Many wasp species are generally non-aggressive, and great pollinators! If they don’t fuck with you, then don’t fuck with them!
There’s a few that hang around my yard. They gobble up annoying pests and there’s one that seems to visit me deliberately. We hang out for a bit and then she goes off to her duties.
The ones in our yard eat all our pears, the cunts
LemonPear stealing whore
There are thousands of wasp species and the overwhelming majority don’t even have the ability to sting humans. You probably don’t ever even notice them, despite being the most important group of pollinators in the world, because you might mistake them for bees or flies. Also, bees are wasps (and so are ants). For more wasp facts, please like and subscribe.
While Ants, Bees, Wasps and Hornets are all in the family Hymenoptera, it is incredibly wrong to suggest that Bees and Ants are Wasps.
They are distinct species that are related to each other.
Sincerely — a pest control technician who is incredibly tired of helping solve “bee” problems, when 99% of the time, they have a Wasp problem.
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Mr.Gardener or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wasp.
I’m irrationally fearful of wasps, like I absolutely freak out when one is near me, but I learned they eat some of the annoying fuckers that ruin my vegetables/lettuce so I learned to tolerate them lol
Asian Giant Hornet: I am death destroyer of worlds.
Me: Weeping uncontrollablyThat person would totally win in a thumb war. Don’t even try
Jesus that’s almost going from swatting to a fist fight
They’re big for sure, but there’s some forced perspective in that photo. They’re typically substantially smaller than your little finger.
Yeah it is a majorly warped perspective, look at the size of the thumb.
Still they are big girls, here’s a photo and wiki says…
The hornet has a body length of 45 mm (1+3⁄4 in), a wingspan around 75 mm (3 in), and a stinger 6 mm (1⁄4 in) long, which injects a large amount of potent venom.
Not wasps, but yellowjackets specifically. Irrational anger with wings, little bastards.
Love me some chill time with a mud dauber though.
Yeah I learned that besides yellow jackets, wasps can actually help a garden by keeping away pests and won’t hurt anybody if you don’t bother them. Really surprising seeing a wasp just totally ignore me.
We get yellow jackets in our yard every summer and I used to destroy them all on sight but I always felt so bad about taking out entire families with chemical warfare so I’ve switched to a live and let live strategy the last few years. They are chill and we’ve only had one sting in those years and I think that was just an unfortunate accident with my youngest stepping on one and pissing it off. I still have several cans of spray so if they break the treaty then I’m ready to go to war, but for now we’re able to cohabitate.
I once bought a house with two mature, fruiting pear trees. I learned to quickly pick up any pears that fell to the ground, because if I didn’t, the pear juice would ferment under the skin, and become slightly alcoholic.
Then wasps would pierce the skin, drink the juice, get drunk, and then chase around anyone who entered the yard. Apparently wasps are mean drunks.
Didn’t know that previously, but not surprised. Wasps are dickheads on a good day.
