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brushie brushie (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 47 points 6 months ago

I've never wanted to brush a bee before but boy do I now.

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    [–] 29 points 6 months ago

    Make it happen science

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    [+] 26 points 6 months ago* (12 children)
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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    If there was a pet bumblebee industry there would also likely be a bumblebee cosmetic surgery industry like we see with other popular pets. I'm sure stinger removal would be a standard procedure for an indoor bee. Or they'd be bred out after so many years. Probably designer bee coats as well. I bet they'd bee pretty cute and cuddly.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Bumblebees are not aggressive, and even though they can sting without dying (unlike honeybees), they generally don't. It would be like getting bitten by a Labrador. It's possible, but something went wrong somewhere for things to end that way...

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm by no means accusing any bees of violence beyond what is warranted, or any hypothetical pet bees of aggression, but as it is humanity clips dogs' tails and ears and breeds them into monstrosities for no reason other than aesthetics, so why wouldn't we do the same to any other hypothetical pet?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    There are actually legitimate reasons to crop tails and ears in certain breeds. For instance, a lot of dogs with very floppy ears get ear infections so frequently and severely that they end up going deaf, and cropping them is a last-ditch effort to prevent that from continuing. I've also heard of at least one dog that broke his very skinny tail so many times from wagging it against furniture in happiness that he had to have it cropped.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Bumble bees also eat small animals such as spiders, aphids and wasps not strictly nectar and pollen. I would be concerned having other small pets around these "kitten bees".

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I pet bees and bumblebees sometimes, pretty sure they enjoy it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Years ago, we had a big garden with snapdragons, and those big fat bumble bees would root deep inside the blossoms, with their big butts hanging out. My cat would go up and put her nose right on their butts to get a good whiff! Never got stung. The bees didn't even really mind, it seemed.

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Wow, so you could also groom a kitten size termite? How amazing would that be?

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm holding out for an Airedale sized earwig, chittering in my lap as I skritch it's carapace.

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    • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    https://youtu.be/PMGAaGus_z8

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