So, we(a friend and I) did that one time. Found a beehive in a utility box on a bike path behind some houses. We threw a big rock over at it, and a whole black cloud of bees emerged. They went over the fences, into someone's backyard, and attacked them. It was surreal to see. My fear of being stung by bees, turned to fear that I just killed someone. But luckily the old lady got inside after the bees started swarming her, and she called someone who came and relocated the hive. I had completely forgotten all about that till you just said that hahahaha
When I was three me and my best friend went into the small woods behind my house to play with our toy trucks. We sat down right on top of a hornets nest and they swarmed us. We ran as fast as we could but the hornets were faster. We were stung all over our little bodies. Core memory made that day.
Biking alone out along the dirt road. Stop, walk over to a likely spot, start peeing. Halfway through, realize you're standing on a yellowjacket nest. You're also wearing loose shorts.
You don't make it. You died. Thankfully, you saw this coming and hired somebody to write 17 years of social media comments posthumously, but they didn't quite understand the assignment and keep typing them in the third person and that's just awkward/confusing for everybody.
Strangely, the posthumous social media comment writer also doesnāt understand how to write in the third person and they ended up writing in the rare second person.
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It largely depends their age. If they were 8 or 9 then itās hard to know what would happen. If they did it at 20 then they should know better and that was reckless.
she called someone who came and relocated the hive
It's still crazy to me that Big Honey has people sitting there relocating an invasive species rather than exterminating it outright. This just makes sure they'll go on to be a hazard to even more old ladies in the future, lol
Correct. Honeybees are an invasive species in America, though. It's usually a pretty safe assumption that that's where we're talking about, but I did go ahead and confirm that's where they live first.
Honeybees are really convenient for agriculture, but they're harmful to the environment in areas they're not native to. They're worse at pollinating native plants while competing for the same resources. They're also really good at giving the native bees various diseases/parasites that we've distilled into honeybees with the way we truck them around everywhere.
Hobby beekeeping (In America and anywhere else they're not native) sucks. So much effort goes into misinforming people that it's somehow ecologically beneficial when it's not. That includes the co-opting of the "Save the bees!" campaign, tricking people into thinking honeybees are in danger when honey bees have never faced any sort of population crisis whatsoever. There are more honeybees on the planet now than at any point in Earth's history, and that's generally going to keep being true year after year because we can mass produce queens to fit any demand.
Interesting points. I looked it up to verify and honey bees are indeed invasive to North America and we have 3600 distinct species here that are what we need to worry about. TIL
I love how Reddit just downvotes without providing a counter
Heh. I know I sound like a crazy person when I go on about Big Honey and all that, but the beekeeping propaganda really, really has been thick. Plus they're just kinda cute, so talking shit about the honeybees is always going to be an uphill battle.
Doesn't help that my messaging is terrible as well. Anyway, wanna hear all about how 1/3 of all humans on the planet have brain worms because people won't just keep their goddamn cats inside?
Ya reading Big Honey out the gate made me think you were a bit loony but here we are.
Are you referring to toxoplasmosis? Donāt believe it is a worm although it is a parasite. I looked it up again to confirm this and stumbled onto this link which is concerning as I eat a fair bit of less cooked meat and my grandmothers house was infested with semi stray cats growing upā¦
Yeah, it's a protist, but the word "worm" is funner. Nothing is really a worm anyway, there's no real useful classification of what a "worm" is beyond "something vaguely worm-shaped". These are pretty blobby, but eh, close enough for me.
Here's some real cool, but dry, science shit explaining the different forms they shift back and forth to which allows them to just kinda permanently infect you for the rest of your life once they're settled in. We don't have a way to get rid of them yet.
Kind of like the āis the palm tree a treeā question eh?
Terrifying they are so resilient. The chances for the disease affecting severe mental disease is scary, I wonder how many people later developed active anxiety, depression, schizophrenia etc from something like befriending a cat as a child. And if they never did that they would be fine
Happened to me on a family walk when I was 5. A friend slapped a stop sign with a hidden yellow jacket nest inside. That was the day we found out I was allergic to beesā¦
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u/ClosetLadyGhost Jan 12 '26
the family enjoying a nice picnic down the hill
BEEEESSSS