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[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 89 points 6 days ago
[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 6 days ago

Did you just paint that wasp in 20 minutes?

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 53 points 6 days ago

I absolutely did not; it's one of the first image search hits when searching for "wasp typing on a keyboard meme"

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 days ago

So you stole it? How dare you! You wouldn't kidnap a child!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago

Of course not! Children are annoying and expensive, not to mention the fact that they bring all sorts of bacteria and viruses home from school.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 days ago

Exactly, what the heck would I do with one? Can't be very good eatin' either

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 41 points 6 days 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.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days 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 15 points 5 days ago

Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

How is knocking down their house not perceived as aggressive?

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago

Sometimes I forget to post the eviction notice in advance.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days 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 1 points 4 days ago

skill issue

get better at wasps

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

if sky news says they're beneficial they're probably trying to fuck you out of your retirement plan or something

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days 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 23 points 5 days ago

What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago
[-] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Mosquitos are pollinators!

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[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days 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 1 points 4 days 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 1 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago

Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days 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 17 points 6 days 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 5 points 5 days ago

And bite. Lots of biting.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The other day I 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 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybion_californicum

Hell, many solitary vespids will fuck up other non-solitary wasps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp#Solitary_wasps

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 6 days ago

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice... Can't get fooled again.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

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

[-] cram42@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Meanwhile, the wasp in my house...

[-] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days 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.

https://xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 points 6 days ago

Wasps are actually pretty useful in nature, in contrast to the parasitic life form knows as homo sapiens.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

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

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days 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 12 points 5 days 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....

[-] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They're all vicious assholes that get irritated by the most mundane things so I'm gonna expect them to sting me and they have for no reason that I could tell... Also these look like yellow jackets, which are particularly annoying but not as annoying as the 4 species of hornets battling for territory around my old house. I think bumblebees are cute though they will boop you and not try to kill you.

[-] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days 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 9 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'd expect this but from Sky News Australia *squints*

[-] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago

IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

"Harrrryyyyyy!'

[-] rarbg@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

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

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

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

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