To them you are a giant who can easily kill them
And I relish in proving them right. Fuck wasps and fuck your wasp propaganda.
I’ve given bees snacks when they’re tuckered out on a hot day. I’ve let them rest on me. But with wasps and hornets it’s on sight.
Once I was spraying a hive of hornets. One of them collapses outside of the next and another flew grabbed him and pulled him back into the nest. Fucking broke my heart.
This is just what they want you to believe
I’ve been stung about half a dozen times by wasps so far this year. They’re beginning to piss me off.
And as an adult, my sister stepped on a hornets nest and damn near ended up dead. 150 stings had her in ICU for 4 days.
Well maybe it would be easier to “Give them some Space” if their pupae didn’t completely cut off all their food processing in the fall leading to rampant aggression as they seek out sugary and fermented smells such as beer, fruits, and candy.
I had a yellow jacket fly out of the blue then land on my heel and sting me for absolutely no reason! There wasn’t even a nest nearby!
Then a week later another yellow jacket landed on my arm and stung me right under my watch band
Pretty rude if you ask me
You know what you did.
I hope somebody can help me with this: could a bee theoretically evolve to have a stronger stinger so that stinging a human’s skin multiple times would be possible?
If bees would evolve like other animals those who survive stinging humans would produce more offspring, but in this case only the queen produces offspring and the queen probably contact with human skin so this trait wouldn’t be favoured by evolution. Or am I looking at this wrong?
You also need to consider the overall health of the colony, since if the colony dies/gets outcompeted by other colonies, so will the queen
Thanks, that is a factor I hadn’t thought of
Sure, but wasps made a nest right by our front door, and have the audacity to sting me when I simply walked outside. Maybe not assholes on purpose, but they deserved what they got.
but they deserved what they got.
The Ellen Ripley special?
are you under the impression wasps understand the concept of front doors?
I’m under the impression that wasps know what being an asshole means because they’re very good at it.
Nope. Don’t care. I’m a scientific realist. 99.999% of the time I educate myself on matters such as these if I am misinformed, and change my stance promptly based on new information.
But not in this case.
Fuck this meme, fuck this info, and fuck wasps.
At least educate youtself on the bee part, it’s really interesting!
Yeah, they are, just really hate wasps and this was sort of a joke comment. Except for the hating wasps part. did I mention that?
in what sense are you a realist
🙄 troll on
Guy in active denial: “I’m a realist”
They really exist
Okay, but bumblebees are the best though. Even fluffier than honey bees, and they almost never sting humans.
Sadly they’re also one of the types of bee that’s losing out in their native habitats to human supported honey bees.
Carpenter bees
Carpenter bees are also cool. Not as fluffy as bumblebees though.
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I have learned thru my years of gardening that wasps and hornets are a good thing to have around, not just bees. Not only do they help pollinate flowers, they are predators to some of the most annoying garden pests. I think I’ve counted at least 7 different wasp species in my garden this summer, they’ve done a great job keeping the larger pest populations manageable.
Wait, wasps are pollinators too?
If the female wasp crawls into the caprifig, she can successfully lay her eggs and die. The males hatch first, mate with the females, dig tunnels out of the caprifig, and die. The females, now covered in fig pollen from the caprifig, fly out to begin the cycle again. If the female wasp crawls into a female fig, she will not be able to successfully lay her eggs despite pollinating the fig with pollen from the caprifig she hatched in. The fig will absorb her body and her eggs as the fruit develops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus
Looks like their entire life is fucking and then dying immediately after. Aight, they can have a pass. Mainly because I’ll never see one in my life.
There are a lot of different species which serve as pollinators besides bees. Afaik, some are more specialised into specific flowers/plants than others and without them, these plants wouldn’t be able to reproduce. (Yucca moths for example.)
Yes, they are! They’re into sweet nectar - that’s why they also tend to visit our sweet drinks. The adults also sometimes search for bits of meat for the carnivorous larvae. In this mode they act like insect pest control.
Yeah. They usually pollinate my sweet toast in spring and my ham in late summer.
Wasp nest in wall, specialist comes out, sucks them all out, sprays commercial insecticide into wall cavity. Wasps that were out of nest at the time come back and get confused and piss off, couple days later they’re back and have found new unbefore seen holes to fly into, specialist tells me to buy trap and fill with meat. Buy canned ham and dump in trap. All wasps that came back are now in trap. Thanks Ham.
There we go, that’ll learn 'em for having singers. Now to enjoy some peace.
that’ll learn 'em for having singers.
Did we just nuke Hollywood?
The wasp stings me to protect its family, I kill the wasp to protect mine. Glad it’s me who’s the giant.
That was the one that made me realize I’d outgrown the series. Dunno if old RL was really phoning that one in or what, but one of his chapter cliffhangers ended with “and the dragonfly bit me in half!” Then the next chapter started with “But it was just my imagination.”
Truly. Everyone knows that once a dragonfly sets its sights on you, your chances of survival are nil. Gary stood no chance.
