nirdian: “ ladynovelist: “ The most British PSA you’ll ever read ” And also completely wrong in every way. The Bee: • Not a bee but a bumblebee. • Lives in small colonies (15-20 workers). • Doesn’t produce more honey than is needed for offspring. •...
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nirdian:

ladynovelist:

The most British PSA you’ll ever read

And also completely wrong in every way.

The Bee:

  • Not a bee but a bumblebee.
  • Lives in small colonies (15-20 workers).
  • Doesn’t produce more honey than is needed for offspring.
  • Doesn’t sting at all.

The actual bee:

  • Bees don’t die out of courtesy when they sting, they make sure that whatever they sting stays the fuck away from any bees in the future by leaving the stinger and poison glands behind inside the attacker to keep pumping poison. Also makes sure that the bee only stings if absolutely necessary for the survival of its brethren of the hive.
  • Does not give a toss what you think about it’s “job”.
  • Very endangered. Protect at all costs. Plant ALL THE FLOWERS! Everywhere!
  • Buzzing is a side-effect of staying afloat through magic.

The Wasp:

  • Cleaner. Keeps pests and carrion away by feeding it all to their larvae, or otherwise dispose of it. These guys keep all the other, actually harmful, crawlies at bay.
  • Does bugger all if you don’t fuckin’ sit on them or panic when they go near your jam-crusted lips that smell like high-sucrose liquids that’s their only sustenance. Just wave at them and they’ll buzz off. Or place a jam-filled whatever away from you or something. They’re smart enough to go for that instead of near the giant angry pink mountains of flesh that might kill them.
  • WILL EAT ALL OF YOUR WOODEN FURNITURE! They make their nests out of paper. And unless you want hundreds of lovely straight lines on all of your wooden stuff, treat that shit with something or cover it up when not using it.

(via nirdian)

Source: welightcandlesinthedark

Q:When I was a child, I saw something that changed my mind about wasps forever. My dad was doing some cabin construction work and I was hanging out at the site. Some other guy had half-crushed a wasp with a hammer, but it was still alive. As I watched, a second wasp flew to its side, and stroked it -actually stroked it, with what I can I can only describe as tenderness - with its antennae until the injured wasp stopped moving and died. Then the second wasp flew away, and I did not see it again.

glumshoe

zooophagous:

bogleech:

She was probably trying to communicate with her sister, probably trying to tell her to come back to the nest or share information about the area, and was very confused by the distorted responses she was getting, likely mixed with scent-based distress signals.

When the responses stopped, she probably went home and told the others to be on alert for danger :(

I’m not anthropomorphizing a bit here. Social wasps groom one another, share a LOT of information, get stressed when separated from their close relatives, and they recognize one another visually, like we humans do, by the fact that every single one has a unique face, even in the same “hive:”


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I almost feel bad for my seemingly irreparable phobia of them now.

Source: bogleech