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.
I don't trust like that.
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KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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!
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
How is knocking down their house not perceived as aggressive?
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Sometimes I forget to post the eviction notice in advance.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
skill issue
get better at wasps
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
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.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope. We have introduced bees and bumblebees as well and they’re fine.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻
Lennnny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We vote.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda
mhague@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We have yellow jackets, and they’re assholes. They’ll fly up and sting you for no reason, and then fly away laughing.
wolfshadowheart@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
And bite. Lots of biting.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The other a 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.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybion_californicum
Hell, many solitary vespids will fuck up other non-solitary wasps.
BossDj@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if sky news says they’re beneficial they’re probably trying to fuck you out of your retirement plan or something
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Wasps are actually pretty useful in nature, in contrast to the parasitic life form knows as homo sapiens.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I suppose you haven’t heard of tarantula hawks if you think wasps aren’t parasitic.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 weeks ago
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice… Can’t get fooled again.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They HAD their chance, and they used it to be assholes.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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…
Lussy@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Just give wasp an entry level job bro, what’s the worst that could happen
Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
According to Lord Sauron, wasps are just trying to help, and are very misunderstood. Please let them into your house, they will reform.
prex@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
If you’re cold, they’re cold - let them in.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d expect this from Sky News Australia *\squints*
prex@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean it’s a known fact that WASPs rule the media.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Wasps are great.
TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A stripper bastard? Haven’t heard that one. Gonna use it with me pirate persona for Halloween, thank ye
rarbg@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets
GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Wasps are coop as hell. Animals don’t exist for you convenience
cram42@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Swallowtail@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps–the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven’t been to in a while.
Poogona@hexbear.net 2 weeks 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
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
"Harrrryyyyyy!’
Bogan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Did you just paint that wasp in 20 minutes?
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I absolutely did not; it’s one of the first image search hits when searching for “wasp typing on a keyboard meme”
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yes