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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

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

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

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

The world is better off without them.

[–] PreciousDeclaration@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago

I don't much care for them. They build their nests on my home, and they sting.

[–] SiyahGuraag@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I hate them. I fucking hate them.

[–] 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.

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

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

fuck em all

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

wasps > mosquitos

[–] 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) (2 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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of them also have larvae that are genetically programmed to eat their hosts’ vital organs last, to ensure the food source doesn’t rot.

It’s not precisely evil, but it’s close. It’s a deliberate, if not conscious, move by evolution to use consciousness as a meat preservative.

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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

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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

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

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

Best enjoyed at a distance.

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

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

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

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

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago

I have no quarrel with them.

[–] 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
[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

hate those little fuckers

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The species I'm familiar with, Polistes dominula, is cool: they hang out around noon looking for water sometimes, I splash some and they oblige. Sometimes they hang out where I'm doing stuff and they're calm and move if I gently shove them. They complain a bit when I trim leaves where they happen to be chilling, but fly away. Never stung. They are surprisingly polite and aware of you, plus they eat some pests and polinate stuff. Some other species are assholes, though :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_paper_wasp

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

In general, even the most gangster animals don’t want to fight. Peace is enjoyable to every creature.

I’ve had no trouble with stinging insects since I started viewing them as tiny strangers I was just passing on the street. Move predictably, don’t focus my eyes at them too long.

Hell, I bet bugs even learn to read animal facial expressions, just like we can see whether they’re on guard or feeling safe from their movements. A bug can see when an animal’s thinking about eating or killing it.

Incidentally imagine how terrifying an anteater must be, from the perspective of the ant. Imagine a creature towering between the buildings with a long sticky tongue seeking around, sticking as many people as possible to it, then suddenly slurping them up into the sky.

That’s pure horror.

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