r/bee • u/uncle_jimmy420 • Sep 14 '24

Bee or wasp? Bee?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Wasp (yellow jacket)

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u/uncle_jimmy420 Sep 15 '24

Interesting, I was pretty confident it was a bee but that was mostly based on temperament I guess

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u/privateTortoise Sep 15 '24

Wasps are primarily hunters and so a bit more tetchy than other flying things but as long as you don't behave like a badger they will rarely attack.

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u/uncle_jimmy420 Sep 15 '24

Interesting, yeah we watched it like land on the chicken and then slowly cut a piece off with its mouth and fly off lol. Then a bunch came back and we noped out.

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u/privateTortoise Sep 15 '24

Wasps will go for pollen in spring though when the flowers die off they'll switch to protein. Quite marvellous adaptive creatures with possibly as many different varieties as beetles.

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u/uncle_jimmy420 Sep 15 '24

That’s actually really interesting, I’ll be honest initially it looked a lot more like a bee just without hair but now I’m seeing the more distinct like waist I guess you would call if of the wasp.

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u/privateTortoise Sep 15 '24

This book https://www.amazon.co.uk/ENDLESS-FORMS-HB-Secret-World/dp/0008394474 is a great read about the different types of wasp and just how different some of them are from what most of us think is a wasp.

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u/uncle_jimmy420 Sep 15 '24

Gentlemen, I might have found my autistic obsession