They usually are if you don’t start flailing your arms. I usually feed them when they approach me while I’m eating. They don’t even have brains but they can still gauge someone’s threat level.
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WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 days ago
But what if they’re friendly wasps?
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 days ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yep. They have sharp enough pattern matching to remember human faces. They register eyeballs = threats. Don’t stare and spaz out while doing so. If you make yourself a threat, gonna have a bad time.
Had a nest over my door last summer. They never bothered me or my pig. We ignored them, they ignored us.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Sometimes we get these cute little things and I pick them up and let them hang around, but some people get freaked out by them and demand I get them out of the room. The ones that I think are more likely to sting humans, I’ll just catch and release outside.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 day ago
We used to get cicada killers. They don’t bother humans, but it still looks like an aggressive 2-inch long missile set on your destruction.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Yep, most people are overreacting because they see a wasp, even though it isn’t aggressive in any way.
sunoc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No such thing
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
They all belong in hell, have to kill a dozen a day that keep getting into my house.
groet@feddit.org 1 day ago
For most people wasp=yellow jacket. And Yellow jackets are never frendly. Just sometimes “not outright aggressive”.
I like to ignore them and give them a chance to retreat in peace. If they fly to close to my face though, I will single strike, closed fist, punch them in the head (while flying, not mash them against the wall). It disorients them so much they just fly away. Never got stung while doing it, 100% success rate if I hit them.