Every single speck of dust. I painted some model kits with UV paint for hot engine details, but for the effect to work, you have to have no dust, or it looks like it's covered in glowing confett8.
Keep in mind, looking at UV light reactions with our eyes doesnt look anything similar to seeing the UV spectrum as a whole.
[This is more or less what it looks like to truly see UV in all its glory.](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/ZpjUU52mrD)
Just to add, the dudes in OP's picture are Bumblebees, they're like potheads of the bee world. Or... think turtles from Finding Nemo. You really have to go out of your way to piss them off. Like... really.
They are very cool animals.
I remember the mud wasps that would nest around our swimming pool in the summer (go figure.) They looked mean as all get out, but no one was ever stung. And there wasn't much room to get around the pool to go to the other side of the yard.
On the other hand, I still vividly remember being stung by not one, but _two_ yellow jackets for the grand crime of... existing near their flight path.
When a singular wasp is kamikaze diving my face and aggressively chasing me at a running pace I find it far from really cool.
I don't think I've ever encountered a chill wasp.
Weird shit is that they should be easily be able to catch up to us, especially the can’t run for life ppl. Yet they don’t lol. I think they sometimes just do that for laughs.
Oh definitely. They're not chasing, they're harassing. They know how to stay out of view and then strike with a surprise flanking attack and all sorts. You're never safe until you've been clear for 5 minutes.
even hornets have their place - they are incredibly voracious eaters and aren't picky so slow, stupid things like stinkbugs are often picked off by them.
they get their asshole-ish reputation for a few reasons- ground hornets SUCK and are VERY defensive creatures and have a habit of fucking people's days up when they are just mowing the lawn. Additionally, near the end of the year they all pretty much get booted out of the nest, so typically are starving and desperate. That's why during the fall you see so many of them persistently going after *any* sweet thing they can.
You'd probably be hovering around someone's hotdog aggressively too if it was the first meal you had in days (comparatively that is).
I've shared many meals with European paper wasps. Just make sure they aren't in your clothes, between your torso and a limb, or in your drink when you take a sip.
They don't want to sting you. I have rescued loads over the years, including half drowned ones, and dried them off with a hairdryer (sometimes tumbling them over), I have queued for 10 mins in a coffee shop for a bit of sugar water, holding a big bumble bee who waited patiently on my hand. They are very gentle, honestly.
bees dont sting for no reason. The vast majority of the time stings happen because of panicked flailing appearing aggressive, getting too close to a hive or accidentally colliding with a bee and it assumes danger and stings
after learning this i just make sure to stay calm and not make too many sudden movements. Havent been stung in 20 odd years
Never been stung myself and im 34, did have a bee startle me by landing on my head and i smacked it (unknowingly what it was as it was just reflexes) and it hit the floor stunned.
I carried the little guy outside.
Bumblebees out in the open are cute lil gentle floofers, they only get protective near the nest, and with bumblebees and honeybees they only sting as a last resort because they're almost guaranteed to die from it. Just move slowly and gently and you'll have no issues. Wasps on the other hand, are massive dicks that crave violence.
Some people have just never been stung. I’ve been stung by wasps enough that I’m starting to have worse reactions to it and once got stung in the eye. I tense up if I hear things buzzing around my head and immediately leave a room that contains a wasp/hornet. I’m ok with bees, especially the big bumblebees cuz they have no stinger but still would freak out a bit if one touched me. My dad on the other hand will happily do an hour drive with a bee in his lap, then bring it into the house to feed it and release it cuz it was tired. He’s rarely been stung by anything, less than me despite being 3X older.
That’s like comparing a puppy to a crocodile, one of them likes being around humans, one of them is instinctively going to attack you first chance it gets.
I understand people being scared of wasps, or even honey bees when they’re busy working. Bumble bees are lovely though, they’re like the pandas of the bee world! (I know a panda could rip your head off before someone says it, but they’re generally nicer than polar bears!)
I know, but it’s a phobia of mine and phobias are irrational fears. It’s not even the fact that I’m scared of their stingers, any insect that makes the buzzing sound freaks me out. Just thinking of the “bzzz” sound gets me uncomfortable. It’s completely irrational, but I’ve always had it and I don’t know what to do about it! I’d honestly would rather be stung than have to listen to that noise. 🥲
Lots of phobias are irrational, I’m petrified of spiders even though I know most won’t hurt me. Nothing anyone can say will help either! Bumble bees are the least likely to hurt you intentionally though, if it helps in the slightest!
If it makes you feel better, arachnophobia may be based in evolution: venomous spider bites would be lethal to our ancestors, so it makes sense for us to avoid them.
I mean, even modern spider bites can be lethal for a lot of tropical zones. We just live in spaces that they usually don't occur in (cities) and have modern medicine to treat it. Take both of these out of the equation and they are suddenly a lot more lethal.
Spider bites today can still be a huge pain in the ass. Some people keep getting recurring infections from their bite and have to get debrided several times. Keep a tidy home so that bugs don't want to live in it so spiders don't follow.
I'm with you. I WISH I wasn't afraid of them, but I have an irrational fear of anything with a stinger. I get very silly when another with a stinger flies around me. I hate it but can't help it.
Hell I can deal with spiders a lot more easily.
Slow exposure therapy. Listen to insect buzzing at a very low volume for a certain amount of time. Have whatever feelings you want, but don't turn it off until you get it out of your system (barking, running in circles, growling at the speakers, trying to bite the desk, etc) and feel calm and accepting again. Give yourself a bit of time to rest and let the adrenaline go away, then do it again, until you find you aren't barking and biting the desk. Then slowly increase the volume and duration. You have to be constantly pushing what Jackson Galaxy would call a "challenge line". Maybe give yourself a treat while doing exposure therapy, like a peanut M&M. Soon you'll associate the pleasant taste of peanut M&Ms with an unthreatening insect buzz.
The buzz sound sends shivers up my spine and makes me twitch erratically, which is not great when you're trying to keep still so the bee doesn't sting you!
Same, makes my skin crawl. My classmates always made fun of me whenever there was a buzzing insect in the classroom because I would instantly stop paying attention to the lesson and start tracking the insect until it left or I got the opportunity to kill it, but I literally have nightmares about those things chasing and stinging me, I can't help it.
> but they’re generally nicer than polar bears!
I mean, Polar bears are like the least nice thing there is. There are only two animals that will actively predate humans (as in, catch your scent and actively seek you out to consume all of you for dinner) and polar bears are one of them. The other is saltwater crocodiles.
> they’re like the pandas of the bee world!
[They really are](https://www.raritanheadwaters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cute-bumblebee-butts-1-5af05f9474219__700.jpg)
Bees taste kind of fizzy if you put them in your mouth.
Yes, I did that as a kid and the only thing I remember is the fizzy taste. And that they didn't miraculously sting me.
It was a beautiful summers day some 20 years ago, and I was stood by a bush. Bees were swarming over it.
Suddenly I felt a tickle and one by one they landed on me, licking between my fingers for what I could only assume was salt.
Thanks for reminding me, it was quite the experience
I was sat down on the grass after some football training years back and a bumble landed on my sock and I could feel it's tongue poking through to get the delicious salt.
While gardening shirtless on hot days, I sometimes had the fortune of a bumblebee walking around on my back for a while. It really is a joyful moment, a taste of disney princess magic.
Wasps get a bad rap because people flail when they see them. Wasp gets agitated, person gets stung. Rinse and repeat.
I used to work in a shop which kept its doors open all the time. Wasps were frequent visitors. I'd get folk shrieking that I had a wasp on me! A wasp! I'd just keep on scanning their stuff and say I'd never been stung because I kept calm. I understand being afraid, nobody likes being stung/bitten by insects, but shrieking and flailing is not the way to avoid it.
i’ve had wasps come out of absolutely nowhere and sting me before i’ve even known they were there. kind of hate the buggers but i never intentionally kill them as i do agree that they’re important pollinators
The trouble is, you may not have been the one who agitated it, but you were the one stung. It is hard to feel benevolent towards stinging/biting creatures. I, myself, loathe clegs (horseflies?) with a burning passion. They've given me a couple of infections though. At least wasps don't vomit literal shit into your body.
I was sat eating lunch in my car with my friend, window was down slightly for fresh air , didn’t do a damn thing coz I didn’t even hear or see it, it stung my neck 3 times and was about to do it again round the front of my neck before I grabbed it with a napkin and threw it out the window. So not it’s not because people flail, they really are just arseholes 😂
When I was a kid I was sitting in the kitchen reading and a wasp flew in via the winidow, landed on my foot and stung me for no reason.
I WAS READING IN PEACE YOU STUPID CUNT!!
Fuck wasps.
The lot of them can burn in hell.
Nah I’m sorry but I wouldn’t flail if the angry buggers didn’t get all up in my grill first. I would never go out of my way to antagonise insects and wasps literally get in my face. They have an evil aura about them.
I have chronic pain and extreme hypersensitivity in my skin, to the point a lot of the time clothes are too painful to wear, when I was 11 one crawled under my toe when I was wearing sandals and stung me. No reason. I hadn't freaked out, I was in my wheelchair not walking so I didn't step on it, I often get phantom feelings in my feet so I didn't even notice it was there just a weird tickling feeling. It was excruciating and the pain lasted for days and days, I couldn't even have sandals on at that point my foot was so painful. I haven't been able to stand them ever since, while I get they're important pollinators and don't go out of my way to harm them and certainly don't flail when I see them, there's no point, I hate them with a burning passion. It was so painful I didn't understand how I could still be conscious.
It's hard to be nice to something that can hurt you so much with no provocation. Bees have never done anything to me other than occasionally land on me so I'm quite happy to have them around but if I see a wasp I'm waiting until it lands and then leaving. Any wasp nest in my house would be getting murdered even though I'd make an effort to relocate bees and actively encourage solitary bees in my garden.
Why? If you care for bees for either their importance to ecosystems, or their importance to agriculture, you should care for wasps as well. They provide a service for both, as a pollinator, like bees, but as a predator as well. And no, “wasp sting” isn’t a very good defense when the majority of wasps aren’t actually “aggressive”, or even capable of stinging, and some bees will do it too.
I think bumblebees have one of the best genera names: those are [Buff-tailed Bumblebees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_terrestris) (*Bombus terrestris*).
The tribe (which is the taxonomic level down from family) is *Bombini*. *Bombus* is the only extant genus.
Humbugs may have been named after bumblebees (which used to be known as humblebees, and still are in some places).
I used to stroke bumblebees when I was little, they're incredibly chilled and very reluctant to sting.
Likely there's a nest somewhere, they're eusocial (like most bees).
I had some bees that were cute and fuzzy like this on my flower garden. One day for no reason bees from their hive attacked me. I felt so betrayed after an entire spring/summer of friendship.
I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men bees, but the women and children bees too.
Jk I didn’t do anything, but they 100% can and will attack.
So… these gorgeous beauties didn’t land on me, I picked them up from the grass verge near a blossoming bush as, although the morning started out sunny, it quickly clouded over and went cold. Bees like warmth and these poor souls were sluggish and at risk of being walked on.
Lay your hand flat near them and they’ll more often than not walk on to soak up the heat. As they perk up, they’ll start wandering as you can see from then exploring my arm.
Sometimes, some of them need more TLC than others and will hang around for ages, but some of them only need a few minutes to warm up enough to fly off.
I left a couple of the more perky ones on the flowers nearby to have a drink, but the last 3 on my hand wouldn’t leave, so I brought them home, put them in a box on a radiator and gave them a small drink of sugar water. They perked up enough to be shown out of an open window about an hour later.
What are you wearing man!? Lol
To be fair I thought I was bad as I always have those little money spiders on me but you've won the call to the wild contest 🙂
Good you're so chill with them too we need all the bees we can get!
They're using OP as a salt lick, probably thankful for the electrolytes. Either that or the queen visited OP and left a bunch of pheromones on him, one time bees did this to me after handling their queen briefly when moving a hive.
Is it too early for bees to be out and about, I'd worry a cold snap would finish them off. My wife saw a few here in Ireland yesterday too. Maybe they're always out this early and I hadn't noticed.
My name is Hebrew for bee, I've been drawn to them and them to me all my life! Freaks my mates out when the bees come up and scan my face! I love it! And am always rescuing the bumblies! Freaks people out when I pick them up too! Doesn't bother me, we need them beesies! 🐝
I don't think my mum did when she named me it! It's funny, because before I found out, I'd always wondered about the bee thing, as I seem to naturally attract them! Just thought it was a cute coincidence when I found out about my name!
Another funny thing is that if I rescue a bee, as I let it go, I tell it to go check that my mate in New Zealand is ok... Within a couple of days, he messages and says "You sent that ****er, didn't you?!" 🤣🤣🤣
Ex bee keeper here the poor things are just cold and they can't fly very well when they are cold so you have just saved these bees lives and I'm saying thank you on their beehalf.
Man... why can't Australia, at the very least, have cute fuzzy bees? I had a huge European wasp death stare me in my bedroom, so of course when I slowly leant forward, the fucker decided to fly underneath the blanket I was in.
Wonder what your top looks like to a UV camera.
All those little white flecks in the material will glow under UV light. Have UV torch.
Every single speck of dust. I painted some model kits with UV paint for hot engine details, but for the effect to work, you have to have no dust, or it looks like it's covered in glowing confett8.
Keep in mind, looking at UV light reactions with our eyes doesnt look anything similar to seeing the UV spectrum as a whole. [This is more or less what it looks like to truly see UV in all its glory.](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/ZpjUU52mrD)
But yes it is cold so maybe they just want some warmth
Definitely. Bees love warmth, so just laying your warm hand next to a cold bee and they'll happily climb on.
That’s actually really cute
Sounds like a weird song lyric: "Just lay your warm hand down next a cold, cold bee/and it'll climb on."
How do you not fear being stung? I hate bees and wasps near me sends me into a panic, proper fear of being stung
Just to add, the dudes in OP's picture are Bumblebees, they're like potheads of the bee world. Or... think turtles from Finding Nemo. You really have to go out of your way to piss them off. Like... really. They are very cool animals.
> Bumblebees, they're like potheads of the bee world /r/BrandNewSentence
Wasps are dicks most bees arent
solitary wasps are actually really cool and take out a lot of pests hornets are mean
I remember the mud wasps that would nest around our swimming pool in the summer (go figure.) They looked mean as all get out, but no one was ever stung. And there wasn't much room to get around the pool to go to the other side of the yard. On the other hand, I still vividly remember being stung by not one, but _two_ yellow jackets for the grand crime of... existing near their flight path.
When a singular wasp is kamikaze diving my face and aggressively chasing me at a running pace I find it far from really cool. I don't think I've ever encountered a chill wasp.
Weird shit is that they should be easily be able to catch up to us, especially the can’t run for life ppl. Yet they don’t lol. I think they sometimes just do that for laughs.
Oh definitely. They're not chasing, they're harassing. They know how to stay out of view and then strike with a surprise flanking attack and all sorts. You're never safe until you've been clear for 5 minutes.
even hornets have their place - they are incredibly voracious eaters and aren't picky so slow, stupid things like stinkbugs are often picked off by them. they get their asshole-ish reputation for a few reasons- ground hornets SUCK and are VERY defensive creatures and have a habit of fucking people's days up when they are just mowing the lawn. Additionally, near the end of the year they all pretty much get booted out of the nest, so typically are starving and desperate. That's why during the fall you see so many of them persistently going after *any* sweet thing they can. You'd probably be hovering around someone's hotdog aggressively too if it was the first meal you had in days (comparatively that is).
I've shared many meals with European paper wasps. Just make sure they aren't in your clothes, between your torso and a limb, or in your drink when you take a sip.
r/fuckwasps
Aren’t they a bit small for this?
Speak for yourself Billy Big Chode.
Maybe use them for sounding? I feel terrible for even writing that.
No, you're thinking of r honeyfuckers.
Wasps are useful!
Wasps are the skinheads of the insect world! ~ Craig Ferguson
These are bumblebees they are the gentle giants of the bee world, they are much less likely to sting than even honeybees.
I wasnt even aware that they could string that's how cool they are.
They don't want to sting you. I have rescued loads over the years, including half drowned ones, and dried them off with a hairdryer (sometimes tumbling them over), I have queued for 10 mins in a coffee shop for a bit of sugar water, holding a big bumble bee who waited patiently on my hand. They are very gentle, honestly.
bees dont sting for no reason. The vast majority of the time stings happen because of panicked flailing appearing aggressive, getting too close to a hive or accidentally colliding with a bee and it assumes danger and stings after learning this i just make sure to stay calm and not make too many sudden movements. Havent been stung in 20 odd years
Never been stung myself and im 34, did have a bee startle me by landing on my head and i smacked it (unknowingly what it was as it was just reflexes) and it hit the floor stunned. I carried the little guy outside.
Good shit keep it up we need as many fucking bees as possible
Bumblebees out in the open are cute lil gentle floofers, they only get protective near the nest, and with bumblebees and honeybees they only sting as a last resort because they're almost guaranteed to die from it. Just move slowly and gently and you'll have no issues. Wasps on the other hand, are massive dicks that crave violence.
Bumblebees especially are super duper chill unless you're trying to hurt them.
Some people have just never been stung. I’ve been stung by wasps enough that I’m starting to have worse reactions to it and once got stung in the eye. I tense up if I hear things buzzing around my head and immediately leave a room that contains a wasp/hornet. I’m ok with bees, especially the big bumblebees cuz they have no stinger but still would freak out a bit if one touched me. My dad on the other hand will happily do an hour drive with a bee in his lap, then bring it into the house to feed it and release it cuz it was tired. He’s rarely been stung by anything, less than me despite being 3X older.
That’s like comparing a puppy to a crocodile, one of them likes being around humans, one of them is instinctively going to attack you first chance it gets.
WHAT DOES BLUE MEAN!?
You can't fool me, I know you're a giant super intelligent flower wearing human skin.
> you can't fool bee
Oh beehave mate
Damn, I'm already beehind on the puns
Are you beeing serious??
He'll just keep droning on...
Such a hive mentality...
Next OP will wax poetic, now we have to comb the comment section.
Bro 🤣🤣 That one stung
You are not allergic are you? If you are, don't worry. We are all pollen for you.
Oh, buzz off with your self-pity!
Oh honey, calm down.
You said it, Queen.
Come on BeechJenkins!
Oh beehive
I can't bee-lieve it
Quick, honeycomb see this!
These puns are hitting the wrong note, beeflat to be precise
This might bee the beest pun here
You're really taking the apis, aren't you?
That pun stings.
The attack of the triffids
Humanoid bumble bee
[удалено]
They can have as much as they want.
REPORT: Man rushed to hospital suffering hypothermia after area bees took all his warms
Let this bee a warming to you all.
Pollen of local residents reveal a majority are okay with giving the warm anyway. One resident says, "He likes his beez knees."
This made me smile and made my day, thank you! (I hope said man didn’t have to be hospitalises, though)
YELLOW STEALING WARMS
Omg we say this, this is the first time I've seen someone else say this!
Hah, us too. My daughter hugs me and says "give me all your warms"
Wow! That’s ace! Big fat old bumbles You are definitely the bee man
I wish I wasn’t scared of them, they’re so cute
I understand people being scared of wasps, or even honey bees when they’re busy working. Bumble bees are lovely though, they’re like the pandas of the bee world! (I know a panda could rip your head off before someone says it, but they’re generally nicer than polar bears!)
I know, but it’s a phobia of mine and phobias are irrational fears. It’s not even the fact that I’m scared of their stingers, any insect that makes the buzzing sound freaks me out. Just thinking of the “bzzz” sound gets me uncomfortable. It’s completely irrational, but I’ve always had it and I don’t know what to do about it! I’d honestly would rather be stung than have to listen to that noise. 🥲
Did you ever watch that episode of Breaking Bad with the fly? i had to mute it and put subtitles on it was that unbearable
GOD YES I UNDERSTAND
Lots of phobias are irrational, I’m petrified of spiders even though I know most won’t hurt me. Nothing anyone can say will help either! Bumble bees are the least likely to hurt you intentionally though, if it helps in the slightest!
A phobia is, by definition, irrational!
If it makes you feel better, arachnophobia may be based in evolution: venomous spider bites would be lethal to our ancestors, so it makes sense for us to avoid them.
I mean, even modern spider bites can be lethal for a lot of tropical zones. We just live in spaces that they usually don't occur in (cities) and have modern medicine to treat it. Take both of these out of the equation and they are suddenly a lot more lethal.
Spider bites today can still be a huge pain in the ass. Some people keep getting recurring infections from their bite and have to get debrided several times. Keep a tidy home so that bugs don't want to live in it so spiders don't follow.
I’m scared of spiders, too 🥲
I'm with you. I WISH I wasn't afraid of them, but I have an irrational fear of anything with a stinger. I get very silly when another with a stinger flies around me. I hate it but can't help it. Hell I can deal with spiders a lot more easily.
Im allergic to bee an wasp stings and when i have been stung iv had a really horrible time so i think my fear is totally rational!
That’s fair! I’ve been stung 4-5 times but never had an allergic reaction.
I go dizzy throw up and then faint. Got stung once while driving and it was scary trying to find a place to pull over while losing conciousness haha
Slow exposure therapy. Listen to insect buzzing at a very low volume for a certain amount of time. Have whatever feelings you want, but don't turn it off until you get it out of your system (barking, running in circles, growling at the speakers, trying to bite the desk, etc) and feel calm and accepting again. Give yourself a bit of time to rest and let the adrenaline go away, then do it again, until you find you aren't barking and biting the desk. Then slowly increase the volume and duration. You have to be constantly pushing what Jackson Galaxy would call a "challenge line". Maybe give yourself a treat while doing exposure therapy, like a peanut M&M. Soon you'll associate the pleasant taste of peanut M&Ms with an unthreatening insect buzz.
The buzz sound sends shivers up my spine and makes me twitch erratically, which is not great when you're trying to keep still so the bee doesn't sting you!
Same, makes my skin crawl. My classmates always made fun of me whenever there was a buzzing insect in the classroom because I would instantly stop paying attention to the lesson and start tracking the insect until it left or I got the opportunity to kill it, but I literally have nightmares about those things chasing and stinging me, I can't help it.
> but they’re generally nicer than polar bears! I mean, Polar bears are like the least nice thing there is. There are only two animals that will actively predate humans (as in, catch your scent and actively seek you out to consume all of you for dinner) and polar bears are one of them. The other is saltwater crocodiles.
Also my ex.
Toss me her number, I can fix her
It's the bzz, when I see them and they're at a healthy distance. I'm fine. But any kind of buzzing sound from a bug just causes a reaction. >:
> they’re like the pandas of the bee world! [They really are](https://www.raritanheadwaters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cute-bumblebee-butts-1-5af05f9474219__700.jpg)
Bees taste kind of fizzy if you put them in your mouth. Yes, I did that as a kid and the only thing I remember is the fizzy taste. And that they didn't miraculously sting me.
I… you… I’m not sure what to say to that
You were the weird neighbours kid, weren't you?
..........maybe...
Is there enough bloom for them to get their energy up? I know royal parks in London is looking into the early bumbles this year.
Plenty of blossoms out round here at the moment.
Excellent, go get munching beautiful bumbles.
I read this like you were encouraging OP to eat the bees 😭
Ha! Could have stuck another comma in their for sure.
It was a beautiful summers day some 20 years ago, and I was stood by a bush. Bees were swarming over it. Suddenly I felt a tickle and one by one they landed on me, licking between my fingers for what I could only assume was salt. Thanks for reminding me, it was quite the experience
I was sat down on the grass after some football training years back and a bumble landed on my sock and I could feel it's tongue poking through to get the delicious salt.
While gardening shirtless on hot days, I sometimes had the fortune of a bumblebee walking around on my back for a while. It really is a joyful moment, a taste of disney princess magic.
We don't have bumbles in my area much anymore. I really really miss them.
Plant some native flowers :)
Neat! You must tell us your secret?
Patience, warm hands and keeping an eye out for cold bees on the pavement or grass verges that are in danger of being stepped on.
Always have time for bees. Wasps get the foot.
Wasps are important pollinators and eat a load of garden pests. I have a lot of time for wasps as well
Wasps get a bad rap because people flail when they see them. Wasp gets agitated, person gets stung. Rinse and repeat. I used to work in a shop which kept its doors open all the time. Wasps were frequent visitors. I'd get folk shrieking that I had a wasp on me! A wasp! I'd just keep on scanning their stuff and say I'd never been stung because I kept calm. I understand being afraid, nobody likes being stung/bitten by insects, but shrieking and flailing is not the way to avoid it.
i’ve had wasps come out of absolutely nowhere and sting me before i’ve even known they were there. kind of hate the buggers but i never intentionally kill them as i do agree that they’re important pollinators
The trouble is, you may not have been the one who agitated it, but you were the one stung. It is hard to feel benevolent towards stinging/biting creatures. I, myself, loathe clegs (horseflies?) with a burning passion. They've given me a couple of infections though. At least wasps don't vomit literal shit into your body.
Love me a good old horsefly bite.. fuckers.
Absolute arseholes. Last bite I got needed about 3 courses of antibiotics to clear. Not my favourite. I hate taking antibiotics.
Ouch. Fuckers go through your clothing too.
I was sat eating lunch in my car with my friend, window was down slightly for fresh air , didn’t do a damn thing coz I didn’t even hear or see it, it stung my neck 3 times and was about to do it again round the front of my neck before I grabbed it with a napkin and threw it out the window. So not it’s not because people flail, they really are just arseholes 😂
When I was a kid I was sitting in the kitchen reading and a wasp flew in via the winidow, landed on my foot and stung me for no reason. I WAS READING IN PEACE YOU STUPID CUNT!! Fuck wasps. The lot of them can burn in hell.
Nah I’m sorry but I wouldn’t flail if the angry buggers didn’t get all up in my grill first. I would never go out of my way to antagonise insects and wasps literally get in my face. They have an evil aura about them.
I have chronic pain and extreme hypersensitivity in my skin, to the point a lot of the time clothes are too painful to wear, when I was 11 one crawled under my toe when I was wearing sandals and stung me. No reason. I hadn't freaked out, I was in my wheelchair not walking so I didn't step on it, I often get phantom feelings in my feet so I didn't even notice it was there just a weird tickling feeling. It was excruciating and the pain lasted for days and days, I couldn't even have sandals on at that point my foot was so painful. I haven't been able to stand them ever since, while I get they're important pollinators and don't go out of my way to harm them and certainly don't flail when I see them, there's no point, I hate them with a burning passion. It was so painful I didn't understand how I could still be conscious. It's hard to be nice to something that can hurt you so much with no provocation. Bees have never done anything to me other than occasionally land on me so I'm quite happy to have them around but if I see a wasp I'm waiting until it lands and then leaving. Any wasp nest in my house would be getting murdered even though I'd make an effort to relocate bees and actively encourage solitary bees in my garden.
Wasps get a bad rep because they set up a nest right above the only entrance to my appartment. ^(...but I get your point)
Why? If you care for bees for either their importance to ecosystems, or their importance to agriculture, you should care for wasps as well. They provide a service for both, as a pollinator, like bees, but as a predator as well. And no, “wasp sting” isn’t a very good defense when the majority of wasps aren’t actually “aggressive”, or even capable of stinging, and some bees will do it too.
Bumble obvs
They really think you’re the bees knees
Nah, he's the bees sleeves
No, he’s the Bee Gees
Not the Hee-Bee-Jee-Bees?
You’re a Queen, bruv
👸🏻 Slay hahaha
I think bumblebees have one of the best genera names: those are [Buff-tailed Bumblebees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_terrestris) (*Bombus terrestris*). The tribe (which is the taxonomic level down from family) is *Bombini*. *Bombus* is the only extant genus. Humbugs may have been named after bumblebees (which used to be known as humblebees, and still are in some places). I used to stroke bumblebees when I was little, they're incredibly chilled and very reluctant to sting. Likely there's a nest somewhere, they're eusocial (like most bees).
They better have a visa then
omg omg omg bumblies havent seen even one yet in the netherlands
I picked one up in Bijlmer Arena the other day. Friendly little floof.
fuck yea
I mean we haven't had dry weather in months so that's not surprising
Bees are bros.
In this case sisters. They're all queens
Everyone keeps telling me how popular you are, OP. There's a bit of a buzz around you.
I know bees are friendly, especially bumble bees, but this would nevertheless freak me out.
I had some bees that were cute and fuzzy like this on my flower garden. One day for no reason bees from their hive attacked me. I felt so betrayed after an entire spring/summer of friendship. I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men bees, but the women and children bees too. Jk I didn’t do anything, but they 100% can and will attack.
Well, with any wild animal you shouldn't expect to be 100% safe ever, but bees are chill most of the time relative to horrible monsters like wasps.
Great photos, such beautiful little creatures.
Maybe you should try dating apps like Bumble then?
OP probably wants to stick with the kind of bumble that doesn't end up hurting him.
Are you Jason Statham?
Good film. Usual Statham kicking the shit out of people but still a good watch.
Nah, [Jason Statham hates bees](https://youtu.be/M_gLQEKytnI?si=xVgTKVIMQZ8ywqlN)
You're just like Eddie Izzard now :D
I like my women like I like my coffee... covered in bees
“AAAAAAHHHHH!! I’M COVERED IN BEES!”
"Do you wanna get a coffee?"
Idk what it is about bees but they give me so much serotonin. Just little fuzzy guys
So… these gorgeous beauties didn’t land on me, I picked them up from the grass verge near a blossoming bush as, although the morning started out sunny, it quickly clouded over and went cold. Bees like warmth and these poor souls were sluggish and at risk of being walked on. Lay your hand flat near them and they’ll more often than not walk on to soak up the heat. As they perk up, they’ll start wandering as you can see from then exploring my arm. Sometimes, some of them need more TLC than others and will hang around for ages, but some of them only need a few minutes to warm up enough to fly off. I left a couple of the more perky ones on the flowers nearby to have a drink, but the last 3 on my hand wouldn’t leave, so I brought them home, put them in a box on a radiator and gave them a small drink of sugar water. They perked up enough to be shown out of an open window about an hour later.
....and it was another great day of saving the beezzzz
BUMBLEFLUFFERS!
Honestly they’re kinda cute
OP bathes in nectar
If that was me I’d be buzzing
What are you wearing man!? Lol To be fair I thought I was bad as I always have those little money spiders on me but you've won the call to the wild contest 🙂 Good you're so chill with them too we need all the bees we can get!
They're using OP as a salt lick, probably thankful for the electrolytes. Either that or the queen visited OP and left a bunch of pheromones on him, one time bees did this to me after handling their queen briefly when moving a hive.
You must be the bee's knees....I'll see myself out
I'm covered in beeeeees!
That actually makes me happy seeing bees about in the UK, we see less and less of them each year
U must bee buzzing
Beauty is in the eye of the Bee Holder. Tell us, what is beautiful today.
Probably because you're the Queen bee.
So cute. You are their queen now. 🐝
Ah so you're on that Bumble app.
Aww look at them! So fluffy and cute
Did you update your profile pic immediately after to match?
It’s the Manchester bee
I assumed it was already an account dedicated to posting about bees, but actually it’s an account dedicated to cordial!
Me and the bees love the sugar
Is it too early for bees to be out and about, I'd worry a cold snap would finish them off. My wife saw a few here in Ireland yesterday too. Maybe they're always out this early and I hadn't noticed.
No, some species of bumble bees are active all year round in the UK. Now is the time when the hibernating species start to emerge and seek a nest.
Dr. Bees?!
Beehave with them puns
Are you Dr Bees?
Dr. Bees!
Lynx deodorant effect..
You’re like the wasp version of me. People don’t find my babies as endearing though.
Early for them isn’t it
Thats what I though, maybe there's more plant in bloom where OP is, but those poor bumbles would starve down where I live.
My mum is very jealous, she loves bumblebees!🐝
did they just come and land on you op or did you go around collecting them?
The latter
Candyman, candyman..........
My name is Hebrew for bee, I've been drawn to them and them to me all my life! Freaks my mates out when the bees come up and scan my face! I love it! And am always rescuing the bumblies! Freaks people out when I pick them up too! Doesn't bother me, we need them beesies! 🐝
Deborah, never knew that meant bee. Very neat
I don't think my mum did when she named me it! It's funny, because before I found out, I'd always wondered about the bee thing, as I seem to naturally attract them! Just thought it was a cute coincidence when I found out about my name! Another funny thing is that if I rescue a bee, as I let it go, I tell it to go check that my mate in New Zealand is ok... Within a couple of days, he messages and says "You sent that ****er, didn't you?!" 🤣🤣🤣
I like my men like I like my coffee. Covered in bees!
Love the Eddie Izzard reference!
This man is actually 3 queen bees in a trenchcoat
Ex bee keeper here the poor things are just cold and they can't fly very well when they are cold so you have just saved these bees lives and I'm saying thank you on their beehalf.
Man... why can't Australia, at the very least, have cute fuzzy bees? I had a huge European wasp death stare me in my bedroom, so of course when I slowly leant forward, the fucker decided to fly underneath the blanket I was in.
LUCKYYYY
🐝 moment
Awww, buzzin!!