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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did you just paint that wasp in 20 minutes?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I absolutely did not; it's one of the first image search hits when searching for "wasp typing on a keyboard meme"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you stole it? How dare you! You wouldn't kidnap a child!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of course not! Children are annoying and expensive, not to mention the fact that they bring all sorts of bacteria and viruses home from school.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Exactly, what the heck would I do with one? Can't be very good eatin' either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As a pest control professional, I assure you that wasps aren't trying to fuck you up. They get aggressive in the late season but for the most part they won't fuck with you unless you are a threat. I've knocked down countless wasp nests with my brush and only been stung a few times. Those times I got stung I was really asking for it by how I went about it. They're also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.

I hear that, I did some things accidentally once, but the stubborn judge insisted I go on the register anyway!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is knocking down their house not perceived as aggressive?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I forget to post the eviction notice in advance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last time I got stung by a wasp I was just standing on the street. Not a nest to be seen anywhere.

It came out of nowhere, stung me and got away. I stood there for a couple of hours after that and it never came back, not other wasp. So surely it didn't care I was there, it just wanted to fuck with me for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

skill issue

get better at wasps

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

European Wasps are an invasive species where I live and they're fucking up a lot of the local flora and fauna. Also "wasps" is a huge group of species and they're hard to generalise about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, but you could say the exact same thing about bees. The point of the article is that most people see 'wasps' as being all bad, without the nuance that is afforded to bees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Nope. We have introduced bees and bumblebees as well and they're fine.

[–] Assman 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe this is hippie talk, but I simply don't bother any animal. I don't need an article to tell me they deserve to exist.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[–] TheRealLinga 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mosquitos are pollinators!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They can pollinate my bug zapper! ⚡

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I like the wasps around my house, they're Apache wasps I think. I've shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.

Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have yellow jackets, and they're assholes. They'll fly up and sting you for no reason, and then fly away laughing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And bite. Lots of biting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The other day I felt a shooting pain on my hand out of nowhere. I look down and it’s a wasp. Fucker broke into my house and stung me outta nowhere. Bastard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We get lots of blue mud daubers where I live and I've seen people freak the fuck out over them.

Like guys, they will straight up never have business with you and their main prey is literally spiders if you have an irrational fear of them too

They're the bros of the wasp world. The dudes can't even sting, only the women, and they can take care of the young which is crazy rare. Yoi'd have to go out of your way to get bitten or stung.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybion_californicum

Hell, many solitary vespids will fuck up other non-solitary wasps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp#Solitary_wasps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice... Can't get fooled again.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

if sky news says they're beneficial they're probably trying to fuck you out of your retirement plan or something

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

They HAD their chance, and they used it to be assholes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasps are actually pretty useful in nature, in contrast to the parasitic life form knows as homo sapiens.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I suppose you haven't heard of tarantula hawks if you think wasps aren't parasitic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love having wasps around my garden. They fly around my veggies picking off any caterpillars they see, I don't even use pesticides because the wasps do such a good job keeping the populations low.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Its interesting once you learn more about ecology and biodiversity... Those bugs / animals you used to hate are suddenly awesome.

That said, invasive wasps where I live a devastating native and endemic species so....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

According to Lord Sauron, wasps are just trying to help, and are very misunderstood. Please let them into your house, they will reform.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

If you're cold, they're cold - let them in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd expect this but from Sky News Australia *squints*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Just give wasp an entry level job bro, what’s the worst that could happen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're all vicious assholes that get irritated by the most mundane things so I'm gonna expect them to sting me and they have for no reason that I could tell... Also these look like yellow jackets, which are particularly annoying but not as annoying as the 4 species of hornets battling for territory around my old house. I think bumblebees are cute though they will boop you and not try to kill you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean it's a known fact that WASPs rule the media.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meanwhile, the wasp in my house...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I get apprehensive around wasps too but it's very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

"Harrrryyyyyy!'

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