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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Once I was spraying a hive of hornets. One of them collapses outside of the next and another flew grabbed him and pulled him back into the nest. Fucking broke my heart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

This is just what they want you to believe

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

To them you are a giant who can easily kill them

And I relish in proving them right. Fuck wasps and fuck your wasp propaganda.

I've given bees snacks when they're tuckered out on a hot day. I've let them rest on me. But with wasps and hornets it's on sight.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

I've been stung about half a dozen times by wasps so far this year. They're beginning to piss me off.

And as an adult, my sister stepped on a hornets nest and damn near ended up dead. 150 stings had her in ICU for 4 days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Well maybe it would be easier to "Give them some Space" if their pupae didn't completely cut off all their food processing in the fall leading to rampant aggression as they seek out sugary and fermented smells such as beer, fruits, and candy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I had a yellow jacket fly out of the blue then land on my heel and sting me for absolutely no reason! There wasn't even a nest nearby!

Then a week later another yellow jacket landed on my arm and stung me right under my watch band

Pretty rude if you ask me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

You know what you did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I hope somebody can help me with this: could a bee theoretically evolve to have a stronger stinger so that stinging a human's skin multiple times would be possible?

If bees would evolve like other animals those who survive stinging humans would produce more offspring, but in this case only the queen produces offspring and the queen probably contact with human skin so this trait wouldn't be favoured by evolution. Or am I looking at this wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Huh, this post has 2 examples of bees that can do that already.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You also need to consider the overall health of the colony, since if the colony dies/gets outcompeted by other colonies, so will the queen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks, that is a factor I hadn't thought of

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If wasps realize that I am a giant who can easily kill them, why are they so incessant on invading my personal space?

I's like going to a kickboxing tournament as an untrained person and flipping off every kickboxer within kickboxing range, then slapping them when they tell you to fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

This.

"Ah, behold! A gargantuan dwelling of the giants! We'll just put our giant clumpy mud hive right up here until we reproduce infinitely unchecked, and then perceive them as a threat for daring to venture outside! Peace an' love y'all."

"Ah hah! Look at this patch of grass! The giants stomp around here regularly. We shall burrow and hide beneath it, reacting with furious hellfire should we be tread on!"

"Avast, ye, mammal! You are within like a kilometer of my turf! Your life is hereby forfeit!"

--Various kinds of wasps, probably.

I'm all for letting things be(e), but I get pretty pissed when creatures have the audacity to attach to or otherwise colonize your dwelling and then get mad and violent that it's your dwelling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wait, wasps are pollinators too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If the female wasp crawls into the caprifig, she can successfully lay her eggs and die. The males hatch first, mate with the females, dig tunnels out of the caprifig, and die. The females, now covered in fig pollen from the caprifig, fly out to begin the cycle again. If the female wasp crawls into a female fig, she will not be able to successfully lay her eggs despite pollinating the fig with pollen from the caprifig she hatched in. The fig will absorb her body and her eggs as the fruit develops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Looks like their entire life is fucking and then dying immediately after. Aight, they can have a pass. Mainly because I'll never see one in my life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

There are a lot of different species which serve as pollinators besides bees. Afaik, some are more specialised into specific flowers/plants than others and without them, these plants wouldn't be able to reproduce. (Yucca moths for example.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Yes, they are! They're into sweet nectar - that's why they also tend to visit our sweet drinks. The adults also sometimes search for bits of meat for the carnivorous larvae. In this mode they act like insect pest control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. They usually pollinate my sweet toast in spring and my ham in late summer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Wasp nest in wall, specialist comes out, sucks them all out, sprays commercial insecticide into wall cavity. Wasps that were out of nest at the time come back and get confused and piss off, couple days later they're back and have found new unbefore seen holes to fly into, specialist tells me to buy trap and fill with meat. Buy canned ham and dump in trap. All wasps that came back are now in trap. Thanks Ham.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This waZZp propaganda is getting out of control! We need to censor it! Block Wasp Today and Waspnik right now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Here in NZ most wasps are European Wasps which are an invasive species and are very destructive to the local ecosystem

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bees and wasps are the same, we just abuse bees for honey and they are liked for that reason alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Abuse me for honey

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nope. Don't care. I'm a scientific realist. 99.999% of the time I educate myself on matters such as these if I am misinformed, and change my stance promptly based on new information.

But not in this case.

Fuck this meme, fuck this info, and fuck wasps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

At least educate youtself on the bee part, it's really interesting!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, they are, just really hate wasps and this was sort of a joke comment. Except for the hating wasps part. did I mention that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

in what sense are you a realist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

🙄 troll on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Guy in active denial: "I'm a realist"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

They really exist

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