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[–] joulethief@compuverse.uk 49 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 20 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 8 points 2 years 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

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The world is better off without them.

[–] SiyahGuraag@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

I hate them. I fucking hate them.

[–] Lord_Logjam@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

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

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 6 points 2 years 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 2 years ago
[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

wasps > mosquitos

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

If they get near me? Death to them.

Otherwise? Go enjoy that environment bro

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

fuck em all

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Downcount@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wouldn't call freaking out an approach unless you answered the wrong OP

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[–] s20@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

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

Then all Australian wildlife approximatively

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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[–] Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Best enjoyed at a distance.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

And so we went to war.

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[–] bloodninja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago
[–] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

There are thousands of species, and almost all are either critical pollinators or predators on other insects, including mosquitoes and other flies. Only a few species are known to sting people when threatened, but they're some of the biggest and most visible wasps, so they're what people think about

[–] gatelike@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I removed a small nest from my door frame a few months ago and one larva fell out. It landed on the hot concrete in the summer sun. I empathized and picked it up. I kept it in a jar with a paper towel under a lamp. I checked on it everyday and I thought that someday I'd set it free in my yard. I even daydreamed that it would immediately sting me when I let it go and that just made me laugh a bit. It eventually died and I put it on my bird feeder. I didn't watch and ai felt sad but it's gone now.

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[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago

I have no quarrel with them.

Outside: we cool Inside: good god no!

[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
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