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Bees
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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cloudless@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
*Beeality
Also, wasps will just sting you because “fuck you.” Fuck that. Burn in heck.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wasps stung a man in Reno just to watch him cry.
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
i’ve met some friendly wasps, heck i’ve met more friendly wasps then the evil ones
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve had a wasp fly up to me, land on me, sting me, and fly off, for no fucking reason! It has happened more than once. They’re assholes.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you the wasp whisperer? The wasperer?
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have the same experience. I act very carefully around them not to threaten them. I also put a tiny bit of my food on the side for them when they get interested - I love watching them eat. They’re like little insect tigers - striped, fierce, but tiny!
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They don’t do that with me. A wasp stung me once because it was in my shoe, so I was obviously perceived as a threat when trying to put it on. I think there was another time but I don’t remember, I might’ve touched it first as well. The rest of the time, wasps seem to respect me, and it’s mutual. I’ve had wasps centimetres away from my face, but I never flinch and I’ve never regretted not flinching. Took more hits from people trying to kill wasps than from the wasps themselves.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I’ve had a wasp sting me just because I deserve to get fucked, I suppose. It just flew up, landed on my hand, sting me, then fucked off back to whichever circle of hell whence it emerged. There were dozens of other people around, but the allergic teenager was the only one who needed to have their weekend ruined.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The wasp stings me to protect its family, I kill the wasp to protect mine. Glad it’s me who’s the giant.
mearce@programming.dev 2 months ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That was the one that made me realize I’d outgrown the series. Dunno if old RL was really phoning that one in or what, but one of his chapter cliffhangers ended with “and the dragonfly bit me in half!” Then the next chapter started with “But it was just my imagination.”
Hlodwig@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Common wasp and germanicus vespula (european wasp) are both considered pest. Both dont pollinate. And both kill and destroy other friendly species when they do not harass you to steal your food. Same for asiatic and common hornet.
All other wasp and hornet like the blue hornet are friendly and help the ecosystem. But you will rarely encounter them cause they let you the fuck alone and mind their own business…
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They ARE in fact both pollinators! I get the wasp hate, but they are rather misunderstood, that’s what the meme is about! Depending on the region you live in, learn which wasp and bee species are invasive in your area and support the native ones (including the common wasp and germanicus vespula).
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I try to give paper wasps a pass if I randomly see them, but if they come inside or start a nest in outdoor equipment, they’re gone. They only get consideration because they’re pollinators and generally not aggressive, but they still will attack so my patience is thin.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Okay, but bumblebees are the best though. Even fluffier than honey bees, and they almost never sting humans.
Sadly they’re also one of the types of bee that’s losing out in their native habitats to human supported honey bees.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Carpenter bees
zephr_c@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Carpenter bees are also cool. Not as fluffy as bumblebees though.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok fair but of the choices to have buzzing near me, I’m still picking the bee every time.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, but wasps made a nest right by our front door, and have the audacity to sting me when I simply walked outside. Maybe not assholes on purpose, but they deserved what they got.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
are you under the impression wasps understand the concept of front doors?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m under the impression that wasps know what being an asshole means because they’re very good at it.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 months ago
but they deserved what they got.
The Ellen Ripley special?
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 2 months ago
Nope. Don’t care. I’m a scientific realist. 99.999% of the time I educate myself on matters such as these if I am misinformed, and change my stance promptly based on new information.
But not in this case.
Fuck this meme, fuck this info, and fuck wasps.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
in what sense are you a realist
TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They really exist
Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Guy in active denial: “I’m a realist”
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
the reality that hornets are miserable dickwads who exist to torture humans specifically.
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 2 months ago
🙄 troll on
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At least educate youtself on the bee part, it’s really interesting!
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 2 months ago
Yeah, they are, just really hate wasps and this was sort of a joke comment. Except for the hating wasps part. did I mention that?
ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Waspaganda!
Localhorst86@feddit.org 2 months ago
If wasps realize that I am a giant who can easily kill them, why are they so incessant on invading my personal space?
I’s like going to a kickboxing tournament as an untrained person and flipping off every kickboxer within kickboxing range, then slapping them when they tell you to fuck off.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 months ago
This.
“Ah, behold! A gargantuan dwelling of the giants! We’ll just put our giant clumpy mud hive right up here until we reproduce infinitely unchecked, and then perceive them as a threat for daring to venture outside! Peace an’ love y’all.”
“Ah hah! Look at this patch of grass! The giants stomp around here regularly. We shall burrow and hide beneath it, reacting with furious hellfire should we be tread on!”
“Avast, ye, mammal! You are within like a kilometer of my turf! Your life is hereby forfeit!”
–Various kinds of wasps, probably.
I’m all for letting things be(e), but I get pretty pissed when creatures have the audacity to attach to or otherwise colonize your dwelling and then get mad and violent that it’s your dwelling.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
jumping spiders are the invertebrates who know you’re effectively a god compared to them, they’ll just stand still and try not to be noticed, and if you start very obviously studying it they tend to realize there’s not much more they can do and they just study you back.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
that’ll learn 'em for having singers.
Did we just nuke Hollywood?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
can sting more than once
They have barbed stingers. Their stinger rips the bottom part of their abdomen off when they try to retract it. They don’t live through that.
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do you know why that would be a positive evolutionarily trait? Clearly, if they try to retract it, at some point in the history they must have been able to do so.
Muehe@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Because bee stingers are mostly used against other insects. They don’t get stuck in a chitin exoskeleton, only in the more flexible skin tissue of mammals. In insects the barbs instead pull out soft tissue from inside, thus making them more lethal (to the bees victim).
bouh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It makes it more dangerous : the sting is attach to the venom bag, so the venom bag gets to empty itself whole if it stays. Evolution would have chosen the survival of the hive, not the survival of the bee.
One thing is weird though : you can extract the sting of a wasp with a pincer. The wasp will live through it. Why do the bee dies when it loses it’s sting and not the wasp?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Bee genetics are wild and helped develop a system where it doesn’t matter that the workers have tendencies to off themselves.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The worker bees do not reproduce, so their survival after stinging is not that important.
ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
The are able to sting bears more than once
JillyB@beehaw.org 2 months ago
What pests are wasps and hornets killing? The wasps and hornets *are" the pests to me.
Alice@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Not sure about hornets, but I know wasps eat a lot of herbivorous bugs like aphids and caterpillars.
A lot of people see eating caterpillars as one of the “bad” things wasps do, but population control is necessary if we want crops.
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
All hornets are wasps.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To them you are a giant who can easily kill them
And I relish in proving them right. Fuck wasps and fuck your wasp propaganda.
I’ve given bees snacks when they’re tuckered out on a hot day. I’ve let them rest on me. But with wasps and hornets it’s on sight.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There are different kinds of wasps. Where I live, out of the many many kinds, only two are annoying in that they are aggressive and try to get your food. All others are chill and will leave you alone if you leave them alone. We had a nest outside our house one year. Often times, our paths would cross. A wasp would collide with us, just sit there in the air for a second, then fly around us. No time to chat, gotta get food for the hive. Also: bees and bumblebees will just take the day off if the weather is shitty. Wasps? MUST GET MORE FOOD. Hailstorm? Tornado? Lightning strikes five yards away? No excuse.
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a yellow jacket fly out of the blue then land on my heel and sting me for absolutely no reason! There wasn’t even a nest nearby!
Then a week later another yellow jacket landed on my arm and stung me right under my watch band
Pretty rude if you ask me
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know what you did.
DragonAce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have learned thru my years of gardening that wasps and hornets are a good thing to have around, not just bees. Not only do they help pollinate flowers, they are predators to some of the most annoying garden pests. I think I’ve counted at least 7 different wasp species in my garden this summer, they’ve done a great job keeping the larger pest populations manageable.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been stung about half a dozen times by wasps so far this year. They’re beginning to piss me off.
And as an adult, my sister stepped on a hornets nest and damn near ended up dead. 150 stings had her in ICU for 4 days.
multifariace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think wasps and hornets are beautiful, fascinating creatures. Most of them don’t mess with me even a few inches from a nest. There are one or two species that are looking for war and get the spray.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well maybe it would be easier to “Give them some Space” if their pupae didn’t completely cut off all their food processing in the fall leading to rampant aggression as they seek out sugary and fermented smells such as beer, fruits, and candy.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Tarantula Hawk
Wasp equivalent of an A-10 Warthog
Captures tarantulas in a way that resembles Tony Soprano disposing of a body
Doesn’t know what the fuck you’re staring at and doesn’t really care enough to stop what it’s doing
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Honest question: how do the typical bees (the big ones used for honey production) negatively affect native bee populations? Competition for polen?
Podicipedidae@mander.xyz 2 months ago
You basically got it. European honey bees consume the already dwindling nectar and pollen resources for North American native pollinators. Furthermore, European honey bees are also worse at actually pollinating North American flowers because they did not co-evolve with the species we have here.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re problematic even in their native range because people keep too many of them and they compete with other important pollinators, often other bee species. Honey bees don’t pollinate all species they take pollen and nectar from and those species are then not visited by their specialised pollinators, leading to decrease in numbers if both plants and pollinators.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Arent those conflicting statements? How can they be taking up all the pollen AND be worse pollinators?
propter_hog@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Based
Posadas@hexbear.net 2 months ago
casmael@lemm.ee 2 months ago
My my who is this hmm 🤔
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is just what they want you to believe
mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I hope somebody can help me with this: could a bee theoretically evolve to have a stronger stinger so that stinging a human’s skin multiple times would be possible?
If bees would evolve like other animals those who survive stinging humans would produce more offspring, but in this case only the queen produces offspring and the queen probably contact with human skin so this trait wouldn’t be favoured by evolution. Or am I looking at this wrong?
marilynia@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You also need to consider the overall health of the colony, since if the colony dies/gets outcompeted by other colonies, so will the queen
mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Thanks, that is a factor I hadn’t thought of
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Huh, this post has 2 examples of bees that can do that already.
xorollo@leminal.space 2 months ago
Add dirt daubers to the list. They’re my favorite. They build mud tunnels for their eggs and leave live paralyzed spiders in there for the babies to feed on when they hatch. They ignore humans.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
I saw these all the time as a kid, but I rarely do anymore. I still see other wasps somewhat often.
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 2 months ago
Wait, wasps are pollinators too?
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah. They usually pollinate my sweet toast in spring and my ham in late summer.
PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Wasp nest in wall, specialist comes out, sucks them all out, sprays commercial insecticide into wall cavity. Wasps that were out of nest at the time come back and get confused and piss off, couple days later they’re back and have found new unbefore seen holes to fly into, specialist tells me to buy trap and fill with meat. Buy canned ham and dump in trap. All wasps that came back are now in trap. Thanks Ham.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If the female wasp crawls into the caprifig, she can successfully lay her eggs and die. The males hatch first, mate with the females, dig tunnels out of the caprifig, and die. The females, now covered in fig pollen from the caprifig, fly out to begin the cycle again. If the female wasp crawls into a female fig, she will not be able to successfully lay her eggs despite pollinating the fig with pollen from the caprifig she hatched in. The fig will absorb her body and her eggs as the fruit develops.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Looks like their entire life is fucking and then dying immediately after. Aight, they can have a pass. Mainly because I’ll never see one in my life.
InternetPerson@lemmings.world 2 months ago
There are a lot of different species which serve as pollinators besides bees. Afaik, some are more specialised into specific flowers/plants than others and without them, these plants wouldn’t be able to reproduce. (Yucca moths for example.)
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, they are! They’re into sweet nectar - that’s why they also tend to visit our sweet drinks. The adults also sometimes search for bits of meat for the carnivorous larvae. In this mode they act like insect pest control.
EllyEinhorn@feddit.org 2 months ago
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TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wasp propaganda