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[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 18 points 17 hours ago

The bees that live there:

[-] shifty@leminal.space 235 points 1 day ago
  • Wasps not bees.
  • The wasps probably won't be able to emerge if the concrete dust sets.
  • Imagine being entombed by your parents. Born in an inescapable coffin.
[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 121 points 1 day ago

Born in an inescapable coffin.

Ah, so real life then.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago

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!

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

BigDanishGuy, I said no toys at the table.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

This isn't a toy, it's a revolution! proudly waves the vibrator

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago
[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

You still kinda have to smash them with a mallet.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Or even grosser melt them with a wet rag :(

[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

nah fam i will pass

[-] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

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

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Lol my dad did the same. I never got stung tho and avoided some anxiety

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

They can sting, but they (anecdotally) sting less readily than some other species of wasps. I've been around them all my life and never have been stung. But, I've never intentionally messed with them. On the other hand, I've been stung by a couple other species that were far less patient with my presence in their general area.

[-] SolSerkonos@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm ngl I also been told that and believed it. I don't really feel very gullible since I've never actually been stung by one? Even destroying their nests doesn't seem to make them aggressive.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

mud daubers usually are as far from aggressive as yellow jackets are assholes.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

Does it come with a cask of good wine?

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[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 51 points 1 day ago

That's so cool. A few more hives and you can do dangerous bouldering

[-] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 12 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 60 points 1 day ago

Just wait until they build one on the back of a snail.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago

For the people less chronically online than apparently @Triumph@fedia.io and myself. https://lemmy.ca/post/52674587

[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago

A bee-craft carrier?

My god…

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] just2look@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago

You should check out the game Wandering Village. Its not bees and snails, but you do build a village on a giant beast that you can feed.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

For a second i thought you mistitled Reus but fair enough its a different game and this concept a new genre.

[-] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago

That snail that will kill you on touch just got an upgrade.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That reminds me there's a game called Shadows of Doubt! You are a detective in a dystopian cyber noir world where corporations run everything.

Anyway they just added a mode to have the damned snail always after you while you're trying to take on jobs and solve crimes

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I love this game. I highly recommend it.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Typical mud wasps, a decade late to the crocs craze.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 27 points 1 day ago

Poor bees. That's got to be hurting them, right? Isn't concrete caustic?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

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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[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

Very, cement has a pH of around 11

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

How long do we have till they discover reinforced concrete.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

7years. Nuclear weapons by 11years.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

That’s a bit slow for a Factorio run, but impressive nonetheless.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Especially since they started with drones unlocked!

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Bee AI powered drones in 14 years

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

that's some hardcore Resident Evil shit.

[-] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 8 points 1 day ago

Those are wasps, buddy, and it's going to get worse.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

Metal bees.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

if you get too close, they will poke you with tiny bee spears too

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