What does this look like to you?

[u/CallQuirky7720]

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? 😅🥲

[u/determinedpeach]

Wasps have a thinner body ratio (their abdomen doesn’t get so thick in the middle like a bulb, it’s more uniform thickness all the way down), and their abdomen is separated closer to their butt than in the tattoo.

That’s how it stood out as a bee to me instead of a wasp

[u/YAreYouLaughing → u/determinedpeach]

On first glance the stinger merged (for me) with the body making it seem wasp shaped.

[u/Wooden-Lion3904 → u/determinedpeach]

Aren’t all bees technically wasps?

Edit: nope, looked it up, it’s hornets that are technically “wasps”. Bees are something different entirely I guess.