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Aral Balkan

This morning’s bee rescue. This little one and a friend were resting on a busy sidewalk by the park. The friend managed to fly away quite quickly but this one needed a little rest in the shade to recover. Managed to fly away eventually though :)

They’re such gentle, lovely creatures. Can’t believe I used to be scared of them as a kid. (Mostly because I mixed them up with wasps… now those bastards are nasty.)

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A honeybee on my hand by a purple flower in the garden. There’s a drop of water on my hand too.
A honeybee on my hand by a purple flower in the garden (slightly different angle). There’s a drop of water on my hand too.
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Aral Balkan

Correction: (thanks to the folks who pointed it out) :)

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maru

@aral wasps are pollinators too, though… they feed off their breed’s sugars but when that isn’t there anymore they need sugars from outside their nest. Try hanging up a fake nest…

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Errant :is: :bat:

@aral Apparently not even all wasps, I had some paper wasps start to build a nest near me and it turns out they are known to, and have proven to be incredibly live and let live (though their hive did not really succeed so there was never *that* many of them).

(Admittedly, it's not exactly feasible to identify the pattern and antenna colors of a random wasp flying toward your face to adjust your attitude based on the specific species)

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ajgae

@aral wasps are also very ecologically important! and if you treat them like curious dogs they won't hurt you: they'll fly around you and smell you for a bit and they go somewhere else

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Aral Balkan

@categorille Yeah, I mean, I’d never hurt one but I’d likely not have one in my hand either :)

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Desikner

@aral That is not a honey bee, but a bumblebee. Bumblebees feed on nectar and are useful as pollinators, but not useful as honey producers because they don't stockpile honey. Female bumblebees can sting but usually ignore people.

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Aral Balkan

@desikn Ah, my bad, I always confuse the two :)

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ben

@aral This looks like Bombus lucorum (white-tailed bumblebee), not Apis mellifera (honey bee), however.

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Aral Balkan

@sqrt2 Thanks, my bad. I have a penchant for confusing the two. (We mostly have bumblebees here.) :)

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Nate Cull (.social)

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I know those! They turn into giant robots!

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nissyen
@aral we had mud dauber wasps in California which would keep the black widow population low, but unfortunately they started spraying from the streets for mosquitoes and the mud dauber population plummeted as the black widow population went through the roof.
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