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Those rule, and make me slightly nostalgic. I'm really glad they got waffle images back so those memories didn't get lost to the sands of time and digital entropy
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RocketMermaid posted:YOU MUST EXPLOIT ADDITIONAL MORONS
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Kitfox88 posted:we get lots of carpenter bees every summer and i love those fat dumb dipshits They're like bumblebees that got trade jobs 
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Plumber bees though...kinda tired of seeing all that bee buttcrack flying around
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I saw my first bumblebees on a trip to New Zealand recently (we don't have them in Australia) and I never thought a bee could be cute. They're little flying fuzzballs and I kinda want to gently pat one. I'd get stung so fuckin' fast.
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male carpenter bees have 1 white spot on their face and 0 stingers so you can just grab them and pat them if you want even with the female carpenter bees and bumblebees you p much have to grab them to get stung
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I think bumblebees bite. I have a very early memory of one mistaking my ankle for a flower?? and attacking the poo poo out of it while i ran around screaming. Took like 10 years for the weird dry patch of skin it caused to heal out.
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Chubby Henparty posted:I think bumblebees bite. I have a very early memory of one mistaking my ankle for a flower?? and attacking the poo poo out of it while i ran around screaming. Took like 10 years for the weird dry patch of skin it caused to heal out. bumblebees aren't aggressive but they have straight stingers so if one gets angry at you it will sting you infinity times when I was 5 one got stuck between my sandal and my foot and it stung the absolute poo poo out of me
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cock hero flux posted:bumblebees aren't aggressive but they have straight stingers so if one gets angry at you it will sting you infinity times Isn't that wasps and hornets? I thought they were the ones that could do multiple attacks like an rear end in a top hat, but bees commit suicide by stinger.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Isn't that wasps and hornets? I thought they were the ones that could do multiple attacks like an rear end in a top hat, but bees commit suicide by stinger. That’s honeybees
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Captain Hygiene posted:Isn't that wasps and hornets? I thought they were the ones that could do multiple attacks like an rear end in a top hat, but bees commit suicide by stinger. Nope. Fuzzy bros and sisters can sting multiple times. Honey bees have the barbed stingers which stick into fleshy critters like us.
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CzarChasm posted:Nope. Fuzzy bros and sisters can sting multiple times. Honey bees have the barbed stingers which stick into fleshy critters like us. bumblebee stings aren't too bad, and bumblebees are p chill. imagine i posted the see you in hell tweet. e: actually fuckit 
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Oh huh, I thought all those bees had the same kind of stinger. This thread was the last place I expected to get slammed with some bee facts!
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On the subject, not all wasps are rage monsters fueled on pain, suffering, and death and our focus on rehabbing bees so exclusively is loving up other species to our own detriment.
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admins please immediately check whether this poster is in fact a group of wasps
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The dangerous wasps are a subset of the social ones and I am a goon and thus ergo can not qualify. QED.
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Dameius posted:The dangerous wasps are a subset of the social ones and I am a goon and thus ergo can not qualify. I have a feeling much of these forums are descended directly from WASPs
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:admins please immediately check whether this poster is in fact a group of wasps According to well-established avatar law, they are clearly a musical skeleton, no need to investigate further
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Wasps get into your personal space a bit too much but on the plus side they look loving awesome so I'm generally not too bothered. Just chill and gently fan/move them away so they don't feel threatened and they'll move on. They'll only sting you if you're panicking and aggressive but like, if a giant started jumping around trying to kill me I wouldn't be too kind either so I can't blame them. They're like gently caress you, you got all this good stuff and won't miss the tiny amount I need so just let me have some of it and I'm like, yeah, fair actually, and I know I'm a giant threat so lemme just be a bit mindful of that and not make you feel like you're in danger. Bees are chill bros who just fly up, don't get too close, sample wharever flower or sweet you have nearby and when they notice you they're like poo poo, my bad, lemme get out of your space. Which is super cool of them. Bumblebees are doofuses who don't look where they're going so they bump into you and they don't seem to have the space of mind to even apologise, they'll just move on to the next thing without even so much as an acknowledgement. On the plus side, they'll just as easily keep you company sampling that sweet nectar of the flower right next to you while humming that jazzy buzz. They're all cool as gently caress. The real assholes are mosquitoes and flies.
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Taeke posted:The real assholes are mosquitoes and flies. Someone who knows more please correct me if I remember wrong, but I coulda swore I came across some study that basically concluded that there is nothing in nature that is critically dependent on the existence of mosquitos so if they were wiped out it wouldn't cause large unintended knock on effects.
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long as we're having a hymenoptera lovedump I was having breakfast outside on Sunday and a yellow jacket was loving around and generally being a nuisance, per usual. it finally landed on my plate and tried to fly away with a small piece of scrambled egg, but the food was too heavy. so I carefully slid my knife in front of it and cut the already tiny piece of egg in half and it flew away with the half it had already latched onto and didn't return. by far my most pleasant interaction with the copperheads of teh sky
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Dameius posted:Someone who knows more please correct me if I remember wrong, but I coulda swore I came across some study that basically concluded that there is nothing in nature that is critically dependent on the existence of mosquitos so if they were wiped out it wouldn't cause large unintended knock on effects. Mosquitoes are pollinators. Removing them from an ecosystem is a Bad Idea.
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Yeah, also a lot of little bats eat a gently caress-ton of mosquito
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good. slay the bats also it was one of the many hundred species of mosquito, rather than all mosquitos forever
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Empty Sandwich posted:hymenoptera lovedump What's the limit on username length?
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Good news, the humans are genociding themselves so we should be rid of them within soon.
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Dameius posted:Someone who knows more please correct me if I remember wrong, but I coulda swore I came across some study that basically concluded that there is nothing in nature that is critically dependent on the existence of mosquitos so if they were wiped out it wouldn't cause large unintended knock on effects. They're pretty significant general pollinators, but honestly I don't know if any particular type of flower has developed an exclusive symbiosis with them. Still, we need to preserve pollinators as much as possible, what with so many species teetering on the edge. Which means that mosquitoes should be (grudgingly) kept around. gently caress each and every Plasmodium, though. Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:good. slay the bats Oh and a hearty and cheerful gently caress you too. Bats are awesome.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:They're pretty significant general pollinators, but honestly I don't know if any particular type of flower has developed an exclusive symbiosis with them. Here in Melbourne Australia our mosquitoes are spreading the flesh-eating buruli virus (possibly spreading it to possums first, who then pass it on to humans? We're not real sure) which I would sure love to avoid if at all humanly possible. 
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bats would also absolutely spread that flesh-eating virus if they could. if they knew about it they would stop eating the mosquitos
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia our mosquitoes are spreading the flesh-eating buruli virus (possibly spreading it to possums first, who then pass it on to humans? We're not real sure) which I would sure love to avoid if at all humanly possible. I was confused for a second why people weren't naturally repulsed enough by possums to stay away from them at all costs, then I remembered Australia inexplicably got the adorable version and we got stuck with the dumb garbage ones  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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My parents had a sliding glass back door and one time my sister locked me out. I banged on the door not realizing there was a giant wasp nest at the top. I got stung 20-30 times in the head. The headache was incredible, my head was throbbing with the universe itself.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:admins please immediately check whether this poster is in fact a group of wasps I traced their IP and I’ve got bad news https://twitter.com/BunkiePerkins/status/1719377676429819914
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I'm really pissed that the Name of the Year bracket died a few years back. Amillion Buggs would have been a solid contender.
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Freaquency posted:I traced their IP and I’ve got bad news Better name his son Abillion 
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Cthulu Carl posted:Better name his son Abillion “Amilliard”, surely.
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Captain Hygiene posted:(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Fair and just
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:bats would also absolutely spread that flesh-eating virus if they could. if they knew about it they would stop eating the mosquitos Why would you say that about the nz 2021 bird of the year https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-zealands-long-tailed-bat-is-crowned-bird-of-the-year-180978979/
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm really pissed that the Name of the Year bracket died a few years back. Amillion Buggs would have been a solid contender. that's a guy who can never have a normal phone conversation "Hello, am I speaking with Amillion Buggs?" terrifyingly loud buzzing
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