• @Viking_Hippie
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      More like accidental pollinators that could easily be replaced by doing a better job protecting bees.

      Should clarify, though: I specifically mean (anti)social wasps, the ones who build hives and go around harassing everyone. Solitary wasps are pretty chill afaik so they can stay.

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        What do you mean accidental? Do you think bees are purposely going and pollinating plants? The pollination happens as a side effect of bees gathering nectar, same as wasps

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          Nah, wasps probably just accidentally land in pollen on their way to ruining someone’s day on purpose 😛

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      And now they’ve pollinated my shoe with their guts.

      Seriously though, you’re right, but when a bee comes into my home I catch and release, when a wasp invades it’s search and destroy. While screaming terrified of course

      • @Madison420
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        21 year ago

        Just cup your hand and smack it out of the air, it’ll be stunned for a bit and you can grab a wing a huck it somewhere else. You get to slap a wasp and you’re not a random bug murderer.

      • b3nsn0w
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        i use chemical weapons against wasps because they don’t deserve the geneva convention. those anti-wasp sprays are the shit, you can blow them out of the sky with them

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I generally grab a cup or bowl and cover it if it’s a hornet, but most wasps won’t even sting me if I’m gentle while taking them outside, the vast majority of wasps are quite docile unless you bother their nests

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          Sounds like you’ve never seen a yellowjacket. Those things are super nasty by default, don’t even have to be anywhere near their nests.

        • @[email protected]
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          right, hear me out though.

          squish

          edit: some wasps are chill though to be fair. Mud wasps are doppy little guys who just kinda bop around. They get the cup

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      31 year ago

      wasps as in actual stinging wasps (like yellowjackets and hornets) or just their close relatives that are (mostly) harmless to humans?