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boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 2 days ago

n0xy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago

Drone dropping drones

TomMasz@piefed.social 4 days ago

To my surprise, bulldog ants are real and somewhat disturbing. Of course they’re Australian.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 days ago

I don’t want to play up the ‘everything in Australia will kill you’ meme cos it’s honestly not that bad here. I generally love bugs, ants, spiders, lizards, whatever. Will happily interact with most to move them to safety if they’re in a dilemma. But bull ants I do give a wide berth.

Their sting is pretty intense, especially if you walk over a nest and get a few on you - tend to hang on and keep stringing until you swat them off. I’d say they’re up there will paper wasps pain-wise (which I hear is similar to yellowjackets for comparison).

They’re a menace to kids. So aggressive and the workers are solitary foragers, so kids can just be minding their business playing, very far from any bull ant nest (which kids learn very young to avoid), and a roaming bull ant will see/feel a little human stomping around (figuratively), having fun, smiling, and just decide “I’m going to fuck up their whole day”. But hey, we’re on their continent I guess.

Brem@lemmy.world 4 days ago

can@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago

I think you’ll like this album

MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago

I liked the first version.

Brem@lemmy.world 3 days ago

This one?

Zagorath@quokk.au 4 days ago

This is some genius performance art

CombatWombat@feddit.online 4 days ago

Isn’t r/WASPs for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nonsense? Which, I guess, breeding wasps and ants to deliver by drone to times square would be, now that I think about it…

fartographer@lemmy.world 3 days ago

Are there any trees that can cause people to suicide like in The Happening?

HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 days ago

What an obscure and oddly specific acronym

TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago

They probably just misunderstood the title

I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 days ago

Like r/breeding

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 days ago

In years past WASPs were forced to reproduce via specially trained storks.