Alas, I legitimately have spheksophobia. I appreciate their role in nature, but I don’t want them anywhere near me.
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 days agoWasps are actually pretty cool by in large. I’ve only been stung twice by them. Once when I was a kid and it sucked and also don’t remember what I was doing. The most recent time was a few weeks ago. They built a nest in the control area of a dryer I was selling. I stuck my hand right up in their nest, and felt what I thought was electric shocks despite this dryer being unplugged for a few days. I don’t blame them and the pain subsided in minutes(also wasn’t very bad to begin with). And they are a critical player in agricultural pest control. I run into wasps all the time and have only been stung twice in forty years. Wasps, like spiders, are bros as far as I’m concerned.
TodaviaTyler@lemmy.world 5 days ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 days ago
That’s fair. But as someone who rarely gives a fuck about my own, let alone others around me, safety. They seem timid to sting. I’ve been stung as many times by bees, and only when I was young and extremely reckless.
But you do you homie. Please just don’t kill non ground dwellers haphazardly.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wasps are just fine. We’re recently learning their tiny brains have enough pattern recognition to recognize/remember a human face. Guess how they feel about humans screaming and waving and spazzing out? They never touch my pet pig, because he doesn’t hassle 'em. Let a nest grow under my front door, deliberately avoided looking at them, stayed chill. No problem.
HORNETS OTOH CAN DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Yeah screw those ground dwellers!
Also I’m gonna need some pig tax. Post picture immediately of that cute mfer!