Moreso. Everyone started getting honey bees that it’s now having an impact on native bees.
Honey bees got hyped up as a problem because the large agricultural industries that relied on them was having a problem. It is an actual problem but not just honey bees. Everyone got so hyped that we’ve note got the old problem and a new problem too.
Bumblebees are so fuzzy! They’re adorable.
Love me some fat bees
I rescued one recently by picking it up
They’re so docile it’s awesome
And my god did it ever perk up when I plonked it on a flower. It was so ridic cute
Honey Bee is not even in danger at the places where it comes from. People brought it to America and now it competes with local pollinators.
Yep yep! The main bees in trouble are cute little bumble bees. Since some native plants work best with their native bees, it’s problematic that the sweet little dummies are struggling.
But we just really love their cousins that produce candy in exchange for houses.
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Apparently there are some wasps that are pollinators and also not assholes, but I don’t bother to Google which is which before murdering them. If they want to live they shouldn’t be asshole shaped.
Wasps are all pollinators, they just don’t make honey si people hate them.
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In a world with no rules, sure. Play rust for 30 minutes and you’ll learn to shoot first and ask questions never.
Paper wasps are generally good pollinators and not assholes, but they have yellow striping to make them look scary.
Yellow jackets are assholes, unusually aggressive and territorial and this becomes a problem because they also tend to love human food and beverage. In my region, I would also say fuck the bald-faced hornet, which is naturally related to the yellow jacket and is similarly aggressive. Fortunately less common (I haven’t been stung by one, but apparently it’s worse than it is with a yellow jacket).
Boll’s Potter wasps (if I’m remembering their name correctly) are also common where I am and they are pretty chill and just go about pollinating. I’m sure there are a bunch of others that I haven’t yet learned to identify.
tl;dr: Yellow jackets and their relatives are assholes. The rest are mostly okay.
We got a small hornet nest somewhat nearby. They tend to come over and murder all the asshole wasps which is nice. The hornets are reddish orange, no idea what kind they are but I like them. Otherwise they are super chill and avoid humans.
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It’s a bummer that the territorial demons are important to the environment.
The wasps you see are usually the ones only out for your food.
Honey Bees and Bumble Bees are great. They’re fun to watch, and are very docile/relaxed. I will always stop to watch one, or avoid while mowing.
If you’re asking me about carpenter bees or any wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket, they can all die in a fire. Those call for scorched earth.
Edit: my most recent acquaintance :)
I recently watched a video of a bee keeper showing how his bees were kept save because he fed the wasps fermented pare. So it kept them happy and docile and really showed how some wasps species can co exist and play a part in Mother Nature which we often forget.
But mosquitoes… fuck them, they can all die.
Also, cute ass little bee photo. 🐝
Some wasps look scary but all they want to do is hang around the flowers.
Hornets are my bros, they’re super chill here. Swoop in, hunt something down, eat it sitting on a random branch, and then they’re gone again.
Fuck wasps tho
But hornets are cute. And they eat wasps
Wasps are just as important in most ecosystems. They prey on pests, are pollinators, and act as decomposers. The only species of wasp you should hate in the US is the only one that is invasive: the Asian ‘murder’ hornet.
I’m in Germany and here we have the German wasp and the Common Wasp
I hate both of them
Hallo!
Some species of wasps pollinate and eat smaller pests.
So don’t hate on the territorial demons too much!
You shouldn’t fuck wasps, they sting your dick.
Maybe some people are in to that
I keep (as much as solitary bees can be “kept”) native mason and leafcutter bees every year. I love when they first emerge from their cocoons. They’re so tiny and adorable. They’re also completely non-aggressive and never mind when I mess with their bee houses (mostly to remove spider webs). My plants love the bees as well.
#allbeesmatter
Save all bees. Except carpenter bees, which are to be terminated with extreme prejudice.
(/s obviously, I’m sure they are important to the larger ecosystem somehow)
Fucking carpenter bees (aka winged termites). Ironically, the males have no stingers but they are extremely aggressive and will kamakazi dive bomb you in the face repeatedly if you get near the entrance to the nest.
I don’t mind bees if they’re minding their own business, but once those carpenter bees started trying to burrow or whatever into my shed and fence I was quite annoyed ha.
It looks like they’re good pollinators, but leave my shit alone.
Yeah fuck those guys. Had an awning built over our patio and didn’t even get through the whole summer before one started digging a hole into one of the rafters. Our backyard is now a no-fly zone for those bastards.
Last panel should say “spray for mosquitoes again”
Save the bumblefucks
yeah… and arent the threatened bess only the ones that live alone and arent used by humans to make honey anyway?
The ones I know of are exclusively bumble bees. Which yeah, don’t make honey we can eat. They actually hibernate during the winter, so they don’t need to make a ton of honey. Just enough to snack on if it’s too stormy to go looking for food.
And FYI to anybody reading, the best thing you can do for bumblebee populations is to grow wildflowers native to your region and don’t cut them down before they flower so the bees have a chance to get to them.
Bumblebees are these fuzzy, gentle, fat little guys. They’re fun to watch and harmless, as long as you don’t try to go catching them with your bare hands or something like that.
Bumblebees are super chill and cute.
My grandma was stung by a bumblebee after she ignored it bumping into her for 10 minutes. She was working in the garden next to its nest. I can’t think of another organism that has that kind of patience.
I’m all for Hymenoptera, but no love for sawflies?
What about the non bee insects?
Not many realize this, but sticking with the non-bee pollination theme you have things like beetles, butterflies, moths, some species of flies, ants, wasps… the list goes on.
Non-inscect options include some speciea of bats and birds.
That’s not even getting into the tons of other useful things insects do.
1/4th of all known organisms are a beatle
Statistically speaking one of them must be a beatle 🧐
I always said that if I wasn’t a human, I would be a rhinoceros beetle (kabutomushi).
Apparently I may have been right!
That is a very strange thing to say but I vibe with it
Also insects are dying but so are other species
I once heard someone smarter than me say that if all insects were to vanish the earth’s ecosystems would fully collapse in 10 years.
Considering what insects do for our planet, I believe it.
Fuck em
You do know that this world is basically populated primarily by insects right? They’re arguably the most important type of animal on earth
You’re technically correct, but you missed the joke, which was kind of funny.
It’s a joke. Lighten up.
My parents have a hive of wood bees in the pergola my dad made. They pollinate our lime tree and I love them
