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I am sure many people are saying "great", one bug gone. But bumblebees are rather harmless. As a kid they were everywhere, and a few would land on me. I neve

by jmclnx 5y ago

I am sure many people are saying "great", one bug gone. But bumblebees are rather harmless. As a kid they were everywhere, and a few would land on me. I never got stung by them and I thought they were fun to watch them fly between flowers. Sadly I have not seen one in a very long time. Just another notch on mankind's pole I guess.

R0b0t1 5y ago
They are docile and fun to investigate. I'm not sure you should play with them, but they won't go out of their way to harm you.
jes 5y ago
I can’t imagine any thoughtful people thinking this is great.
- newsclues 5y ago
  How many people are thoughtful? Beyond themselves…
- hetspookjee 5y ago
  I’m amazed at the fact that nearly everyone around me really despises the Eurasian Magpie, the only bird so smart that it is able to recognise itself in the mirror. Yet the myth that they exclusively prey on young birds and rob their nests presses onwards and everyone dislikes them. If they’d dissappear from the land and you’d tell them, most people would be happy, of which quite some I consider thoughtful. Trying to say that even thoughtful people can be extremely shortsighted. Look around you, how many people still visit zoo’s with primates? Or marinas with cretaceans? All these extremely clever animals trapped in a desperately small enclosure yet so many still think it’s fine to visit them and enable this. All in all I think quite some people would, sadly, be happy with the news that a stinging bug is gone.
  - hammock 5y ago
    >the myth that they exclusively prey on young birds and rob their nests Sparrows do this. They are an invasive species and overtake native songbird population. Never seen anyone hate sparrows. Magpies, people do hate them, not sure why but they are a type of "trash bird" near population centers.
    - arrosenberg 5y ago
      > Never seen anyone hate sparrows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
      - lelandfe 5y ago
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tso-hsin_Cheng https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tso-hsin_Cheng Also worth reading about the ornithologist who fought this The animals you’ve devoted your life begin to be killed by the state, and your attempts to sway opinion cause you to instead be demoted to a janitor and deemed a revolutionary. Surreal.
    - worik 5y ago
      I do not like sparrows Mice with wings
taeric 5y ago
With one of the other top comments being someone that cousins to see them all the time, but getting chided for likely seeing other instincts, it seems just as likely that you are thinking of other similar bugs, too. I would not be happy for them to completely be gone. Have thought of putting up nesting boxes in the past. My understanding is that will largely be other bee species, though. Which is a long way to ask, how's many species of bee are there around? And anything in particular to help this specific one?

by jmclnx 5y ago

R0b0t1 5y ago

They are docile and fun to investigate. I'm not sure you should play with them, but they won't go out of their way to harm you.

jes 5y ago

I can’t imagine any thoughtful people thinking this is great.

newsclues 5y ago
How many people are thoughtful? Beyond themselves…
hetspookjee 5y ago
I’m amazed at the fact that nearly everyone around me really despises the Eurasian Magpie, the only bird so smart that it is able to recognise itself in the mirror. Yet the myth that they exclusively prey on young birds and rob their nests presses onwards and everyone dislikes them. If they’d dissappear from the land and you’d tell them, most people would be happy, of which quite some I consider thoughtful. Trying to say that even thoughtful people can be extremely shortsighted. Look around you, how many people still visit zoo’s with primates? Or marinas with cretaceans? All these extremely clever animals trapped in a desperately small enclosure yet so many still think it’s fine to visit them and enable this. All in all I think quite some people would, sadly, be happy with the news that a stinging bug is gone.
- hammock 5y ago
  >the myth that they exclusively prey on young birds and rob their nests Sparrows do this. They are an invasive species and overtake native songbird population. Never seen anyone hate sparrows. Magpies, people do hate them, not sure why but they are a type of "trash bird" near population centers.
  - arrosenberg 5y ago
    > Never seen anyone hate sparrows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
    - lelandfe 5y ago
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tso-hsin_Cheng https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tso-hsin_Cheng Also worth reading about the ornithologist who fought this The animals you’ve devoted your life begin to be killed by the state, and your attempts to sway opinion cause you to instead be demoted to a janitor and deemed a revolutionary. Surreal.
  - worik 5y ago
    I do not like sparrows Mice with wings

taeric 5y ago

With one of the other top comments being someone that cousins to see them all the time, but getting chided for likely seeing other instincts, it seems just as likely that you are thinking of other similar bugs, too. I would not be happy for them to completely be gone. Have thought of putting up nesting boxes in the past. My understanding is that will largely be other bee species, though. Which is a long way to ask, how's many species of bee are there around? And anything in particular to help this specific one?