I would not want a wasp the size of a kitten though.
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People dying from getting stabbed by their pet bees.
Bad for the bee as well...
Bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally avoid doing so. Dying after one sting is specific to honey bees.
Not even Honeybees. They can sting many times, the problem is human skin is too "grabby" for their barbs so often while trying to wiggle free or being forcibly removed, the guts come out with it.
If you give them a chance and they didn't sting too deep they can often wiggle free to sting another day.
It would be so big you could put like a bouncey ball on the end to make it not pointy while you held it.
"Igor, bring me the CRISPR machine!!! Let's manipulate some fuzzy genes... Muhahaha!!!"
I've seen this before and love it, but I'm pretty sure that bumblebees do not form colonies like this.
bumblebees do form colonies with worker bees & drones & brood & a single queen, much like honeybees, but they're much tinier than the ones you'd see honeybees in! sometimes they take over old bird boxes that've been abandoned, and they typically don't even use up all the space there.
they're smaller colonies population-wise, too. there'd be like tens to hundreds of bumblebees in their colonies, compared to tens of thousands of honeybees in their colonies.
idk how to add pictures to comments, but i recommend looking up pictures of them, they're cute! bumblebee cells are just spheres, since they don't have the numbers to require the intense efficiency of the classic honeybee hexagonal cells :D
Good to know at least one issue can be solved in today's world!
Would you rather…groom a kitten-size bumble bee or be kitten-sized being groomed by bumble bees?
a story about big bees (manga)
description: What if bees were big and fluffy? Like, really big and fluffy.
A kitten sized bumblebee sounds both terrifying and awesome.
I figure it would sound more like a leaf blower
Except it would overheat and die….
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