I’ve been stung by a carpenter bee. They’re usually pretty chill.
And dirt daubers are bros.
It’s true you can pet Bumblebees
you can pet any of them if ur not a coward!!
My rational mind knows that cicada killers aren’t a threat but when they appear they legit terrify me until I remember that.
They are a burrowing breed so they do tend to appear out of nowhere. They’re just curious when they fly towards you tho. You’re in their territory and they wanna make sure you’re not a wasp
At a place that I go a lot me and my friends have to hide from fucking yellow jackets because THEY WILL COME AFTER ALL FOOD!
Man you just gotta be chill about them (note: i love yellowjacks so this is slightly biased)
But like you leave em a nice little sugar offering off to the side and dont jump too much when they land on you, and you dont let yourself get scared, and they really dont just attack if they can avoid it
The worst time i ever had with one was the time i had candy goo on my hands and it bit me thinking I was food. Nothing worse ever happened to me.
Although bees can smell fear, and it apparently causes them to attack, so that might be my own little ability to get along with em right there: I’m usually tol fascinated to be scared.
If you see those lil heaps of mud tubes on a wall with holes sometimes in one end, those are mud dauber nests. They build the tubes of mud, stuff caterpillars inside, lay an egg, and leave. Grubs hatch from eggs, eat caterpillars, grow up, and tunnel out.
Paper wasps are the ones that build the paper-honeycomb nests where you can see all the tubes. The guy who invented paper got the idea from them. They’re pretty chill around humans as long as none of the humans nearby have done anything to them. If you see one starting to build a nest where you don’t want one, wait ‘till it leaves and remove the nest.
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