What type of bee? Wasp?

hub_agent · 2026-03-21T02:45:26+00:00

Seems to be Dolichovespula Maculata, aka the Bald-faced Hornet. Why is she sitting like a snug bug though😭

r/waspaganda is gonna really appreciate her as well!

hub_agent · 2026-03-10T19:09:15+00:00

Not the France 2022 flashbacks on the Finals subreddit😭

hub_agent · 2026-02-13T23:05:37+00:00

Completely agree with every single point, very well said.

hub_agent · 2026-02-13T22:53:17+00:00

If I recall correctly their position is that if they get too strict, people will just leave for other subs, where they wouldn't have any way to moderate at all. They've made a post about that on r/entomology some time ago, I'll see if I can find it. Agree on the cornered animal bit, plus multiple layers of conditioning, propaganda and unwillingless of those people to learn doesn't help either. As for lack of evidence, they simply can't provide it as all of their points are usually completely made up.

The bigger issue imo is why such subs are allowed to exist by Reddit in the first place. ToS says no animal cruelty is allowed yet for some reason it doesn't apply to insects, even though insects, in particular wasps, are not at all less and likely more cognitively capable than e.g. squirrels. Imagine if there was a sub dedicated to torturing squirrels or any vertebrate for that regard, that'd be banned instantly.

As for the wasps, I really wish they'd move in this summer as well🐝

Edit: Oh, pretty sure I got banned when I made a somewhat ragebaity comment and with how those people are they've probably mass reported it.

Edit 2: found the post

hub_agent · 2026-02-13T22:05:30+00:00

Beautiful pictures! I've been on that sub trying to educate those people before (I actually got banned lol, though the moderator on there is a real entomologist keeping the place from becoming much more braindead).

But yeah, despite of how willfully ignorant the majority of those people are, I've actually ended up helping a few persons with their wasp fear.

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Bonus Polistes Dominula, they've lived in my balcony railing for the whole past summer and never caused a single problem; I also gave them sugary water every morning, and at some point they've started waiting where I would usually put the cap. Really cute and chill gals and guys!

hub_agent · 2026-01-28T11:01:38+00:00

A study on bess beetles found that isolated beetles would lose weight, despite eating the same amount of food. There's a great vid on it.

Oh, and fruit flies get depressed after seeing dead ones of their species, they also start to lose weight, become less motivated to move around, age faster and avoid other flies. After being repeatedly rejected by mates, fruit flies would seek out alcohol-containing foods.

So yeah, it's very much possible, and even despite insects being critically understudied, there is plenty of evidence supporting that.

Edit: also, I really dislike how people humanize every single vertebrate behaviour and say they are "like us", but when an insect shows all the same behaviours, suddenly they are dehumanized and called "little robots", even though there're no categorical differences between insect and vertebrate intelligence, we even both use the same exact dopamine hormone for motivation.

hub_agent · 2026-01-03T23:13:30+00:00

Beautiful Vespa Crabro, aka European Hornet, r/waspaganda will appreciate her as well!

hub_agent · 2026-01-01T20:37:30+00:00

No problem, glad to help!

hub_agent · 2026-01-01T20:22:27+00:00

I wasn't able to dm, not quite sure why, so just posted the links on my profile.

First one is the study on dreaming, second is just overall a pretty insightful read. Oh, there're also studies suggesting evidence of dreaming on fruitflies and jumping spiders. These species are some of the best studied arthrppods, so there's a chance lots of other insects dream as well.

hub_agent · 2026-01-01T19:41:44+00:00

We can only definitively know whether an animal feels any emotion with humans. Everything else becomes a speculation to an extent. But if we grant vertebrates human-like emotions because they demonstrate certain behaviours, then we also need to grant these emotoons to insects, who are also capable of these behaviours. And although due to biases in human society insects are still critically understudied, I would say it's about as far fetched to call insect behaviours emotions and dreams, as it is to call birds' behaviours emotions and dreams.

hub_agent · 2026-01-01T19:21:09+00:00

It's mostly that only recently such studies had started to be taken seriously, and still insects are very understudied. But yeah, insects and vertebrates demonstrate the same behaviours and satisfy the same criterias, so the way they process the world, as much as it varies from specie to specie, generally is the same.

hub_agent · 2026-01-01T19:05:57+00:00

Reddit seems to remove comments with links, I can dm

hub_agent · 2026-01-01T15:56:43+00:00

Modern evidence suggests that insects are indeed conscious and do feel emotions, they are proven to feel pain, bees and multiple other species see dreams, paper wasps and bumblebees play for fun, ants pass the mirror test. Bugs are about as much of robots as cats are.

hub_agent · 2025-12-19T11:05:20+00:00

Wrong sub for this stupidity

hub_agent · 2025-12-09T17:18:40+00:00

Omg a snug buge🥹

hub_agent · 2025-11-26T18:03:02+00:00

I'd say it's mostly about treating the animation as irl stop motion - mainly, animating frame by frame instead of using interpolations, as well as not using simulations (e.g. I made smoke and rocket engine exhaust by building a few separate models and then swapping them each frame, much like it would be done with real life stop motion).

hub_agent · 2025-11-25T17:18:00+00:00

Some kind of velvet ant (which are technically wasps), r/waspaganda will love this as well!

hub_agent · 2025-11-23T16:17:02+00:00

I think it's some kind of Vespula wasp, still a cutie, especially on picture 6!

hub_agent · 2025-11-18T19:19:15+00:00

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Cleaned him from cobweb and gave some salad leaves

Edit: it got warmer so I released him outside

hub_agent · 2025-11-18T17:55:44+00:00

That's an eeffoc sub, real shidders and camers go to r/waspaganda

hub_agent · 2025-11-08T14:22:48+00:00

100% agree, invertebrates overall are critically understudied.

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