Wasps aren't evil. They are important pollinators and they are literally just hanging out. I am sick and tired of the wasp hate.
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It's not my fault they're dicks. ๐ค
They are quite aggressive when there are no more flowers/nectar in the end of summer. They don't store "food" like bees do, they just have nothing so they want your bologna
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In the alley, the dragon in hand, he approached the blackened nest. It had broken open. Singed wasps wrenched and flipped on the asphalt.
He saw the thing the shell of gray paper had concealed. Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In his mind's eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection. Alien. He pulled the trigger, forgetting to press the ignition, and fuel hissed over the bulging, writhing life at his feet.
When he did hit the ignition, it exploded with a thump taking an eyebrow with it.
โNeuromancer, William Gibson
Just read this for the first time a few weeks ago, so good.
Ain't humans cute by projecting their morality on everything they lay their eyes on?
Nah, wasps are wretched
you better bee leave it
Someone is going to make a movie about this...
Bee Movie 2 gets really dark
Wasps are orcs. Bees are elves.
Termites are dwarfs?
gnomes
Rather ants
Ants evolved from stinging wasps, so if wasps are orcs, ants would be something that evolved from orcs. Uruk-Hai aren't really an evolution of orc, but they are an advanced breed, so maybe they can suffice?
Wasps are pretty chill unless you're being the asshole.
The main evil here are the humans who steal all the bees honey at a unfathomably larger scale than wasps.
If being an asshole includes sitting on your porch and enjoying life, sure.
I've got some wasps living in the railing of my balcony. They don't care that I'm sitting there at all...
Except some species target bee hives and kill all the fuzzballs to get to the honey.
This is actually my only problem with CERTAIN wasp species. Not all, mind you.
I wish I could build a menacing lair using only spit and wood pulp.
Drywall is pretty much the same, so yes, you can, and the typical US McMasion is pretty menacing in its environmental impact (and looks shit as well).
Have you tried?
Been playing Disco Elysium again and seeing this makes me wonder if a wasp, given ceramic armor and an automatic weapon, would destroy a bee hive all by itself or if the bees would fuck up that wasp.
The bees would still overcome the wasp, assuming it's a large hive. The wasp will have practical limitations on the amount of ammunition for the weapon (also the question of whether it can reload before getting swarmed) and the ceramic armour won't help against the bees massing together to form a ball of bees around the wasp and overheating it until it dies.
Edit: Apparently it depends on the type of bees as to whether they do the heat ball of death thing, so your mileage may vary.
I've seen a few wasps completely destroy some backyard hives. It wasn't pretty.
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