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Wasps: Neds of the Insect World
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partickbateman | August 22, 2007
Wasps - everyone hates them. Thinking about their behavoiur, it struck me how similar it was to that of the ned. Buzzing around you, getting up close and personal, taunting you, they are latently malevolent, nasty little creatures with seemingly no real purpose to exist other than annoy. Bees? Bees I can handle. Bees are the noble Samurai of the stinging insect world. You have to respect a creature that disregards certain death just to sting you. If a wasp stings you, it’s probably just being a malicious little swine (perhaps they’re jealous of our opposable thumbs), whereas when a bee stings you know you must have pissed it off pretty badly. Plus, bees make honey, are fluffy, and somehow remind me of Brian Blessed.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Common misconception, it’s only one species of african honey bee that dies when it stings you…The ones over here are just fat wasps!
August 24th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Damn. Well, regardless of it’s species, genus or whatever, anything that stings me is dead anyway.
Apart from maybe a nettle, which it’s kind of hard to kill. Or maybe a jellyfish. But definitely any insect!
August 24th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Ironically, due to an ancient curse, if tantric tree-humper Sting were to kill a bee, then he alone would perish.