wasp propaganda
Ok fair but of the choices to have buzzing near me, I’m still picking the bee every time.
To them you are a giant who can easily kill them
And I relish in proving them right. Fuck wasps and fuck your wasp propaganda.
I’ve given bees snacks when they’re tuckered out on a hot day. I’ve let them rest on me. But with wasps and hornets it’s on sight.
*Beeality
Also, wasps will just sting you because “fuck you.” Fuck that. Burn in heck.
Wasps stung a man in Reno just to watch him cry.
i’ve met some friendly wasps, heck i’ve met more friendly wasps then the evil ones
Shut up, wasp
bzz you!
*stings your ass*
AWAB
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?!? >:3
*turns off bodycam*
*stings you vigorously*
I don’t think I was ever stung by a wasp, and I even held one in my hand once.
Are you the wasp whisperer? The wasperer?
I’ve had a wasp fly up to me, land on me, sting me, and fly off, for no fucking reason! It has happened more than once. They’re assholes.
Once I was spraying a hive of hornets. One of them collapses outside of the next and another flew grabbed him and pulled him back into the nest. Fucking broke my heart.
In my limited experience I can confirm that at least some kinds of wasps are more than chill even directly near their nests.
Some are not even heavily interested in human food and in multiple occations they landed on my hands, cleaned their legs and flew away again.
In the last few years we had at least three nests within the roof of the house without an issue.Okay, but bumblebees are the best though. Even fluffier than honey bees, and they almost never sting humans.
Sadly they’re also one of the types of bee that’s losing out in their native habitats to human supported honey bees.
The bottom picture doesn’t make the top picture any less true.
The wasp stings me to protect its family, I kill the wasp to protect mine. Glad it’s me who’s the giant.
Bees will warn you if you get too close, and if they run into you will fly off on their own or otherwise avoid you.
I used to work near a mall with a fountain where one edge of it would always have water splashing up. Place near there had honeybees. In the dry summers there would always be bees chilling out and enjoying the cold fountain water on the ledge, usually next to human workers also on lunch.
Wasps intentionally get in your face and will sting you because you had the gall to exist in their flight path.
bees are like stoner dudes, they might bump into you and ask if they can have that sandwich you’re holding, but you can just politely decline and they’ll go “alright, cool” and keep going along.
hornets are like unruly children with a sewing needle, they have no remorse and will stab you in the shins in hopes that you drop the sandwich.
Not sure how aggressive the wasps are in the US, but for Europe this isn’t really true. We have a nest of European wasps (similar to yellowjackets) in our garden and they really couldn’t care less about us humans. I can stand in their flight path and they just fly around me. But I’m also not as easily panicked as other people so that certainly helps…
Canada.
Mud wasps are big but chill. The regular wasps are super aggressive. If they smell anything on you even just remnants of a meal that interests them, good luck. Hornets arent common but unless you deliberately mess with their nests they’ll leave you alone.
The parasitic wasps are mean looking but like the spiders they are mostly hunting, we’re just in the way and something to avoid.Well, I was indeed talking about the “regular wasps”. We’ve had dinner in garden etc, but they usually left us alone although their nest is in about 5 m distance. I guess the reason is that there are other food sources for them around due to a diverse vegetation.
can sting more than once
They have barbed stingers. Their stinger rips the bottom part of their abdomen off when they try to retract it. They don’t live through that.
Do you know why that would be a positive evolutionary trait? Clearly, if they try to retract it, at some point in the history they must have been able to do so.
It makes it more dangerous : the sting is attach to the venom bag, so the venom bag gets to empty itself whole if it stays. Evolution would have chosen the survival of the hive, not the survival of the bee.
One thing is weird though : you can extract the sting of a wasp with a pincer. The wasp will live through it. Why do the bee dies when it loses it’s sting and not the wasp?
Common wasp and germanicus vespula (european wasp) are both considered pest. Both dont pollinate. And both kill and destroy other friendly species when they do not harass you to steal your food. Same for asiatic and common hornet.
All other wasp and hornet like the blue hornet are friendly and help the ecosystem. But you will rarely encounter them cause they let you the fuck alone and mind their own business…
