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eggseabutter 5 months ago
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Can you make a new yolk version of sonic 馃ス
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Here he is: Bee Bug !
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saucingitup 6 months ago
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and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)
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artifacts-and-arthropods 8 months ago
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Strange Bedfellows: these unprecedented photos show a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider
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I stumbled across these photos while I was looking up information on leafcutter bees, and I just thought that this was too cool not to share. Captured by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders, the photos were taken in Queensland, Australia several years ago, and they quickly garnered the attention of both entomologists and arachnologists.
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The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside as the bee approaches, allowing her to enter the nest, and then she simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.
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Once the leaf is in position, they seem to inspect the nest together, sitting side-by-side in the entryway; the bee eventually flies off again to gather more leaves, while the wolfspider climbs back into the burrow.
The leafcutter bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the wolfspider is equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.
The photographer encountered this bizarre scene by accident, and he then captured a series of images over the course of about 2 days (these are just a few of the photos that were taken). During that 2-day period, the bee was seen entering the nest with pieces of foliage dozens of times, gradually constructing the walls and brood chambers of its nest, and the spider was clearly occupying the same burrow, but they did not exhibit any signs of aggression toward one another.
The photos have been examined by various entomologists and arachnologists, and those experts seem ubiquitously surprised by the behavior that the images depict. The curator of entomology at Victoria Museum, Dr. Ken Walker, noted that this may be the very first time that this behavior has ever been documented, while Dr. Robert Raven, an arachnid expert at the Queensland Museum, described it as a "bizarre" situation.
This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.
Sources & More Info:
Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'
iNaturalist: Megachile macularis
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revretch 6 months ago
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Maybe it's just miserable
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mintflavoredart 7 months ago
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windkonig 8 months ago
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when people say "ok but x bug has no benefit to nature" I bet they can't even name 5 facts about the bug they're shitting on. so how could they Possibly know what its function is in the environment and if it's "useless" or not
wasps being the perfect example, I still get people saying "oh bees are cute and pollinate :) yay. but WASPS ARE EVIL and they don't contribute ANYTHING!!!" and it's like buddy. wasps pollinate too. they also control spider populations. they do a lot of great valuable things. but even if they didn't, they're still worthy of being here. I see SO much hatred toward wasps and I wish people would try to learn a little more about them.
I'm mainly talking about paper wasps here because these are common ones we run into in daily life and most commonly deemed "aggressive". but wasps have body language. and if you learn to read this language and learn how to properly act around them, things will go a lot better for you! wasps can be curious creatures and they may come up to observe you, especially if you're wearing something brightly colored. this can be startling for sure, but my best advice is to just be still, DO NOT SWAT or wave your arms. try to just back away or sidestep so it loses interest and leaves. swatting is just gonna make them feel as if they are being attacked and increase your chances of being stung.
many stings happen due to unfortunate but accidental circumstances. unknowingly getting too close to a nest, stepping on a wasp on accident, one getting stuck in clothing, etc. I got stung once while gardening, went to pull a weed and the wasp was on it, so I grabbed her without knowing and she stung me because she was scared. this doesn't mean "oh wasps are AGGRESSIVE and EVIL" it means you stumbled into an unfortunate situation where the wasps felt threatened and defensive. instead of being like "FUCK all wasps" go forward trying to learn about common nesting areas, be wary of holes in the ground, wear gloves while gardening, and if you do have to be around a nest, try not to make a lot of noise. if the nest absolutely needs removed, call a professional.
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onenicebugperday 18 days ago
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Broad-handed carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes, Xylocopinae
Photographed in Cambodia by geechartier
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humblegrub 1 year ago
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fuzzy puffs love artichoke fluffs pt 2
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dyrdeer 1 month ago
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Trans bee comic 馃悵
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glassshine 1 year ago
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I just saw the biggest fluffiest bumblebee
here's the artistic rendition
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alienbath 7 months ago
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Shout out to the Violet Carpenter bees with their iridescent wings
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(Source: The John Russell Honey Company)
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eggseabutter 4 months ago
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Some Bee Bug content
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wolfertinger666 7 months ago
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beeeeeee thing 馃悵
(she/they/it)
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anam2s 5 months ago
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Bee doodle
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joy-haver 6 months ago
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netscapenavigator-official 6 months ago
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I literally just learned that male carpenter bees are usually the ones tasked with protecting the nest from predators. They have that little yellow bald spot on their heads, and they鈥檙e usually the ones buzzing and hovering near you, just kinda looking at you. However, the reason they hover near you is actually because they think they鈥檙e being intimidating, and they鈥檙e trying to scare you off. If that doesn鈥檛 work, well, male carpenter bees don鈥檛 have stingers, and they don鈥檛 bite, so their only defense mechanism to scare humans off is to bump into us over and over. Literally just fly full speed into us, head first, and hope it鈥檚 enough to scare us away. I love carpenter bees so much. 馃ズ Truly the himbos of the insect world.
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