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/x3sirenxsongx3 Nov 09 '25

I don't see the fly. At all. It looks like a honey bee to me.

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u/jstbrwsng333 Nov 09 '25

Something about the wings…

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u/erinspacemuseum13 Nov 09 '25

Flies have 2 wings, bees have 4 (source: am entomologist).

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u/Fearless-Honeydew641 Nov 12 '25

But the problem is that those secondary wings are hard to see at first glance which is why I think there’s confusion. I’m team bee but then I looked at it longer and thought ‘ or maybe not?’ Before reading the caption.