I would not want a wasp the size of a kitten though.
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Australia could use them to help with the rat problem.
Along with probably every city in the world.
Well yeah, but every other city would be horrified by plagues of rat-sized wasps killing and laying eggs in the wildlife.
For Australia thats not even notable.
Would you rather fight one kitten-sized wasp or 100 wasp-sized kittens?
One kitten-sized wasp. I only have two arms and defending against a single thing is a lot easier than defending against 100 mini kitties hell bent on my destruction.
I'll take the kittens. I'll lose, but it's a more dignified death than seizing up in panic and not even being able to defend myself.
People dying from getting stabbed by their pet bees.
Bad for the bee as well...
Bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally avoid doing so. Dying after one sting is specific to honey bees.
They don’t always die after one sting.
They can remove their stinger, just … often times in that sting moment there’s a lot going on.
Once stung most animals aren’t patient enough to let the bee pull out for a second go.
Not even Honeybees. They can sting many times, the problem is human skin is too "grabby" for their barbs so often while trying to wiggle free or being forcibly removed, the guts come out with it.
If you give them a chance and they didn't sting too deep they can often wiggle free to sting another day.
Now I am wiser! Thanks AON.
It would be so big you could put like a bouncey ball on the end to make it not pointy while you held it.
I've seen this before and love it, but I'm pretty sure that bumblebees do not form colonies like this.
bumblebees do form colonies with worker bees & drones & brood & a single queen, much like honeybees, but they're much tinier than the ones you'd see honeybees in! sometimes they take over old bird boxes that've been abandoned, and they typically don't even use up all the space there.
they're smaller colonies population-wise, too. there'd be like tens to hundreds of bumblebees in their colonies, compared to tens of thousands of honeybees in their colonies.
idk how to add pictures to comments, but i recommend looking up pictures of them, they're cute! bumblebee cells are just spheres, since they don't have the numbers to require the intense efficiency of the classic honeybee hexagonal cells :D
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Very interesting, thank you. I'm more familiar with bumblebees who burrow underground.
Good to know at least one issue can be solved in today's world!
With genetic engineering?
"Igor, bring me the CRISPR machine!!! Let's manipulate some fuzzy genes... Muhahaha!!!"
Would you rather…groom a kitten-size bumble bee or be kitten-sized being groomed by bumble bees?
Probably
how....how many bumblebees?
Enough to be pleasant, not enough to be terrifying.
WE NEED CAT SIZED BEES STAT