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Ok, then wtf is this?
Downvoted for self-censorship
You can’t say shit on the internet anymore, or what?
I do this automatically now too. It doesn’t matter the quality of the content, if it’s self censored like this I downvote.
SHIT
I’ll have you know this is a Christian server. Now, no most swearing or being gay, both are bad.
Yellow jackets are mean, but don’t confuse them with paper wasps which are chill little dudes. They’d rather head bump you to get you away than sting you.
paper wasps are not “chill little dudes”
one of the most painful experiences of my life. a dozen stings on my left hand and for a moment i didn’t even know what was happening to me. As painful as a good dose of 220 volts through your arm
i still kept them around though. As a gardener, they’re your friends. i stopped using those tools around which they built their hive
When you pass by their hive, they follow your movements. They turn to keep you in sight … one feels them staring 😬
Yea, yellow jackets are bumbling annoyances around anything sweet.
Paper wasps are aggressive bastards who will sting just cause you were in their line of sight.
yellow jackets are
bumbling annoyancesflying terrorists who are personally offended that you havearoundanything sweet and would kill you for it if they could.There, fixed it for you.
Hornets are cool though! They eat very specific pests that nothing else will kill- flies, horse flies, flesh flies, and they catchem mid air, also bark beetles and some other nasty fuckers. They’re also pollinators, and did you know they’re actually way chiller than honey bees? Honey bees be straight up gangbangers in comparison, they unruly. In most of Europe they’re a protected species and you can be fined like A LOT if you get caught killing one. You’ll obviously never be caught but still.
Hornets only give a fuck if you’re within 5 meters of their nest and then they will let you KNOW they ain’t playin’.
Wasps can suck a dick tho.
I’ve only ever been stung by wasps. I was never doing anything to them, they came near me, I didn’t even move, stung me and then flew away.
I am not sure what part of the ecosystem wasps are filling but I’m prepared to wipe them out and see if it makes any difference.
The worst of bumblebee has ever done is flown into me, but they do have a surprising amount of mess behind them.
A bee headbutting you is not necessarily an agressive act, could be just investigatory on the part of the bee. I’ve walked into the heart of a flowering shrub covered in hungry bees, during which they either ignored me or headbutted me. As long as “defending the hive” isn’t part of the bee interaction, they are usually very chill but remain very curious. I’m still careful when the headbutts happen because accidents happen and a confused bee tangled in hair may still sting. But I have also gently untangled a bee or two without anyone getting hurt.
Even when defending the hive, bees seem to prefer as little direct agression as possible. I’ve stepped into a clearing and suddenly found myself way too close to a wild bee hive and got stung exactly once by a bee that got tangled in my hair as I fled the approaching swarm.
I’ve also gotten a solitary wasp tangled in my hair, near no hive or any flowers, and gotten stung 3 times on one knuckle as thanks for setting them free. The bees have taught me to treat them with compassion and respect. The wasps have taught me to react with murder and extreme violence before they are even aware of me.
Both are pollinators though. So despite the animosity, I don’t go out of my way to wage war against wasps the way I do mosquitoes.
They’re the real life Xenomorph, so make of that what you will.
Also, somebody pointed out that Wasp stingers don’t fall off like bees do when stinging humans, so they’re way more incentivised to stab you than normal.
Please learn the difference between PAPER WASPS (non-aggressive) and YELLOW JACKETS (super aggressive). They both look like the one on the far right, but paper wasps are friend.
Sorry this is basically an ad for a pest control company, but it does a good job at explaining the differences: https://www.lindseypest.com/resource-center/post/paper-wasps-vs-yellow-jackets-whats-the-difference
I used to live in a house with 2 pear trees. I quickly learned to pick up any fallen fruit, because the pear juice would ferment under the skin in the warm summer sun, the yellow jackets would pierce the skin and drink the pear liqueur, and then drunkenly chase me around the yard. Turns out, yellow jackets are belligerent drunks, which is, frankly, not surprising.
I fucking hate these guys…
Indian yellow wasp, aka Ropalidia marginata.
No thanks
Nah these guys are chill. They kill all the pests in my garden and don’t bother with me at all
My dad calls them flying Ferrari knife-shits. Cause they look fast like a Ferrari but also are shits with knife butts.
When I was a kid, I used to turn over the landscaping timbers around the house to find lizards and such to catch. One time, wasps had built a huge nest under one and I ripped the nest open when I turned it over. Man, did those things sting the ever-loving shit out of me. My whole body was covered in stings.
Any nest I found after that, I made it my mission to get rid of it. I’d put on whatever clothes I had like winter gloves, long sleeve shirts helmets, etc. Of course, whatever I put on always seemed insufficient to protect me and I’d still get the shit stung out of me. What a dumb kid.
If we could somehow get the yellowjackets to hunt down ticks then maybe we could come to an agreeable truce
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Wasps aren’t bees. And most wasps don’t suck, just yellow jackets and maybe a few other species that I’m not familiar with. European Hornets are quite chill too, as long as they don’t get stuck in my house and get mad. And I presume they’re all useful, even yellow jackets, but unlike the rest of them, the yellow jackets don’t seem to understand when to fuck off.
I have a huge pine tree next to my apartment, it towers above the apartment building. In the past month (maybe more), the thing is basically buzzing all the time. It’s a bumblebee invasion, hundreds of them. But we also get many European Hornets and the occasional wasp. It’s quite impressive to see, in a time where all these specifies are under huge pressure, this massive tree seems to almost single-handedly feed multiple colonies of different species. Makes me realize how important even a single tree can be. Also for my entertainment, because I love to be on the balcony and stare at the activity in the tree a few meters away. Interestingly enough I also have only had one bumblebee enter the house accidentally, and nothing else, despite having doors and windows open almost continuously the last weeks
Fuckin’ influencer wasps.
