pressed the dagger into his palm.

If you end up alone and trapped, unable to use the legs you loved to travel with nor see the sights you so adored, if you can do nothing but drown in the sweetness that you drew out from him, are you not in a cell of your own creation?

He was only a harmless thing until you took him, and helped him become more.

Perhaps your patience will wear thin before then. Perhaps you will strike him with your own present, tear yourself away from him like his wings once were, banish him from sight and cast him out of your warmth and into the cold again-

But even if you choose to end his life, why wouldn't he be glad to die at your hand? Why wouldn't it be his greatest joy to give you even a little happiness through the only thing he can give?

After all, his life was already yours to take, and he was always meant to perish by his love for his queen.

♡ a/n: Shout out to @monstermunchmurder whose tags and replies and asks have single-handedly given me the motivation work on some wips I had for this blog. Um. Hope you don't mind being tagged on the bee one?

[arty-e]

I love my bees so I’ve drawn one of the colonies/hive. Our first queen bee is called Nessa, she’s long, slim and dark so I made her goth here

It’s not the best photo of her but it was the first time we spotted her (she now has a yellow spot on her back to find her better) tw: bee/bugs, trypophobia

[moonst0ne07]

big animation is kinda shit. It seems small creatives with big dreams are making the best stuff right now. Like, Helluva Boss, Murder Drones, Bee and PuppyCat, Nimona, and The Owl House are phenomenal. And you know why they are phenomenal? Because its either small studios or big companies letting a few creatives run wild. Let artists cook. Fuck big corporations. Free art!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gravityglitch-blog]

"Stardust Waltz"

First day of Murder Drones week, hosted by @space-dem0n. I chose the prompt "stars".

I've wanted to draw N and Uzi dancing in space ever since I saw the closing scene of episode seven. Given the prompt and my current favorite song, I had to try.

Here's the song that largely sparked this drawing, "So Much (for) Stardust" by Fall Out Boy.

[sofialily440]

Feel free to reblog with any other animated series that I have missed!

[kartoonkane]

Beatrix the bee guard

[ilanprofile]

ILAN_PROFILE'S FANTASY / MYSTERY CARTOON GUIDE

Looking for Cartoons to Watch? Need a Guide for Animated Shows? Are you a Beginner or a Pro in watching TV shows? THIS ARE ALL THE MYSTERY / FANTASY CARTOONS I RECOMMEND!

About Each Section:

WATCH THIS: Shows I think are a MUST Watch for anybody getting into cartoons

NEW CARTOONS: Ongoing shows premiered in the past 2-3 years

STILL RELEVANT: Older shows / Already finished shows that still get a lot of attention nowdays

BONUS MENTIONS: Other Shows I havent watched that much of or arent as widely known as the others above

STORYDRIVEN: Fully serialized shows with lot of conitnuity

SEMI-EPISODIC: Shows with an ongoing story but also have self contained arcs

EPISODIC: Shows with minimal continuity, you can watch basically any episode

DISCLAIMER: I tried to limit myself to only 1-2 shows of each IP, UNLESS each of them feels too different from one or another (Like The Looney Tunes Show vs the classic Looney Tunes Cartoons) or you need to watch all shows together to get the full narrative (Ben 10 -> Alien Force -> Ultimate Alien -> Omniverse)

[ratcandy]

Ok. Look at this for a second ok?

wasps

zasp

general ultimax/fuff

wayde

voi

reeves

bees

crisbee

ants

n/a

What’s all this? Well let me Tell You: this is a (possibly non-comprehensive) list of all the bugs (hymenopterans specifically) in bug fables who go by he/him pronouns yet have stingers .

For those who do not know, Stingers are modified ovipositors. IRL, bugs born male generally Do Not have stingers, seeing as ovipositors are an egg-laying organ. notice: there are 5 total wasps, 1 bee, and no ants (the only ant who goes by he/him in the game is Monsieur Scarlet, and he does not have a stinger - but this isn't really noteworthy because None of the ants in-game are drawn with stingers).

so like. My question is . What's going on with the wasps. I mean I’m pretty sure literally all wasps we see with he/him pronouns have stingers. Is it just because drone wasps are born less often or Do you guys think wasps are more predispositioned to be trans/transmasc specifically. I would chalk this up to the devs just not knowing if they hadn’t shown at least a Little understanding of bug biology already . Maybe they don’t know about the stinger thing but STILL.

I want to talk about the lore implications .Can we talk about it can someone worldbuild this with me can someone hold my hand and frolic with me. Does anyone want to live in this beautiful world with me

(for anyone wondering - no i have not been able to find any transfem characters thru the same means... nor through the means of Wings (male ants will typically have wings)... unless you want to count Bumble and Rebelle, who as velvet ants should absolutely have Very Large stingers, but seeing as neither have wings and velvet ant stingers don’t Jut Out as other wasps’ do anyway… mmmmwho knows) (that is unless you want to argue all the ants in the game EXCEPT Monsieur Scarlet are trans because none of them are drawn with stingers) (which would be incredibly funny . all things considered)

ok That’s my trans bugs post. If I missed anyone pleas tell me I’d love to update my list. And if you want to talk about how wasps are more likely to be trans u should talk to me about that too

CORRECTIONS / ADDITIONS (edited due to replies):

Removed Ritchee from the list since Ritchee's pronouns are confirmed she/her in the artbook

Rebelle and Bumble are shown in concept art to have wings, so HEY, we might Actually have Two transfem characters ,

Carmina is another velvet ant in a similar situation as those two (no wings nor stinger, so ?) who I Forgor about

[electrozeistyking]

Does Bea also do this?

Yeah, I’d say so. Bea on her way to eat bees-

[cyngoesbrr]

Cyn touches grass [canon]

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[pineonthehillside]

The drawing I was supposed to do for the guy back in February..