• @[email protected]
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    126 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    98 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    88 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1310 hours ago

    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

  • @[email protected]
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    2115 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    314 hours ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      39 hours ago

      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

  • 🔍🦘🛎
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    341 day ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    261 day ago

    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.

  • ZephrC
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    522 days ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 day ago

    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.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      71 day ago

      that’ll learn 'em for having singers.

      Did we just nuke Hollywood?