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Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.

  When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.

  Note that I’m not saying it’s safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I’d just fight the one guard instead of running, since it’s hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.

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  • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll add to this, sufficient artificial light will wake them up too. So don’t point a big light at it in preparation for taking them out, because they’ll take you out

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