• Swallowtail@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps–the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven’t been to in a while.

    https://xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    if sky news says they’re beneficial they’re probably trying to fuck you out of your retirement plan or something

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    3 days 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.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Last time I got stung by a wasp I was just standing on the street. Not a nest to be seen anywhere.

      It came out of nowhere, stung me and got away. I stood there for a couple of hours after that and it never came back, not other wasp. So surely it didn’t care I was there, it just wanted to fuck with me for no reason.

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      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!

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    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.

  • kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    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

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      2 days ago

      Sure, but you could say the exact same thing about bees. The point of the article is that most people see ‘wasps’ as being all bad, without the nuance that is afforded to bees.

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    3 days ago

    This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…

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    They’re all vicious assholes that get irritated by the most mundane things so I’m gonna expect them to sting me and they have for no reason that I could tell… Also these look like yellow jackets, which are particularly annoying but not as annoying as the 4 species of hornets battling for territory around my old house. I think bumblebees are cute though they will boop you and not try to kill you.

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    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.