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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 45 points 1 month ago

Honey Buzzards are fucking awesome.

Bees be like: This genocide supporting mofo right here.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 20 points 1 month ago

Ironically, they don't eat honey. They eat wasp and bee larvae.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think this is more of a raid than a genocide. The objective of the aggressor is to secure resources, not to exterminate the victim. And why would it? There's no ideological conflict, it doesn't need to claim land for its own tribe to live on, nor does it seek riches out of vanity. It just needs food, and to that end, it invades and robs the dwellings of its prey.

I don't think it even cares about fighting the defenders. Would be kinda stupid to entirely annihilate its source of food too. Someone needs to survive to rebuild, breed and feed a new generation of food, after all. It just tears down the defenses, then absconds with its loot. Really, it's more a form of exploitation, albeit cruel to modern sensibilities - robbing the young directly instead of the food used to nourish them as raids in human history would.

It doesn't bomb the nests along with their contents, capture and abuse the inhabitants, then lay eggs in the ruins and accuse all who criticise its imperialism of being Antipernites.

(Yes, I spent too long on this, and there really isn't any point in applying human morality to creatures that don't have the sapience to weigh their actions beyond the drive to secure subsistence. I just came up with and liked the term Antipernites and wanted to use it, so I came up with an elaborate setup.)

Thanks for this. I appreciate the correction, even if it does involve anthropomorphising animals.

[-] llIlIIllIlIlIllII@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/Yg6_5Hv6ofI

Wild how they don't seem to care about the bees.

[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Didn't pay for the DLC.

[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I didn't know hornets/wasps made honey. I thought it was just honey bees.

[-] greenhorn@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I didn't know wasps did either until I bought a plant for my garden that is primarily pollinated by wasps. They were as chill as any other pollinator, not at all what I expected.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

What’s super cool is the wasps will also help keep your plants “semi” pest free

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

Looks to be about half the home and the kids

this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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