• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      The exploiter mindset at work, smh, bees are good because you can steal their honey, wasps are bad for defending themselves!

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        Yeah i actually had the same thought while writing the comment, but wanted to commit to the bit.

        “hardworking contributors to society” automatically makes me feel yucky. usually the kind of people that uses words like that seriously, are the people profiting the most from capitalism.

        From a natural point of view (without humans in the picture), bees are probably better at cooperation than wasps, which would make them better at “society” but im no biologist or philosopher so meh.

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      Bees are more usefull for us, not for the nature. Wasp also are hardworking animals (ants belong to the same family), but their use in the nature is different, not for pollination, but same as other predators, but for the population balance of other species among others.

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    If you’ve never seen a tarantula hawk before and then one day you encounter this 3+ inch long purple wasp dragging an equally large spider across the ground, it will freak you out a little.

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      I had one fly through my open window while I was going 80 on the highway.

      Didn’t know what it was at the time, but luckily it was stunned in the back of my car.

      Pulled over and looked up what it could be. Threw that fucker out as fast as I could before it could murder me.

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    5 months ago

    this list omits the most brutal form of bee: Vulture Bees that produce “meat honey”

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    5 months ago

    Meme faces are really going downhill. Is this some attempt to be a play on “genetic health” or something? They used to portray emotions, not exaggeratedly malformed bone structure.

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      I think it describes the person imo. Masons(profession), carpenters are useful jobs that help society, and honey is a food source so again a productive addition. Bumble is kinda cute but is dopey, so I’ll give them that. However the wasps are all “chad” in this person’s eyes as they are killers. Killers have a limited place, which is usually killing other killers. Still, a lot of the time killers add a whole ton of detriment as well. They really shouldn’t be idiolized.