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[–] joulethief@compuverse.uk 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Short answer: Fuck them

Long answer: Too bad they're important for our ecosystem. But still, fuck them

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I'd advice against that.

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great for a healthy ecosystem

but keep the hell away from them

[–] currawong@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They're cool af. Look at those colours! And the ergonomics.

I leave water bowls for them during summer.

They're not exactly friendly but when you observe them enough you can judge if you're annoying them and should gtfo. Most of the time they just mind their own business.

[–] toastus@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

That's pretty dope.

I just think many humans don't grasp the concept that we can also piss something else off and should gtfo out of their area.

Especially since we make more and more parts of this planet our areas.

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[–] neptune@dmv.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

White, Anglo Saxon protestants are fine. I usually try to associate with atheists, agnostics, or the generally unchurched, but you do you, right?

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Always good to have diversity after all, and WASPs are part of that diversity! (Wait until they learn that, they’ll lose their minds!)

[–] TALL421@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proof that god doesn't exist. Proof that if I'm wrong and god does exist, he's a fucking asshole not worthy of any worship.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yellowjackets are annoying, but I got a colony of 5-banded Wasps that conglomerate on my trees every late summer- hundreds of males just hanging out, showing off their sweet bods while the ladies fly by perusing selections for mating. They're chill AF and not a pain.

But I mean, there are over a hundred thousand wasp species, and Yellowjackets are what most people think of when you say "wasp", but as annoying as they are, don't let them color your opinions on the otherd

The world is better off without them.

[–] Lord_Logjam@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They are good, but get the fuck out of my face!

I hate them. I fucking hate them.

[–] AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu 6 points 1 year ago
[–] emptyother@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I would love them if they had a concept of personal space, or a survival instinct that told them not to get up in someone biggers face.

As I've aged, I've lost the ability to hear them too, so now they love to sneak up on me.

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like them! They've got a great style and they're perfectly chill when people aren't trying to swat them. I always let them land on my hand so I can look at them.

You can shoo them away from food a few times and they'll generally just go elsewhere.

[–] Downcount@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since I was stung three times out of nowhere, one time just by sitting around, not moving at all: Nope, the moment they try landing on me I freak out.

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Your approach is definitely a popular one, although I don't advise it.

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

If they get near me? Death to them.

Otherwise? Go enjoy that environment bro

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It depends on whether were talking about Wasps the insects or WASPs the acronym.

Either way not a fan, but I guess the insects are alright as long as they're not in my house.

[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

wasps > mosquitos

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago

I've got a bunch of red wasps around my house, and they're assholes. They're okay most of the time, unless you get too close. Every so often, though, they will be aggressive as hell, attacking you if you're within maybe 20 feet.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with them until they start building their home on my home. You will die a breathless death with my spray if you build on my house.

[–] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

fuck em all

[–] chippy@murffys-place.club 5 points 1 year ago

Wasps. Been around for a very long time. Important pollinator and pest control. So many different types of them all over from tiny ones to f-ing huge.

But why do you want to annoy me when I’m just trying to eat my picnic!! Just leave me alone!!! Fun fact bees are vegetarian wasps.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 1 year ago

I grew up in an area that had yellow jackets. Fuck those fuckers. Pure evil incarnate. They would land on my food while I'm trying to remove it from the barbecue. They would swarm me while cooking.

I later moved to an area that has huge and terrifying looking wasps, but they are pretty docile. I have caught my cat playing with one that got inside twice and neither time she got stung.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They get an unfairly bad rap because some of them have the audacity to threaten humans right back. They're actually damn important species for all kinds of ecosystem processes that support other species less offensive to our sanitised, idealised view of nature.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read that they are extremely near-sighted, which is why they like to inspect everything and everyone up close, giving the impression that they want to deliberately annoy you.

But deliberate or not, I still want to eat in peace.

Still though, fascinating creatures, I enjoy watching them as much as I enjoy watching any other insect bugger about.

Like the hornets who hunt them.

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[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

1st Worst: Mosquitoes
2nd Worst: Wasps
3rd Worst: Chiggers (that "red bug", technically a mite, like ticks)

Then all Australian wildlife approximatively

[–] Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

Hate most of the things, but some of them are cool. Mud daubers are friends

I tolerate them any time of day except when I’m sleeping.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of wasps are totally harmless to humans! we have this really cute red stripey kind that constantly flies in figure eights over the ground, trying to detect Japanese Beetle larva to eat, for which I am grateful. I like wasps in general.

[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Annoying stinging fuckers, but they do serve an important role aside from being annoying stinging fuckers.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Best enjoyed at a distance.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

They get drunk and try to sting me in the fall. Do not like.

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beautiful insects with some fascinating behaviour. Just don't disturb them and you are fine

[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See, the problem is that my definition of "don't disturb" and their definition are very, very different. I don't disturb them the same way I don't disturb bees: oh, look, it's a few feet away, I'll just stay over here and mind my own business!

Their definition is: "stay several hundred feet away from me, don't even look at me, if the air anywhere in my vicinity vibrates as an after effect of you breathing half a mile away I will hunt you the fuck down"

So, like, it's a fundamental incompatibility. They can't abide me existing, and I can't abide them being horrifically aggressive because I dared to exist. Unfortunately for them, I have the advantage of size and tools.

[–] Sightline@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

And so we went to war.

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[–] bestnerd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We talking hornets too? Fucking fuck the bald face shit heads.

[–] crowsby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rather rude to group them all together like that. If we're talking mud daubers or paper wasps, we're totally chill.

Ground-nesting yellowjackets get the boiling water and dish soap treatment in the dead of the night if they're in the yard. I've had too many cases of cleaning up yard debris and suddenly getting attacked by the little bastards to attempt peaceful coexistence.

[–] bloodninja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
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