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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did you just paint that wasp in 20 minutes?

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 53 points 1 week 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"

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week 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.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 39 points 1 week 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.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week 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!

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is knocking down their house not perceived as aggressive?

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I forget to post the eviction notice in advance.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

skill issue

get better at wasps

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week 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

[–] AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week 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.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻

[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mosquitos are pollinators!

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

They can pollinate my bug zapper! ⚡

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week 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.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] wolfshadowheart@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago

And bite. Lots of biting.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fool me once, shame on you.

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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....

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week 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.

https://xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

[–] cram42@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Meanwhile, the wasp in my house...

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"Harrrryyyyyy!'