Just wait until they build one on the back of a snail.
THEY'RE EVOLVING
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Triumph@fedia.io 22 hours ago
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
For the people less chronically online than apparently @Triumph@fedia.io and myself. lemmy.ca/post/52674587
Hux@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
A bee-craft carrier?
My god…
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
That’s a fun idea for a game. You’re growing a bee colony that has evolved a symbiotic relationship with a species of snail. They feed and defend the snail, while they build the nest on the back.
just2look@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
You should check out the game Wandering Village. Its not bees and snails, but you do build a village on a giant beast that you can feed.
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
That snail that will kill you on touch just got an upgrade.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
That reminds me there’s a game called Shadows of Doubt where you are a detective in a dystopian cyber noir world where corporations run everything.
Anyway they just added a mode to have the damned snail always after you while you’re trying to take on jobs and solve crimes
Routhinator@startrek.website 10 hours ago
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Wait until you find thier storage area. It will be a rock that you overturn, or maybe a space between two boards filled with paralyzed spiders and other insects … Google it if you dare.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?
RedSnt@feddit.dk 21 hours ago
Poor bees. That’s got to be hurting them, right? Isn’t concrete caustic?
marcos@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I imagine if it hurt, they would pick some other material.
They mix it with some material they produce, so it won’t behave like pure cement. Also, after you mix it, concrete isn’t caustic.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 21 hours ago
Good point.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
Very, cement has a pH of around 11
hOrni@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
How long do we have till they discover reinforced concrete.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
7years. Nuclear weapons by 11years.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
That’s a bit slow for a Factorio run, but impressive nonetheless.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Someone else in the thread just broke the bad news, they’re already there:
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Bee AI powered drones in 14 years
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
As covered in the documentary Wax, Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Typical mud wasps, a decade late to the crocs craze.
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It could be worse… radioactive wasps
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
enjoy the lyme. little dumbasses, suck my dick
- me who couldn’t make a leanto in the forest because it’s cold and there’s bugs
BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 18 hours ago
Those are wasps, buddy, and it’s going to get worse.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
that’s some hardcore Resident Evil shit.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
if you get too close, they will poke you with tiny bee spears too
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Metal bees.
vodam@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
another bee W
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
That’s awesome
shalafi@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Struggling with believing this due to the nature of wet concrete. Maybe there’s not enough water in their saliva to trigger the reactions?
TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I call BS. All their nest here look like this because we have grey clay soil. I’ve actually never seen a brown nest.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 hours ago
Not knowing the name of a bug is barely evidence of anything, but otherwise I agree. I’ve never seen any kind of wasp nest or even dried mud period that was actually brown and not a whitish, ashy, tan to gray.
shifty@leminal.space 21 hours ago
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Ah, so real life then.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 20 hours 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!
BanMe@lemmy.world 17 hours 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?
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Shop vac?
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
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.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Bees are technically a kind of wasp.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
Does it come with a cask of good wine?
Midnitte@beehaw.org 16 hours ago
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