The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea is now a backyard beekeeper

When Flea isn't parading around on stage in nothing but a sock, he actually wears a surprising amount of clothing. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist has to, or he probably wouldn't get along very well with the 200,000 bees in his backyard.

Flea is actually a beekeeper now, TMZ reports, and it's an assertion easily confirmed by his delightful Instagram account:

Flea reportedly picked up the hobby a few months ago as a way of doing some good for the environment: Scientists say honeybees are dying off.

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What a noble, solitary cause. It's hard to believe that there's nobody out there, it's hard to believe that Flea's all alone... with hordes of stinging insects.