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Beauty is on the inside (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My two most notable encounters with yellow jackets (here we call them European wasps or Vespula Germanica) went pretty much like this:

oh shit, there's a wasp buzzing around on my path. Act cool, don't show your fear, just move on and nothing will happen

Wasp: stings

You bitch, just go extinct already

[–] Bytemeister 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience, most wasps are okay.

Yellow jackets are straight up sadistic assholes however.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It really seems to make a difference what time of year it is. End of the summer they're just waiting to die and do not give a single fuck and will sting you for no reason sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had one fly in my mouth once

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

That's one of the worst nightmares I could come up with, if given the task...

How did it end?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I opened wide, held my breath and let her find her way out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that sounds like the wasps we have here in Germany. Bastards, all of them, zero redeeming qualities whatsoever.