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Your bee guide for the summer
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In the States, our yellowjackets don't swoop and sting much, but they have a super-annoying tendency to hover over one's food. Possibly the behavior's a bit different where you are, possibly via related but different species.
Am in the Northeast, so we have smallish yellowjackets, the brown and tan wasps, (those ones are the chillest) hornets.. fucking carpenter bees (they eat houses!) bumblebees and reguar honeybees. I miss the green bees - haven't seen any for a few years up this way..
But those carpenter bees..
They never can seem to make up their minds. IM OVER HER IM OVER HERE NOW IM OVER HERE WHAT IS THAT LET'S LOOK AT IT FROM OVER HERE WOOPS NO LETS GO BACK HANG ON I'M OVER HERE NOW HOW ABOUT OVER HERE
Like dude you can have a sip of my soda I'll leave a splash right here just make up your mind take what you want and go. away.
We have wasps that love meat here, they come and sit at the table at your picnics. They're still friends though, even when you're fighting ten for a piece of sushi. They don't sting even when you accidentally hit them swatting them away
Wasps are always invited to the cookout!
They actually scare away the flies from what I've seen. Flies puke on your food, wasps chomp intentionally leaving less fluids.
It’s particularly bad in late summer and early fall, when their diet shifts to be more protein-rich — human food tends to be more appealing.