Get off the computer, you filthy wasp.
Animal Attacks
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Denvil@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
And I want to do it for you…
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
As if stealing my food is supposed to justify it.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
it’s a wasp, it is hungry.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
So are ants. They aren’t jerks about jt.
CluckN@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Who gave wasps access to the internet?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
I agree. There is always a reason. And with wasps that reason is “fuck you, I’m a wasp.”
RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again:
FUCK WASPS
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Literally outside eating a peach with a wasp harassing me while reading this.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit
azi@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
“why doesn’t the wild animal think of my happiness??”
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s late in the season. They should be more attracted to proteins to bulk for winter than simple sugars like they do early spring.
(at least where I’m from they do this)
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We put some raw chicken in a wasp trap once and my god, I’ve never seen so many wasps in one place. The thing was almost a quarter full by the end of the day.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
That might explain why it was trying to work its way into my ear - to get at my tasty inner ear flesh or some other comparably horrific delight
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Them carapace’d stinger buzzards are watching their macros to stay swole!
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wasps generally won’t fuck with you, but here’s a pro tip.
It’s been shown that they can recognize and remember human faces. No idea how they have enough wetware for that kind of pattern recognition, but whatever.
So, do not look at them! And for damn sure don’t wave your arms about. If they think you’re any sort of threat, it’s game on.
Had a nest over my front door for months and they didn’t hassle me or my pig, and we went in and out that door frequently. Pointedly ignoring them worked, but I finally nuked the nest so none of my friends would get stung.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wasps generally won’t fuck with you
Someone never heard of yellowjackets 🙄
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’d had this over my front door for however long it took for them to build it. My pest control service said the size of the nest can affect how aggressively defensive they might respond to perceived intruders. I guess maybe I was just lucky we caught this one before it got any more developed.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
There may be some precedent for that. Swarming bees (that’s what they’re called when they’re clumped in random places without a home) are very docile because they have nothing to protect.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Do you have a potbelly? What’s the ownership experience like? I always wanted one as a kid but hadn’t thought about them for years until just now!!
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
mihor@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
That’s why we use bug zappers liberally.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Saying the wasp didn’t do it out of malicious intent doesn’t imply it’s the victim’s fault for being stung. That sucks, I bet it hurt. 💔
TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
The first 4 times I got stung by yellow jackets this year, I can understand. I was encroaching on their territory by walking down a trail. But did they really have to follow me into my truck 40 feet away and continue to sting me inside? Little picks.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I’m assuming there is a lot of regional variation here, the wasps near my house have never caused much trouble, they just eat dead mice and large grasshoppers. One even let me pet it recently. We did end up nuking a nest inside the garden hose box a few years back, but I doubt the wasps chose a problematic location intentionally.
captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Ryan George made me better understand why wasps do that
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I was playing my Gameboy at a picnic table. No food. Bastard stung my elbow. Fuck wasps and fuck anyone that defends them.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Maybe you just sucked at the game and he wanted to motivate you to get good