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Unpacking the Backlash Against the TikTok Bee Lady Mia Mercado © Getty Images/Texas Beeworks/TikTok Getty Images/Texas Beeworks/TikTok Oh, honey, we’ve got bee drama. Popular TikTok account Texas Beeworks is facing backlash for its bee-removal and beekeeping videos. Texas Beeworks’ Erika Thompson (a.k.a. the TikTok Bee Lady) is best known for videos that show her gently scooping up dozens of bees with her bare hands. They’re usually accompanied by a soft-spoken voice-ov...

Erika Thompson of Texas Beeworks, who has a big platform on TikTok faces accusations of faking and staging her videos.

Bees have been getting quite a lot of attention lately as this time of the year means National Bee Day. It all started with a mesmerizing photoshoot of Angelina Jolie covered in bees for the cover of National Geographic as a homage to Richard Avedon, and raising awareness of these vital insects in our world. As many eyes were on bees already, this video emerging from the depths of TikTok showing a professional beekeeper scooping handfuls of insects into their new home went absolutely viral with...

Colossal Bee Colony Invades Womans Home For Third Time in 5 Years On 4/30/21 at 12:46 PM EDT An enormous colony of bees have made themselves at home in a womans ceiling for the third time, despite multiple attempts to remove the persistent insects. Lisa Ohrmundt was shocked to find at least 100,000 of the flying insects had, again, set up residence in the ceiling of her living room in Decatur, Georgia. Bee removal expert Bobby Chaisson took away the hive on Wednesday afternoon, having already e...

A few years ago, when Erika Thompson was living in Austin, she came across a dove languishing on the sidewalk. She scooped the dove up, took him home, and nursed him back to health. Thompson hoped to release him into the wild when he was ready, but he refused to fly. The dove, Lime, now perches on the back of one of Thompson’s dogs, a wiry mutt named Shelby. “We think Lime likes the fur,” Thompson says, watching the pair serenely for a few seconds. The cross-species harmony is broken when...

A day in the not-so-secret life of bees.

Hobby Farms Beekeeper Erika Thompson Proudly Feels Emotional About Her 5 Million Bees The Texas-based TikTok sensation tells us how humans could learn a lot from being more like the 5 million bees she keeps at her Austin home. 3K views PHOTO: Amanda Jewell Saunders “I absolutely feel an emotional attachment to my bees,” says Erika Thompson, an Austin-based beekeeper who cares for around 5 million of the insects at her ...