I'm fine with bugs that don't bother me. Around my house, I've got a ton of red paper wasps. They're assholes. My mere existence makes me a threat worth stinging. Same for the rest of my family. They can go fuck themselves.
Yeah I am a proponent of wasps but some of the paper wasps can be really mean. I mostly live around mud daubers and the like who are very chill and just hang out in my front yard
Oh yeah, I've got mud daubers, too. They're cool; they don't mess with me, and I don't mess with them. It's really just those big, red assholes (and the occasional yellow jacket) that are problematic.
I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they're weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mate with.
I'm grateful to support that colony; they've been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they're pretty chill. They're not going to attack unless you do first, and they're pollinators.
And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being "gross", just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3
I've never understood why people think wasps are so aggressive. At least where I live. They are curious like a bumblebee although slightly more persistent in hanging around.
If I am eating food, I leave a bit for them just within arms reach so they feast on that rather than what I'm eating.
They seem pretty chill if you're willing to share your space and food with them.
Do you live on Big Rock Candy Mountain or possibly heaven itself?
Where I live the wasps are complete fucking assholes and will murder your whole family on accident because they're such dicks. Also - do they not kill bees? They kill bees. They kill bees. They have chosen violence.
(Yeah, wasps made an enemy for life, one who knows how to use a jar half full of gasoline. Sucks to be them, they should have thought about the consequences of their actions, but they chose poorly.)
As long as the fuckers don't try to build a nest near the house, they can have their fun. I don't go messing with them otherwise. But my allergic ass ain't playing when they're right outside the door, helllll no.
Maybe i am just naïve but cant we just breed a fuckton of bumble and other more friendly bees to release around neighborhoods so to suppress wasp populations around humans.
Do wasps carry a role that cant be done by a different pollinator?
I get that we should strive for maximum bio diversity but the wasps where i live will literally land and crawl over your face. I can just about hold my breath and handle that, my kid cannot.
On the old site™️, they once shared a video of how someone killed a whole nest of wasps with gasoline. I commented how that was unnecessary animal cruelty (even illegal in Germany) and got downvoted into oblivion.
Gotta get that karma. 🫠 I've had that happen on there with things I research and I stopped bothering after a while. I look at it like a petri dish now.
Hey, the option of being stung multiple times by aggressive dickheads who absolutely have to nest outside your door is always on the table. Enjoy. Be forewarned though: they'll sting you multiple times and it hurts like a motherfucker.
If they don't want to be killed instantly they can nest 500 yards in that direction and no one will be the wiser. But they don't.
Nope wasps were created by satan. They get super aggro during the start of the fall, they get desperate for food and have no problem attacking humans to get it.
I've had a yellowjacket nest next to my window for years and they never bothered me. Now I occasionally get these fucking huge hornets flying into my house but they are pretty chill too, they immediately understand they've taken a wrong turn and look for a way out
Yeah? I've been stung for literally no reason at least once (one little shit ran directly into me and stung me while I was painting my porch), otherwise a couple of times one of these little bastards got caught under my arm and it 'defended' itself due to its own stupidity. I hate wasps. I want to see them gone.
I can’t blame them for not understanding the significance of human communications infrastructure, but I wish they wouldn’t set up camp in poorly tended mailboxes. Granted, ants are worse about this by some distance. (I’ve also had to deal with small birds while delivering)
All things considered, though, they’re cool if you give them an appropriate berth
I can't say I love wasps and hornets, but I respect them (well away from me), but I try to. They're terrifyingly beautiful.
But bees? As much as they make my nethers pucker up, I love those little guys.
But it took me years before I could stay chill around them instead of running away and screaming. Except bumbles, they've always been an exception to my phobia.