Drusas

Guess I don’t look at crotches often enough to have noticed.

I like brass for jewelry, but it gets green and grimey.

Huh. I’m skeptical.

…what?

#notallwasps

Some wasps look scary but all they want to do is hang around the flowers.

And FYI to anybody reading, the best thing you can do for bumblebee populations is to grow wildflowers native to your region and don’t cut them down before they flower so the bees have a chance to get to them.

Bumblebees are these fuzzy, gentle, fat little guys. They’re fun to watch and harmless, as long as you don’t try to go catching them with your bare hands or something like that.

Paper wasps are generally good pollinators and not assholes, but they have yellow striping to make them look scary.

Yellow jackets are assholes, unusually aggressive and territorial and this becomes a problem because they also tend to love human food and beverage. In my region, I would also say fuck the bald-faced hornet, which is naturally related to the yellow jacket and is similarly aggressive. Fortunately less common (I haven’t been stung by one, but apparently it’s worse than it is with a yellow jacket).

Boll’s Potter wasps (if I’m remembering their name correctly) are also common where I am and they are pretty chill and just go about pollinating. I’m sure there are a bunch of others that I haven’t yet learned to identify.

tl;dr: Yellow jackets and their relatives are assholes. The rest are mostly okay.

I always said that if I wasn’t a human, I would be a rhinoceros beetle (kabutomushi).

Apparently I may have been right!

You’re technically correct, but you missed the joke, which was kind of funny.

Huh. I thought yellow jackets nest underground.

You can reuse them, but you have to carefully clean the nesting holes. I have professionally made bee houses that I use. The wooden blocks that hold the nesting holes can be removed, opened, and sanitized. This also allows you to harvest cocoons to keep safe from predators/weather for the next year.

I keep (as much as solitary bees can be “kept”) native mason and leafcutter bees every year. I love when they first emerge from their cocoons. They’re so tiny and adorable. They’re also completely non-aggressive and never mind when I mess with their bee houses (mostly to remove spider webs). My plants love the bees as well.

Just stir fry up some bird’s eye chilis and toss a few noodles in.

All the news keeps talking about her vaping as though that’s the main problem here. Maybe don’t engage in sexual activities in public. Like, actual sexual activities such as fondling genitals. Not conservatives’ idea of sexual activities, which involves wearing skirts and makeup.

No, but you may definitely get the same memes repeated on different communities and magazines.