Full of spiders.
I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.
So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?
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shifty@leminal.space 1 day ago
Full of spiders.
I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.
So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?
Shop vac?
You still kinda have to smash them with a mallet.
Or even grosser melt them with a wet rag :(
Yeah, never heard them called mud bees. Only ever heard them as dirt / mud daubers, and they’re very obviously wasps.
They don’t hurt as much as you’d think, but you’ll still feel it for a day or two
My grandma used to tell me they don’t sting so I wouldn’t freak out when one was near me. Little kid me was a gullible fool.
They can sting, but they (anecdotally) sting less readily than some other species of wasps. I’ve been around them all my life and never have been stung. But, I’ve never intentionally messed with them. On the other hand, I’ve been stung by a couple other species that were far less patient with my presence in their general area.
mud daubers usually are as far from aggressive as yellow jackets are assholes.
Lol my dad did the same. I never got stung tho and avoided some anxiety
I’m ngl I also got told that and believed it. I don’t really feel very gullible since I’ve never actually been stung by one? Even destroying their nests doesn’t seem to make them aggressive.
Bees are technically a kind of wasp.
If I am understanding the chart here correctly, bees are not a type of wasp. Bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies are all Hymenopterans, but distinct from each other.
That graph Does contain bees.
To be specific, bees are a “Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa” of wasps, since they are within Apocrita.
The common-language definition of wasp is literally “A member of Apocrita … except bees (and ants)”.
It’s the same situation as saying a chicken is a dinosaur, and why the field often uses “non-avian dinosaurs” instead for clarity.
Further, the typical wasp, the yellow-jacket, is actually way closer to the bee within Apocrita. Take this wikipedia diagram from the Aculeta article:
So if you want to exclude wasps and bees at the level of Apocrita, you’d have to turn yellow-jackets into bees.
Does it come with a cask of good wine?
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ah, so real life then.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yes, it certainly bears semblance to my first 9 months in solitary confinement, before the hag dragged me out from her wretched womb. Curse you vile woman!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 22 hours ago
BigDanishGuy I said no toys at the table.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
This isn’t a toy, it’s a revolution! proudly waves the vibrator