>>35315493I'm not so sure. Removing the Combee "faces" from the comb might actually kill them, and there's no sign of the faces in the image, which raises the question of what the Ribombee did to them.
Plus, the way that the Vespiquen is so shocked suggests that the Ribombee is doing something bad.
And as aforementioned, Ribombee is inspired by a parasitoid kind of bug, so killing a Combee and using the corpse for its own purposes would be right up its alley.
So, I think a gruesome interpretation of the image is reasonable given the evidence, though I admit it could just be "harmless fun" (and I prefer to think of it that way). After all, I don't know what the artist's intent was with that image, so I can't say anything about it for certain.
