I have a friend who despises puns. Thus I consider it incumbent upon me to share with her as many puns as I can. Thus, as we are going to talk about bee movies, which are also B-movies, this one’s for you, Tina! I got inspired by the news that the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered after almost a century-and-a-half. (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/02/worlds-largest-bee-rediscovered-not-extinct/?fbclid=IwAR3lNxilSDim-RLvv4nTPZB9k1iYbyI3WYrPQziSkQ9cJqchbgx7VFtXcFc)
(You know, with it being so big and all, I wouldn’t think it would be so hard to find.) The Wallace’s Giant Bee (scientific name MEGACHILE PLUTO, which also sounds like a snazzy Alternative band that once opened for the Red Hot Chili
Peppers) has been photographed alive and in the wild for the first time. That’s cool.
It also puts me in mind of movies like THE SWARM and its kith, THE DEADLY BEES, KILLER BEES, THE SAVAGE BEES, THE BEES, and DEADLY INVASION: THE KILLER BEE NIGHTMARE. I know that today these films are rightfully considered hokey as hell, but I sure loved ‘em as a kid. Still love ‘em for that matter. (Also I was in my 20s when DEADLY INVASION came out.) Now that we have a new giant bee to worry about (we should actually be worried about the poor creature being driven to extinction by pollution and deforestation rather than it bothering us), howzabout somebody makes a movie with a swarm of mutated, radioactive MEGACHILE PLUTOS?