• @Event_Horizon
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    32 hours 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
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      360 minutes 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…

  • CRUMBGRABBER
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    44 hours ago

    According to Lord Sauron, wasps are just trying to help, and are very misunderstood. Please let them into your house, they will reform.

  • @Bogan
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    13 hours ago

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  • The Assman
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    75 hours 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.

  • KingJalopy
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    187 hours 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
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      117 hours 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!

  • @kaffiene
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    147 hours 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

  • Lemminary
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    I’d expect this but from Sky News Australia *squints*

      • @[email protected]
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        269 hours ago

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

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            167 hours 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.

  • @SkyezOpen
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    87 hours ago

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

  • @mhague
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    1610 hours 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.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      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

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      117 hours ago

      We have yellow jackets, and they’re assholes. They’ll fly up and sting you for no reason, and then fly away laughing.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • Nightwatch Admin
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    710 hours ago

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

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      77 hours ago

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