wasp propaganda
The bottom picture doesn’t make the top picture any less true.
The wasp stings me to protect its family, I kill the wasp to protect mine. Glad it’s me who’s the giant.
That was the one that made me realize I’d outgrown the series. Dunno if old RL was really phoning that one in or what, but one of his chapter cliffhangers ended with “and the dragonfly bit me in half!” Then the next chapter started with “But it was just my imagination.”
Truly. Everyone knows that once a dragonfly sets its sights on you, your chances of survival are nil. Gary stood no chance.
Common wasp and germanicus vespula (european wasp) are both considered pest. Both dont pollinate. And both kill and destroy other friendly species when they do not harass you to steal your food. Same for asiatic and common hornet.
All other wasp and hornet like the blue hornet are friendly and help the ecosystem. But you will rarely encounter them cause they let you the fuck alone and mind their own business…
They ARE in fact both pollinators! I get the wasp hate, but they are rather misunderstood, that’s what the meme is about! Depending on the region you live in, learn which wasp and bee species are invasive in your area and support the native ones (including the common wasp and germanicus vespula).
I try to give paper wasps a pass if I randomly see them, but if they come inside or start a nest in outdoor equipment, they’re gone. They only get consideration because they’re pollinators and generally not aggressive, but they still will attack so my patience is thin.
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.
Carpenter bees
Carpenter bees are also cool. Not as fluffy as bumblebees though.
Shiny hiney
Ok fair but of the choices to have buzzing near me, I’m still picking the bee every time.
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.
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.
but they deserved what they got.
The Ellen Ripley special?
Bees will warn you if you get too close, and if they run into you will fly off on their own or otherwise avoid you.
I used to work near a mall with a fountain where one edge of it would always have water splashing up. Place near there had honeybees. In the dry summers there would always be bees chilling out and enjoying the cold fountain water on the ledge, usually next to human workers also on lunch.
Wasps intentionally get in your face and will sting you because you had the gall to exist in their flight path.
The wasps local to me will literally chase people, it’s nuts. You can practically hear them saying “Come at be bro! Wait come back here I wasn’t finished with you”. I can’t even have picnics certain times of the year because of them, because instead of just making a run for the food like other bugs they like to chase you away first. I once had to finish my little caesars in the car because a wasp was trying to get between me and my pie in the park. I was literally watching the fucker throw it’s body into my windshield repeatedly as I continued eating in safety, and it didn’t stop until I drove away. Psychotic man. I don’t mess with wasps. Our bees are awesome though.
Really depends on the type of wasp. Most of the ones local to me seem chill if stupid. They’ll smack right into you or get in your hair and as long as you don’t swat at them, they’ll eventually fly away.
bees are like stoner dudes, they might bump into you and ask if they can have that sandwich you’re holding, but you can just politely decline and they’ll go “alright, cool” and keep going along.
hornets are like unruly children with a sewing needle, they have no remorse and will stab you in the shins in hopes that you drop the sandwich.
Not sure how aggressive the wasps are in the US, but for Europe this isn’t really true. We have a nest of European wasps (similar to yellowjackets) in our garden and they really couldn’t care less about us humans. I can stand in their flight path and they just fly around me. But I’m also not as easily panicked as other people so that certainly helps…
Canada.
Mud wasps are big but chill. The regular wasps are super aggressive. If they smell anything on you even just remnants of a meal that interests them, good luck. Hornets arent common but unless you deliberately mess with their nests they’ll leave you alone.
The parasitic wasps are mean looking but like the spiders they are mostly hunting, we’re just in the way and something to avoid.Well, I was indeed talking about the “regular wasps”. We’ve had dinner in garden etc, but they usually left us alone although their nest is in about 5 m distance. I guess the reason is that there are other food sources for them around due to a diverse vegetation.
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.
in what sense are you a realist
Guy in active denial: “I’m a realist”
They really exist
the reality that hornets are miserable dickwads who exist to torture humans specifically.
🙄 troll on
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?
Waspaganda!
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.
jumping spiders are the invertebrates who know you’re effectively a god compared to them, they’ll just stand still and try not to be noticed, and if you start very obviously studying it they tend to realize there’s not much more they can do and they just study you back.
There are different kinds of wasps. Where I live, out of the many many kinds, only two are annoying in that they are aggressive and try to get your food. All others are chill and will leave you alone if you leave them alone. We had a nest outside our house one year. Often times, our paths would cross. A wasp would collide with us, just sit there in the air for a second, then fly around us. No time to chat, gotta get food for the hive. Also: bees and bumblebees will just take the day off if the weather is shitty. Wasps? MUST GET MORE FOOD. Hailstorm? Tornado? Lightning strikes five yards away? No excuse.
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.
can sting more than once
They have barbed stingers. Their stinger rips the bottom part of their abdomen off when they try to retract it. They don’t live through that.
Do you know why that would be a positive evolutionary trait? Clearly, if they try to retract it, at some point in the history they must have been able to do so.
Because bee stingers are mostly used against other insects. They don’t get stuck in a chitin exoskeleton, only in the more flexible skin tissue of mammals. In insects the barbs instead pull out soft tissue from inside, thus making them more lethal (to the bees victim).
It makes it more dangerous : the sting is attach to the venom bag, so the venom bag gets to empty itself whole if it stays. Evolution would have chosen the survival of the hive, not the survival of the bee.
One thing is weird though : you can extract the sting of a wasp with a pincer. The wasp will live through it. Why do the bee dies when it loses it’s sting and not the wasp?
Bee genetics are wild and helped develop a system where it doesn’t matter that the workers have tendencies to off themselves.
The worker bees do not reproduce, so their survival after stinging is not that important.
That doesn’t even make any sense if you stop and think about it at all. Sure, a single worker bee dying isn’t a huge deal, but they all do that. It would definitely be better for the hive and the queen if they didn’t rip their own guts out.
but worker bees generally don’t have to sting anything, the amount of them that do have to do so is low enough that it’s not a big issue, and they have probably gotten work done before dying anyways.
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.
