OH FUCK: Sweat-Eating Bees Are Invading Our Cities

[Itachi_Crow]

sweat bees own

[DiscoBiscuit]

Sweat bees like to get on you in swimming pools and get in between your arm joins and bite the shit out of you

[Arachnidus]

Just my luck, I'm phobic of bees/wasps and I live two blocks from a park in the middle of Brooklyn.

But the article brings up a nice point- if we've got this type of differentiation up here, I wonder what the hell there is brewing down in the jungles where we haven't gone yet?

[Uber|nooB]

hey guys i have an awesome business idea let's glue thousands of these bees to towels to make them super absorbent - the towel doesn't just soak up some sweat and smear the rest all over you, it eats it!

[editline]2nd May 2012[/editline]

call it sweat-bee-gone or something

[Chonch]

Article brings to mind three or four cute little bees buzzing over onto my shoulder and licking my face like a dog.

[Mister Sandman]

What, so they eat sweat? Big de-
[t]http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ldzxj6vw6svjpg/xlarge.jpg[/t]
fuck that fuck that fuck that

[rnd]

Well, this explains why always after doing sports I have bees on my uncovered arms.

[bunnyspy1]

I think bees are cute

[Nerfer]

I was hoping for a cute little fuzzy honybee or something.

Fuck that shit, fuck it to the seventh layer of hell.

[Snowmew]

"The [b]newbie[/b] joined the growing catalog of easily overlooked wild native bees."

:suicide:

[BloodFox1222]

[QUOTE=Snowmew;35798247]"The [b]newbie[/b] joined the growing catalog of easily overlooked wild native bees."

:suicide:[/QUOTE]

More like newbee.

[thatguyfosho]

i love bees. i was out in the sun the other day getting some rest and an adventurous one landed on my foot and kept crawling on my toes. it was so tickling i thought i was gonna explode.

[Vaught]

[QUOTE=Soleeedus;35797118]that guy has balls of solid marble

[IMG]http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/gianthornet1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Either they're dead or he de-clawed them. Saw a guy do it to a hornet once. Damn things are stretchy.

[editline]2nd May 2012[/editline]

In any case, I like bees. They're adorable and actually help the world through pollination. They don't sting unless they feel threatened. In this case, they enjoy sucking up sweat for whatever reason, and they're not that mean! Wasps, hornets, and the like can suck a dick though.

[Overwatch 7]

Interesting. I had never known that some species of bee could feed off of our sweat. A nice mutual relationship as long as you don't try to squash them or otherwise provoke.

Now wasps on the other hand...

[eemmzz]

[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;35798163]I think bees are cute[/QUOTE]

Bumblebees are anyway

[img]http://schoolnet.gov.mt/tanti/pictures/Bumble%20Bee.jpg[/img]

d'awww

[cecilbdemodded]

[quote]"They use humans as a salt lick,"[/quote]

And they like sweat? Someone who has questionable sexual habits might use this to his advantage. First you do some yard work and get your balls all sweaty, then...

[Vaught]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;35798664]And they like sweat? Someone who has questionable sexual habits might use this to his advantage. First you do some yard work and get your balls all sweaty, then...[/QUOTE]

A dog.

[gnomical]

[QUOTE=Vaught;35798416]Either they're dead or he de-clawed them. Saw a guy do it to a hornet once. Damn things are stretchy.

[editline]2nd May 2012[/editline]

In any case, I like bees. They're adorable and actually help the world through pollination. They don't sting unless they feel threatened. In this case, they enjoy sucking up sweat for whatever reason, and they're not that mean! Wasps, hornets, and the like can suck a dick though.[/QUOTE]

One problem I have with the whole "Oh they only sting when they feel threatened" thing is that when I see such an insect on me, I freak the fuck out because I don't want it on me and me freaking out "threatens" it and thus it stings. If someone tells me "Hey you have a bee on you." I say "Oh shit really? Fuuuucccckk" "Oh don't worry -blah blah bullshit-" and then I freak out and try to get it off, to which it is "threatened" and stings the fuck out of me. Thus, "They don't sting unless they feel threatened" doesn't help towards their case at all.

[Articsledder]

[QUOTE=NO ONE;35795909]Instead of saying "AH FUCK THIS SOUNDS HORRIBLE THEY GONNA KILL US", I have to say these guys are kinda cool. I like the idea of a bee [i]not[/i] stinging me, and I also kinda like the idea they will slurp up my sweat.

I dunno if they do a good job in actually cleaning your sweat off of you, but it still sounds like they are doing us a service of some sorts.[/QUOTE]

The issue is people like me who would swat the thing away in an instant and get it pissed off

[Jad Hinto]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MqTCIDKhU[/media]

But fuck no, I'm already paranoid of bees as is.

[CatFodder]

[QUOTE=Soleeedus;35797118]that guy has balls of solid marble
[/QUOTE]

Pretty sure they're dead.

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=Emz;35798609]Bumblebees are anyway

[IMG]http://schoolnet.gov.mt/tanti/pictures/Bumble Bee.jpg[/IMG]

d'awww[/QUOTE]It's the hair that does it, really. Any insect will look more tolerable with clean-looking fuzz.

[greasyjamici]

honestly I hate all insects expect butterflies.

although I do understand the vital importance of honeybees and spiders. Not so much mosquitoes..

[Mugofdoom]

Sweat bees aren't really something to freak out about, they're fucking tiny and they rarely sting, and if they do it doesn't really hurt all that bad due to their aforementioned size. They're everywhere over here in Missouri.

[Daniel Smith]

Welp, that's that.

[CP-26]

Huh, what do you know, I never really thought of these guys as a scientific breakthrough, since they're pretty common where I live. I guess since they seem to be spreading a lot of people are seeing them for the first time.

[rammaster]

PLEASE GET AWAY.... I hate bugs so much

[Vaught]

[QUOTE=Gnomical;35799148]One problem I have with the whole "Oh they only sting when they feel threatened" thing is that when I see such an insect on me, I freak the fuck out because I don't want it on me and me freaking out "threatens" it and thus it stings. If someone tells me "Hey you have a bee on you." I say "Oh shit really? Fuuuucccckk" "Oh don't worry -blah blah bullshit-" and then I freak out and try to get it off, to which it is "threatened" and stings the fuck out of me. Thus, "They don't sting unless they feel threatened" doesn't help towards their case at all.[/QUOTE]

Well yeah, I don't expect people who have an innate fear of flying critters landing on them to take it easy. Took me a while to not have my heart racing when I saw a bee buzzing around. Now I sort of jerk my head back and shrug. Wasps, however, I can agree with you on. Fuck them.

[Omilinon 👻]

[QUOTE=Emz;35798609]Bumblebees are anyway

d'awww[/QUOTE]

I don't mind bumblebees
but, fucking africanized honey bees scare the living shit out of me ;_;.

[IMG]http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/africanized3.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE][B]From[/B]:
South and Central America, the American Southwest

[B]Why you must fear it: [/B]
You know how you can spot one of these? You can't. There is no physical way to determine the difference between an Africanized bee and a common European bee. None whatsoever.
You can, however, easily tell the difference based on their behavior. Regular bees will give you about nine seconds of being too close to the hive before deciding you're a threat and then attacking you. So it's pretty easy to just walk past them without any screams. And if you do get them after you, they'll consider you to be 'chased off' after about 300 feet.

Africanized bees do not roll this way. They give you half a second of being too close before they decide it is time to completely fuck your shit up and empty the entire hive--tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of angry, angry bees. When you run, flailing and crying and soiling yourself while screaming "JESUS CHRIST I'M COVERED IN BEES," they will chase you for over half a mile.

[B]More scary shit[/B]:
Africanized bees owe their existence to science. Warwick E. Kerr created them in Brazil during the 1950s by crossing a European bee with an African bee. He wanted a bee that could live in the jungle. He got a bee that swarms by the hundreds of millions, is insanely territorial, mindlessly aggressive, has killed anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people. And, can live in the jungle.
And after they escaped and swarmed northward, it turned out they were a-OK with deserts, too. They'll be in Montana by 2010.
[/QUOTE]

that little clear spike on the sweat bee really doesn't say "hey I'm friendly" either.

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it has begun.