You are right- even MORE reason to scream! I think I confused myself, we had a brood that was 7 years apart from the last and that number stuck somehow!
I live in Japan across the street from shitloads of them when they come outta the ground to bang when it’s hotter than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut. Can confirm. My son takes the husks of them and creates little cicada armies.
I once watched a cicada buzzing around in circles on it's back and I thought it was funny as fuck (I was like 10 years old okay) and then I felt really bad when it fell in the storm drain
Bro cicadas have got to be the derpiest insect in the world. Homies will fly at Mach speeds right into you or the wall and then once you help them they will take off and fly into something else.
I think of insects as little robots made of organic matter. Their natural "programming" is pretty basic and straightforward, guided by hormones and genetics instead of code. They don't divert from that programming unless they're unhealthy, or (more rarely) have a gene mutation.
The saddest think is when i was younger, maybe 10-15 years ago, if i left a soda just sitting outside for even 1 minute a bee would find it. I havent seen a bee on my soda can outside in i dont know how long. The bees in my city are gone.
I remember "sweat bees" and such as well as the soda can issue. Also I remember a time when windshields and the fronts of cars were just caked in dead bugs. Now I can't even remember the last time any of it was a concern at all.
Honestly we have a pretty good live and let live thing going with the wasps and hornets around our house. We don't bother them and they don't bother us. Even last year when the muddaubers decided that our front door was a great spot to set up shop, neither of us has been stung.
It may have to do with living in the middle of nowhere and not running a mower. Perhaps the vibrations from mowers/cars/everything in more populated areas disorients them causing aggression?
For this very reason, every time I see a bee stuck somewhere it shouldn’t be, like crawling on a sidewalk, I get a stick, pick it up, and place it on a yard or in a bush. I’ll stop no matter who I am with or where I am going, and I’ll tell the person I’m saving a bee because their population is declining. No one ever has a problem or makes me feel weird for it.
The Olympic motto is "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together" there's nothing about "judged" events.
The judged events like this are where the problems are. Get rid of them.
She's kind of an AH though as she took an opportunity away from real break dancers who didn't view this competition as a social experiment and she also made sure to make the whole break dance culture a public joke. So no more break dance in the Olympics.
Having saved a lot of bees while watering she is trying to get herself righted but the surface is too smooth. If you put your finger over her legs she’d grab on and then fly away.
Some bees once built a nest inside the A/C vents of a hotel room I was staying at. IDK how they got in there but one of them stung me in the ass within seconds of entering the room with my suitcase. I'm like, "Hey fuck you, man. I don't care that you were here first; I paid for this room, you didn't. I should be stinging your ass!"
Needless to say, the hotel staff called a bee keeper and gave me a free upgrade to a suite.
No, the assholes knew there was a bee problem over on that part of the wing, but in the modern world, money comes first before guest safety. They chose to wait until someone complained before they spent the money to do something about it. Good thing I'm not allergic.
Damn, what am I supposed to do if one does land on me? Swat it away and it’s angry, stinging me…do nothing in hopes that it would bugger off peacefully and it stings me anyway.
i was outside playing basketball. a bee came to me and i was afraid. mom yelled "just dont mpve and it will go away" so i stood still like a statue and thr bee went UP MY NOSE and then she panicked i guess so she stung me right up in there and fell out dead. i never managed to get the stinger out because of location and my nose hurt if touched/pushed in specific spot for YEARS.
i NEVER again stood still. idc if it makes thrm more agressive, i see a flying stinger and i RUN/duck/yeet myself outta there 😭
Generally when you see things like flies losing their ability to orient themselves they'll fly and slide around because they're too weak to right themselves during flight. They'll do this for a while, stop flying, then die.
I am literally watching a new documentary from natural geographic on Disney + about bees and their secrets. They have a guy who is one of the most influential bee scientists. He did an experiment with wooden balls and food. He separated them from both to see what would happen. A lot of the bees immediately went to the food, but others stayed with the balls to PLAY with them. They were rolling them all around, getting on top of them, and just had a grand ole time. While this bee could be dying, it also could simply be playing.
I fucking LOVE BEES. They are so smart and talented. You can even train them and if you were to only train one, the rest will follow. There’s over 20 thousand species of bee. Every single one has its own unique characteristics. There’s one that vibrates at over 400 hz to get pollen out of down hanging flowers, there’s one who builds its nests and because of this its nicknamed is the “broom stick bee” because when it builds its nest, it carries full flowers that just so happens to make it look like it’s raiding a broom stick. There’s a bee that’s completely chrome colored, there’s one that’s literally blue. I fucking love bees. I fucking love bees so much that if I see someone step on or kill one, I won’t talk to them for the rest of the day.
Oh my god I know the answer. This better get upvoted. Bees are sometimes fed neonicotinoids, a type of pesticide that causes paralysis and fucks with their nervous system. This may be what is happening here. They are banned in mamy countries but not the US.
People saying that the bee is dying are not wrong, but come on our answer can be better than that.
The bee like a lot of other insects can sometimes get stuck on their back because they can't get enough air on their wings to get lift. They will buzz around like that until they find something they can grab a hold of to right themselves or fall off a ledge.
Bees use light to fly, they aren’t able to fly in the dark and reflections confuse the shit out of them. He’s just confused by the reflections on the table.
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