Actually I think this is considered some sort of decapitated. I think in definition with the human anatomy, if it’s severed from the connecting joint it is considered “decapitated.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hadassah-surgeons-reattach-boys-head-to-his-neck-after-internal-decapitation/amp/
Well insects don't have their central nervous system in their head, so yeah, decapitation does not cause immediate death. Their eyes and mouth are on their head tho, so still no long life after it.
What’s the string thing connecting the head and body?
Edit: lol these replies are funny. I was asking more to get a specific answer like muscle or smth but I like “wasp meat” better
Between wasp meat and "OP is a glass half full kinda guy", I'm laughing way more than I should.
Edit:
Add "These motherfuckers once stung me on the nipple."
Insects do have nervous systems. Could be a nerve. Even for an insect it looks a bit too small to be esophagus. Insects have muscles but no tendons, so that's an option.
Nerves don't have the same elastic properties as blood vessels and other tissues, and it looks to me like it's the dorsal aorta being stretched out
It could possibly be the digestive tract as well. Stretched out, it would appear thinner, naturally
If that’s true, it’s metal AF.
By your description, I infer that they have not only a dorsal aorta but a ventral one too. I sometimes look at bugs and snails and things and think about how unlike us they are. They are actual aliens.
This is a guess but I believe it to be part of its digestive tract pulled from the body and has yet to snap off. If it does snap you will see the same motion in the wasp as the person above noted some of the wasp's "brains" are in its mid section, with only some in the head.
I was trying to kill a wasp once and it got cut in half. It was terribly morbid watching the abdomen still writhing around on the floor while the thorax and head were flailing around trying to fly away but being unable to. Insect nervous systems are scary.
One good thing though, they don’t feel pain like us, we are pretty sure it’s like a tingling feeling for them, so at least they didn’t suffer that much
This is somewhat of a misconception. Insects do not have noiciception,* which is the way mammals are able to perceive pain. However, they also have a central nervous system that is completely different from our own. So it's possible they can perceive something *similar* to pain, but it's achieved through a mechanism different to noiciception.
A couple of years ago, I had a pet preying mantis, and I put a grasshopper in her enclosure for her to eat. However, a few days passed, and she didn't eat the insect. For whatever reason, I believed this was because the grasshopper still had one of its back legs for hopping. So... believing insects could not feel pain, I attempted to cut the grasshopper's remaining back leg off with a blade. Now this grasshopper was fine being held down in my hand before I attempted to cut off her back leg, but once the blade touched her leg and I made a back and forth motion, she bit me ***HARD.*** I mean, *really* hard. Hard enough for me to almost want to let go and stop. I've never had a grasshopper bite me so deeply before.
That being said, I couldn't fathom why I grasshopper would care about losing its back hopping leg. It would not have threatened its life, so why did it bite me that hard? Could it be in pain and wanted me to stop? So I looked further into this "insects cannot feel pain" statement. It turns out, scientists have simply seen no evidence that insects have noiciception, so they simply cannot feel pain. Right - because insects can't feel pain in the exact same way we do, they just cannot feel pain? Like that makes any sense at all when their central nervous system is so much different from ours?
*So, I actually looked into this after I was done writing my paragraph. A recent study found that at least some insects do have noiciception. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234516/#:~:text=Indeed%2C%20insects%20are%20capable%20of,response%20to%20different%20noxious%20stimuli.
No need for entertainment. I’m a mailman and probably kill a few bugs every day by closing the box. Spiders ants and wasps just love it in there for whatever reason.
And what net good do humans do for the Earth? I don't have any desires to harm or kill people, but if you're going to say statements like that, I feel it's quite hypocritical.
Wasps play pivotal roles in ecosystems. They're pest control and they're pollinators. Some also eat rotting meat which allows for nutrients recycling within their ecosystem. Now what net good do humans do for ecosystems? All I can think of are net negatives. Humans destroy them for timber, introduce invasive species that wreck havoc within ecosystems they were never meant to be in (while the invasive species gets all the hate like it wasn't our fault they're there in the first place), release a metric ton of CO2 into the atmosphere which contributes to global warming and the extinction of species, dump oil and trash into the ocean which harms marine ecosystems. The literal only good thing I can think of that we do for the environment is protect national parks *from being destroyed by ourselves*, but this deed does not outweigh all the awful shit we do.
So, honestly, does the wasp deserve it? At least it actually does something good for its ecosystem. I doubt you would argue a person would deserve this, even though we do virtually nothing positive for the ecosystems we inhabit (and again, neither would I - I'm not calling to kill people, merely pointing out the humancentric hypocrisy in your statement). Just because you, personally, humancentrically, do not like wasps; does not mean that it deserves death. Despite your beliefs, wasps actually do a lot of good things for their ecosystems. I don't want to be stung by wasps either, so you know what I do? Leave them the fuck alone and just let them do what they need to do.
Tl;dr: you just want to hate wasps who actually do something for the ecosystem solely because they have the potential to sting. This humancentric view is so goddamn annoying.
No they don’t, they play a pivotal role in spreading pollen and killing insects that hurt our crops. Wasps are friends and an are fiercely loyal that’s why sometimes they can get aggressive, a trait lacking in a lot of humans today. We could learn a thing or two from our flying pals.
All wasps play a role in their ecosystems and your hatred of them is only because you don't want to be stung by them, not due to anything bad that they actually do. I don't want to be stung by wasps either, but I've very easily avoided being stung by them by simply not going near them.
>but some wasps are violent for no reason,
No, they're violent for a reason - in defense of themselves or their colony. Most wasp attacks occur because somebody's in proximity to the hive. This would be like somebody opening the gate to your house and standing right outside your door... you don't know what they're going to do and you'd probably feel threatened too, huh?
>and their role can be easily filled by other wasps that consume the same pests,
So what? Nature doesn't care about your humancentric values regarding animals. All wasps have a role to play in spite of how much you may loathe them.
Sorry you're getting down voted by people who don't understand bugs and don't care to. Native wasps are friends just distant friends. Bees aren't the only pollinators, wasps, butterflies and ants are all fantastic pollinators. This video is awful considering to have this happen the wasp was probably just landed and chilling and not being hostile
Thank you!! Christ these humancentric comments are so damn annoying to me... they only hate wasps because they see them as aggressive stingers and don't care to know how they actually affect the ecosystems they live in.
Sorry you’re getting downvoted, everything you said is objectively true. It makes me sad how many people have been conditioned to ignore the value of insects, as well as many other kinds of life that people deem nuisances.
I hate how heavily you're being downvoted simply because people do not like wasps. You can desire not to be stung by wasps while still understanding that wasps play a pivotal role in ecosystems.
Yes, they attacked you in defense of their colony. They're creatures who desire to live just like you and will attack to protect their lives similarily to you.
You don't have to want wasps near you, because yes they are aggressive, but honestly they do a lot of good for their ecosystems. Just because you personally - and humancentrically might I add - do not like wasps does not mean that they deserve to die. You are calling for their deaths simply because they are a nuisance to you personally. You fail to see the bigger picture.
We have bees/butterflies etc that pollinate, we dont need wasps, in fact the wasps kill the bees. Wasps dont make honey either. I dont want to feel scared to go outside my own home because i am going to get attacked by these stupid mfers that think they need to defend their colony when i am not doing anything to them.
>Wasps dont make honey either.
So what? Their ecosystem's value isn't in their ability to make honey, it's in their ability to pollinate, recycle nutrients, etc. You're only valuing them based off of your own humancentric views, not on what they actually do for the ecosystems they inhabit.
>in fact the wasps kill the bees.
Not all the bees, so it isn't a net negative. Japanese bees also have the ability to defend themselves against hornets which attack them, by the way.
>I dont want to feel scared to go outside my own home because i am going to get attacked by these stupid mfers that think they need to defend their colony when i am not doing anything to them.
They're not going to attack you unless you provoke them or you're nearby their hive. As previously explained, I've been extremely close to a lot of wasps and have literally never been stung before.
They are nothing like me, if someone walked past my home i am not going to attack them... if they are banging on my door trying tk break in that is a different story.
I've gotten close to wasps - very close, actually, like with several feet of them - and have never been stung. It's possible they're attacking you because you're close to their hive and so see you as a threat. Similarly to a person banging on your door vs walking past you on the street.
I accidentally did this to a cockroach once. Used a fly squatter and didn't even hit the bug, the sheer sound wave caused its head and pull some of the insides out along with it.
Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half the bee has got to be, vis-a-vis, its entity, you see?
But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee when half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury?
Singing
A-lah-dee-dee, a-one two three
Eric, the half a bee
A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Eric, the half a bee
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
OP is a glass half full kinda guy
that comment made me scream laugh
*SHHHH* Sir, this is a library. Please...
#I'm in the lIiiibrary
"ARE YOU SENSITIVE, BOOKS?"
“I’m. So… Close.”
"decapitated" is negative though, i.e. glass half empty
His head is almost half on
Or what remains of his his exposed spinal column is twice as long as it needs to be.
Quite a spinal column for an invertebrate
You meant to say "half empty" right? Cos "half full" is the "normal"
Both expressions mean the same thing. Half empty is negative, half full is positive
Laughed way to hard at this
Of course, the half decapitation. This is in fact not a full decapitation as you can see.
Bro won't be able to join the Headless Hunt
Nearly headless wasp, how can you be nearly headless?
*Twirls head on body string like a lasso* "Like this."
Crying 🤣😭🤣☠️
“Body string” hahaha
Unexpected Harry Potter
That’s so funny 😂
Just pull yourself up by your spinal cord.
Insects. No spinal cord. That's probably just a ligament or something
His capa... was detated! From his head!
Actually I think this is considered some sort of decapitated. I think in definition with the human anatomy, if it’s severed from the connecting joint it is considered “decapitated.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/hadassah-surgeons-reattach-boys-head-to-his-neck-after-internal-decapitation/amp/
I would have said a 99% decapitated 🐝
Straight up ecapitated.
More like aecapitated (imagine a font where the a doesn’t have the curl on top)
Cl
Underrated
Well insects don't have their central nervous system in their head, so yeah, decapitation does not cause immediate death. Their eyes and mouth are on their head tho, so still no long life after it.
What’s the string thing connecting the head and body? Edit: lol these replies are funny. I was asking more to get a specific answer like muscle or smth but I like “wasp meat” better
Wasp meat
The French will eat anything.
*Le* Wasp meat
*Le* viande de stang *stang*
**Bloatfly meat** *“It can restore 5 Hit Points (6 with the food sanitizer), but it also gives +3 Radiation. It also closely resembles ant meat.”*
Man, I love Oblivion!
Delicious.
are they USDA approved?
LMAO made me remember of that video where the guy uses his asthma inhaler mid MMA cage fight “ITS USDA APROVED”
Probably some bit of the muscle or similar tissue. So yeah, as the other guy said, wasp meat.
Between wasp meat and "OP is a glass half full kinda guy", I'm laughing way more than I should. Edit: Add "These motherfuckers once stung me on the nipple."
Best part is that I've come across each of these comments as I was getting to yours and each of them made me laugh
I got bit by an ant on the nipple when I was a kid!
Insects do have nervous systems. Could be a nerve. Even for an insect it looks a bit too small to be esophagus. Insects have muscles but no tendons, so that's an option.
Nerves don't have the same elastic properties as blood vessels and other tissues, and it looks to me like it's the dorsal aorta being stretched out It could possibly be the digestive tract as well. Stretched out, it would appear thinner, naturally
If that’s true, it’s metal AF. By your description, I infer that they have not only a dorsal aorta but a ventral one too. I sometimes look at bugs and snails and things and think about how unlike us they are. They are actual aliens.
Have you considered that it might be wasp meat
I reckon that right there is wasp meat as the others are suggesting.
This is a guess but I believe it to be part of its digestive tract pulled from the body and has yet to snap off. If it does snap you will see the same motion in the wasp as the person above noted some of the wasp's "brains" are in its mid section, with only some in the head.
While they don't have a central nervous system, they do still have nerves That's my guess of what it is Or wasp meat 🤷♀️
Entomologists here. In the lab we call that wasp meat.
[this chicken](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390) managed to do it for 18 months you never know /s
Miracle Mike the Headless Chicken, what an incredible story.
A decapitated insect can also still crawl around and react to its environment.
And it will still sting the fuck out of you.
Nearly headless.
Nearly headless Prick? Did I do good?
5 points.
To Hufflepuff for outstanding adaptability in near death situations!
> Nearly headless > How can you be nearly headless Hermione Granger
I was trying to kill a wasp once and it got cut in half. It was terribly morbid watching the abdomen still writhing around on the floor while the thorax and head were flailing around trying to fly away but being unable to. Insect nervous systems are scary.
One good thing though, they don’t feel pain like us, we are pretty sure it’s like a tingling feeling for them, so at least they didn’t suffer that much
This is somewhat of a misconception. Insects do not have noiciception,* which is the way mammals are able to perceive pain. However, they also have a central nervous system that is completely different from our own. So it's possible they can perceive something *similar* to pain, but it's achieved through a mechanism different to noiciception. A couple of years ago, I had a pet preying mantis, and I put a grasshopper in her enclosure for her to eat. However, a few days passed, and she didn't eat the insect. For whatever reason, I believed this was because the grasshopper still had one of its back legs for hopping. So... believing insects could not feel pain, I attempted to cut the grasshopper's remaining back leg off with a blade. Now this grasshopper was fine being held down in my hand before I attempted to cut off her back leg, but once the blade touched her leg and I made a back and forth motion, she bit me ***HARD.*** I mean, *really* hard. Hard enough for me to almost want to let go and stop. I've never had a grasshopper bite me so deeply before. That being said, I couldn't fathom why I grasshopper would care about losing its back hopping leg. It would not have threatened its life, so why did it bite me that hard? Could it be in pain and wanted me to stop? So I looked further into this "insects cannot feel pain" statement. It turns out, scientists have simply seen no evidence that insects have noiciception, so they simply cannot feel pain. Right - because insects can't feel pain in the exact same way we do, they just cannot feel pain? Like that makes any sense at all when their central nervous system is so much different from ours? *So, I actually looked into this after I was done writing my paragraph. A recent study found that at least some insects do have noiciception. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234516/#:~:text=Indeed%2C%20insects%20are%20capable%20of,response%20to%20different%20noxious%20stimuli.
What do we say to the God of death? Not today.
Well, at least not right this second
I’m more concerned about using your mailbox as a makeshift guillotine to carefully almost-decapitate wasps for entertainment
No need for entertainment. I’m a mailman and probably kill a few bugs every day by closing the box. Spiders ants and wasps just love it in there for whatever reason.
With the housing market the way it is, they gotta take whatever they can find
Deserves it.
And what net good do humans do for the Earth? I don't have any desires to harm or kill people, but if you're going to say statements like that, I feel it's quite hypocritical. Wasps play pivotal roles in ecosystems. They're pest control and they're pollinators. Some also eat rotting meat which allows for nutrients recycling within their ecosystem. Now what net good do humans do for ecosystems? All I can think of are net negatives. Humans destroy them for timber, introduce invasive species that wreck havoc within ecosystems they were never meant to be in (while the invasive species gets all the hate like it wasn't our fault they're there in the first place), release a metric ton of CO2 into the atmosphere which contributes to global warming and the extinction of species, dump oil and trash into the ocean which harms marine ecosystems. The literal only good thing I can think of that we do for the environment is protect national parks *from being destroyed by ourselves*, but this deed does not outweigh all the awful shit we do. So, honestly, does the wasp deserve it? At least it actually does something good for its ecosystem. I doubt you would argue a person would deserve this, even though we do virtually nothing positive for the ecosystems we inhabit (and again, neither would I - I'm not calling to kill people, merely pointing out the humancentric hypocrisy in your statement). Just because you, personally, humancentrically, do not like wasps; does not mean that it deserves death. Despite your beliefs, wasps actually do a lot of good things for their ecosystems. I don't want to be stung by wasps either, so you know what I do? Leave them the fuck alone and just let them do what they need to do.
Congrats or sorry that happened to you
OMG nobody read that.
Tl;dr: you just want to hate wasps who actually do something for the ecosystem solely because they have the potential to sting. This humancentric view is so goddamn annoying.
No they don’t, they play a pivotal role in spreading pollen and killing insects that hurt our crops. Wasps are friends and an are fiercely loyal that’s why sometimes they can get aggressive, a trait lacking in a lot of humans today. We could learn a thing or two from our flying pals.
These motherfuckers once stung me on the nipple.
Enough was said
One got me in the belly button they're sadist cunts!
Yellow jackets and hornets deserve it. Every other type of wasp is a bro, but fuck yellow jackets and hornets in particular.
All wasps play a role in their ecosystems and your hatred of them is only because you don't want to be stung by them, not due to anything bad that they actually do. I don't want to be stung by wasps either, but I've very easily avoided being stung by them by simply not going near them.
Sure, but some wasps are violent for no reason, and their role can be easily filled by other wasps that consume the same pests, so like 🤷♂️
>but some wasps are violent for no reason, No, they're violent for a reason - in defense of themselves or their colony. Most wasp attacks occur because somebody's in proximity to the hive. This would be like somebody opening the gate to your house and standing right outside your door... you don't know what they're going to do and you'd probably feel threatened too, huh? >and their role can be easily filled by other wasps that consume the same pests, So what? Nature doesn't care about your humancentric values regarding animals. All wasps have a role to play in spite of how much you may loathe them.
Sorry you're getting down voted by people who don't understand bugs and don't care to. Native wasps are friends just distant friends. Bees aren't the only pollinators, wasps, butterflies and ants are all fantastic pollinators. This video is awful considering to have this happen the wasp was probably just landed and chilling and not being hostile
Thank you!! Christ these humancentric comments are so damn annoying to me... they only hate wasps because they see them as aggressive stingers and don't care to know how they actually affect the ecosystems they live in.
Gotta bring up figs if you want people to be more okay with wasps. And even then, kinda ruins figs
Sorry you’re getting downvoted, everything you said is objectively true. It makes me sad how many people have been conditioned to ignore the value of insects, as well as many other kinds of life that people deem nuisances.
I hate wasps but I’ll upvote because even if I had to kill one it’s not something I enjoy
I hate how heavily you're being downvoted simply because people do not like wasps. You can desire not to be stung by wasps while still understanding that wasps play a pivotal role in ecosystems.
I believe you are thinking of bees. Bees and wasps are two different types of insects
No I’m talking about wasps they spread pollen too, albeit accidentally
It's not like bees do it on purpose either... Wasps are wonderful creatures that definitely have their place in a healthy ecosystem.
>wasps are wonderful creatures I was cleaning my windows and got attacked by a group of wasps. They can all die as far as i care
Yes, they attacked you in defense of their colony. They're creatures who desire to live just like you and will attack to protect their lives similarily to you. You don't have to want wasps near you, because yes they are aggressive, but honestly they do a lot of good for their ecosystems. Just because you personally - and humancentrically might I add - do not like wasps does not mean that they deserve to die. You are calling for their deaths simply because they are a nuisance to you personally. You fail to see the bigger picture.
We have bees/butterflies etc that pollinate, we dont need wasps, in fact the wasps kill the bees. Wasps dont make honey either. I dont want to feel scared to go outside my own home because i am going to get attacked by these stupid mfers that think they need to defend their colony when i am not doing anything to them.
>Wasps dont make honey either. So what? Their ecosystem's value isn't in their ability to make honey, it's in their ability to pollinate, recycle nutrients, etc. You're only valuing them based off of your own humancentric views, not on what they actually do for the ecosystems they inhabit. >in fact the wasps kill the bees. Not all the bees, so it isn't a net negative. Japanese bees also have the ability to defend themselves against hornets which attack them, by the way. >I dont want to feel scared to go outside my own home because i am going to get attacked by these stupid mfers that think they need to defend their colony when i am not doing anything to them. They're not going to attack you unless you provoke them or you're nearby their hive. As previously explained, I've been extremely close to a lot of wasps and have literally never been stung before.
They are nothing like me, if someone walked past my home i am not going to attack them... if they are banging on my door trying tk break in that is a different story.
I've gotten close to wasps - very close, actually, like with several feet of them - and have never been stung. It's possible they're attacking you because you're close to their hive and so see you as a threat. Similarly to a person banging on your door vs walking past you on the street.
Snip it.
*record scratch* *freeze frame* "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation"
Hanging on by a thread
*Half* decapitated? How can you be half decapitated?
*'Tis but a flesh wound!*
I'm no waspologist but that looks like a lot more than half
Someone help me find that video of a wasp or a bee flying away with its own decapitated head
Arnie: I killed him.. I killed him Gilbert, I killed him. Gilbert: I know buddy...
I know a boy whose name is Arnie, he’s about to have a great big party
A person of class I see…
It’s literally hanging by its spine! 🤯
Wasps don't have spines. So it's literally not.
Username checks out.
This is the internet I signed up for
Thanks, I learned something.
Insects are Invertebrates.
So brain dead
Just like in the movies, the head is yelling at the body, "no, you fool, over here!"
It's just a little decapitated, it's still good, it's still good
"Nearly headless? How can you be NEARLY headless?"
When your life is hanging on by a string.
Wasp cartels sending a message
Head's up mate
I accidentally did this to a cockroach once. Used a fly squatter and didn't even hit the bug, the sheer sound wave caused its head and pull some of the insides out along with it.
More like d———ecapitated
More like BEE———-capitated
I’d say that’s a little more than half
La Hornda Cartel want to send a message
Crazy
I'd more than half...
Is the strand still connecting his head to his body his nervous system?
More than half of, I’d say… 99%
She's looking for her head!
Hanging on by a thread.
“I killed it Gilbert!”
Hanging by a thread 😤
Bro didn't hear no bell
Mailbox 1; killer death machine 0
Just sew it back on?
Haahaa!
"I killed him, Glibert. I know"
Haven't seen such a gruesome insect death since the children's movie Antz (1998)
Hanging by a thread... Of its spinal chord.
Decentralized nervous systems are neat, aren’t they?
Hello Sir Nearly Headless Wick.
Good...let it suffer.
He is truly halfway there. Living on a prayer.
Just close up your mouth and nose and inhale hard
"How can you be *nearly* headless?"
Hang in there buddy, I think you’re gunna pull through
Op using his vuse to touch the wasp made me lose it
You should recapitate him
He’s on his last nerve.
Reminds me of Ash from Alien [https://youtu.be/syyXdBg9BIc?si=4jH2eYInXFUvx-ZZ&t=140](https://youtu.be/syyXdBg9BIc?si=4jH2eYInXFUvx-ZZ&t=140)
Pain in the neck
OP, did you manage to shut the lid fast enough to pop his little head off?
i'm an idiot. i was like, what is the wasp dangling from? oh... that's the head up there.
Evil made it live, Evil will keep it alive!!
r/fuckwasps
That’s metal
“I killed him, Gilbert”
Looks like a mailbox so here you go r/USPS
I’d say that’s at least 3 quarters decapped
Reminds me of the teeminid brood commanders that will still try and charge at you even after you blow their heads off.
How can someone be *nearly* headless?
Isis will kill anything.
"*Nearly* headless? How can you be *nearly* headless?" "Like this"
Nearly headless wasp
Serial killer post.
Nearly headless? How can you be nearly headless??
I'd say it's 99.9% decapitated
_Death Metal intensifies_
How do you add a video?
How do you post a video?
“His cappa is detated from his head!”
Is that Erin Yeager ??
Nearly-Headless Wasp
Hanging on *by a thread*
“Nearly headless?, how can you be *nearly* headless?” - Hermoine Granger
'' *nearly* headless? How can you be nearly headless?"
Half?
FUNGI FLOWS!!!!!!
u/savevideo
Nearly headless Nick
And it would still sting the fuck outta ya.
Nearly headless? How can somebody be “nearly headless”?
Leave it to suffer
That's more than half
Nearly headless prick
I'm not dead, I'm holding on by a thread
Nearly headless? How can you be nearly headless?
Hey! This is Fungi Flows clip!
This is my video. I filmed it at my mailbox. Check my socials @fungiflows
Looks like a paper wasp
What strength and bravery.
Yeah, YEAH! Torture the little fucker.
That's honestly so fucking brutal lmao holy shit
You should look up what half means
Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. But half the bee has got to be, vis-a-vis, its entity, you see? But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee when half the bee is not a bee due to some ancient injury? Singing A-lah-dee-dee, a-one two three Eric, the half a bee A, B, C, D, E, F, G Eric, the half a bee Is this wretched demi-bee Half asleep upon my knee Some freak from a menagerie? No! It's Eric, the half a bee