To them you are a giant who can easily kill them
And I relish in proving them right. Fuck wasps and fuck your wasp propaganda.
I've given bees snacks when they're tuckered out on a hot day. I've let them rest on me. But with wasps and hornets it's on sight.
This is just what they want you to believe
I've been stung about half a dozen times by wasps so far this year. They're beginning to piss me off.
And as an adult, my sister stepped on a hornets nest and damn near ended up dead. 150 stings had her in ICU for 4 days.
I had a yellow jacket fly out of the blue then land on my heel and sting me for absolutely no reason! There wasn't even a nest nearby!
Then a week later another yellow jacket landed on my arm and stung me right under my watch band
Pretty rude if you ask me
You know what you did.
Well maybe it would be easier to "Give them some Space" if their pupae didn't completely cut off all their food processing in the fall leading to rampant aggression as they seek out sugary and fermented smells such as beer, fruits, and candy.
Once I was spraying a hive of hornets. One of them collapses outside of the next and another flew grabbed him and pulled him back into the nest. Fucking broke my heart.
If wasps realize that I am a giant who can easily kill them, why are they so incessant on invading my personal space?
I's like going to a kickboxing tournament as an untrained person and flipping off every kickboxer within kickboxing range, then slapping them when they tell you to fuck off.
This.
"Ah, behold! A gargantuan dwelling of the giants! We'll just put our giant clumpy mud hive right up here until we reproduce infinitely unchecked, and then perceive them as a threat for daring to venture outside! Peace an' love y'all."
"Ah hah! Look at this patch of grass! The giants stomp around here regularly. We shall burrow and hide beneath it, reacting with furious hellfire should we be tread on!"
"Avast, ye, mammal! You are within like a kilometer of my turf! Your life is hereby forfeit!"
--Various kinds of wasps, probably.
I'm all for letting things be(e), but I get pretty pissed when creatures have the audacity to attach to or otherwise colonize your dwelling and then get mad and violent that it's your dwelling.
I hope somebody can help me with this: could a bee theoretically evolve to have a stronger stinger so that stinging a human's skin multiple times would be possible?
If bees would evolve like other animals those who survive stinging humans would produce more offspring, but in this case only the queen produces offspring and the queen probably contact with human skin so this trait wouldn't be favoured by evolution. Or am I looking at this wrong?
Huh, this post has 2 examples of bees that can do that already.
You also need to consider the overall health of the colony, since if the colony dies/gets outcompeted by other colonies, so will the queen
Thanks, that is a factor I hadn't thought of
Sure, but wasps made a nest right by our front door, and have the audacity to sting me when I simply walked outside. Maybe not assholes on purpose, but they deserved what they got.
but they deserved what they got.
The Ellen Ripley special?
are you under the impression wasps understand the concept of front doors?
I'm under the impression that wasps know what being an asshole means because they're very good at it.
Nope. Don't care. I'm a scientific realist. 99.999% of the time I educate myself on matters such as these if I am misinformed, and change my stance promptly based on new information.
But not in this case.
Fuck this meme, fuck this info, and fuck wasps.
At least educate youtself on the bee part, it's really interesting!
Yeah, they are, just really hate wasps and this was sort of a joke comment. Except for the hating wasps part. did I mention that?
in what sense are you a realist
Guy in active denial: "I'm a realist"
They really exist
🙄 troll on
Okay, but bumblebees are the best though. Even fluffier than honey bees, and they almost never sting humans.
Sadly they're also one of the types of bee that's losing out in their native habitats to human supported honey bees.
wasp propaganda
I have learned thru my years of gardening that wasps and hornets are a good thing to have around, not just bees. Not only do they help pollinate flowers, they are predators to some of the most annoying garden pests. I think I've counted at least 7 different wasp species in my garden this summer, they've done a great job keeping the larger pest populations manageable.
There we go, that'll learn 'em for having singers. Now to enjoy some peace.
The wasp stings me to protect its family, I kill the wasp to protect mine. Glad it's me who's the giant.
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