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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • 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?

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      • 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”

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      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • 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!

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      • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.

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    • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How is knocking down their house not perceived as aggressive?

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      • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sometimes I forget to post the eviction notice in advance.

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    • 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.

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      • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        skill issue

        get better at wasps

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  • 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

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    • 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.

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      • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope. We have introduced bees and bumblebees as well and they’re fine.

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  • 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.

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    • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻

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      • Lennnny@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We vote.

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      • TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mosquitos are pollinators!

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  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • wolfshadowheart@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And bite. Lots of biting.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders

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  • 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.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I suppose you haven’t heard of tarantula hawks if you think wasps aren’t parasitic.

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  • 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

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fool me once, shame on you.

    Fool me twice… Can’t get fooled again.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They HAD their chance, and they used it to be assholes.

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  • 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.

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    • 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…

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  • Lussy@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just give wasp an entry level job bro, what’s the worst that could happen

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  • 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.

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re cold, they’re cold - let them in.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d expect this from Sky News Australia *\squints*

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.

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  • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean it’s a known fact that WASPs rule the media.

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  • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wasps are great.

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    • 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

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  • rarbg@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets

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  • GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wasps are coop as hell. Animals don’t exist for you convenience

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  • cram42@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Checks out. Wasps in Australia could do with some better PR.

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  • 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.

    xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

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  • 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

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean it is on Sky News.
    And where are wasps at, remember?

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    "Harrrryyyyyy!’

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  • Bogan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why?

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