Half-assed Adulthood

Hannah. Enthusiast.

[lizzingwithkriz]

Pregnant Ghost Bat having an ultrasound at Featherdale Wildlife Park

[ichangedmynamebecausefyckyou-de]

congrats it’s a bat

[toothpast]

[delighted bat noises]

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr show me the forbidden bees

[archivesandcyanide]

this is the masked bee! she has no friends and hates everyone. Sometimes when she has kids she raises them alone and doesn’t let the father come for day trips. she loves pollen but does not like waiting for it so she chews flowers open which is essentially stealing. we love her anyway.

these bees are homalictus bees! they are the rainbow gay bees. Females tend to live together in one nest and guard the entrance. one time we found 160 gay girls bunking together. They’re so irridescent and small that they might look like flies but they are really just tiny lesbians.

and this is the blue banded bee! she may look like she’s wacked out, but really she is pretty chill. she just wants to live independently (or with some friends) in a nest or burrow and look after tomatoes.

this is a cuckoo bee! she is really cool! she goes into other bee’s houses and lays eggs there, and then when the baby hatches it eats the host bees’ pollen and lays waste to the hive, murdering and eating all the other bee babies! BUT ONLY if it’s mother bee didn’t kill them all first.

[beerightsactivist]

thank u dark bee tumblr

[koiotchka]

This is the most successful thing ever!

[supernova-society-deactivated20]

this is dawson’s burrowing bee! they are one of the largest bees in australia and they burrow into the ground to make nests. males are so aggressive that they will literally fight and kill each other to get a female! and if a particularly aggressive male does not get a female he will murder all of the other males out of rage! (and sometimes the females will be casualties of these brawls - here is a video of a bee brawl where a female get decapitated. these bees are very large and kind of look like half bee half cockroach. but the females’s fuzzy white heads are pretty cute! [photo credit]

[beerightsactivist]

and dark bee tumblr comes through for us again… we are so fortunate. thank u dark bee tumblr. thank u

[silascaptor-deactivated20210107]

I’m mad that they missed the opportunity to use “les-bee-ans”

[cctinsleybaxter]

This is a tree bumblebee- they’re pretty similar to honeybees in that they have big nests with a polyandrous queen. However, these guys love to be around humans and in gardens, and are super resilient- there are now large populations in Iceland. They have a more complex social hierarchy than most bees, with multiple worker castes. If a worker gets close with the queen she can mate with a drone and lay her own eggs in with the big pile, but eat the eggs of any workers beneath her that try to do so.

This is a valley carpenter bee- the only bee that can thermoregulate and had a circulatory system complete with aortic arch. Carpenter bees are good because they are too big to get into many flowers and have to be extra hairy to get pollen. They live in raw wood in small family units of all females (mothers and daughters or sisters) and are excellent cooks and workers. Males cruise around mating with multiple females and then leave.

These are green sweat bees- they burrow in the ground and live in apartment complexes, where they all use the same entrance but then have their own separate burrows rather than one large room. Some have kids, some don’t, so someone’s always around to keep out invaders. Unlike most bees the males actually do quite a bit of pollinating and go out in groups.

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr has graced us once again with even more forbidden and secret bees we are truly blessed

[nonegenderwithleftbees]

Coming at you with another Australian native bee; tetragonula carbonaria or the sugarbag bee. They are a stingless species instead using resin to trap and entomb invaders that get into their hive as shown below (which doesn’t happen often because these bees are tiny and the entrances to their hives are also just as tiny). 

Like honey bees they are eusocial. Meaning they live in hives with a queen, drones and worker bees that create these complex hives that are completely different to honey bee hives. With honey and pollen pots built on the outside of the hive and the spiral structure in the middle made up of brood cells, where in the centre the queen sits.

[lichen-soup-scribe]

do you dare pass through the sticky traps and enter the B E E S P I R A L

[somewherewithinforever]

me: *writes adult email*

me: *hits send while screaming loudly*

[veryfunnymemes]

[chicken-fluff-butts]

flop

[showerthoughts-lol]

I don't think I have ever picked up a pair of tongs without clicking them together a couple of times.

[cillart]

Gotta make sure they work

[shinosarna]

channel your inner crab

[shut-up-jab]

[the-lunar-lorkhan]

@townsenta

[dutchster]

handing over the planet to the next generation like

[jujanon-deactivated20260709]

[help-mypartner]

Help my partner is sleeping and I would give anything to cuddle them so much

[osakatrade-deactivated20140311]

guess i’ll break my leg just for the hell of it hahaha

a canadian with hella healthcare probably  (via garyjarman)

[thepriceisrizzoli]

If your default mental photo of Marilyn Monroe is an over-saturated glamour shot of her with her mouth open, please take a moment to replace it with this one of her giving zero f***s about some bears eating garbage.

[stability]

[ottomantwerks]

The biggest indicator that life isn’t fair is remembering that all Japanese snow monkeys have to do is sit in hot springs and chill out. They don’t have essays. They don’t have politicians.

[hagleg]

They have class hierarchy tho only the elite snow monkeys are allowed in the hot springs and the rest are forced to suffer the cold. They’re born into their class, and they die in the same class

[ottomantwerks]

I was wrong, the biggest indicator that life isn’t fair is that even fucking monkeys have class struggle

[thebestoftumbling]

[localstarboy]

WHAT DID I JUST WATCH IM DEAD 😂💀

[thenamesjavii]

I don’t know why I want more

[bob-belcher]

reasons why Halloween is the best holiday:

you are not obligated to visit your relatives

you are not obligated to get gifts for anybody

people will give you candy for absolutely no reason other than it’s Halloween

it’s the only day of the year when it’s socially acceptable to go out in public dressed as a penguin

[just-shower-thoughts]

They should start naming hurricanes after notable climate change deniers

[pedeka]

Maybe people would evacuate faster if Rush Limbaugh was headed towards them at 100 mph,