I am terrified of bees and wasps?
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Bernini’s baroque Triton Fountain (Italian Fontana del Tritone) is located in Piazza Barberini, Rome, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (now housing the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica), which Bernini helped redesign for his patron Maffeo Barberini, who had become pope as Urban VIII. It is a few blocks from Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. In the fountain, which Bernini executed of travertine in 1642–43, an over-lifesize muscular Triton, a minor sea god of ancient Greco-Roman legend, is depicted as a merman kneeling on an opened scallop shell. He throws back his head to raise a conch to his lips: from it a jet of water spurts, formerly rising dramatically higher than it does today. The fountain has a base of four dolphins[1] that entwine the papal tiara with crossed keys and the heraldic Barberini bees in their scaly tails. The Tritone, first of Bernini’s fountains, was erected to provide water from the Acqua Felice aqueduct, which Urban had restored, in a dramatic celebration. It was Bernini’s last major commission from his great patron, who died in 1644.
At the Triton Fountain, Urban and Bernini brought a garden feature familiar from villas decisively to a public, wholly urban setting for the first time. All the previous fountains of Rome had been passive basins for the reception of public water or had garden settings in the suburban villas.
Question by thaonecleopatra: I am terrified of bees and wasps?
I am terrified of bees and wasps. The bad part is they are surrounding the stairwells of my apartment complex. I want to know do bumblebees sting? What can I do about the bees and wasps on the stairwell?
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8 Responses to I am terrified of bees and wasps?
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Bumblebees sting like a b**ch. However, don’t bother them and they shouldn’t bother you.
Scott S
November 14, 2012 at 5:26 am
Bumblebee’s can sting, but only females can sting. Male’s don’t have stingers. Queen bumblebee’s and workers, can sting. You should talk to your landlord about it, but the site i was researching it just says to leave it, so i would just talk to your landlord before taking any action.
Amanda M
November 14, 2012 at 5:47 am
I used to be scared of bees and still kinda am. But if you leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone. Don’t hit them or anything. Maybe there’s like bug coils or something to kill the bees. When a bee bites you, take the sting off immediately and treat it. Good luck.
Dan
November 14, 2012 at 5:55 am
honeybees sting, and they are attracted to odor, sweet perfumes and bright colors they think your a flower. Wasp will only sting if threatened like your sit on one. The best thing to do is get rid of them. They sleep at night, when it cool down, throw lots of water on the nest, make sure you have a path to run away from them. There are also product on the market, they you let off, and it kills them, not sure how they are on the environment. I used the water method on mud wasps, and it works, they get tired of rebuilding and leave.
stringck250
November 14, 2012 at 6:14 am
all I have to say is just leave them alone and they will not bother you caus like you they rather go on with their daily lives
the only time they’ll sting is if they feel as if your a threat to their colleny so just stay as far way from the nest as you can
and bee and wasp arent that bad and there fun to hold(yes I hold them first let them sting my jacket and then let my crawl around my hands and arms) though I don’t recommened this for everyone O.o
kaytea
November 14, 2012 at 6:38 am
Yes, bumblebees do sting. Many people are afraid of them because they do not know what will happen when stung. I used to be afraid, but after being stung numerous times, they are really nothing to be afraid of.
As for the bees and wasps on the stairwell, i would recommend hanging a trap near by, and after all of them are dead inside, remove the hive by knocking it down if a hive is present.
J.Fang
November 14, 2012 at 7:36 am
first let the apt. manager know so they can hire someone to kill them.{tell them ur allergic to them and that you could die!!! lol.well leave the die part out!} second, yes bumble bees do sting. depending on where u live though, they could be africanized bees so be careful,
time is of the essence
November 14, 2012 at 7:53 am
If you ignore them or even calmly talk to them, you can safely pass nests in close proximity without incedent.
For years I had to walk up a catwalk outdoors along a moving conveyor belt that went from ground level up an incline to 90 feet above ground to the top of a concrete mixer (a long arduous walk at best with no where to run). Along the way I would encounter wasps (yellow hornets, yellow jackets, wasps etc.) that had made their nests under the half round quanset hut-like metal roof over the moving belt. As I walked, one or more of the wasps would fly out to see if I was going to attack their nest.They would hover around me as I walked, even following me for several feet & then fly back once they saw I was not a threat. In all those years I was never stung, even though I was within 1-3 feet of thier nests. After a while, I became completely comfortable around them. So much so that one summer day as I walked into our three person office, a wasp passed in front of me and hovered in the air ahead as if it were trying to decide where to go next. For some unknown reason I raised my hand under it to meet its level while saying calmly “Hey, what are you doing in here? You’re supposed to be outside”. The wasp lit on my open palm and sat there as I turned around and walked back out the door and then flew away when I stopped without even the slightest shake of my hand. An office mate who witnessed the whole event exclaimed, “What, are you nuts!” to which I replied, “Ya know, that was pretty freakin cool!” Since that time I have NOT gone out of my way to interact with them but I do have to admit on one other occasion I repeated an identical escorting of a wasp from the indoors to the outdoors without a second thought. I just didn’t want it to die inside.
Hey, thank you for rekindling these memories.
wiseoldowl
November 14, 2012 at 8:12 am