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Highlighting the beauty and importance of our little bee friends. Putting a greater focus on the world’s native species in their native habitats. Founded 2008 · 148.6K members

149.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 30K upvotes, which works out to 201 per 1,000 members.

201peak upvotes per 1,000 members
149.6Kmembers
30Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
545posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 30% 29%
Gallery 30% Video 30% Image 29% Link 4% Question 4% Text 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

bee photo 105 question 58 bee 26 bee ID 22 help! 19 misc 14 no bee 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere

↑ 30K 💬 583 gallery 2026

The amount of hate and misinformation around wasps is very sad

↑ 14.8K 💬 1.4K image 2025

Anyone know what's going on with this bee?

↑ 11.6K 💬 890 video 2026

This little guy found him a gold mine!

↑ 10.9K 💬 307 image 2024

Blue-banded bee?

↑ 10.7K 💬 185 gallery 2026

Huge Bee or Bumblebee?

↑ 10.3K 💬 287 video 2026

This is why I pay for the internet

↑ 10.1K 💬 79 video 2025

16th-century beesuit I sewed for the opening of a new apiary at Oxford University

↑ 10.1K 💬 146 gallery 2026

Two bee, or not a bee... That is the question!

↑ 9.9K 💬 761 image 2024

I had a bee ding dong ditch me today

↑ 9.1K 💬 70 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/bees, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/bees?
r/bees describes itself this way: Highlighting the beauty and importance of our little bee friends. Putting a greater focus on the world’s native species in their native habitats. It was founded in 2008 and has 148.6K members.
How many members does r/bees have?
r/bees has about 149.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 545 of its posts; the biggest reached 30K upvotes, which is 201 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/bees?
"My friend keeps telling me to post my pet bumblebee Algernon somewhere" reached 30K upvotes and 583 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/bees.
What subreddits are similar to r/bees?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/bees?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are gallery posts and 30% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/bees?
Across 545 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 19:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 21:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/bees?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/bees has 6.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 192 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/bees, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.