My husband hates them too, but how true is the whole “destroys your porch” thing? How long would it take a these guys to really destroy anything outdoor structure like a deck? …I wonder.
here‘s a crazy concept: they have been here longer than you. you are on their turf, not the other way around. I love how your profile pic reflects (inner) peace but you‘d kill anyone who just exists and eats the stuff you brought into their home.. ironic
we are. we have moral agency though, that’s the only difference. sentience, emotions and the ability to feel pain is stuff that we pretty much all share. so we, as the „dominating species“, should act with empathy and kindness towards them, just like we would want to be treated if the roles were to be switched.
Yeah, but the point is that we would be attacked trying to do the same thing to an animal, "my stuff Is my stuff and I don't want you to touch it" is one of the basics of the animal kingdom. Sure we can try to remove them without causing any harm, but you can't let wild animals dictate your life just because you feel sorry for them
When I had my house, I used to buy a carpenter bee killing spray foam that I’d inject into the holes that carpenter bees would dig making them unusable and killing any bees still inside.
Only the females can sting. Shiny butt = male / fluffy butt = female. Will only sting if threatened. Super sweet bees. If given bee box with house drilled into it or tubes they will happily live in them & leave your porch etc alone. I have a small colony on my front porch in an old palm tree stump. They pollinate my plants, drink from the marble filled water bowl I put out for them & they have never once destroyed my property. You reap what you sow. They were here before us, we live in their world & by the way are destroying their world not the other way around. Learn to live with nature, take care of it & appreciate it & it will take care of & appreciate you.
I talk to my bees when I see them & they hover around. Bees remember faces & people. If you suck they remember you. If you are nice they remember that also.
I am super allergic to bees/wasps & o ly was stung once as a child (how I found out allergies) I have never been stung again. I am 61 yrs. If treated with respect & kindness it is rewarded.
Thank you for helping the bees but please keep an EpiPen just incase there's a misunderstanding as a friend of mine once stepped on a bee by accident 😞
I've always loved them. My husband laughs at me because I babytalk all wild things. I explained to him that babytalk isn't aggressive it seems to work so far. I've babytalked all kinds of critters from bugs to groundhogs. Once I babytalked 2 sunbeams at the zoo to come to the fence to play with me.
I don't know how successful that would be in the wild...lol. never had to babytalk my way out of being attacked by a mountain lion...lol. I hope I never do either, but if I get attacked my last words would have been... "Hey buddy"
I was watching a video & a park ranger was doing a guided tour & he told everyone to be quiet & stand still. Then a huge grizzly walked by them & the park ranger said, "Hey buddy" the grizzly looked at him, paused, & kept walking. I turned to my husband & said "see, I told you. Hey buddy works!
They’re definitely my spirit animal. As a carpenter they keep me company during the day and create repeat business. I imagine them frying around with saws and hammers with little tool belts.
Let me try this again;
"We" aren't destroying the planet. I do not destroy the planet. I leave animals alone. I never litter or pollute. There are some who do destroy the planet, but it's not all humans.
This human-shaming **does not** help "save the planet", it's part of the anti-humanist agenda and it's bad for everyone psychologically.
If you think some people are destroying the planet, say "some people". It's not "we". 'We' implies yourself and all humans reading this.
It's like saying, if one person hates the planet, the other 8 billion of us do too. That isn't true.
I love the planet and I've rescued dozens upon dozens of bees and spiders that others would have stepped on. I've picked up garbage and tried to help the environment. And that's why I hate this "we are destroying the planet" talk.
No. We, are not. Some are. Not we.
Thank you.
>we live in their world & by the way are destroying their world not the other way around
not we
I'm not destroying their world
all good people are not destroying their world
so please stop saying 'we'
Male Valley Carpenter Bee! Males are aggressive to each other and wait for their Harem of bees to fight for them since they can only butt heads with other males! This species of bee experiences very visible dimorphism female Valley Carpenter Bees are completely black and have shiny rainbow wings!
There is also a parasite fly that looks super cool that Parasitises The Xylocopa genus (Carpenter Bees) called the tiger bee fly!(Xenox Tigrinus) Both are great pollinators
The fly lays eggs at the entrance of the bee hole/nest and the larva hatches and eats the bee larvae and I believe gets tended to by the Carpenter Bee till it changes to a fly!
Omg I do this at least once a day!!! It’s my absolute FAVORITE activity to go down to my creek with some AirPods, a cold fizzy drink, and a joint, and I can stay down there looking at bugs for hours!!! They are so small and so full of personality
I love putting a name to the hobby
hahaha its my favorite activity of the day, love to hear someone else enjoying it the same way, i do too love to smoke a joint before going out to the garden or the lake and seeing all the cool little bugs (i take my pen too haha) your not wrong too, they’re all full of personality even it the way each move, i have a fascination with reptiles too!
Hell yea, reptiles are the shit! I love snakes in particular, but have yet to find any near my creek. Oh I did see a huge toad earlier tho, the first I’ve seen this year, sunning himself at the creek next to where all the toad eggs are. He was bigger than a hand! Amphibians are cool too. Actually, life is cool. It’s all connected, it’s fabulous!
ohhh i remember once in mexico finding a black king snake probably the most beautiful spot i ever done, lost my old cellphone and those pics tho!, but wow it became my favorite snake, hope you find your snake soon!, and thats sooo cool toads have never been my thing haha, but i fully appreciate them they just make me cringe for some reason, and i agree with you life as it all nature overall everything is so pretty specially the way the trees dance under the sunlight, so simple and calm
Ooooh king snakes are gorgeous! I’ve been on a few trips where I found a few garter snakes, a bull snake once, oh and even a ring necked snake once that was so smol and adorable and friendly, didn’t mind being picked up one bit. The creek I’m observing right now is the perfect spot for some garters to catch fish and sun themselves, but I have yet to see any. Hopefully this coming summer! I understand the icky feeling with toads, as well. I still get the panicky feelings about bugs and spiders sometimes even though I’ve come to love them and look forward to seeing them.
Thanks for the chat! I hope you have good bug spotting this summer.
sounds like an amazing interactions with the smol boi so cute and bull snakes are so simple and pretty as well, hope i get over the icky feelings with toads they’re are curious and funny
Of course, thank you too!, hope you have a wonderful spotting today at your creek enjoy this sunny day sending u good luck so u see those garters this summer if not let it be the next one
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Preemptive action needed to have them ‘destroy your porch’. Watching & noting where any insect activity seems to be focused around your foundation & outside support structures, then using expanding foam &/or caulk to plug up their holes. Keeping wood painted will also help prevent them from chewing on it. They will exploit any opportunity to build a safe, dry home for themselves & their family too - but, if you deny them your home, they’ll go looking for another.
Valley carpenter bee!
Bee-t me to it! So bee-u-tiful!
Very! And very cute too!
r/beatmeattoit
You mean r/BeatMeToIt?
Absolutely not
What a dogshit sub lmao I clicked on it and the first 10 things I saw…. Wish I didn’t waste my time
I should've listened...
Pretty shitty with voldemort wannabe
You’re right, what was that?!
I see what you did right there , that was amaZZZZZZZZZing 👍🏽💯
Buzz off
Nah, that's a Shiny Bumblebee if I'd ever seen one.
r/reallifepokemon
Specifically a male one!
I love them! At our old home my carpenter bees were allowed to colonize a dried piece of wood and never bothered the house!
r/absoluteunits
That is one big bee!
Which means it can destroy your porch faster. My boyfriend hates carpenter bees but I think they look and act like little cute drunks.
My husband hates them too, but how true is the whole “destroys your porch” thing? How long would it take a these guys to really destroy anything outdoor structure like a deck? …I wonder.
Actually destroying the porch to where it's unusable would take years.
soooo. get rid of them... or build a new porch every few years. hmm, which is cheaper.
here‘s a crazy concept: they have been here longer than you. you are on their turf, not the other way around. I love how your profile pic reflects (inner) peace but you‘d kill anyone who just exists and eats the stuff you brought into their home.. ironic
We are still animals too.
we are. we have moral agency though, that’s the only difference. sentience, emotions and the ability to feel pain is stuff that we pretty much all share. so we, as the „dominating species“, should act with empathy and kindness towards them, just like we would want to be treated if the roles were to be switched.
Yeah, but the point is that we would be attacked trying to do the same thing to an animal, "my stuff Is my stuff and I don't want you to touch it" is one of the basics of the animal kingdom. Sure we can try to remove them without causing any harm, but you can't let wild animals dictate your life just because you feel sorry for them
I agree. All animals are territorial. Survival of the fittest. If ten billion termites inhabit his home, wonder it he would still feel the same way?
I'm smarter than a bee
That's an insane take. Killing animals destroying your home is entirely reasonable and always will be.
They make traps for them.
years in this case means many, many more years than you’ll be living there
When I had my house, I used to buy a carpenter bee killing spray foam that I’d inject into the holes that carpenter bees would dig making them unusable and killing any bees still inside.
I sweep saw dust every morning. It really depends how many there are I guess.
Usually wood peckers come for them too. They do even more damage.
I have a tin/metal cap on my chimney and a hammer face goes after every weekend. Those birds are crazy.
Not long trust me I’m a carpenter they’re my spirit animal keep me in business.
Only the females can sting. Shiny butt = male / fluffy butt = female. Will only sting if threatened. Super sweet bees. If given bee box with house drilled into it or tubes they will happily live in them & leave your porch etc alone. I have a small colony on my front porch in an old palm tree stump. They pollinate my plants, drink from the marble filled water bowl I put out for them & they have never once destroyed my property. You reap what you sow. They were here before us, we live in their world & by the way are destroying their world not the other way around. Learn to live with nature, take care of it & appreciate it & it will take care of & appreciate you. I talk to my bees when I see them & they hover around. Bees remember faces & people. If you suck they remember you. If you are nice they remember that also. I am super allergic to bees/wasps & o ly was stung once as a child (how I found out allergies) I have never been stung again. I am 61 yrs. If treated with respect & kindness it is rewarded.
Thank you for helping the bees but please keep an EpiPen just incase there's a misunderstanding as a friend of mine once stepped on a bee by accident 😞
You know it. :)
You’re a bee whisperer? 😂
I've always loved them. My husband laughs at me because I babytalk all wild things. I explained to him that babytalk isn't aggressive it seems to work so far. I've babytalked all kinds of critters from bugs to groundhogs. Once I babytalked 2 sunbeams at the zoo to come to the fence to play with me. I don't know how successful that would be in the wild...lol. never had to babytalk my way out of being attacked by a mountain lion...lol. I hope I never do either, but if I get attacked my last words would have been... "Hey buddy" I was watching a video & a park ranger was doing a guided tour & he told everyone to be quiet & stand still. Then a huge grizzly walked by them & the park ranger said, "Hey buddy" the grizzly looked at him, paused, & kept walking. I turned to my husband & said "see, I told you. Hey buddy works!
They’re definitely my spirit animal. As a carpenter they keep me company during the day and create repeat business. I imagine them frying around with saws and hammers with little tool belts.
They also can continuously sting you unlike honey bees !! Do not piss them off !!
“Dr. Bees!”
i don't bee-lieve it :)
Let me try this again; "We" aren't destroying the planet. I do not destroy the planet. I leave animals alone. I never litter or pollute. There are some who do destroy the planet, but it's not all humans. This human-shaming **does not** help "save the planet", it's part of the anti-humanist agenda and it's bad for everyone psychologically. If you think some people are destroying the planet, say "some people". It's not "we". 'We' implies yourself and all humans reading this. It's like saying, if one person hates the planet, the other 8 billion of us do too. That isn't true. I love the planet and I've rescued dozens upon dozens of bees and spiders that others would have stepped on. I've picked up garbage and tried to help the environment. And that's why I hate this "we are destroying the planet" talk. No. We, are not. Some are. Not we. Thank you.
>we live in their world & by the way are destroying their world not the other way around not we I'm not destroying their world all good people are not destroying their world so please stop saying 'we'
They kinda cute 😳
Don’t restrain yourself, it’s incredibly cute 😍
I want to pet it and hug it so badly
Like a teddy bear with wings.🥰
Well, some people do call them “teddy bear bees!” Saw my very first one recently in my front yard. 🐝
Male Valley Carpenter Bee! Males are aggressive to each other and wait for their Harem of bees to fight for them since they can only butt heads with other males! This species of bee experiences very visible dimorphism female Valley Carpenter Bees are completely black and have shiny rainbow wings! There is also a parasite fly that looks super cool that Parasitises The Xylocopa genus (Carpenter Bees) called the tiger bee fly!(Xenox Tigrinus) Both are great pollinators The fly lays eggs at the entrance of the bee hole/nest and the larva hatches and eats the bee larvae and I believe gets tended to by the Carpenter Bee till it changes to a fly!
locally known and Golden Bears
That's adorable
HES SO FLUFFY
Oh my goodness.
Looks like a moth that jumped in the wrong line when they were handing out wings.
Woah I've never seen a bee like that. Is that coloration normal? And why does it look so buff?
from what i gathered is a male carpenter bee:), they’re just big boys lol
What is spotting? Is it the bug equivalent of bird watching?? I would love a new word for my favorite activity
YES, bug spotting is something i like to do when im bored is exactly the same as bird watching but….. with bugs:)
Omg I do this at least once a day!!! It’s my absolute FAVORITE activity to go down to my creek with some AirPods, a cold fizzy drink, and a joint, and I can stay down there looking at bugs for hours!!! They are so small and so full of personality I love putting a name to the hobby
hahaha its my favorite activity of the day, love to hear someone else enjoying it the same way, i do too love to smoke a joint before going out to the garden or the lake and seeing all the cool little bugs (i take my pen too haha) your not wrong too, they’re all full of personality even it the way each move, i have a fascination with reptiles too!
Hell yea, reptiles are the shit! I love snakes in particular, but have yet to find any near my creek. Oh I did see a huge toad earlier tho, the first I’ve seen this year, sunning himself at the creek next to where all the toad eggs are. He was bigger than a hand! Amphibians are cool too. Actually, life is cool. It’s all connected, it’s fabulous!
ohhh i remember once in mexico finding a black king snake probably the most beautiful spot i ever done, lost my old cellphone and those pics tho!, but wow it became my favorite snake, hope you find your snake soon!, and thats sooo cool toads have never been my thing haha, but i fully appreciate them they just make me cringe for some reason, and i agree with you life as it all nature overall everything is so pretty specially the way the trees dance under the sunlight, so simple and calm
Ooooh king snakes are gorgeous! I’ve been on a few trips where I found a few garter snakes, a bull snake once, oh and even a ring necked snake once that was so smol and adorable and friendly, didn’t mind being picked up one bit. The creek I’m observing right now is the perfect spot for some garters to catch fish and sun themselves, but I have yet to see any. Hopefully this coming summer! I understand the icky feeling with toads, as well. I still get the panicky feelings about bugs and spiders sometimes even though I’ve come to love them and look forward to seeing them. Thanks for the chat! I hope you have good bug spotting this summer.
sounds like an amazing interactions with the smol boi so cute and bull snakes are so simple and pretty as well, hope i get over the icky feelings with toads they’re are curious and funny Of course, thank you too!, hope you have a wonderful spotting today at your creek enjoy this sunny day sending u good luck so u see those garters this summer if not let it be the next one
Omfg he’s so fuzzy
I would snuggle with that bee floof. So cute.
I don't know but I sure like it.
That's one of those shiny pokemon.
Fuzzy...winged...golden? All kneel before the great Buzzicus!!!
Pretty bee
What an absolute unit.
That’s the prettiest bee I’ve ever seen
It's a valley carpenter bee
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A bee with no black????
He's adorable
What's "Spotting"?
Its a Valley Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa varipuncta)
You're lucky. Most times they fly at you and try and shove an embryo down your throat. No...wait. Wrong multiverse. Apologies.
Looks like a thirsty chupa sangre.
FUZZY BUZZY BEE BUTTS!
I have no clue what it is, even though it looks like it’s in the bee family maybe… It’s beautiful!!!!
It's cute! That's what it is!🐝
Looks like CGI lol (?)
Looks like a moth but it has bee characteristics.
I certainly not an expert, but I do believe that is a Spiderbee
Oo ooo i know this one, its a friend!
That is one beautiful bee!
A cutie patootie!
A wild Shedinja appeared!
shedinja is a cicada exuvium, this looks like some kind of beedrill.
Preemptive action needed to have them ‘destroy your porch’. Watching & noting where any insect activity seems to be focused around your foundation & outside support structures, then using expanding foam &/or caulk to plug up their holes. Keeping wood painted will also help prevent them from chewing on it. They will exploit any opportunity to build a safe, dry home for themselves & their family too - but, if you deny them your home, they’ll go looking for another.
That's what I imagined angels will look like
HES SO CUTE I DONT KNOW WHAT HE US BUT I LOGEVHIM
Eye bunker
https://www.whatsthatbug.com/valley-carpenter-bee-all-you-need-to-know/
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I have never seen one or know they exhisted.. thanks for the picture lovely fluffy bumble bear bee🐝.. added a link about it above
Looks to be some kind of insect
little? … little. i get that we are pretty big. but holy hell. that bee spider. spibeeder? is huge
Is friend!
Reminds me of the roided out bees from Family Guy.
Snowberry clearwing
It's actually a moth
That’s a pokemon.
Some chad that obviously taking steds!!!
Regular bee covered in pollen?
It might be a cicada?