Bee Brushie

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would not want a wasp the size of a kitten though.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Australia could use them to help with the rat problem.

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Along with probably every city in the world.

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  • jim_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would you rather fight one kitten-sized wasp or 100 wasp-sized kittens?

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    • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One kitten-sized wasp. I only have two arms and defending against a single thing is a lot easier than defending against 100 mini kitties hell bent on my destruction.

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    • luciferofastora@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll take the kittens. I’ll lose, but it’s a more dignified death than seizing up in panic and not even being able to defend myself.

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• el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People dying from getting stabbed by their pet bees.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bad for the bee as well…

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    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally avoid doing so. Dying after one sting is specific to honey bees.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would be so big you could put like a bouncey ball on the end to make it not pointy while you held it.

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• Amro@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Igor, bring me the CRISPR machine!!! Let’s manipulate some fuzzy genes… Muhahaha!!!”

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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I've seen this before and love it, but I'm pretty sure that bumblebees do not form colonies like this.

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  • tae_glas@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    bumblebees do form colonies with worker bees & drones & brood & a single queen, much like honeybees, but they’re much tinier than the ones you’d see honeybees in! sometimes they take over old bird boxes that’ve been abandoned, and they typically don’t even use up all the space there.

    they’re smaller colonies population-wise, too. there’d be like tens to hundreds of bumblebees in their colonies, compared to tens of thousands of honeybees in their colonies.

    idk how to add pictures to comments, but i recommend looking up pictures of them, they’re cute! bumblebee cells are just spheres, since they don’t have the numbers to require the intense efficiency of the classic honeybee hexagonal cells :D

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      CW trypophobia

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Very interesting, thank you. I'm more familiar with bumblebees who burrow underground.

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• akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WE NEED CAT SIZED BEES STAT

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good to know at least one issue can be solved in today’s world!

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With genetic engineering?

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• cosmictrickster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would you rather…groom a kitten-size bumble bee or be kitten-sized being groomed by bumble bees?

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how…how many bumblebees?

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    • cosmictrickster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enough to be pleasant, not enough to be terrifying.

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• webpack@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a story about big bees (manga) description: What if bees were big and fluffy? Like, really big and fluffy.

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