Wasps are pollinators too 🥺
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W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
fireweed@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
SOME wasps are, and often not very good ones.
Yellowjackets aren’t anywhere near prolific enough at pollination (or the insect corpse cleanup they specialize in) to make those flying terrorists worthwhile.
Solitary wasps are cool, though, they can stay.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Yellowjackets are definitely bastards. As far as I can tell they don’t provide any benefit to society whatsoever.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
fireweed@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There are fig wasps, of course. Plus other species like paper wasps that eradicate pests. The year I had a paper wasp family move in near my garden was a bumper year for my brassicas, because they absolutely annihilated the cabbage white caterpillar population.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Basically, wasps aren’t just useless enemies.
True if most wasps, yeah, but not yellowjackets. They can fuck right off.
BanMe@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Astonishing how often I see someone start swatting at a paper wasp when it gets curious.
The fuck? It’s like a dog smelling you, but that dog has a stinger. You don’t swat at the fucking thing. You chill out and act real casual. Maybe pretend you didn’t even notice it. What wasp? I didn’t see any wasps. Now check my back so we can get our asses inside.
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Bastards
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
When I was a teenager, I grew up in the country so we had wasps everywhere. I hated them. One morning in the summer I was dead asleep–until I was awakened by a wasp that stung me in the fucking neck. So this asshole had to fly into my room decide to land on me, probably crawl around a bit and then decide “Fuck this guy right here NNNNNNG”. I was so goddamn angry and confused. I had to get up and tend to the sting because I swell like a moteherfucker. However, being a lazy teenager, I went back to bed. I woke up about 10 minutes later because I then felt it CRAWLING ON ME AGAIN. I was so fucking furious, I just monkey pounded it into a million little pieces with my fists in the mattress.
Fuck wasps, I spent many years capturing them, holding them with tweezers and slowly cooking them over a candle. Not sorry.