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P-bubbs versus slime princess, yo.
Wasps aren't evil. They are important pollinators and they are literally just hanging out. I am sick and tired of the wasp hate.
I've never been stung by a wasp. I have been stung by multiple bees.
And they are at the very least annoying af. Maybe not 'all' wasps but the ones you notice for sure.
Just go eat my ice cream but quit buzzing around my head like an idiot.
Believe me, I love nature and there are very few animals, even insects, I cannot abide, but wasps are one of the few.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was planning to do the same. Wasps are important for the ecosystem in many ways.
It's not my fault they're dicks. 😤
Most wasps are actually not aggressive at all. We just don’t notice those ones.
They are quite aggressive when there are no more flowers/nectar in the end of summer. They don't store "food" like bees do, they just have nothing so they want your bologna
That's not really the case. The adult wasps are vegetarian, they may drink your soda, but your bologna does nothing for them. They want your bologna for their carnivorous larvae - it's for the children.
Interesting, I would like to subscribe to more wasp facts please
Many of them get drunk off fermenting fruit then go around and sting shit in a drunken stupor.
Or mimosas
Ain't humans cute by projecting their morality on everything they lay their eyes on?
Nah, wasps are wretched
you better bee leave it
Wait until you hear about mushrooms. This one tastes great. This one will send you to a deep mind state for an afternoon. This one will melt your liver. They all look the same.
They definitely don’t all look the same haha. I’ve picked and eaten thousands of mushrooms without issue. Most people can learn how to do it in an afternoon with proper instruction (not on your own though, there is real danger if you don’t know what you’re doing).
Yeah it's really important to know which mushrooms grow in your area. Then you know which mushrooms to avoid, and which have look alikes. Also just use mushroomexpert.com if you're unsure
You would be better using a local field guide
Mushroom expert is updated much more frequently. Local field guides are good for getting a general idea of what you're looking for out there. But if you want to know exactly what you've found, running through the whole process on mushroom expert will give you a positive ID. The local mushroom hunters I learned from told me to not trust books as they are almost always out of date in some way.
I guess using two good sources is good. If you get different results you can just not trust that ID
The danger of using a universal guide is it opens more confusion. The death cap in my earlier comment is an example, a Chinese guide will tell you a mushroom that looks like that is good; an Australian guide will tell you it's deadly
For a differentiation of the two you need to check in more detail, but if you had the local you'd be fine as there's no safe mushroom that looks like that here and no dangerous one that lives there
With a smaller set identification is easier
Fun fact, most people who died from poisonous mushrooms thought they or the one they trusted knew what they were doing. Thinking you know what you're doing doesn't prevent mushroom poisoning, thinking you know what you're doing is almost a prerequisite.
Well at a certain point you have to take responsibility for your own actions. I’m just saying it’s not hard to learn if you actually have the right instruction, either from someone who does know or from quality guides. The issue is as a beginner, you may not know what that looks like.
By the way, most poisonings happen when people just eat random things without even attempting to identify them. So it’s not like they died from the deadly false button mushroom or something. They’re just morons.
By the way, most poisonings happen when people just eat random things without even attempting to identify them.
lmao, nice
A large category of dead mushroom hunters is people who know the mushrooms of where they are from, but find mushrooms elsewhere that look like a good one from home
In my city it's Chinese trained mushroomers thinking death caps are a good eating mushroom (it isn't)
To be fair, a lot of them are children. But also some adults. It’s more common than you would think.
Plus we now have a new category of dum-dums: “But the app said it was edible!”
Again, I don’t want to imply that eating wild mushrooms is inherently safe. Just that it’s not difficult to learn how to do it safely.
Mmm...melted liver 🤤
In the alley, the dragon in hand, he approached the blackened nest. It had broken open. Singed wasps wrenched and flipped on the asphalt.
He saw the thing the shell of gray paper had concealed. Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In his mind's eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection. Alien. He pulled the trigger, forgetting to press the ignition, and fuel hissed over the bulging, writhing life at his feet.
When he did hit the ignition, it exploded with a thump taking an eyebrow with it.
—Neuromancer, William Gibson
Just read this for the first time a few weeks ago, so good.
Someone is going to make a movie about this...
Bee Movie 2 gets really dark
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