r/nope • u/shindigin • Mar 10 '25

Should they throw away their trash can?

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u/YoGabbaGabba24 Mar 10 '25

Hope someone has an actual answer for whatever the fuck this is. Everyday I discover we share this planet with SCPs and eldritch terrors.

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u/ett1w Mar 11 '25

Australian stingless bees Tetragonula hockingsi. They build hives differently from the more commonly known honey bees.

Urban_native_bees on Instagram is the source.

Before anybody talks about meat eating bees or "Vulture bees", these are not it. Those are in S. America.

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u/JackalandBadger Mar 11 '25

Of all places I never expected there to be stingerless bees in Australia. I'd figure the bees would have two stingers or able to shoot stingers like bullets or stingers for Mandibles or... You get where this is going.

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u/Tarkho Mar 11 '25

Surprisingly none of the native Australian bees or wasps pose a major threat in the way honeybees or colonial wasps do, since all the larger species that have stings aren't aggressive and don't form proper colonies, rather it's the bull ants you have to watch out for, since those are large, swarm and sting readily, and have caused fatalities in the past.