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Animal Attacks

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was playing my Gameboy at a picnic table. No food. Bastard stung my elbow. Fuck wasps and fuck anyone that defends them.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe you just sucked at the game and he wanted to motivate you to get good

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  • Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Get off the computer, you filthy wasp.

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    • Denvil@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And I want to do it for you…

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As if stealing my food is supposed to justify it.

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    • Umbrias@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s a wasp, it is hungry.

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      • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So are ants. They aren’t jerks about jt.

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    • azi@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s a wild animal

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        so am i

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  • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who gave wasps access to the internet?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree. There is always a reason. And with wasps that reason is “fuck you, I’m a wasp.”

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  • RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again:

    FUCK WASPS

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally outside eating a peach with a wasp harassing me while reading this.

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    • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit

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      • azi@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “why doesn’t the wild animal think of my happiness??”

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    • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)

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      • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Them carapace’d stinger buzzards are watching their macros to stay swole!

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wasps generally won’t fuck with you

      Someone never heard of yellowjackets 🙄

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    • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!!

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  • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    nature does not owe you safety

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    • mihor@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why we use bug zappers liberally.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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. 💔

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  • TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ryan George made me better understand why wasps do that

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