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THEY'RE EVOLVING

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • shifty@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    • Wasps not bees.
    • The wasps probably won’t be able to emerge if the concrete dust sets.
    • Imagine being entombed by your parents. Born in an inescapable coffin.
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    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Born in an inescapable coffin.

      Ah, so real life then.

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      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, it certainly bears semblance to my first 9 months in solitary confinement, before the hag dragged me out from her wretched womb. Curse you vile woman!

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Full of spiders.

      I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.

      So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?

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      • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Shop vac?

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, never heard them called mud bees. Only ever heard them as dirt / mud daubers, and they’re very obviously wasps.

      They don’t hurt as much as you’d think, but you’ll still feel it for a day or two

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My grandma used to tell me they don’t sting so I wouldn’t freak out when one was near me. Little kid me was a gullible fool.

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    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bees are technically a kind of wasp.

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      • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If I am understanding the chart here correctly, bees are not a type of wasp. Bees, wasps, ants, and sawflies are all Hymenopterans, but distinct from each other.

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does it come with a cask of good wine?

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      • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Image

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s so cool. A few more hives and you can do dangerous bouldering

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just wait until they build one on the back of a snail.

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    • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For the people less chronically online than apparently @Triumph@fedia.io and myself. lemmy.ca/post/52674587

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    • Hux@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A bee-craft carrier?

      My god…

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s a fun idea for a game. You’re growing a bee colony that has evolved a symbiotic relationship with a species of snail. They feed and defend the snail, while they build the nest on the back.

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      • just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You should check out the game Wandering Village. Its not bees and snails, but you do build a village on a giant beast that you can feed.

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    • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That snail that will kill you on touch just got an upgrade.

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      • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That reminds me there’s a game called Shadows of Doubt where you are a detective in a dystopian cyber noir world where corporations run everything.

        Anyway they just added a mode to have the damned snail always after you while you’re trying to take on jobs and solve crimes

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  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.

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    • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait until you find thier storage area. It will be a rock that you overturn, or maybe a space between two boards filled with paralyzed spiders and other insects … Google it if you dare.

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      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The bees that live there:

    Image

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  • RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Poor bees. That’s got to be hurting them, right? Isn’t concrete caustic?

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I imagine if it hurt, they would pick some other material.

      They mix it with some material they produce, so it won’t behave like pure cement. Also, after you mix it, concrete isn’t caustic.

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      • RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Good point.

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very, cement has a pH of around 11

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How long do we have till they discover reinforced concrete.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      7years. Nuclear weapons by 11years.

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      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s a bit slow for a Factorio run, but impressive nonetheless.

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Someone else in the thread just broke the bad news, they’re already there:

        smithsonianmag.com/…/officials-discover-radioacti…

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Bee AI powered drones in 14 years

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As covered in the documentary Wax, Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees.

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  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Typical mud wasps, a decade late to the crocs craze.

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  • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It could be worse… radioactive wasps

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  • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s some hardcore Resident Evil shit.

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  • BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those are wasps, buddy, and it’s going to get worse.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    enjoy the lyme. little dumbasses, suck my dick

    • me who couldn’t make a leanto in the forest because it’s cold and there’s bugs
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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    if you get too close, they will poke you with tiny bee spears too

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  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Metal bees.

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  • vodam@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    another bee W

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s awesome

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Struggling with believing this due to the nature of wet concrete. Maybe there’s not enough water in their saliva to trigger the reactions?

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    • TheseusNow@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I call BS. All their nest here look like this because we have grey clay soil. I’ve actually never seen a brown nest.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not knowing the name of a bug is barely evidence of anything, but otherwise I agree. I’ve never seen any kind of wasp nest or even dried mud period that was actually brown and not a whitish, ashy, tan to gray.

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