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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know wasps are good and all, but I will flip a table, literally, to get that fucker away from me, if not killed.

[–] TotallynotJessica 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not the ones that mind control spiders. Spiders are my friends :(

In fact, spiders and I are so tight, we even hunted down an invading wasp together ❤

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wasps aren't good they're useless and ontologically evil and deserve nothing but death

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on the wasp, "wasp" includes so many species you might as well say "mammals aren't good they're useless and ontologically evil and deserve nothing but death" except there's like 20x more species of wasp. Only a few wasp species sting, and those can go fuck themselves, but the rest are pretty cool pollinators or parasites of other insects (some of those insects harmful to humans, even). There's a species of wasp that's so small it's 186 μm long on average (smaller than many amoebae), a few of them fit into and parasitize insect eggs, and during development remove the nuclei from their neurons so their brains can fit. They're pretty cool tbh.