People dying from getting stabbed by their pet bees.
Bee Brushie
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 month ago
addie@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Bad for the bee as well…
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally avoid doing so. Dying after one sting is specific to honey bees.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
Amro@piefed.social 1 month ago
“Igor, bring me the CRISPR machine!!! Let’s manipulate some fuzzy genes… Muhahaha!!!”
Drusas@fedia.io 1 month ago
I've seen this before and love it, but I'm pretty sure that bumblebees do not form colonies like this.
tae_glas@slrpnk.net 1 month 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
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Drusas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Very interesting, thank you. I'm more familiar with bumblebees who burrow underground.
akwd169@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
WE NEED CAT SIZED BEES STAT
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good to know at least one issue can be solved in today’s world!
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
With genetic engineering?
cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Would you rather…groom a kitten-size bumble bee or be kitten-sized being groomed by bumble bees?
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 month ago
Probably
Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
how…how many bumblebees?
cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Enough to be pleasant, not enough to be terrifying.
webpack@ani.social 1 month ago
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I would not want a wasp the size of a kitten though.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Australia could use them to help with the rat problem.
Drusas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Along with probably every city in the world.
jim_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Would you rather fight one kitten-sized wasp or 100 wasp-sized kittens?
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 month 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.