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Any idea what sort of an insect is this?

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  • #62
    stoplooklisten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭stoplooklisten


    fin12 wrote: »
    I actually rescued a bubble bee one time, he was on a window ledge and got stuck in a spiders web and I saw the spider coming out and starting reeling in the web with the Bumble Bee and so I cut the web with a stick and the Bumble Bee climbed on and I placed him outside on the grass and he flew away.

    Bees are becoming extinct, really good documentaries about them on Netflix.
    I caught a lovely picture of a bubble bee in my garden earlier. I used a cannon 7xgr lens. http://i.imgur.com/hjR8Vv4.png


  • #63
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    McGruber wrote: »
    It's a common Waspflyant.

    Very poisonous.

    There are only 3 things they love, crawling, windows and being trapped.

    Photos only enrage them, tread easy hey.

    Classic!!! :D:D:D:pac::pac::pac:


  • #64
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,082 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    How on earth can someone not know that's a bee ??


  • #65
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    _Brian wrote: »
    How on earth can someone not know that's a bee ??

    I'm beemused, beewildered and beefuddled by this thread. I think it's time to buzz off.


  • #66
    The_Valeyard
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    _Brian wrote: »
    How on earth can someone not know that's a bee ??

    Beecause......



    Agree with previous posters. Love bees, hate wasps.


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  • #67
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,637 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Sorry to hijack the thread but I'm in a similar pickle. Took this photo earlier today, since when did we have Zebras roaming the fields of Ireland? Surely it can't bee


  • #68
    stoplooklisten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭stoplooklisten


    PARlance wrote: »
    Sorry to hijack the thread but I'm in a similar pickle. Took this photo earlier today, since when did we have Zebras roaming the fields of Ireland? Surely it can't bee

    :eek: It must have escaped from the zoo


  • #69
    alta stare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭alta stare


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I once saw a farmer about to kill a sheep, so I burned his house down and rescued the sheep.

    I once saw a sheep about to kill a farmer, so I burned down his barn and rescued the farmer. True story.


  • #70
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    alta stare wrote: »
    I once saw a sheep about to kill a farmer, so I burned down his barn and rescued the farmer. True story.

    How'd you know it was a sheep?

    Was it flying?


  • #71
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    PARlance wrote: »
    Sorry to hijack the thread but I'm in a similar pickle. Took this photo earlier today, since when did we have Zebras roaming the fields of Ireland? Surely it can't bee

    That zebra is judging the OP. 'Moo, it's a bloody bee! Moo'.

    Wait, why is the zebra moo'ing?


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  • #72
    Broken Hearted Road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    PARlance wrote: »
    Sorry to hijack the thread but I'm in a similar pickle. Took this photo earlier today, since when did we have Zebras roaming the fields of Ireland? Surely it can't bee

    Oh my goodness. This is so funny.


  • #73
    alta stare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭alta stare


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    How'd you know it was a sheep?

    Was it flying?


    No No come on we all know its pigs that fly not sheep.


  • #74
    Capt'n Midnight
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    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Probably a Backwards Bee.
    Like this ?

    http://bash.org/?330261


  • #75
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    alta stare wrote: »
    I once saw a sheep about to kill a farmer, so I burned down his barn and rescued the farmer. True story.

    Was he going to baatter him to death? With a baattering ram?


  • #76
    Capt'n Midnight
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    PARlance wrote: »
    Sorry to hijack the thread but I'm in a similar pickle. Took this photo earlier today, since when did we have Zebras roaming the fields of Ireland? Surely it can't bee
    Looks more like a Zebu.


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    On that......

    Anyone know what this strange lookin bastard might be?

    That photo really cracks me up


  • #78
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,637 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    maudgonner wrote: »
    That zebra is judging the OP. 'Moo, it's a bloody bee! Moo'.

    Wait, why is the zebra moo'ing?

    No moo'ing. Poor thing just stood their shivering. Must have been friesian.


  • #79
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    OP I have ordered a nuclear strike on your address just in case that thing is not of this world:eek:


  • #80
    alta stare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭alta stare


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Was he going to baatter him to death? With a baattering ram?

    He said he wasnt going to do anything but i knew he was only trying to pull the wool over my eyes.........:pac:


  • #81
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    So funny.


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  • #82
    maudgonner
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    alta stare wrote: »
    He said he wasnt going to do anything but i knew he was only trying to pull the wool over my eyes.........:pac:

    What happened in the end? Did the sheep escape? Is he on the lam?


  • #83
    Keane2baMused
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    Can I get a bee please Bob?


  • #84
    Chancer3001
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    consonant please

    B

    Put your clothes back on Carol


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone know what type of dog this is?


  • #86
    HensVassal
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    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »
    Wasps/bees have a striped yellow and black body. This lad has an all black body.

    Are you colour blind?


  • #87
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Beecause......



    Agree with previous posters. Love bees, hate wasps.

    Wasps also pollinate plants and they catch and kill insect pests like flies and caterpillars that destroy crops. So while they are narky, irritating bastards, they're actually good guys.


  • #88
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    HensVassal wrote: »
    Wasps also pollinate plants and they catch and kill insect pests like flies and caterpillars that destroy crops. So while they are narky, irritating bastards, they're actually good guys.

    I'm not having it. They're a right pack of *****.


  • #89
    Flatzie_poo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭Flatzie_poo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Anyone know what type of dog this is?

    That's a bleedin' Spiderbaby.

    Run for your life!! Very slowly!!


  • #90
    Shint0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    On that......

    Anyone know what this strange lookin bastard might be?

    That needs to come with a warning. Me and the feathered friends don't have the best relationship. My heart nearly flew out through my mouth.


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  • #91
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    me_irl wrote: »
    You might have yellow colour blindness so.

    Get that checked.

    There's a really deadly bee doing the rounds at the moment, stings can be fatal. First symptoms are yellow colour blindness.

    RIP OP.


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