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      Most Hornet species are actually pretty chill fellas. Wasps otoh… not so much.

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        Can’t say, my only experience is with Killer Hornets defending their newly aquired raised garden bed

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      They do actually sleep, they become very lethargic and slow at night. Unless it’s a murder hornet, those fuckers are fueled by Satan himself.

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    It’s fun to see comic strips from before everything became instantly referencable at the push of a button. Like what are these weird Mosquito-headed hornets? I choose to believe that the artist could not be arsed to look up pictures of hornets at the library or bookstore, so they filled in (or hallucinated :D) their knowledge gaps on hornet anatomy by making stuff up.

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      I read one of his behind the scenes books (artist is Gary Lawson). If my memory is correct, he had to crank at least one of these out a day and there were times where he wouldn’t have a good idea until later in the day. When that happened he sometimes threw his hands up at problems he would otherwise fix. Given the schedule, I don’t blame him for saying these fly wasps were good enough haha.

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        Good insight. Seems to fit the puzzle. I also suspect time constraints to be the biggest factor behind the “can’t be arsed” part and not the artist’s laziness.