The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: invaderhorizongreen on February 10, 2012, 08:37:15 PM
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ok so i work in a return center for soda and beer bottles and that means lots and lots of wasp/bees/hornets in the room. I tend to feel sorry for them so i pick them up with my bare hands and let them go outside. I am serious about picking them up I will pick all of these little guys and gals up. On top of that i feed them soda on my fingers too, and the wasps will just nibble it off very gently. This tends to scare people at times but i am perfectly fine with them. In fact when i still worked outside they would fall asleep on my hand as well and i would let them. In a way i am wondering how do all of you fell about this? I have no problem with them and they like to land on me as well and i have never gotten stung by them. The largest one i ever had on my hand was a 2 1/2 inch long yellow jacket.
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Wow! That's amazing and really cool! You have a unique talent. If you are comfortable with them that's great. I'm really scared of yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps. I am fascinated by carpenter bees and honey bees but I keep my distance from all of them. :)
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That's cool, but I run from those things!
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I won't touch a yellow jacket. They're the most aggressive where I live. I often go out and mist the blue mud wasps with the hose in the summer and they will swarm all around me drinking off any wet surface. It helps to give them an area to drink if you want to work with water undisturbed. The way I see it, wasps are predators of each other and I'll help the friendly ones so they outcompete the yellow jackets.
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Not going near them with a 10 foot pole. Been stung by a hornet and (apparently) a bee.
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I prefer to be far from wasps and hornets and such, but I like bees fine. When my cousin and I were little, like really little, about 5 I guess, we used to catch brown honey bees in our hands and put them in little toy suitcases to keep as pets. We did always let them go again after a little while. We had neither one ever seen a hummingbird, picture or otherwise, only ever heard about them, and we thought these fuzzy little guys were hummingbirds. Our parents always got upset and kept telling us they were bees and not to mess with them or we'd get stung. We didn't believe them. They weren't bees. Bees sting and these little guys didn't. Brown honey bees are apparently VERY docile little bees because they never once stung us.
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I love bees! (see persona!) But I really hate wasps! They sting for no reason and are just nasty little things!
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I like bees well enough, but I will run a hundred yards if I hear a wasp! It's about one of the only creatures that give me the creeps.
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I'm ambivalent about both really. They serve their places in life and I tend to tread them with a healthy amount of respect. Bee/wasp allergies run in my family and I've never been stung by either - I'd like to keep it that way too so I don't have to find out if I am allergic to them as well the hard way!
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I like bees because my grandma did and I will save them if they cannot fly but I refuse to touch them, I use a leaf or paper. I cry like a baby if they get too close...
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Ha you're like the wasp whisperer. That's neat that you've been able to befriend them so well. :) If I were in your position, I'd be scared to death.
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I am a bee-keeper, hoping to be certified Journeyman level this year, so you could say I'm kinda fond the little critters. :)
Wasps I deal with cause they are so beneficial, Hornets me no likey, but again beneficial so I deal.. until they get into the house. XD
I've never heard of such a big yellow jacket though; Are you sure it wasn't a cicada killer? http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y102/Digital-Nitrate/Misc/cicada_killer-11.jpg (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y102/Digital-Nitrate/Misc/cicada_killer-11.jpg) They are fairly docile. We have lots of them around and while there size always freaks me (I don't like yellow jackets AT ALL having been swarmed a couple of years back. Ouchey-wahwah!) I love to think about all the bugs they are munching on!! LOL
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well another time when i worked outside on the patio i had a spider wasp that kept darting at me and stopping short. I know with wasps that means HEY YOU ARE TO CLOSE TO MY NEST. so i backed off and she darted at me then went back to her nest. I was out on the patio every day to clean the tables and she would come and hover around me then go back to the nest. one day she hovered near my hand and i opened it and the wasp gave me a paralyzed caterpillar and then flew away. I had no idea why it did this i walked away then let another wasp have it.
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I'm deathly allergic :( I never used to be until I was stung by RIFA. I got stung by a wasp after the RIFA stings, and had to be hospitalized, so now I have epipens incase I ever get stung again. I like them though, but because of my allergy I try not to get in their way.
When it comes to spiders and non-stinging insects, I'm like you :) As a matter of fact, last night there was a big hunstman in the living room I caught and took outside. They never run from me, even though they're so incredibly fast. I just scoop them up, and they're fine. I think it's pretty neat ^^
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Bee Charmer, eh? You need to change your sn. I think it's good that you let them live...
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bees and bugs are not the only things i charm i kinda charm any living thing around me. I especially can charm lots of cats and horses.
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my grandpa was a bee charmer. he had an apple orchard, and kept bees to pollinate the tress and also for honey. he would go out to work with them without any protective gear and never got stung. on the other hand, bees hate my dad and i. the talent definitely wasn't passed on. :P i'm very allergic to bees personally - i got stung in the face two summers ago as my first sting (a bee got sucked in the window of my car and hit my cheek) and i swelled up so bad that i was unrecognizable. i also could feel my face jiggle as i walk, and i was super sick for a few days. *shiver* i tend to stay far, far away from stinging critters now plus i have an epipen. :cool:
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I can't tell the difference between wasps and hornets, but I steer clear of those guys. Bees however, I rather like and I'm not afraid of them that much. Cautious that I don't make one nervous or mad at me, but I like to observe them.
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I'm not terribly fond of the "normal" wasps we get around here. I've been stung to often as a child.
I had a terrible tendency to step, or lay my arm down, on a surface where one had decided to sit, and not notice until it was too late.
I am however quite fascinated by the large hoornaar wasps we occasionally see around here, nor do I mind the solitary ones we also get.
So maybe I'll get over my dislike for the general variety at one point. Right now however they make me slightly uncomfortable.
Next to that I'm fond of bees, I used to help my mom when she kept honeybees, and I adore bumblebees.
We used to have a giant lavender bush in the garden when I was little, that attracted them in large numbers and I'd actually pet them.
They were so docile that they just put up with the funny kid touching them.
Right now, living fairly close to a large pond, we also get dragonflies in all colors and sizes, I love those.
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I love to pet bees, but for some reason it makes them very very sleepy. I got to dry off a bumble bee that got caught in the rain at work. I started to pat it dry then i blew softly at it , then i fluffed up the fuzz on his head then it decided to take a nap. I have no idea why they let me pet them, most of the time they just like to sit on me or check me out.
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That is so amazing!! you're awesome :D
I´ve had close relations with many creepy crawlies, but for some reason never so much with bees/wasps. Probably because there just weren´t that many around where i was growing up :)
Although, i know that my father is allergic to their sting, and i´ve inherited most stuff from him, so I am always cautious about that, but I just love that there are kind people around like you ^^
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I am veyr, very afraid of wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and the like. I love bumblebees, though, they're so charming!