As a pest control professional, I assure you that wasps aren’t trying to fuck you up. They get aggressive in the late season but for the most part they won’t fuck with you unless you are a threat. I’ve knocked down countless wasp nests with my brush and only been stung a few times. Those times I got stung I was really asking for it by how I went about it. They’re also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.
I don't trust like that.
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KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.
I hear that, I did some things accidentally once, but the stubborn judge insisted I go on the register anyway!
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
How is knocking down their house not perceived as aggressive?
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sometimes I forget to post the eviction notice in advance.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Last time I got stung by a wasp I was just standing on the street. Not a nest to be seen anywhere.
It came out of nowhere, stung me and got away. I stood there for a couple of hours after that and it never came back, not other wasp. So surely it didn’t care I was there, it just wanted to fuck with me for no reason.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
skill issue
get better at wasps
kaffiene@lemmy.world 6 months ago
European Wasps are an invasive species where I live and they’re fucking up a lot of the local flora and fauna. Also “wasps” is a huge group of species and they’re hard to generalise about
AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sure, but you could say the exact same thing about bees. The point of the article is that most people see ‘wasps’ as being all bad, without the nuance that is afforded to bees.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nope. We have introduced bees and bumblebees as well and they’re fine.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Maybe this is hippie talk, but I simply don’t bother any animal. I don’t need an article to tell me they deserve to exist.
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻
Lennnny@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We vote.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda
mhague@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I like the wasps around my house, they’re Apache wasps I think. I’ve shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.
Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We have yellow jackets, and they’re assholes. They’ll fly up and sting you for no reason, and then fly away laughing.
wolfshadowheart@leminal.space 6 months ago
And bite. Lots of biting.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
The other a felt a shooting pain on my hand out of nowhere. I look down and it’s a wasp. Fucker broke into my house and stung me outta nowhere. Bastard.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We get lots of blue mud daubers where I live and I’ve seen people freak the fuck out over them.
Like guys, they will straight up never have business with you and their main prey is literally spiders if you have an irrational fear of them too
They’re the bros of the wasp world. The dudes can’t even sting, only the women, and they can take care of the young which is crazy rare. Yoi’d have to go out of your way to get bitten or stung.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybion_californicum
Hell, many solitary vespids will fuck up other non-solitary wasps.
BossDj@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Wasps are actually pretty useful in nature, in contrast to the parasitic life form knows as homo sapiens.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I suppose you haven’t heard of tarantula hawks if you think wasps aren’t parasitic.
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
if sky news says they’re beneficial they’re probably trying to fuck you out of your retirement plan or something
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice… Can’t get fooled again.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
sunbytes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They HAD their chance, and they used it to be assholes.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I love having wasps around my garden. They fly around my veggies picking off any caterpillars they see, I don’t even use pesticides because the wasps do such a good job keeping the populations low.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Its interesting once you learn more about ecology and biodiversity… Those bugs / animals you used to hate are suddenly awesome.
That said, invasive wasps where I live a devastating native and endemic species so…
Lussy@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Just give wasp an entry level job bro, what’s the worst that could happen
Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 6 months ago
According to Lord Sauron, wasps are just trying to help, and are very misunderstood. Please let them into your house, they will reform.
prex@aussie.zone 6 months ago
If you’re cold, they’re cold - let them in.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d expect this from Sky News Australia *\squints*
prex@aussie.zone 6 months ago
IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean it’s a known fact that WASPs rule the media.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Wasps are great.
TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
A stripper bastard? Haven’t heard that one. Gonna use it with me pirate persona for Halloween, thank ye
rarbg@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets
GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Wasps are coop as hell. Animals don’t exist for you convenience
cram42@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Swallowtail@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps–the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven’t been to in a while.
Poogona@hexbear.net 6 months ago
I get apprehensive around wasps too but it’s very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
I mean it is on Sky News.
And where are wasps at, remember?Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 months ago
"Harrrryyyyyy!’
Bogan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 6 months ago
[deleted]GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Why?
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Did you just paint that wasp in 20 minutes?
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I absolutely did not; it’s one of the first image search hits when searching for “wasp typing on a keyboard meme”
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Yes