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Why do we find bees cute but wasps scary?

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This is a really interesting question because it gets to the core of our instincts, evolved through millions of years as hunter-gatherer apes. First, not everyone finds bees cute, and not everyone is scared by wasps. read more

First, not everyone finds bees cute, and not everyone is scared by wasps. Both of these reactions are deeply wired into the nervous system, starting from profoundly deep instinctive pattern recognition circuitry and being refined by our experience as we grow into the world. read more

Bees are essentially wasps which became herbivores, so in that sense, all bees are wasps, but most wasps are not bees. Wasps include everything from hornets, to bees and ants, to velvet ants (not true ants), to ones that don't have the narrow waist and lay eggs in trees, to tiny little wasps which lay their eggs in or on other insects and then the larvae eat the insect. read more

Her older brother IS scared of bees; he also has a fear of injections. I think at an early age he made an association between the needle of a shot and the sting of a bee; he actually called the sting a needle. And I think that is why he would freak out at a bee sting. He's not scared of pain in general. read more

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