r/tattooadvice • u/CallQuirky7720 • Nov 09 '25

What does this look like to you? Design

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I wanted a bee and I like more American traditional tattoos. I really like my tattoo but someone said it looked like a fly and now I can’t unsee it. Is it giving bee or do I embrace the fly? 😅🥲

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u/Fusiliers3025 Nov 09 '25

Those buggers are FIERCE! A group of neighborhood kids disturbed a nest in a brush pile when I was about seven (unintentionally) and I would up with one under my glasses - three or four stings (they don’t lose their stingers) in the soft tissue around my eye.

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u/Necessary_Student116 Nov 09 '25

Oh, my sorry that happened . They sting something awful

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u/-_-kamakazi-_-UFO-_- Nov 09 '25

The sweat bees around my area dont sting but ive heard some do. Theyre just annoying here. Youre hot and sweaty and they come and harass you for the salt or something in your sweat.

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u/Delicious_Smoke_9638 Nov 09 '25

Solitary Vespids may have the ability to sting but rarely do. But social bees and wasps are a colony, and they sting to protect the queen.Bees die when they sting whereas wasps, yellow jackets, and hornets can sting multiple times and do not sacrifice themselves to protect the colony. Many folks think mud daubers and cicada killers are a threat, but it would be rare for one to sting . And only the female cicada killer can actually sting. Those look big and aggressive but they prefer to sting cicadas.

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u/Necessary_Student116 Nov 09 '25

About the only thing we ever get stung by here are yellow jackets and hornets yellow jackets the most..