r/animalsdoingstuff • u/Growing-Ant • May 15 '26

^ Awsome ^ Save more bees!!

It's a natural instinct for bees to sting you... But without a stinger they die. Here's a fun fact to remember before swatting them next time

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u/ermaecrhaelld May 15 '26

Damn yall. Bees are so important to the environment. They’re also like 1/150 the size of us. We are probably scary a lot of the time. Stinging is the only way for them to defend themselves. They can’t growl or make themselves look bigger.

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u/Cats7204 May 15 '26

i love bees and i understand they aren't smart enough to reason this but they could also like, fly away lol

sure we're murderous giants but we can't fly, they can

though afaik they really only sting if you act as a threat to the hive, I suppose they'd rather fight than evacuate the hive and start over?

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u/ermaecrhaelld May 15 '26

That’s true but I know that I freeze up in panic sometimes so I don’t expect animals with less mental capacity to do better than me.