But I don't like bees. Actually, I Really don't like bees.
Count me in too. People keep telling me that bees don't sting unprovoked and that only wasps would do that. Alas somebody forgot to tell the bees!
I have several times been stung by bees when I really wasn't doing anything. I saw the bee comming, stood still, allowed it to land on my hand, didn't make any movement or noise... and that dump beast just stung me!
This is even more creepy if one considers the fact that bees don't survive if they sting anyone as the barbs of their stings pull on a significant part of their body along with the poison glands.
So why do bees commit such suicide attacks on someone who (I swear) didn't do anything at all that could have been interpreted as provoking! It happened several times. On the other hand the only time I was stung by a wasp was when I accidentally sat down on it (had I been that wasp, I would have stung too).
I wonder what causes the immense fear of spiders. People say that children are "taught" to fear spiders by their parents. That doesn't make much sense to me, as my father just loves insects, and spiders, and snakes etc. He certainly didn't teach me to fear spiders. Neither did my mum. But while I am not terrified of spiders and actually enjoy looking at them I still wouldn't want to touch one. If I had a big spider on my hand I would probably shake it away frantically.
I wonder why.
When we had a backyard (we don't have any since we moved in 2006) we had a couple of squirrels in the trees whom we saw jumping between the branches. Sometimes there was a hedgehog in the garden. One day there was a surprisingly friendly blackbird and I was surprised how close it came to me.
The same day this blackbird was reduced to a bloody mess by a car driver who felt that he had to accelerate when he spotted the blackbird on the road. I was screaming and crying for hours.
