Get off the computer, you filthy wasp.
Animal Attacks
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Denvil@lemmy.one 8 months ago
And I want to do it for you…
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 months ago
As if stealing my food is supposed to justify it.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 8 months ago
it’s a wasp, it is hungry.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 months ago
So are ants. They aren’t jerks about jt.
azi@mander.xyz 8 months ago
it’s a wild animal
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
so am i
CluckN@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who gave wasps access to the internet?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
I agree. There is always a reason. And with wasps that reason is “fuck you, I’m a wasp.”
RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again:
FUCK WASPS
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Literally outside eating a peach with a wasp harassing me while reading this.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit
azi@mander.xyz 8 months ago
“why doesn’t the wild animal think of my happiness??”
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 8 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)
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 8 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.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 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
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Them carapace’d stinger buzzards are watching their macros to stay swole!
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wasps generally won’t fuck with you
Someone never heard of yellowjackets 🙄
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 8 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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 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.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 8 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!!
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
mihor@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s why we use bug zappers liberally.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 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. 💔
TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 8 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.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 8 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.
captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Ryan George made me better understand why wasps do that
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months ago
Maybe you just sucked at the game and he wanted to motivate you to get good