THEY'RE EVOLVING
THEY'RE EVOLVING
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That's so cool. A few more hives and you can do dangerous bouldering
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Just wait until they build one on the back of a snail.
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For the people less chronically online than apparently @Triumph@fedia.io and myself. https://lemmy.ca/post/52674587
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A bee-craft carrier?
My god…
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That's a fun idea for a game. You're growing a bee colony that has evolved a symbiotic relationship with a species of snail. They feed and defend the snail, while they build the nest on the back.
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That snail that will kill you on touch just got an upgrade.
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That's cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I'm a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.
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Wait until you find thier storage area. It will be a rock that you overturn, or maybe a space between two boards filled with paralyzed spiders and other insects ... Google it if you dare.
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I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?
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The bees that live there:
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Poor bees. That's got to be hurting them, right? Isn't concrete caustic?
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I imagine if it hurt, they would pick some other material.
They mix it with some material they produce, so it won't behave like pure cement. Also, after you mix it, concrete isn't caustic.
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Good point.
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Very, cement has a pH of around 11
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It could be worse... radioactive wasps
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Typical mud wasps, a decade late to the crocs craze.
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Those are wasps, buddy, and it's going to get worse.
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that's some hardcore Resident Evil shit.
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if you get too close, they will poke you with tiny bee spears too
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enjoy the lyme. little dumbasses, suck my dick
me who couldn't make a leanto in the forest because it's cold and there's bugs
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Metal bees.
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That’s awesome
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another bee W
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You speculated correctly. The brood cannot escape. I even found a scientific paper about it: it: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328054285_A_Fatal_Nest_Construction_Man-mixed_Cement_Used_by_Mud-daubing_Wasps
Ah, so real life then.
Yes, it certainly bears semblance to my first 9 months in solitary confinement, before the hag dragged me out from her wretched womb. Curse you vile woman!
Yeah, never heard them called mud bees. Only ever heard them as dirt / mud daubers, and they're very obviously wasps.
They don't hurt as much as you'd think, but you'll still feel it for a day or two
My grandma used to tell me they don't sting so I wouldn't freak out when one was near me. Little kid me was a gullible fool.
Full of spiders.
I hate cleaning these up because they're fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.
So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?
Shop vac?
Does it come with a cask of good wine?
Bees are technically a kind of wasp.
If I am understanding the chart here correctly, bees are not a type of wasp. Bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies are all Hymenopterans, but distinct from each other.