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Ooh I've been debating getting one!

What species are they?

OPs post reminded me to get a new one built!

Whereabouts do you live and what sizes of holes are you drilling?

Love me some fat bees

Yep yep! The main bees in trouble are cute little bumble bees. Since some native plants work best with their native bees, it's problematic that the sweet little dummies are struggling.

But we just really love their cousins that produce candy in exchange for houses.

I recently watched a video of a bee keeper showing how his bees were kept save because he fed the wasps fermented pare. So it kept them happy and docile and really showed how some wasps species can co exist and play a part in Mother Nature which we often forget.

But mosquitoes… fuck them, they can all die.

Also, cute ass little bee photo. 🐝

Wasps are all pollinators, they just don't make honey si people hate them.

It's a bummer that the territorial demons are important to the environment.

The wasps you see are usually the ones only out for your food.

Wasps are just as important in most ecosystems. They prey on pests, are pollinators, and act as decomposers. The only species of wasp you should hate in the US is the only one that is invasive: the Asian 'murder' hornet.

Some species of wasps pollinate and eat smaller pests.

So don't hate on the territorial demons too much!

You shouldn’t fuck wasps, they sting your dick.

Fucking carpenter bees (aka winged termites). Ironically, the males have no stingers but they are extremely aggressive and will kamakazi dive bomb you in the face repeatedly if you get near the entrance to the nest.

Viewing things from a solely commercial perspective is myopic and like most capitalistic business practitioners, promotes a mindset that thinks waaay too short term. You can't make your money off your crops decades from when you're only thinking about this quarters profits. Put simply, the selfish you today fucks yourself over tomorrow.

But even if you were to take this myopic and short sighted approach, Honey Bees are just average pollinators amongst a diverse range of insects and some small birds.

Additionally planting a wide variety of drought resistant flora is better for both wild as well as domesticated pollinators and is a more environmentally friendly practice than just keeping honey bees.

I offer two points for consideration:

1. Bees help plants maintain genetic diversity among certain plants that other pollinators may not target. Genetic diversity helps maintain a thriving variety of plant, tolerant to different environments. Especially important is our environments are changing.

2. Animals that are bred until they cannot survive outside of certain environments, (co-dependence) are destined to become extinct in the absence of said environment. (In case there's any confusion, insects fall under the umbrella of "animals" taxonomically. Also, in this sentence, the codependent animals may be humans.)

Diverse populations of bees provide benefits and necessities outside of commercial purposes, and are going the way of the American Bison. (Please note the differences from the way of the dinosaur.)

Panel 1: 😏 Panel 2: /s right?

Panel 3: 😏 Panel 4: …right?

Edit: yeesh, didn’t think that needed an /s

The best piece of advice someone gave me about social media is "always assume you're talking to a 12 year old kid with autism"

I don't hate wasps, but I wish they'd realize the apple I'm eating comes from the tree right behind me, that has a thousand more for them to munch on

The ones I know of are exclusively bumble bees. Which yeah, don't make honey we can eat. They actually hibernate during the winter, so they don't need to make a ton of honey. Just enough to snack on if it's too stormy to go looking for food.

Not many realize this, but sticking with the non-bee pollination theme you have things like beetles, butterflies, moths, some species of flies, ants, wasps... the list goes on.

Non-inscect options include some speciea of bats and birds.

That's not even getting into the tons of other useful things insects do.