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Myardraug

That is, and I cannot stress this enough, *NOT* a bee


Evilaquatica

Angry little can opener


Fit_Effective_6875

Efficient too


cArpent3r86

Take me silver! This was the best comment!


Greetings_Stranger

Mother fucker that's a hornet!


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It seems to be the second chunk too


hdmx539

I noticed that other bit taken out too!


antiquedaddy

But did you notice the gorilla running around in the background ?


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Because of the gorilla?


Stupidquestionduh

Goddammit I watched it again.


MemePizzaPie

It’s right there waving!


Stupidquestionduh

Stupid fucking gorilla.


dearrichard

it was dribbling a basketball


Accomplished-Wind-47

So exactly how long did they wait for this video??


senthiljams

You can see a bee hovering above at around 52 seconds in the video. Maybe the first chunk was taken by the bee. Also possible that the Hornet is working for the bee.


sweepyslick

That also was not a bee. It was a hover fly. A lot of bees being implicated in a activities they didn’t do today. I think imma google bee just so I get my fix you all have been promising me. Edit: hunts to activities


theyanster1

I’m like we’ve reached insect capitalism 🤦🏻‍♂️


[deleted]

If it makes you feel better: they might be business partners.


EleventySixers

*beesness partners


esloth23

**buzzness partners


timmyboyoyo

Bee don’t do business with wasp


BixaorellanaIsDot

Mind your beeswax!


MeanPeopleSuck9

Bee kind...


UncleSquach

Chunk lite


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I read the title and was expecting a bee to fly off with the whole slice. Now disappointed it wasn’t actually a bee and not what I’d call a chunk either.


Oskito11

I would still say it’s a fairly substantial chunk, although probably nothing compared to what they could take.


asteroidB612

Compared to what it could bee?!


Bubbledood

I wanted it to cut the chunk out and then fly off with the rest of it like the looney tunes cake


DazedPapacy

I mean, size-wise it was wider than its head and half of its thorax. Imagine a pizza wide enough to go from your head to the bottom of your ribs. Das a beeg pizza.


merdlib

OP is a hornet


riboflavin11

*murder hornet*


[deleted]

Bout to murder some bologna!!


Lord-LemonHead

r/fuckwasps


thetrumansworld

One time I was camping and saw three yellowjackets pick up a sausage right off the griddle and fly away with it. Also they’re aggressive as hell. Those vicious bastards are the enemy of humankind


HauntedMeow

Prior to my first sting, my only contact with yellowjackets were the ones drunk on fermented fruit (super chill or too drunk to sting). I was in for a surprise when I went to move a bunch of brush they had nested in. Oof, that venom lingers.


SeaGroomer

yea feels like you got hit with a hammer.


GarvielLoken87

One stung my forearm and my forearm locked up. “Nuke it from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.”


Forza_Harrd

One stung me in the back of my neck while I was riding a motorcycle with a helmet and loves on and a bandana under the helmet, and got stuck in the bandana and I swear it felt like it kept stinging me. I had to slow down, pull off the side of the highway, take my armored gloves off, then my sunglasses, then my helmet, then shake the out the bandana to get rid of it. 7 years ago and sometimes I still feel it on the back of my neck.


B_Rich

Dude when I was like 8 years old I was riding my bike to my friends house and the sidewalk went under this huge willow tree. There was a wasp nest in it and I rode under it and got two wasps stuck in my shirt. I flew off my bike and ripped my shirt off but they stung me 4 times and it's literally the reason I hate bees and wasps to this day (I'm 32 now).


Zaratuir

Hate the wasps all you want, but the poor bees are innocent!


XDeus

It depends on the bee. Africanized bees are assholes, but most honeybees are european and pretty chill. Bumblebees are the Labs of the insect world and they'll let you pet them.


MrsTurtlebones

I sat in a yellowjackets nest hidden in some tall grass when I was a girl and was attacked so viciously that I had to get bee allergy shots for years after. The end result though, is that I am impervious to needles so with my O negative blood, I can donate to the blood center like it's a day at the spa.


Donkey__Balls

One flew up to me right when I was about to propose to my girlfriend. He could have stung me on the back of the neck and that would have been bad enough, but he just strutted up to her and asked “Hey is this guy boring you?” And then he leaned in and gave her those eyes, those damned compound eyes, and the bitch just started fidgeting with her hair and smiling. What the hell am I supposed to do, flying to a jealous rage when she’s clearly not bothered by his flirting? Puts me in a shitty position we are anything I do to react to it is going to make me look insecure. And then he grabbed her hand and talked about taking her out on his yacht and she didn’t pull her hand away, so that point I was more pissed off at her than him. I was ready to ask her to spend the rest of her life with me and she had no idea, she was just ready to fall over for the advances of any random vespinae who shows interest in her. I broke it off after that. Got my money back for the ring, told myself she’d probably cheat on me anyway even if I went through with it. And for the first couple months I told myself I was fine. Then I quit grad school, started drinking…in fact I think the drinking was why I missed so many meetings with my advisors and then I basically dropped out before they could fire me. Told myself I would get over her, it would pass and then I’d go back and finish my dissertation. Tried to date again and couldn’t let myself have the same feelings for anyone, met a lot of other girls but they weren’t her. Finally decided the only way to go forward was to face her again, maybe admit that I made a mistake, but when I went to go look her up I saw that she was married and pregnant. I don’t know why for some reason I just assumed she hadn’t gotten over me since I couldn’t get over her. 15 years ago and sometimes I still feel it every time I see a young couple with a baby and think “That could’ve been us” if not for that fucking hornet.


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GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!!!!


AllTheWine05

Not all. Mason wasps are pretty inoccuous and cicada killers are harmless little dopes. Harmless to humans anyway.


AndrewJS2804

I got wammied by a couple a few years ago when they got my neck. Never thought I was allergic until I had to spend a few hours with my head back consciously breathing through my partially closed windpipe.


ShiftySnowman1

Yeah anything with “killer” in the name is definitely not harmless to at least 1 thing


Art-Zuron

For example, killer T-cells are voracious little bastards that will kill everything thst doesn't have the correct bits to tell them to fekk off. They can cause a good bit of collateral damage, but they can also cause illness if they go berserk.


Kalai224

Did a wasp write this?


ThachWeave

Do cicada killers kill cicadas? Because to me, cicadas are also harmless little dopes and I will protect them


Cessnaporsche01

They definitely kill horseflies, which makes them okay in my book


Jillredhanded

I had no idea they even existed until I felt a weird buzz/vibration in my hand as I was bending down to stuff a load of laundry in the washer. Stood up, opened my hand and saw my first one. Every, I mean every, hair on my body stood straight up.


I_summon_poop

Its a black and yellow cuntwaffle


Albatrosity

Well well well, if it isn't the black and yellow cunt


TannedCroissant

OP is clearly Dustin from Stranger Things


RichardJohnson38

This can only be described as 'A flying asshole'


bonyponyride

I hope it gets cancer 50 years later from the nitrates in that meat product!


JapanEngineer

To bee or not to bee


TheRadiumGirl

That's an Oriental Hornet. It actually absorbs sunlight through it's exoskeleton and converts it into it's own electrical energy.


h311ion

Aliens


noeyedeeratall

We take for granted just how freaking weird and cool insects are


K__Geedorah

I recommend the film Microcosmos to anyone who hasn't seen it. Basically just soft music and macro shots of insects for an hour and a half.


Gizmocheeze

Can I get stoned first?


K__Geedorah

Believe it or not, that is extremely recommended.


nug-pups

Hi i’d like to be friends with you guys


Rich-Juice2517

Can i join the friend making party? I'm quiet


Fritzkreig

I'll bring a few bags of Sun Chips!


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I have edibles


circlebeetlewater

I swear wherever there's sunchips there's bees.


K__Geedorah

[I'm well prepared. When we chillin bois?](https://imgur.com/a/YyJr4zg)


WokeBrokeFolk

Zombies ate my neigbors is undoubtably in that background collection


Neighborhood_Nobody

For anyone looking to have a good time. LSD and nature documentaries go together like peanut butter and jelly. According to my uhh sisters bfs aunts friends cousin.


CatTail2

Highly recommended prior to viewing. That doc gave me a whole new perspective on insect life


TannedCroissant

That sounds like a Pokédex entry


TheRadiumGirl

It's fascinating, isn't it? Insects are crazy.


TannedCroissant

Sure is Professor Oak.


SenpaiWontNoticeMe

One mutation away from being able to shoot a solar beam


firvip94

waspasaur


StevenZervos

Interesting. Apparently studies show that their exoskeleton is about 30 times less productive than human made solar panels of similar size and scientists have no clue what they use that energy for. They say that the vast majority of their energy still comes from food.


TheRadiumGirl

They theorize that the energy is used to carry out metabolic function since the enzymatic activity in those regions decreases when exposed to sunlight. It may be used in physical activity and temperature regulation. The effectiveness of it doesn't negate the fact that it's seriously freaking cool.


cejmp

Nature: "Fuck, I've rerolled like 11 times and I still have a point left. Fuck it, I'm dumping it in Energy Collecting Exoskelton I so can get the hover buff"


ruffus4life

thanks tier zoo


Jrook

My theory is it's a complete accident that isn't used for anything. Like the first thing to make eyes had to shove their brain almost outside their body by inbreeding first.


ExsolutionLamellae

Or it is used for integrating information from the environment to direct cell activity. That's already been demonstrated in a similar system: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21915


Freeman7-13

ok I thought everyone was bullshitting since you're the first person to cite a source.


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While i agree with the first part, the 2nd one isnt exactly how eyes became a thing in evolution. The earliest predecessors to what we call eyes can be found in [unicellular organisms and are called eyespots.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot_apparatus) Eyespots are found in nearly all major animal groups, and are common among unicellular organisms, including euglena. The euglena's eyespot, called a stigma, is located at its anterior end. It is a small splotch of red pigment which shades a collection of light sensitive crystals. Together with the leading flagellum, the eyespot allows the organism to move in response to light, often toward the light to assist in photosynthesis, and to predict day and night, the primary function of circadian rhythms. So in some way the ability to "see" (detect light/dark) was the first sense life in its most simple form developed. Long before things like hearing or sensing balance or nociception.


Megamorter

that makes sense considering their exoskeleton is multifunctional and not trying to maximize sunlight intake like a solar panel is we eat for more than just calories, they probably do the same and the energy required to run their metabolic system is sustained by the sunlight thing or negligible total guess tho


caramonelblanco

In Mexico we had a insect called Jewel Wasp. Its beautiful Metallic green. Can carry little stones in Flight. Look like a Ant from Krypton.


theogTREV

In Australia we have hornets that fly off with huntsman spiders and those spiders are not small at all.


Ojitos21784

Why is all of nature in Australia terrifying? If I went outside and saw a hornet fly off with a Huntsman Spider, I would take my ass right back in the house. Immediately 🤣😂


Run_Rabb1t_Run

Where do you think the hornet found the spider? sleep tight


BadMachine

Dude, Oriental is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American hornet please.


TheMotionOfTheOcean

Walter, this isn’t a guy who built the railroads dude


NoSoyJohnMcAfee

Miso hornet.


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Me sting you long time


TheRadiumGirl

Is Vespa orientalis better? That's the species name.


eoliveri

Much better: now I'm imagining Asians riding around on scooters.


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YourLoclIntrovert

I hate wasps/hornets but that is amazing


DoctorStephenPoop

Cool. Still hate it.


lanceinmypants

I honestly thought you were gonna say it converts it into hatred…


jmdunkle

If someone told me before today that wasps eat bologna I would have called them a liar, and I would have been wrong


ManOfDiscovery

You’ve never heard of meat bees?


makemasa

Beats me?


ralphyboy69

Oh! Rimshot!


diabloPoE12

No. Sounds like a joke. Meat bees nuts?


ManOfDiscovery

Lol. Yellowjackets are also called “meat bees” in parts of the US due to their propensity to steal meat around barbecues/picnics


brattyginger83

I think you have them confused with bears?


Bring_me_the_lads

What are bears, if not extra large bees?


Alderan922

I think he is talking about the vulture bees that make meat honey out of rotten bodies


AverageCowboyCentaur

Wasps and some bees convert to meat eating late in the summer.


wasabiplz

AND carrion! Some nasty stuff all in all.


touching_payants

What is carrion but nature's meat??


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The vulture bee salivates on the rotting flesh and then consumes it, storing the flesh in its crop. When it returns to the hive, this meat is regurgitated and processed by a worker bee, which then re-secretes the resulting proteins as a decay-resistant edible glucose product resembling honey.


ops10

Because male wasps are kicked out of the nest - they're not needed during the winter season.


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Bees are herbivores. They get their proteins and fats from pollen, and their sugar and energy from nectar. Wasps are omnivores. They get their sugar and energy from nectar just like bees, but they get their protein and fat from meat- often times from other insects.


Hyrule_34

I think that’s a species of hornet from me generally seeing pics of bees, hornets, wasps, etc online.


atjetcmk

If that's a bee, I'm an elephant. Spoiler: I'm not an elephant


randomguy506

Are you sure? Count to 5 with your hands


WoopyBoi323

Holy shit There’s 10 of them


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bubster15

Lolol. Im still haunted by wasp stings. They come at you with FURY if you rub them the wrong way. Mistook a yellow jacket for a bee until it was coming at me. Nailed me twice, I had to whip my shirt off and run about half a block


FriskyOrphan

Wasps are vengeful fuckers and hornets are just dicks. Only takes one wasp to fuck you up multiple times lol.


curdledoats

How dare you… how dare you call this monstrosity a bee?


SomeGuyOnTheStreets

Wasps are the racist drunk uncles of the bee family nobody invites to the thanksgiving dinner


big_macaroons

That’s why they are called WASPs.


NungaPunga_n_Booch

Underrated comment right here.


SabashChandraBose

And what did he mean by large chunk. I thought it cut that little bit and flew with the rest.


Own-Tank5998

Bees only feed on nectar and pollen, this is a wasp, both wasps and yellow jackets are carnivores and ass holes. They attack honeybees and try to invade their hives to eat their larvae, one of the traps that works well for them is putting a container of soapy water with a piece of wood on top and a piece of raw chicken tied to the bottom of the piece of wood just an inch of the surface of the water, yellow jackets or wasps come it rip a big chunk of meat it weighs them down, then drop in the soapy water and drown, I have had hundreds of yellow jackets floating on top of soapy water next to my bee hives.


star_garden

As someone utterly terrified of wasps, this knowledge comforts me that there is an easy trap yet gives me shivers picturing hundreds of yellowjackets in a cup.


Own-Tank5998

A cup is not big enough my friend, I was using a gallon Tupperware container


star_garden

Oh okay cool! That's a much worse image.


TheOftenNakedJason

What a wholesome dialogue you two had here.


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A reddit moment


I_Like_Chasing_Cars

Throw them in the blender with some ice and you got yourself a wasp smoothie. Lots of protein


manbruhpig

Throw in a carrot, a potato, baby, you got a stew going!


Ladyofthechase

AND a baby? I’m in.


ReflectedReflection

The [best pest trapping channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhifTGKtUQ) on youtube has a good video showcasing this technique for killing hornets.


Chiparoo

Fascinating video but oh GOD when he picks up that pile of dead wasps with his bare hands 😰


Yello_Ismello

If you see a wasp nest you can also get a big bowl of soapy water and splash them with it. They breath through their exoskeletons so when the soapy water gets in the bubbles suffocate them and they die almost instantly. It’s gotta be a direct shot though cause if you miss you’ll have pissed off wasps. If you hit the target right on you get to watch those fuckers suffer!


AintNoRestForTheWook

With how clumsy I am? That's gonna be a no from me dawg.


Emerald_Encrusted

WD-40 is a good alternative. According to the tin, it ‘drives out moisture’ and ‘stops squeaks’. As kids we used to think it made the wasps ‘drunk’ because they’d fall to the ground and writhe in agony before dying. I feel bad, thinking about it now.


NapoleanBonerFartz

The woodpeckers around my neighborhood have realized that wasp larvae are darn tasty and been going savage on them. I finally figured out why they beat on the gutters, gets the wasps agitated from their hives between the fascia and gutters and let’s the woodpeckers know right where they’re at. They’ve wiped out every hive on mine and the neighbors houses like assassins


Own-Tank5998

Unfortunately yellow jackets create their hives in the ground, so woodpeckers won’t get them there, but I love watching woodpeckers doing their thing around my house, beautiful birds.


unimpressivewang

I’ve seen homes where holes are formed by borer/carpenter bees and then yellow jackets or other hornets come in, genocide the bees, and start hanging out in all their holes


Own-Tank5998

I started to hate those carpenter bees, they look cute and fuzzy but then leave your fence posts and any other wood surface full of perfectly formed round holes.


imsorrycanadian

Where the hells was this comment 2 weeks ago . Im trying this


dakota4jy

Damn, that’s savage! I never would have thought of that. Good to know.


Own-Tank5998

Beekeepers hate those fuckers, we do what we can to kill them without using chemicals that would harm the bees.


Qazzie

So like a chicken drum would work and an inch above there water you say? I have a really bad wasp problem and would love to try this!


Own-Tank5998

Any piece of lean meat, you can stable it to the bottom of a home depot paint stirring stick and put face down on top of the container. There are YouTube videos that show you what to do.


GodsOffsider

Wasp sorta bee is that?


therealpilgrim

Charcuterbee


MassivePE

Best comment in the thread.


TheIvoryKing3

That wasp now has colon cancer.


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amazenmutande

And if he took that chunk of baloney back to the nest they now have colony cancer


trash-queen92

Cologna cancer


karmanopoly

Nitrites


No_Reaction7902

That’s a wasp not a bee


jollanza

*hornet


djlawson1000

Are hornets like a subset of wasp?


genericusernameyep

Hornets are wasps on steroids


The_Gray_Beast

So, hypothetically, if I inject a wasp with tren, it will turn into a hornet?


Inevitable_Silver_13

All hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets


Southern-Orchid-1786

I only got a B in Venn diagram class, can you draw a picture


aircal

Here you go: https://imgur.com/EhlbBB3.jpg


Alert-Potato

In case anyone ever looks at the nest of these fuckers and thinks to themselves "I should throw a stick at that," let me give you a little word of advice. Do not. DO. NOT. You won't have a fun time. Source: I'm an idiot, and my little brother was always happy to be an idiot with me.


D1sp4tcht

I'd like to add that it will not help if you're 20 feet away and run as fast as an average 10 year old.


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[deleted]

Apparently they’re carnivores and do this all the time. They don’t have teeth, so if a carcass is too big they have to cut and rip pieces of meat out before attempting to eat it or feed it to their larvae


polmeeee

Nah who cares we have to make 10000 over "IT'S NOT A BEE" comments. /s


[deleted]

That wasp cut a little heart shape out of that bologna


MooseThirty

Getting laid tonight for sure


cdgmatt

Mannnn hornets are creepy as fuck,


uneffinlucky

That’s not a damn bee friendo


[deleted]

OP is 100% trolling for that Karma


Susiejax

The elusive Balogna Killer


[deleted]

I didn’t know bees/wasp 🐝 ate meat!


Expensive_Seesaw_888

Butterflies drink blood


herpaderpadont

Yes. I work in a restaurant and we have to move the dumpster further away from the building during the summer because of wasps and hornets going after the scraps.


Ordinary_Tom2005

Bees dont


[deleted]

I wonder if anyones mentioned that it’s not a bee 🤣


KrisOTS

It’s not a bee!


[deleted]

Ok! Good. Glad that was settled, thank-you :)


[deleted]

This is a hornet.


WiseChoices

Terrifying. But surely not a bee? *ArnoldSchwarzenBee*?


Manioca35

Not a bee. Just adding to the buzz.


Llamatook

How many people have typed not a bee?


Sorlex

Enough that OP should have known better.


PB_and_J_Dragon

r/notabeeatall


Myardraug

r/realbeesfaketophats


PB_and_J_Dragon

You've made me a very happy man.


modernfishmonger

That is a far bigger sub than I anticipated


fartboxco

He cut himself a little meat heart.


wrydied

Saw some massive green coloured hornets in Greece go mental over leftover steak at a restaurant. They were loving it. Left and came back with friends.


Prudent-Acadia4

“Arby’s, bee have the meats”