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Obviously the answer is yes (lemmy.world)
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[–] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My parents taught me to leave them alone. I'm Indigenous Canadian and I grew up seeing my parents talking to creatures like they were people. They'd see a bee nearby and just ask it to leave ... and most of the time it would. But other times, the bee would linger and they'd start getting mad at it and almost negotiating for it to leave until it eventually did. They would only kill it if it was endangering someone like a small child or baby or if the bee actually stung someone.

I do the same now .... if I see a bug or a bee where it shouldn't be, I just open the door or window and ask it to leave. Funny part is .... 9/10 times, the bee takes the advice and just leaves.

Wasps on the other hand set off panic alarms, even with my parents because everyone knows these things are just born angry and will sting you relentlessly no matter what you ask of them.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Curiously, in my country we are taught that for wasps and hornets you must stay silent and wait still until they leave. Like dealing with a blind predator.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm in northern Ontario in Canada and the wasps we have here can be aggressive no matter what you do, which is why we stay away from them.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We have swarm migration season. Picture thousands of paper wasp all flying through open wide savannas in stereotypical black clouds of murder. There's no staying away. If they come, you wait.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know, that's one of the ways I learned to control the phobia. There's something about talking to them that cuts the fear off, or turns it down. Can't say that leave when I ask them too, but it really helps to talk to them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it has a lot to do with pheromones and energy and phenomenon we haven't fully discovered or explained yet ... I don't go too far into the science of it but I do believe that between humans we can 'sense' certain energies, personalities, feelings or anxieties between ourselves ... and I think that same process happens between species as well. If we feel fear, anxiety, apprehension or aggression, I think most animals and insects would be able to sense that. There is even some research that suggests that same kind of energy or connection also happens between plants and with plants and trees.

    There is a lot of science and biology that leans towards the possibility that there is more to our natural world than what we see, hear, touch and taste. And I think that is why we have these kind of unusual interactions with animals and insects more often than would be explained by chance.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I can definitely say that as my phobia faded, I got buzzed less by any of them. That could be perception shifting more than reality, but I swear that even standing near a hive, they reacted different the calmer I got. They had to be smelling a difference or something.

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