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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Short answer: Fuck them

Long answer: Too bad they're important for our ecosystem. But still, fuck them

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'd advice against that.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

great for a healthy ecosystem

but keep the hell away from them

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They're cool af. Look at those colours! And the ergonomics.

I leave water bowls for them during summer.

They're not exactly friendly but when you observe them enough you can judge if you're annoying them and should gtfo. Most of the time they just mind their own business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's pretty dope.

I just think many humans don't grasp the concept that we can also piss something else off and should gtfo out of their area.

Especially since we make more and more parts of this planet our areas.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

White, Anglo Saxon protestants are fine. I usually try to associate with atheists, agnostics, or the generally unchurched, but you do you, right?

[–] TheRealKuni 5 points 1 year ago

Always good to have diversity after all, and WASPs are part of that diversity! (Wait until they learn that, they’ll lose their minds!)

[–] kat_angstrom 9 points 1 year ago

Yellowjackets are annoying, but I got a colony of 5-banded Wasps that conglomerate on my trees every late summer- hundreds of males just hanging out, showing off their sweet bods while the ladies fly by perusing selections for mating. They're chill AF and not a pain.

But I mean, there are over a hundred thousand wasp species, and Yellowjackets are what most people think of when you say "wasp", but as annoying as they are, don't let them color your opinions on the otherd

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 7 points 1 year ago

The world is better off without them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hate them. I fucking hate them.

[–] Lord_Logjam 7 points 1 year ago

They are good, but get the fuck out of my face!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't much care for them. They build their nests on my home, and they sting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I would love them if they had a concept of personal space, or a survival instinct that told them not to get up in someone biggers face.

As I've aged, I've lost the ability to hear them too, so now they love to sneak up on me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like them! They've got a great style and they're perfectly chill when people aren't trying to swat them. I always let them land on my hand so I can look at them.

You can shoo them away from food a few times and they'll generally just go elsewhere.

[–] Downcount 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since I was stung three times out of nowhere, one time just by sitting around, not moving at all: Nope, the moment they try landing on me I freak out.

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

Your approach is definitely a popular one, although I don't advise it.

[–] Downcount 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn't call freaking out an approach unless you answered the wrong OP

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It depends on whether were talking about Wasps the insects or WASPs the acronym.

Either way not a fan, but I guess the insects are alright as long as they're not in my house.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If they get near me? Death to them.

Otherwise? Go enjoy that environment bro

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've got a bunch of red wasps around my house, and they're assholes. They're okay most of the time, unless you get too close. Every so often, though, they will be aggressive as hell, attacking you if you're within maybe 20 feet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

wasps > mosquitos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wasps. Been around for a very long time. Important pollinator and pest control. So many different types of them all over from tiny ones to f-ing huge.

But why do you want to annoy me when I’m just trying to eat my picnic!! Just leave me alone!!! Fun fact bees are vegetarian wasps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

fuck em all

[–] netburnr 5 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with them until they start building their home on my home. You will die a breathless death with my spray if you build on my house.

[–] Byereddithellolemmy 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

1st Worst: Mosquitoes
2nd Worst: Wasps
3rd Worst: Chiggers (that "red bug", technically a mite, like ticks)

Then all Australian wildlife approximatively

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I grew up in an area that had yellow jackets. Fuck those fuckers. Pure evil incarnate. They would land on my food while I'm trying to remove it from the barbecue. They would swarm me while cooking.

I later moved to an area that has huge and terrifying looking wasps, but they are pretty docile. I have caught my cat playing with one that got inside twice and neither time she got stung.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They get an unfairly bad rap because some of them have the audacity to threaten humans right back. They're actually damn important species for all kinds of ecosystem processes that support other species less offensive to our sanitised, idealised view of nature.

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[–] bestnerd 3 points 1 year ago

We talking hornets too? Fucking fuck the bald face shit heads.

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

I tolerate them any time of day except when I’m sleeping.

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

Hate most of the things, but some of them are cool. Mud daubers are friends

[–] zxqwas 3 points 1 year ago

Best enjoyed at a distance.

[–] zerbey 3 points 1 year ago

Annoying stinging fuckers, but they do serve an important role aside from being annoying stinging fuckers.

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

A lot of wasps are totally harmless to humans! we have this really cute red stripey kind that constantly flies in figure eights over the ground, trying to detect Japanese Beetle larva to eat, for which I am grateful. I like wasps in general.

[–] PurpleSheeple 2 points 1 year ago

I son’t like them very much. However, what I do like is that the wasps of 1 nest eat about 500.000 flies and 130.000 mosquitos per week. So as long as they don’t nest in my roof or too close to my house and don’t bother me during eating I’m ok with them.

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

hate those little fuckers

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

There are thousands of species, and almost all are either critical pollinators or predators on other insects, including mosquitoes and other flies. Only a few species are known to sting people when threatened, but they're some of the biggest and most visible wasps, so they're what people think about

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

Outside: we cool Inside: good god no!

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

They get drunk and try to sting me in the fall. Do not like.

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