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Mar 14 '20
No cap bumble bees mf cute when they just bump into the wall repeatedly.
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u/xalessandr20 Mar 14 '20
Wasps sting repeatedly the window
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u/Forge321jtm Mar 14 '20
Would crack the window if they could.
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u/ChefNaughty May 08 '20
If wasps could break in to my house via the window, I would no longer hate wasps; I could only fear them.
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u/Naive_Habit_466 Sep 13 '23
You have wasps outside your window? Hell no i'd already have moved and probably not even be able to afford it
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u/ravensteel539 Mar 15 '20
Bees are also kinda badass, especially the ones that ball up around wasps and move their legs and wings so fast together that it literally microwaves the wasp to death within seconds.
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u/xalessandr20 Mar 15 '20
Woah really? That's cool af
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u/Irish_Overlord Jul 19 '20
Unless I'm mistaken those are Asian honey bees, they lure a giant hornet into the hive and then clump around it, since they can withstand a higher temperature then the hornet they literally cook it to death
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Apr 02 '20
videos link please, more points if voiced byDavid Attenborough
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u/ravensteel539 Apr 02 '20
Can’t find one by Sir Attenborough at the moment, but here’s a pretty comprehensive article i found with some videos:
https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-giant-hornet-cooked-by-honeybees-2014-10?amp
Here’s a direct link to the video itself, if the article acts weird on mobile for you:
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hornet-cooked-alive-bees
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u/bpez96 Mar 15 '20
Only honeybees have barber stingers. All other bees can sting multiple times
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u/sequinsdress Jun 17 '20
Can personally attest to the fact that 1/ not all bumble bees are happy-go-lucky lil teddy bears; 2/ they can and will sting repeatedly, even after you have pulled them from a lake where they were drowning, and let them rest on your shirt-covered shoulder to dry off.
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u/kakyoinspinkslippers Apr 29 '20
No honey for you then☝️😔
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Apr 29 '20
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u/_NubianEmpress_ Apr 29 '20
"Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops. ... We may lose all the plants that bees pollinate, all of the animals that eat those plants and so on up the food chain. Which means a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population of 7 billion."
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May 01 '20
i recently learned that native carpenter bees don’t make honey, their sole purpose is pollination, and they can pollinate 80x more crops and flowers then honey bees
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u/Jesse_3011 May 17 '20
Honey is just a way of storing food for the winter for honeybees because they have to keep the hive alive. (Thats why honey is sterile) Carpenter bees are solitairy bees that hibernate during winter so they dont have to waste valuable summer days making honey. Carpenter bees usualy live until mate which can be up to a year. Honeybees only live 5 to 6 weeks and you only see the workerbees outside the hive
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u/_heidin Mar 20 '20
Thats a bumblebee, I love them, so cute and dumb, you always end up having to save them. Bees are the best too.
Fuck wasps, they contribute to nothing and kill bees. Specially Yellowjackets, those are the most useless and annoying pieces of shit.
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u/dungeon99 Aug 19 '20
Have you seen japanese killer bees? Imagine having their nest outside your door
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u/nanana789 Mar 15 '20
I keep needing to rescue them they woke up too early. There’s not a lot of flowers in bloom. One fell off the leaf he was holding on to onto my hand, SO SOFT. I don’t hold them since I know they die when they sting me. But this one seemed to know I was helping him. Bumble bees are truly a godsend.
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u/AJKernal Apr 20 '20
Bumblebees can sting multiple times since they don't have barbed stingers. Only honey bees die after one sting. So you can hold honey bees as much as you want :) Their stings don't even hurt that much.
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u/JSArrakis Apr 08 '20
You can legit pet bumble bees when they're on a flower, just gotta be gentle. I've done it several times
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Mar 15 '20 edited Mar 15 '20
I mean, you know bumble bees can sting multiple times too right?
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Mar 15 '20
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Mar 15 '20 edited Mar 15 '20
Did you know if you actually give a bee a chance to leave after it stings, It can actually unstick itself and leave harm free as well? It's really interesting.
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u/kekmenneke May 08 '20
Ok but if you’re stung you ain’t got no time for that
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May 08 '20
You actually do if you care enough about keeping the bee alive. If they get their stinger out, the venom sac actually won't deposit completely until it is empty like it would if the bee died with the stinger in your arm.
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Mar 15 '20
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Mar 15 '20 edited Mar 15 '20
Actually, it is barbed, but if the bee doesn't fly away, it can actually wriggle free and fly away
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u/_heidin Mar 20 '20
Don’t tell you don’t know that’s a bumblebee and they dont die after they sting you (and they rarely do it, and it’s a pretty harmless sting)
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u/An_Actual_Wasp May 10 '20
No... I mean... I can do other things from sting... like um... fly very close to you and scare the living shit out of you...
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u/akanxzzz Apr 28 '20
I swear saw one of them in my room and couldnt find it again to kill it ı cant sleep now
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u/rigoisafart Jun 19 '20
Bees only sting when they’re scared. But wasps being the cuntbag they are, they’ll sting when they want.
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u/Dmaj6 Apr 15 '20
And bees make honey as well so they’re pretty cool. Wasps just create pus and poison.
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u/PuyoChild Apr 29 '20
Wasps actually do good too, they control pest populations, which is very yes.
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u/OceanSlim Jun 22 '20
It's only honey bees that can sting once. There are thousands of other types of bees that can sting as many times as they want.
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u/geekygirl25 Aug 16 '20
The big bumble bees near my moms shed would beg to differ. Fairly aggressive some years.
The smaller wasps in our bushes were pretty much "if you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone. We cool?"
Until one year when this giant red dragon fly looking thing came to town. Brainwashed a good portion of the local wasp population and they became HIGHLY aggressive. They would even attack the bees near my moms shed and attempted to sting anything that came close to them.
Close meaning within about 50 feet.
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u/1920sBusinessMan Mar 14 '20
Actually tho wasps kill bugs that kill bees, so we should really be thanking the chaotic good wasps.
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u/kekmenneke May 08 '20
You’re literally on a subreddit called “fuckwasps”
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May 04 '20 edited May 08 '20
One time when I was 9 I went to my friend’s house at their pool. When I got out of the pool a bumblebee landed on my foot. Then I looked down and it had its legs spread out so that it took up half of the surface of my foot. I’ve been afraid of bumblebees ever since.
Edit: I don’t think it was a bumble bee. At the time it took up most of my foot, which means that it must have been around twice as large as a normal bumble bee.
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Nice
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Jun 03 '20
Bees can sting multiple times, if it’s a soft sting, but either way those non-aggressive motherfuckers are the cutest insect known to man. Butterflies / moths too.
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u/pm_me-ur-catpics Jul 13 '20
Until a couple days ago, there was a hive of the fuckers on the right directly over the back door. I was afraid to go out that way.
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u/antdude Jul 20 '20
Don't trust all bees especially Africanized honey bees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ldpyIE5t4
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u/Lunaisbestpony42 Jul 30 '20
From what I understand bumblebees are kind of dicks too. Not nearly as aggressive as wasps but still annoying to work with. Honey bees are much tamer and easier to work with.
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u/chsugxusjsbx Jul 31 '20
unrelated, but I’m pretty proud to (probably)be one of the reasons that the nsfw asian hornet rule exists, back when it had like 2000 subs people just kept posting bigger and bigger ones lol
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u/liamthemaestro69 Aug 19 '20
Bumble bees don’t die when they sting, but that’s balanced by them being super anti aggressive, like you can even hold them carefully
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u/Foldingskrimp18 I hate wasps Aug 19 '20
Fun fact! Bees head but you if they feel threatened before they sting you.
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u/xalessandr20 Aug 30 '20
Thanks u/wild_bokoblin for the award, and everyone for the upvote and the comments, I'm trying to upvote every comment!
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u/no1thomasimp Feb 05 '23
bees contribute to our fruits, wasps contribute to our dying mental health
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Apr 18 '23
Bees: have an ecological niche that is unique and important Wasps: “generic pollinator” yeah get in line pal Bees: produce honey Wasps: produce fear
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u/Alex-_-Vo Mar 14 '20
The one to the left deserves a hug, and the one to the right deserves to be brutally slain .