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Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match (people.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

I just learned about solitary bees a few years ago. For some reason it has never cross my mind until I was researching these unusual blue bees in my garden which turned out to bee Blue Banded Bee which is awesome:

https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/blue-banded-bee-flight-karthikphotography/27046849

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wow! That's amazing, I've never heard of a blue bee. That's just really cool. I bet it was confusing when you first saw it. I've heard of/seen solitary bees but didn't think about it. Did a little beekeeping work as a kid.

    We've got a couple weird ones on the other side of the pond that I've been around. (wasps, actually)

    Cow killer/Red velvet ant it's sting is in the top 10 for most painful. They're beautiful.

    Cicada Killers are huge, 5cm/2in long. I had one fall out of a tree with a cicada right next to me. I thought it was birds fighting.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    thanks for sharing these cool wasps! We have some very interesting ones here in Thailand as well and I've seen them dig trenches just tossing sand around half a meter up which just shows how crazy strong they actually are so incredibly don't doubt those stings sting

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