Bees and Other Multi-Legged Vermin
 

On Nate's request, we now have a place to discuss the disgusting insects and arachnids of this world.

Spiders are weird and creepy as hell.

Bees sting the shit out of you.

Scorpions are fine as long as they're on top.

No mecha-insects allowed.

I was going to create a bee thread but I realised I had nothing to say. I think I've exhausted my capability to discuss bees.

I agree, unless people are interested in hearing me rant about bees and how I know everything about them because my brain is godly...

If it stops me from stumbling across bee-related jargon in other threads, by all means, pour your honey, sting filled mumblings here.

Does Peter count?

I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING BEES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING FORUM

Covered in bees.

I like bees. I hate wasps.

I like spiders as long as they are moving away from me.

I hate flies, locusts, mosquitos, and whatever else you can think of that flies and is not a bee, a plane or a duck.

I like bees. They're vicious little bastards though. Gotta be careful.
Spiders are cool.
Scorpions are cooler.

But I always hated things like roaches and bed-bugs. Parasites. Those Chagas Bugs. Mosquitoes. Shit like that.

sounds like you've got a real bee in your bonnet

Do you really think so? I've never been stung by a bee, and I used to sit outside (on the grass) where there was a whole bunch of them flying around the garden all the time. Bees seem quite benign to me.

You know what's really cool? Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are badass. I had a dream that I was being hunted by a t. rex. Scariest shit in the world- woke up at 2 AM from that shit and I couldn't get back to sleep. No lie.

Dinosaurs are awesome.

"It won't bother you if you leave it alone" is, in my experience, entirely true. I can never understand why people think otherwise.

I love them all. I don't much like dead bugs, though. A great black fly buzzing around your room is annoying, but worse are all the dead ones that turn up on windowsills. Or somehow inside double glazing.

SPINOSAURUS

I can confirm this as the truth, it is not in the average worker bee mentality to go forth and sting a hapless victim. The species would be extinct in weeks if this were the case.

I like dipping bees in honey and then eating them! WAHAHAHAH...

A few years back, my grandma used to keep bees.... She sold them and the wonderful land they were residing on :( I miss it.
Got to eat super-fresh honey directly from the extractor :D It was wonderful.

There's not much nicer than fresh honey from the extractor...or even the hive. Consequently I may have some jars available for UK residents to purchase, cut comb honey, probably at around £10~ including P&P. More details will be available closer to the time of extraction if anyone is interested.

There was a program on just now about Argentine Ants, how they've outgrown their natural habitat in (you guessed it) Argentina.

Predators in Argentina kept them in check, but since they have none nowhere else (except maybe Africa), they're pretty much destroying every ecosystem they go to. The weird thing was, pesticide actually makes them live fucking longer. It makes them lay more eggs!

Also, if members if a different colony meet each other, rather than rip each others heads off, they actually merge together forming a massive-super colony.

The Argentine Ant. A fucking cunt.

Also, they like to bite people's faces in their sleep for some reason.

Ugh.... when we moved in here a few months ago there were so many dead flies on the windowsills of my room, mostly march flies (horse flies) for some reason. And the rails of the sliding windows in the back kitchen were packed full of decomposing fly matter. There's still some stuck in there that we can't get out.

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that's a finger!

Jumping spiders don't bite; I've had plenty on me before.

Those huntsmen you have to watch out for:

http://www.africanfauna.com/afimg/huntsman.jpg
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploa...eda%20vill.jpg


They get a lot bigger than that, though.

I've had plenty of cases where a jumping spider would land on my hand and I would gently brush it off. Some were more stubborn than others and would lift their front legs to try to scare me or something, but I've never had one bite me. From what I've read from other forums they're supposed to be the more curious spiders so they would rather observe and experiment than be aggressive.

fuck you ench i had to scroll down to the quick reply form with my eyes closed

Can't stand huntsmen. metroixer's exotic shit I couldn't care less about, but fuck the brown lanky fuckers.

Exotic? There's probably a jumper in your room right now!!

I was going to point out that your post was spam, but then it occurred to me that they certainly were multi-legged. And 'Vermin' is a matter of opinion.

Nate... Nate is scary. Nate is damn terrifying. Anyone else got a phobia of Nate?

I wouldn't call it phobia, as much as a great form of detestment, but fine, count me in. Still, he doesn't have legs, or at least I don't think. I always envisioned him as a giant green vortex, with lightning striking within, and tearing up lands beneath, emerald fires erupting at the core...

We get it! Nate gave you an infraction and you forever hate him.

What would that be called?

like Nateaphobia. or Arachnatephobia. or even Nateisamodsodontsaybadstuffabouthimorhelleatyou...phobia :D

Why all this Nate hate (it rhymes XD)? Everyone knows Max is the most scariest admin.

On topic; what trees are in your orchard STM? I've always wondered what plants beekeepers (though you dislike the word) use.

Eeh, even so. Tiny little buggers that aren't dangerous to humans and look vaguely cute/way too absurd to be threatening? Pffft.

Well apple trees and one measly pear tree. They are very old, one was from a time before my granddad built my house in the 50s (I think the farmer who used to own the land before he sold it to my family had a small orchard) so we aren't too sure what most of the apples are but one tree is a cooking apple tree and there are a few cox apples, also the grass below is riddled with daisies and we have it over grown at the top of the garden too so they thrive on wild flower like fox gloves and blue bells when they are available. However bumble bees like those more and my bees travel up to 5 miles away from the hive so it's hard to tell what they like without biological pollen consultation.

I love jumping spiders. If I had one that was like, Cat sized, I'd keep it as a pet. How cool would that be? Taking it for walks, Feeding it rats, maybe playing fetch....
Awww. Now I HAVE to draw one.

Spiders are homophobes.

I once watched this program that wolf spiders perform courtship dances infront of females to court them. Sometimes wolf spiders get confused about gender...and a male would perform it's funky little dance infront of another male...

What does the other spider do? Tries to kill him.

Spiders have no democracy, and homosexuality is illegal in their society.

Whoa! Max is not scary... Max is a fluffy bunny-man who hands out chocolate to children :)


Anyway I think spiders are really cute. But it's kind of random whether I wanna touch them or not....
When I was akid I used to throw random insects in spiderwebs and watch the spider eat them and stuff.

The sign of dictators and murderers...you stay away ya here?

FIGHT TO THE DEATH

Last night a giant leopard moth was on my back window. My cat accidentally knocked him down because she comes up to the window when she wants to come inside. I carefully moved the little guy to the garage where he'd be safe. I'd hate to see something so beautiful callously smushed by my Fido's clumsy paws.

I love bugs, and I have a strange desire to protect them. Whenever I see one drowning or crossing the street, I make a point to move it to safety. I know it's a pointless endeavor, as just about everything around them could potentially kill them. My feeble attempts at keeping them from harm is more for my sake of mind.
The only bugs I don't like are flies and house centipedes. Fuck house centipedes.

Semi-related story: I lived in Cyprus when I was much younger. The day we arrived and visited our house, we found a dead centipede in the garden.

It was massive, and had white and turquoise stripes. To this day I've never see anything else like it, living or dead.

House centipedes are the only breed of centipedes that actually bug me (pun intended). Then again, I haven't dealt with many other kinds. I think black millipedes are adorable. Especially when they roll into balls.