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Yes!! This is something I learned through observation when rescuing drowning bees. I'm so glad this is being shared!

Another useful thing to know is that a bee will almost always indicate if it will sting you BEFORE you pick it up. If you have a bee in your hand and it did not stick up its leg before you picked it up, your chances of being stung are basically none so long as you don't do anything to make the bee feel threatened.

Obviously, I don't recommend just picking up random bees; they're doing an important job and we should not interrupt! Also, your average bee will sting if disturbed. The reason I bring this up though is if you happen to have a pool, birdbath, pond, or any other water nearby that bees could get stuck in, it may be useful to know.

Half-drowned bees are much more docile (for obvious and unfortunate reasons), so they are much less likely to sting. More importantly, they can actually benefit from the warmth of your skin as they try to dry off and warm up. Often what I will do is scoop them out of the water with a leaf or pool scoop, and then slowly offer my hand. If they don't raise their leg at my hand's approach, they'll often choose to crawl onto my fingers once they're close enough to do so. At this point, I'd say you're basically guaranteed not to get stung.

If you are holding a wet bee, they might do some things that look like they're about to sting, such as raising their abdomen, which kind of looks like they're about to plunge it down into your skin. That is not how stinging works, and if they've already been on your skin a while there's no reason for them to suddenly sting you, unless you did something threatening to them. Usually when they raise their abdomen like that, they're just moving so they can reach it with their legs to dry it off. You may even see something protrude from the abdomen; this is all part of their drying-off process, and not a reason to startle and shake them off.

My final tip for holding wet bees is to keep your hand raised. For whatever reason, bees seem driven to climb up, so if your hand is held lower than your elbow, they will literally try to crawl all the way to the top of your head. This is not ideal, as you will then have to untangle a bee from your hair, which can fall into the category of "threatening behaviour" to the bee and you may get stung. Bee legs will naturally stick to your hair, so unless you're bald or have a friend or mirror nearby to help you gently remove a bee from your hair, I definitely do not recommend letting bees roam beyond your hand and forearm.

Once the bee has dried itself off, usually after about half an hour, it'll fly away on its own. Congrats, you've helped save the bees, and you haven't been stung!

Source: I've held hundreds of bees in my bare hands at this point, and only got stung twice. (If I had seen this post back then, I would have never been stung at all, so thank you again for sharing).

Also reminder to everyone that you are reading this post on tumblr and as much as I've tried to relay truthful information, this is all based on personal anecdotes and I am not an expert. If you want to rescue drowned bees, further research is recommended. And if you made it to the end, thanks for reading!

TL;DR: the tip in the original post is great for rescuing drowning bees! In my experience, bees benefit from being on warm skin to help them dry off, so being able to tell which bees will sting you will ensure you can provide warmth to the ones that won't (and the ones that will can be rescued with a leaf or some other object). Also, when holding bees, keep your hand raised above your elbow, or else the bees will try to crawl up to your head.

Random bee behavior fact for those who wish to read, just because I feel like it and because it’s late and I’m stalling on sleeping:

Bumblebees may seem like passive, cuddly, and docile creatures, but they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel as if their warnings aren’t being read or taken seriously.

I.e. the photo and diagram below, when a bee feels threatened they will raise one or more of their legs into the air, signaling to whatever or whomever may be bothering them as a message essentiality saying: “hey, back off, too close!”

species pictured: bombus pascuorum, bombus impatiens

If their defensive posture goes unnoticed or ignored, they may be pushed into defending themselves by stinging (which is also a stressful experience for not only one such as yourself, but also for the bee.) If you ever find yourself getting close to a bumblebee while taking pictures, walking close to them, or just admiring them, remember this posture! If a bee does this, it is simply asking you to take a step back as it feels it is being threatened.

Now you can understand and use this knowledge to your advantage if you ever come across one in the future. (Of course, because it’s very hard not to anthropomorphize animals, I do have to admit that they do look pretty cute when doing it. Just remember to respect them though!)

#bees #i love bees so so much #thank you op for sharing this it is like my number one tip for bee interaction #cw drowning mention #wet bee care #info #cw bees

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Mutuals turn on your Boops i need to boop you Right Now

#boop

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for everyone voting No: i have looked up the symptoms of both chocolate allergy and intolerance and i have none of them. my throat just gets warm for a little bit right after eating milk chocolate and then goes back to normal. i don't have any allergies or intolerances as far as im aware

if you have info to elaborate on your answer pls lmk in the tags or replies or something lol

#poll #chocolate #allergy #my friends insist i have an allergy #and i will admit i might have Something out of the ordinary #but im fairly certain it's not an allergy

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One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.

#gender

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like yeah looking androgynous would be cool but so would looking feminine but in the way masculine people look feminine and it’d also be neato to look masculine but in the way feminine people look masculine

#gender

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if you aren't best friends with your lover and a little bit in love with all your friends than what's the fucking point

#<3

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#i love everything about this video #every so often it comes across my dash and i have to watch it like ten times because i just. these are the vibes i want in life

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The goal is to make an elimination bracket based off of the results of this mixed with other characters. This is mainly just to gauge interest and help make the other brackets easier to make. Also feedback. Feedback is good Battle Rules

Assume the battle area is a standard sized American mall (880,000 sq feet, 3 stories). Participants cannot leave the mall, or be teleported or moved outside of it. There is no one else present in the mall aside from the combatants.

Being sent to Brazil does not count as dying. In order to "win" a character (or duo) would have to be the last ones still alive.

Character Rules

Characters may use any ability they have been shown to have access to in canon, aside from temporary boons (Nikola does not gain the effects of the unknowing).

Assume Daisy has a standard issue police firearm (Glock 17, 17 round 9mm magazine with one extra clip). Gertrude and Adelard get access to gertrudes Laptop, Four units of C4, and a pair of walkie-talkies.

Since John Amherst is canonically able to return from the dead, assume he gets an extra life.

Breekon and Hope get their Van, because I think it'd be funny. The coffin is not present in the back.

Please rb with your answer and your reasoning behind it. Both because I'd like a larger sample size and more feedback, and because I really want to see what peoples reasoning is.

#tma #polls #the older you get the fewer fucks you give #gertrude would have them all beat for sure #only risks are daisy (gertrude's only known weakness: gun) but daisy would be outmatched in terms of experience #other risk is agnes #but if it turned out gertrude couldn't kill her adelard would find a way #that's my guess anyway

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my latest inappropriate workplace behavior is calling new things "fresh" regardless of context

#same energy as that time when i found some shirts with outdated logos at work #and my coworker asked if anyone would like some Expired T-shirts #lmao #i love when people phrase things like this

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here are the links!

Someone who is good at drawing I need art of tma character in the Tshirts form the jackbox game from the most Recent live stream.

I need jarchivist in the "jonny is the problem" shirt and Martin in the "Alex is the real problem"

Also someone in the Gay Dig shirt and the elias and peter divorce court shirt.

#tma #tmagp #tmp #jackbox tko #tma2 kickstarter livestream #the magnus scrotocol

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Ask and ye shall receive!

I didn't have a lot of time to do these but the idea was too funny to pass up so here's my rushed attempt! I don't even know the last time I drew any of these characters, so sorry if my designs for them are a bit rusty lol

I couldn't decide who should get the honour of the gay dig shirt, so I ended up giving it to the archives dog. Archive Dog supports gay rights and also loves to dig

Anyways, thank you for the prompt, and enjoy!

Someone who is good at drawing I need art of tma character in the Tshirts form the jackbox game from the most Recent live stream.

I need jarchivist in the "jonny is the problem" shirt and Martin in the "Alex is the real problem"

Also someone in the Gay Dig shirt and the elias and peter divorce court shirt.

#this was actually really helpful getting me back into some digital art #ive been meaning to for a while but i hadnt had any inspo yet #also. elias in a tshirt #is SO CURSED #and can you tell i like never draw dogs #or any tma characters tbh lol #this was fun tho and that was the point! #tma #tmagp #tma2 #the magnus protocol #the magnus archives #art #digital art #doodle #the magnus scrotocol #dig

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no gender roles. only pizza rolls

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my contribution to this historic moment: a low-effort meme

#that's it that's the stream #tma #the magnus protocol #scrotocol

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so my job just 'offered' me either termination for something devoid of context or unworkable shifts as a 'Kindness' so i'm gonna be jobless by mid-december lol. remember when i thought i could save up for a car and then the world said "just kidding! here's ER visits and your job imploding." not to mention ren is getting phased out of their job, too. i am asking for one fucking break.

so. yeah! if anybody wants to help out! uh lol!

k0-fi & venmo: shantyman

cashapp: $devilrock

DM for paypal or 21+ content

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According to my boyfriend I woke up in the middle of the night and said “the door is back” and slept again so I though I would do this images to commemorate both Helen and Michael

#THE DOOR IS BACK #throwback to one of the two times i had sleep paralysis and helen was there just to laugh at me #had me convinced i'd just eaten a bunch of sugar so i was really thirsty but i couldn't get up to get a drink #aND SHE JUST STOOD THERE AND LAUGHED AT ME #SO RUDE #anyway #tma #helen distortion #the magnus archives #the spiral #sleep paralysis

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I need some help!

I wrote a guide booklet on safe psychedelic use, harm reduction, and the importance of scientific literacy — I plan to make this free or as affordable & accessible as possible.

Text alone it is currently about 45 pages, but may double with charts, graphics, etc.

I’m looking for someone proficient in Formatting & Graphics!

Preferably with experience in the zine realm for the skill of formatting a guide.

This is a volunteer project though credit will be given if desired!

Guidebook needs to be in PDF & PNG forms, but there’s literally no rush at all to get this done, no deadline, and I like to assume I’m laid back and easy to work with haha.

Reach out if interested! Thank you!

#graphic design #looking #assignment help #commission needed #60s psychedelia #psychedelique #mushrooms #formatting

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Eggs?

Eggs

#eggs