Despite their bad reputation and tendency to disrupt picnics, wasps are an important part of our ecosystem.

During this time of year, it can seem like most outdoor activities are plagued by the flying insects… but they appear to have lacked their usual numbers in 2024.

Colder and wetter weather and climate change have had a global impact on the invertebrates.

  • @LordKitsuna
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    336 months ago

    They specialized in to not being little fucking assholes so I’m okay with them

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      honestly it’s more like yellowjackets specialized in being assholes, most wasps don’t interact with us at all and just lay eggs in spiders or some shit.

      • @NegativeInf
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        36 months ago

        Parasitoid wasps and mud daubers are dope little homies with coevolved viral injectors.

    • @HappycamperNZ
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      46 months ago

      Yeah, give me a pile of fluffy cubes with wings over the angry stingy fuckers any day.