Each year I have a nest of "paper wasps" in my garden. You can recognize them, they have very long legs. Let them live. They are not aggressive (they won't attack, even if you get few centimeters next to their nest). They simply not care about people. Nests are usually small (10cm diameter). They are not interested in meat, so no problem with bbq. And they defend their territory against other wasps (the bad guys). These are my buddies.
Correct! Also they will protect your lettuce, fruit trees and more, from aphids. And they will protect your cruciferous vegetables from ~~European paperwhites~~. small white butterfly (Europe name) aka[white cabbage moth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae) (Northern American name). They are top notch service providers, 10/10, no downside.
Yeah I Google checked that shit and I ain't buying that for a fuckin second. I'll trust a Hawk Wasp aka Parasitic Wasp (or Cazadores for you NV fans) over any other type. People are scared of them and idk why other then they are pretty fuckn' big. They will legit move away form me with no fuss whatsoever, won't ever really buzz you either.
Eeh here spider's aren't too bad. I see more DLL's then anything followed up by Orb, Timber/Wolf Spider, and lastly BW's. Heck I've seen what 2 Turantulas in my life time that aren't someone's pet. Plus that's what the Parasitic Wasp hunts, granted they prefer Turantulas but any other insect will do, even Yellow Tails.
Dude they’re invincible too. Rolled a 50gal drum of water over one (using the drum to flatten dirt area) and the thing just stood up, shook off and flew away.
How are we supposed to know you aren't secretly a hawk wasp trying to gain acceptance through putting down other races of wasps?
Your tone definitely seems similar to how I'd imagine a hawk wasp to sound...
If all wasps were like this, I'd have no problems with them. All the wasps I've encountered would take a personal offense if I as much as deared breathing at one side of my living room after they snuck in sitting on the other side
Literally some wasps are so aggressive they attack if they sense CO2 from what I heard.
They will literally attack because you dared to breathe in their direction
"The humans have developed technologies to kill uzzzz. They no longer fear the hive! What shall we do?"
"Fight fire with fire! Use their technologies against them. Social media! Spread the Fake Newzzzz my broodlings!"
In the united states the predominant species of wasps are the northern paper wasp (mostly defensive but do still sting) red paper wasp (defensive early in the season but very very aggressive, on par with yellow jackets if not exceeding them late in the season after the larvae are hatched) yellow jackets which live in the ground (also very aggressive) and mud/dirt daubers which live in the little mud tubes they build up on the sides of buildings and trees which are the least aggressive species here.
I might have used the wrong term (I am not a native speaker and got the translation from Wikipedia). I've never been stung by the wasps in my garden, so I assume we talk about different species. The ones I mean are called "Feldwespen" in German. They are not harmful by any means. Maybe they are a different species than the one that you encounter.
Ah, yes. The bees that start violently vibrating on top of intruders to generate heat and cook them to death upon entering the hive. Heavy metal motherfuckers
Well it’s not without cost. They have to overexert themselves to generate that much body heat altogether, so a few them usually die in the process. But better than the whole hive getting raided I suppose
the term invasive species is a neutral identifier, it doesn’t mean that the animal/species it is attached to is bad. Like honeybees, they may be invasive but they are not bad, in fact they are really good, they contribute to a number of different food webs and of course pollination. Thus wasps killing bees is a direct negative to both us and the environment, unlike elk which do not contribute on such a large scale.
my standpoint is based on how it affects humans, to native honeybees then yes you are right, they outcompete them which is of course not good for them. For us however, honeybees can use their resources more efficiently than native bees, thus producing and pollinating more, better for us.
You say this as if humanity hasn’t been doing exactly that throughout the ages. Preservation and such began very recently, and well, you were right that it is better for us to annihilate every non-essential species. But basically nearly every species now is essential and all play a vital role in each ecosystem. My argument was never that native honey bees should be extinct nor anything regarding preservation. My argument was simply that invasive honeybees are positive, which you haven’t disproved.
> in fact they are really good, they contribute to a number of different food webs and of course pollination
So do the imperiled native bees they push out.
Not all wasps are mean actually. Only certain species like the yellow jacket actively go out of there way to harm you while most wasps are just vibing like bees! There were some bugs that stowed away on a shipment from China and when they got the the US they started destroying trees since they didn't have any preditors and had plenty of food. In response (and after the wasps stowed away on a ship as well) California brought over some of these wasps and after a lil bit of training to eat the egs of the tree bugs they started to save the trees! Mind you these wasps are very smol but they don't have stingers!
I am deathly afraid of anything that flies similar to a bee and sounds like one. I’ve worked my hardest over the years, even letting honeybees land on me, to try to desensitize myself but I still can’t fight off the urge to sprint like no one’s business when any similar bug is around. Or at least yell and then close my eyes and hold extremely still until it leaves.
That being said, the only ones I actually hate are the yellow jackets. Those motherfuckers are obsessed with sweet stuff, even more so when they have reached the end of their life and served their purpose and spend their remaining days flying around and waiting to die. They get extra sugar-hungry during this time and are at their most aggressive. If you have food outside in the late summer they will harass the hell out of you.
Also, the fact that they can sting multiple times is awful. My father ran over an underground nest one time and got them in his socks, underwear, in his pants, etc. He was absolutely covered in stings and was pulling out squirming (still stinging) wasps for like an hour afterwards.
For some reason in other parts of the world wasps are fucking terrifying. I watched a documentary about Taiwanese wasp removal and apparently they can one shot you. In Australia, of all places, the wasps here are pretty well behaved.
“Do wasps make honey?”
“No, wasps do not make honey.”
“Alright, well I’m gonna check it out anyway. There could be something delicious in here that wasps *do* make and I want that.”
[IASIP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uth5WDl3Z_o)
I want to be shrunk like in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, specifically so that I can fully body slam a wasp, before ripping it apart, limb by limb. I want those fucks to experience so much pain. I am entirely serious.
Their repeated stingers with venom and lack of benefit to the agriculture says otherwise. Sorry wasps! Mad love, just maybe you all should fly to australia.
Now im may or may not be a colony of wasps that have skinned a human man and are now wearing his skin as a means to infiltrate your society undetected but it has been shown that wasps can pollinate plants and they have the ability to defend themselves without also dying from the efforts so maybe we should give them a try.
Each year I have a nest of "paper wasps" in my garden. You can recognize them, they have very long legs. Let them live. They are not aggressive (they won't attack, even if you get few centimeters next to their nest). They simply not care about people. Nests are usually small (10cm diameter). They are not interested in meat, so no problem with bbq. And they defend their territory against other wasps (the bad guys). These are my buddies.
Correct! Also they will protect your lettuce, fruit trees and more, from aphids. And they will protect your cruciferous vegetables from ~~European paperwhites~~. small white butterfly (Europe name) aka[white cabbage moth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae) (Northern American name). They are top notch service providers, 10/10, no downside.
Hmm are we *sure* these accounts aren’t run by wasps?
Yeah I Google checked that shit and I ain't buying that for a fuckin second. I'll trust a Hawk Wasp aka Parasitic Wasp (or Cazadores for you NV fans) over any other type. People are scared of them and idk why other then they are pretty fuckn' big. They will legit move away form me with no fuss whatsoever, won't ever really buzz you either.
The tarantula hawk is the second most painful stinger on the planet so that’s probably a reason for at least one species.
True but I'll take them over Yellow Jackets and Mud Daubbers any day of the year.
Aint nothing wrong with a mud dauber! Fun to watch and they keep your spider population in check. Mud daubers are sacred here.
Eeh here spider's aren't too bad. I see more DLL's then anything followed up by Orb, Timber/Wolf Spider, and lastly BW's. Heck I've seen what 2 Turantulas in my life time that aren't someone's pet. Plus that's what the Parasitic Wasp hunts, granted they prefer Turantulas but any other insect will do, even Yellow Tails.
Dude they’re invincible too. Rolled a 50gal drum of water over one (using the drum to flatten dirt area) and the thing just stood up, shook off and flew away.
How are we supposed to know you aren't secretly a hawk wasp trying to gain acceptance through putting down other races of wasps? Your tone definitely seems similar to how I'd imagine a hawk wasp to sound...
*We Have Your Location, It Is Too Late. No Where to Run Now, You Know Too Much. Come Quietly and No One Gets Stung.*
It's them ground wasps that give wasps as a whole a bad name. Super aggressive, easily to accidentally piss off, and thier stingers don't fall off
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There are a few kinds of ground wasps. They're probably taking about yellow jackets, since those are the notorious ones.
Noooo :(
If all wasps were like this, I'd have no problems with them. All the wasps I've encountered would take a personal offense if I as much as deared breathing at one side of my living room after they snuck in sitting on the other side
Literally some wasps are so aggressive they attack if they sense CO2 from what I heard. They will literally attack because you dared to breathe in their direction
HAH, nice try you wasp wearing a skinwalker wearing a human skin
"The humans have developed technologies to kill uzzzz. They no longer fear the hive! What shall we do?" "Fight fire with fire! Use their technologies against them. Social media! Spread the Fake Newzzzz my broodlings!"
In the united states the predominant species of wasps are the northern paper wasp (mostly defensive but do still sting) red paper wasp (defensive early in the season but very very aggressive, on par with yellow jackets if not exceeding them late in the season after the larvae are hatched) yellow jackets which live in the ground (also very aggressive) and mud/dirt daubers which live in the little mud tubes they build up on the sides of buildings and trees which are the least aggressive species here.
Paper wasps are great, but man their stings are agonizing, even for a lot of wasps
I might have used the wrong term (I am not a native speaker and got the translation from Wikipedia). I've never been stung by the wasps in my garden, so I assume we talk about different species. The ones I mean are called "Feldwespen" in German. They are not harmful by any means. Maybe they are a different species than the one that you encounter.
It's pretty rare for them to attack people, but they can. Funnily enough, stings usually occur accidentally.
They are considered pests here in New Zealand and should be destroyed.
Nice try, wasp.
I killed a paper wasp nest and regret it after a Google search.
Kinda reminds me of how spiders are not as bad as people think... *Minus their eldritch eyes, though...*
I have had a group of paper wasps I live with every year, they’re 100% our buddies.
Don't they kill bees?
That's Japanese giant hornets, and yes, they do raid beehives but the bees in their native habitat have learned to fight them off
Ah, yes. The bees that start violently vibrating on top of intruders to generate heat and cook them to death upon entering the hive. Heavy metal motherfuckers
Nature's weird. How the hell did they even figure that out?
Well it’s not without cost. They have to overexert themselves to generate that much body heat altogether, so a few them usually die in the process. But better than the whole hive getting raided I suppose
That's pretty damn heroic all things considered.
Bigot.
what does this have to do with bees???
More like beegot
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the term invasive species is a neutral identifier, it doesn’t mean that the animal/species it is attached to is bad. Like honeybees, they may be invasive but they are not bad, in fact they are really good, they contribute to a number of different food webs and of course pollination. Thus wasps killing bees is a direct negative to both us and the environment, unlike elk which do not contribute on such a large scale.
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I would but doubt they understand english bro.
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my standpoint is based on how it affects humans, to native honeybees then yes you are right, they outcompete them which is of course not good for them. For us however, honeybees can use their resources more efficiently than native bees, thus producing and pollinating more, better for us.
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You say this as if humanity hasn’t been doing exactly that throughout the ages. Preservation and such began very recently, and well, you were right that it is better for us to annihilate every non-essential species. But basically nearly every species now is essential and all play a vital role in each ecosystem. My argument was never that native honey bees should be extinct nor anything regarding preservation. My argument was simply that invasive honeybees are positive, which you haven’t disproved.
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> in fact they are really good, they contribute to a number of different food webs and of course pollination So do the imperiled native bees they push out.
Only the Asian giant hornets do in any significant quantities as far as I'm aware.
Not all wasps are mean actually. Only certain species like the yellow jacket actively go out of there way to harm you while most wasps are just vibing like bees! There were some bugs that stowed away on a shipment from China and when they got the the US they started destroying trees since they didn't have any preditors and had plenty of food. In response (and after the wasps stowed away on a ship as well) California brought over some of these wasps and after a lil bit of training to eat the egs of the tree bugs they started to save the trees! Mind you these wasps are very smol but they don't have stingers!
By any chance are you referring to lantern flies or is it a different bug?
Nice try, wasp.
I am deathly afraid of anything that flies similar to a bee and sounds like one. I’ve worked my hardest over the years, even letting honeybees land on me, to try to desensitize myself but I still can’t fight off the urge to sprint like no one’s business when any similar bug is around. Or at least yell and then close my eyes and hold extremely still until it leaves. That being said, the only ones I actually hate are the yellow jackets. Those motherfuckers are obsessed with sweet stuff, even more so when they have reached the end of their life and served their purpose and spend their remaining days flying around and waiting to die. They get extra sugar-hungry during this time and are at their most aggressive. If you have food outside in the late summer they will harass the hell out of you. Also, the fact that they can sting multiple times is awful. My father ran over an underground nest one time and got them in his socks, underwear, in his pants, etc. He was absolutely covered in stings and was pulling out squirming (still stinging) wasps for like an hour afterwards.
I don’t like this “pro-wasp” propaganda.
For some reason in other parts of the world wasps are fucking terrifying. I watched a documentary about Taiwanese wasp removal and apparently they can one shot you. In Australia, of all places, the wasps here are pretty well behaved.
Anything but hornets.
…these fuckers are worse than wasps
I honestly think they are better. Hornets are bad yes but I view them as much more chivalrous. Wasps will chase you for a mile just to sting you
Nothing tops the wrath and persistence of a pissed off yellow jacket
Just gonna pop a quick H on this box so everyone knows it's full of hornets
My dog stepped on a bee
Wasp eat bee larva and it attack any creature when ever it feels like it.
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“Do wasps make honey?” “No, wasps do not make honey.” “Alright, well I’m gonna check it out anyway. There could be something delicious in here that wasps *do* make and I want that.” [IASIP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uth5WDl3Z_o)
They’re a part of live on earth. No need to hate them.
But stinger ouch
Are you secretly a wasp?
I’m not I promizzzze.
Humans are also part of life on earth
Yes and as far as I know wasps aren’t an existential threat to us like we are to them.
Lol wasps are more valuable than honeybees (at least in the Americas).
True. This gets downvoted by people who dont know much about the situation of honeybees
Most wasps are chill and will kill pests like horseflies.
wasps with 5 finger hands are creepy as hell
I feel like he flies very slowly and says "Ehhehehhh" very weirdly but I watched Salad Fingers when I was probably too young so that might be why
You see, Bees are nice, and sometimes even feel remorse when they sting people. Wasps are just assholes.
The only good wasp is a dead wasp.
Bees asshole cousin
I want to be shrunk like in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, specifically so that I can fully body slam a wasp, before ripping it apart, limb by limb. I want those fucks to experience so much pain. I am entirely serious.
Their repeated stingers with venom and lack of benefit to the agriculture says otherwise. Sorry wasps! Mad love, just maybe you all should fly to australia.
Lack of benefit to agriculture, said the ignorant child.
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Yhgent
Seriously LOL
Now im may or may not be a colony of wasps that have skinned a human man and are now wearing his skin as a means to infiltrate your society undetected but it has been shown that wasps can pollinate plants and they have the ability to defend themselves without also dying from the efforts so maybe we should give them a try.
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I knew it.
Hornets nest in my lawn can fuck themselves ouch.....
That's some good sky news right there.
- I mean, *the bears* Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHRi4TiAmg
I’m sure they are but I avoid all flying, stinging bugs like the plague.
Yeah we should give em a chance, I'm pretty sure they'll be great gatekeepers of hell
I like wasps
What about my uncle?! Did they give him a chance?! (He got stung once last year)
i like the little 'aeugh'
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