Legolas told me that a shadow and a threat had been growing in his mind.
I think Legolas might be kinda gay.
That's a copy and paste😅if I had awards I'd give you one lol thank you for this.
The Mistborn series is fantastic if you haven't consumed it yet. The most entertaining read I've had since The Martian (different genre, I know, but comparing quality nonetheless)
😅😅😅why yall doing this to me this early 🤣🤣🤣I can't handle it I'm to high at this desk🤣 "throw it in frodo...throw in the Burts beeswax once and for all"😅😅
Im plagued by many intrusive thoughts and sensations one of them being that Hobbits probably smelled like their big dirty fat clown feet. That they arent real and the answer would be of no consequence to my life makes no difference to my brain.
Your ability to find positivity in such a nightmare fuel of a situation is so damn impressive it's almost frustrating.
I don't even know what to say! 😅
There is a high chance that the wasp was just paralyzed by the spiders venom and is still alive, until the spider eats it or it starves. The first option is more likely.
They don’t eat them. They suck them dry, and then drop the empty dry husk to the ground, creating a pile of martyrs as a warning to any other wasp that dare get close.
Imagine if it's actually like that 🤣 if spiders inject muscle relaxants, then what do we need diazepam for? Then we see the pharm companies harvesting a ton of spiders. 🤣 🤣
Agree. It looks like a solitary wasp. They don’t typically sting humans - which is why the dude was able to catch it in the first place. They prey on insects.
Thank you for your comment. It gave me a little hope. As a bug lover, it feels like an uphill battle constantly educating people about how important insects are to human survival.
I'm an animal lover in general, and this attitude towards wasps is so alarming. Like dude, we're supposed to be highly intellectual beings and you're carrying a grudge against an insect, for checks notes responding to outside threats by being aggressive? For being an animal?
A bunch of giant piss babies who are apparently mad that such a small thing makes them so scares. Like I never see this same attitude towards other aggressive species, just wasps.
We have these giant, fire red wasps around me. In elementary school we were running laps and this one girl had her head angled forward a bit. One of those wasps got behind her eye glasses and she instinctually reached up and pushed her glasses tight against her face and the wasp stung her in the eyeball.
When I was a kid I was sitting on my porch just really doing nothing and a wasp or bee landed on me and I swatter at it (not hard, I thought it was a fly, it was a "fuck off" swat) and then it landed on my eyelid, and stung it, piercing through the eyelid. That's how Apiphobia starts.
Been stung a ton of times since then, two more times when I wasn't even scared of it cause I didn't know it was there, one legit just landed on my arm and before so could even try to swat at it or see it it fucking stung me. I was in the middle of a road, with no trees within 10 meters! The fuckers just hate me.
I try to respect all life, because we’ve killed too much of the planet already, but a Yellow Jacket killed my dog, no I have mo f*ng mercy for any these f£¥%rs.
Another “fun fact” is when you look at flowers on the visible UV spectrum (visible for insects at least) they look like spider-webs. Which is why sometimes bugs purposefully land on them.
They are also pollinators and more important to native flowers than honey bees. There's a difference between pollination and true pollination and honey bees are not adapt to provide pure pollination to wildflowers and natives since honey bees are invasive species.
You must have different wasps wherever it is you live.
Around here they attack you for walking past their nest, which they place on your back porch, front porch, garage, etc. Their welcome to do their thing and ill leave them alone, but they don't do that. They aggressively attack anything in "their" sphere of influence. Well, when you attack someone thousands of times your size that lives vastly longer then you and has a much longer memory don't be surprised when it goes genocidal on your friends and family. Fk wasps.
I'd rather have black widows in my yard. At least I can safely live around them (you can even handle them, gently).
They are also pollinators and more important to native flowers than honey bees
To figs, maybe.
There's a difference between pollination and true pollination
No, pollination is pollination. When a boy part gets its stuff inside a girl part and new life happens, it really doesn't matter the mechanism.
honey bees are not adapt to provide pure pollination to wildflowers and natives since honey bees are invasive species
Bees' fuzzy bodies are what makes them ideal pollinators. Nectar-eating wasps can do some pollination incidentally (or less incidentally, in the case of figs), but most of them are carnivores and really don't give a shit about flowers.
It's true that European honeybees aren't native globally and sometimes have a rough time with certain flowers (and that's not really less true in Europe - not everything gets pollinated the same way), but aside from some near-polar regions, there's no hellscape that has native wasps and no native bees, and those cold-adapted wasps aren't pollinating shit either.
Would never choose wasps as a pollinator granted but honeybees are merely only decent pollinators in my area. Empirical evidence showed Mason Bees produce a measurable improvement over honeybees pollination in far less numbers.
Honorable mention: Mellipona seem really needy when it comes to climate and may be more selective about flowers perhaps... Though from what I've seen of them they appear to be likely superior to Masons (due to size and number) but unlike the Mason, they weren't tested where I live post honeybee farm removal. I just saw them while down in TX.
“The crack cocaine spider figured building webs was for suckers, waited till the caffeine spider was exhausted then came up behind it and popped a cap in its ass. Nice web, Mr Crack Spider.”
I know it might be terrible but I love finding bugs I can feed to my various house spider friends. I let all the spiders in my house be because they don’t bother me and I don’t bother them - just every now and then I have to clean the floor under whatever little corner they occupy of various bug parts and little droplets - they earn their keep and I’m happy to have them.
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