• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Growing up on acreage that used to be an orchard, I would spend my autumn days walking around with an aluminum bat, smashing every single apple with wasps or hornets feeding upon it. I miss those days.

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        54 months ago

        Surprisingly not. They were usually disoriented from eating fermented apple. Aggressive enough to fly around angrily when you came near, but never quote coordinated enough to land a sting. I revived far more stings from trying to catch honeybees in jars, which I feel bad about in retrospect and definitely deserved. I never intended to hurt or kill the honeybees, though. Just the hornets.

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      14 months ago

      Kids can be dumbasses. And needlessly cruel. Been there myself. I sometimes would like to slap the shit out of kid me for stupid things I did.

  • Bob
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    5 months ago

    These wasps are malic-ious.

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      24 months ago

      AAAAHH AAAAAH THE BEEES THE BEES THEY’RE STINGING MY EYES, although the appetizer is still better than Applebee’s.

  • @wheeldawg
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    Every bug that is black and yellow and can sting is a bee.

    That’s all anyone needs to know.

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      155 months ago

      No no no. Bees are bumbly friendly yellow and black little bubbles of fluff.

      Wasps are murder stripes.

      • Funkytom467
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        44 months ago

        Bumblebee are extremely cute too, very peaceful and extra fluffy.

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          34 months ago

          I have carpenter bees by my house. They sound like an air raid, but they’re hilarious the way they just bump into things.

          • Funkytom467
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            14 months ago

            Ho cool, I’ve just learned about them, they are not common where i live. They seem fun haha!

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        -24 months ago

        Most types of wasps can’t even sting. And even the stinging ones are harmless if left alone and useful insects.