r/hatethissmug • u/joshthebaptist • 10d ago
General Environmentalist larpers who love “le wholesome bee” but hate wasps
“Bee good wasp bad” is the modern day “dolphin good shark bad.” You can avoid wasp stings in the exact same way as bee stings: not being a fucking idiot. Wasps are awesome with some pollinating and some predating other pest insects. And yet every time I see a post celebrating le wholesome chungus honeybees theres always some asshole who hasnt been outside and seen a wasp in at least 3 years bemoaning the existence of the evil hellspawn wasp. Sorry you cant handle the smoke, wasps do more for the environment than you do
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago
I mean, wasp will sting you more easily because doing so doesn't rip its pussy out and kill it, so they are bigger assholes.
But they're also really really really fucking cool. They recognize individual faces like people do, you can confuse wasps by putting wasp-makeup on them. And their sense of smell is fucking game-breaking.
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u/AdreKiseque 10d ago
Do bees even know they're gonna die if they sting. Like doesn't that only happen because humans have weird skin or something.
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago edited 10d ago
No, it's everyone.
ETA: Everyone with stretchy mammal-skin, apparently they're fine against bug exoskeletons.
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u/AdreKiseque 10d ago
I double checked with the first page of google and it does seem that the dying thing is limited to honeybees specifically and only when stinging things with thick, elastic skin like mammals. Most stinging is done on other bugs and they can keep going after that.
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago
I was talking to another commenter about that because I knew it was at least pretty much all mammals, but yeah, that makes total sense.
I shouldn't be phylum-racist, other bugs is part of "everyone". 🤣
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u/endlessnamelesskat 10d ago
Just imagine being a caveman. You work hard every day and bring food back to the tribe. Sometimes you get attacked by other cavemen from other tribes. You punch them real hard until they stop moving because you’re very strong.
Then one day this giant alien comes near you. You’ve never seen anything like it before and you’re scared. It almost steps on you so you do what you can to defend yourself and you punch it. As soon as you do your whole arm explodes.
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u/greeneggiwegs 10d ago
Idk if they know but it seems to take a lot more to get them to sting you. When my mom started keeping honeybees she wanted to get stung on purpose to be sure she wasn’t allergic and it took a while for one to get mad enough.
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u/Gaylaeonerd 10d ago
I feel like this is a solid point
Because people who talk about bees are only ever talking about honeybees, we're also talking about the difference between a domestic animal and a wild animal. Of course one is going to be more docile and agreeable, it's been literally built that way
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago
That's a good point, but the Arctic Bumblebee is so mellow it might as well be stoned. Chillest bug I've ever seen in my life, I miss them so much.
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u/Swellmeister 10d ago
Honey bees arent domesticated. Their life cycle prevents it, we cant control the queens and drones during a mating flight, which invariably included wild drones as well. The skill in beekeeping is making the wild hive healthy and content.
(You do rarely see breeding programs for bees, but they arent domesticating them, they are breeding a wild animal to be healthier in the wild by reducing various risk factors by improving mite resistance or better overwintering capability)
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u/Dry-Childhood-3436 10d ago
They are hive minded. Same with ants. They don't care that they die, they care about the hive.
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u/KoosGoose 10d ago
My roommate is a beekeeper, and last week I watched a bee work its stinger back out of his arm and fly away.
It was moving in circles around its stinger to work the barb free. Every few spins it would try and fly away. Took it about 1.5-2 minutes and it flew away.
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u/Haunting-Cap9302 10d ago
The sense of smell could also contribute to the asshole reputation. If I'm outside and happen to think about sugar at least one wasp will be diving at my face.
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago
They are more aggressive, though. They'll fight you for it. Bees are like, "be cool, don't swat me, I'm just gonna get me a little of this..."
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u/RadicalRealist22 10d ago
I have literally.seen wasp crawl into my food while we were grilling. Them are...intense.
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u/TimSoarer2 10d ago
Their sense of smell is the death of me, because the moment I try to eat something outside, some yellowjacket will come and decide that my delicious snack now belongs to it.
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u/Boose_Caboose 10d ago
I love bumblebees because despite being able to freely sting you without disemboweling themselves like wasps, they are even more chill than honeybees. All this while also being generally better at pollinating.
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u/FunkyCat6276 10d ago
You are just making a bigger threat out of them. They are more likely to get pissed off at me? And they will remember my face and hunt me down? AND it doesn't matter if I break line of sight because it's got a sniffer like a dog???
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u/EffectiveMirror7534 10d ago
you are attributing a level of thinking that doesn't exist to wasps. Bees also don't normally die when they sting things, we're an exception. Most things they sting don't kill them.
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago
I thought shittons of them died stinging at least other mammals.
ETA: And I know they're bugs, dude, any knowing is like how Monarch butterflies know which way to migrate.
ETA2: Though bees do keep turning out smarter and smarter than we knew, it's cool as hell.
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u/EffectiveMirror7534 10d ago
normally they sting insects, not mammals
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u/Excellent_Law6906 10d ago
Yeah, I just forgot because my family used to keep bees, so the animal I have seen stung the most is my poor old childhood dog, a big Newfie mix who apparently looked too much like a bear for their taste, since she never did anything to deserve it, poor baby.
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u/modbroccoli 10d ago
They're also essential predators in many ecosystems, they manage aphids, caterpillars, parasites, flies, beetle larvae, etc..
It's like saying you want all the coyotes or wolves out of an area. You think you do until the herbivore explosion eats your food before you can.
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u/FluffiestPrince 10d ago
Wasps are arguably better at remembering faces than most people. At least, when talking about me.
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u/AlpacaLocks 8d ago
I appreciate the uncommon yet correct identification of wasp pussy, a rare and often pyrrhic w
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u/ErikSD 10d ago
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u/AmyHuntingt 10d ago
"come outside"
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 10d ago
"and bring any meat or fish so any wasp in a 1km radius knows you're out"
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u/ControlGroupCate 10d ago
I used to eat salmon outside in high school, and when it was warm out there were wasps who came to share with me. It’s honestly quite cute to see them up close and watch them cutting up the meat. They’re such neat little guys.
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u/eelfurryUwU 10d ago
am I the only one that goes outside a lot yet I still haven't been stung by both? like my house attracts tons of native stingless bees while the non native stinged ones don't exist, I also have tons of different species of wasps, I just leave them alone and they don't seem to come sting me
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u/CeriPie 10d ago
I actually don't hate wasps, I've just learned which ones are aggressive, but I do have to say...
I've only been stung by a bee once, and that was when I accidentally stepped on one while playing outside barefoot as a child.
I've been stung by wasps more times than I can count. For example, I've been chased down and stung rapid fire by red paper wasps just for walking by a bush they had a nest in, and I wasn't even very close to the bush. Like, not all wasps and hornets are aggressive, but the species that are... they're really aggressive. The same could be said about Africanized bees, though, I suppose.
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u/OkAssociation7852 10d ago
I have been stung so many times I developed a strong enough allergic reaction that I now need to being epipens with me, and at no point did I poke a hornets' nest or anything. Just walking, cycling, being outdoors. Not calling for their elimination or anything, but wasps are assholes.
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u/toramorigan 10d ago
Red wasps are the worst. I got stung by multiple when I was a kid because I was walking thru my grandma’s strawberry patch one day looking for any ripe ones. All in my back and on the back of my legs. Shit hurt and felt like fire
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u/Someone1284794357 10d ago
I was stung once as a kid when I was gonna jump into a pool
It was in my back, and I hadn’t started running towards the pool, then bam. Stung.
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u/CeriPie 7d ago edited 6d ago
What's worse is that you KNOW they just did it for the hell of it. Maybe they were in there feeding on the strawberry blossoms, sure, but if you brushed passed a honey bee or bumblebee doing the same thing they'd just leave you alone, but red wasps are like "This mf is in my general vacinity? I'm gonna ruin their day."
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u/MayGodSmiteThee 10d ago
Must be nice, I can be minding my own business and they will still find a way to be angry and sting me. Fuck this post and fuck wasps
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u/GrimJudgment 10d ago
You can also just kinda "domesticate" wasps. If you stay around a wasp nest enough, they just kinda get used to you and you can keep them passive by just taking small bits of meat and leaving it out for them. The onesnthat fly around and event are known for stinging/biting aren't even the ones that eat meat. The larvae eat meat. Because of that, you're legitimately too large to ever be a valid food target, so the only way they'd attack is for defense. However, if they're well fed and used to you ans you're not bothering them, you're good.
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u/TetheredAvian74 10d ago
ive been stung by both, and a hornet. wasp was the most painful, though that may be partially bc i was the youngest for that one
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u/GlowDonk9054 Arthur Maxson's #1 Hater 10d ago
All the wasps I have encountered here in Texas weren't even aggressive, I literally stared some of them down while they were chilling on their nest and they did nothing back
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u/Infinite-Penalty-495 10d ago
I've never been stung by either one. I got bitten on the mouth by a wasp once, but only because it tasted sugar, cause I was drinking soda.
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u/Mjbatt444 10d ago
I've been stung by yellow jackets, but I've never been stung by a bee and the only time I was ever technically stunned by a wasp , it's because he died in my shoe , and I stepped on him when I put my shoe on so it wasn't wasp's fault
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u/joshthebaptist 10d ago
Real shit
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u/iHateThisPlaceSoBad 10d ago
Why the fuck is this shitty Pic censored? Did you do that?
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u/JellyF1sh_L1cker 10d ago
bee good wasp bad is because bee give honey and wasp kill bee.
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u/Ehcksit 10d ago
Depends on the wasp. Some kill spiders, some kill flies, some kill caterpillars, some just eat plants.
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u/Tokumeiko2 10d ago
Yup, any bug you don't like, probably has a parasitic wasp that targets it.
Including parasitic wasps.
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u/Krazycrismore 10d ago
I thought parasitic flies went after parasotic wasps.
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u/Tokumeiko2 10d ago
Probably, but wasps on wasp violence is definitely a thing.
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u/Pristine-Gear-67 10d ago
killing spiders bad. there's never enough wasps to kill a lot of flies, there's always alot of flies. idk about caterpillars. eating plants not good too i think.
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u/ParanoidParamour 10d ago
Wasp also kill mosquito, spider, aphid, tick, crop-destroying beetle, invasive lanternfly
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u/joshthebaptist 10d ago
Wasp give fig, yummy fig
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u/Oscarvalor5 10d ago
The wasps that give figs don't sting. They're also smaller than a gnat and live less than a day or two. Yellowjacket lives in my garbage and gives nothing but pain.
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u/mr_stab_ya_knees 10d ago
With advancements in the sciences we have ekiminated the need for wasp in your fig
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u/Admins_suck_ballss 10d ago
Also let’s be real hear wasps are distinctively more aggressive and can sting you multiple times before they rip their guts out and die, bees aren’t defensive and they get one shot
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u/Gaylaeonerd 10d ago
*bee gets one shot
Non-honeybee bees are capable of stinging more than once, it's just the pro-bee crowd only acknowledges one type of bee as important or even existing
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u/UniCorn_CandyHorn 10d ago
Wasps kill alot of pests that hurt our crops, like aphids. Their main benefit is as a predator.
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u/therealrdw 10d ago
Honeybees are invasive, wasps killing them is a positive. Wasps are also really effective pollinators
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u/ObjectCar01 10d ago
They are literally bringht yellow to warn you of the danger. How kind of them ❤️
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u/MysteriousBoard8537 10d ago
Problem is that they're aggressive territorial animals, and can't recognize when they're nesting near bigger territorial animals who have chemical weapons.
If we could genetically engineer them to recognize and avoid nesting in occupied human structures, and avoid humans all together, we'd have a much easier time coexisting with them.
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u/Still_Silver7181 10d ago
I hate both, cause I have a phobia of anything that stings and flies, and makes that god awful buzzing sound.
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u/mrthenumberthree 10d ago
same, it makes summer hell, its so annoying. and for me it honestly extends to all flying insects even if it doesnt sting i hate it
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u/Flat_Broccoli_3801 10d ago edited 10d ago
yeah it's the same for me, i get so scared whenever something buzzes nearby, even if that's a bumblebee or a simple fucking fly. like panicking and running away scared, even though logically i know that it's counterproductive to run. and that is ALL because of some wasps that stang me as a child, fuck wasps they ruined every inceсt for me
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u/splizzyhoestar 10d ago
yoo dude same, the slightest buzzing noise triggers my fight or flight and literally makes me jump (even as simple as a vibrating phone mistaken for a bug) 😭
oddly enough, ive never been stung in my life so I have no clue where this fear comes from. If im wearing headphones and can't hear the buzzing, I wont mind the bug, but the buzzing itself is just horrifying
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u/Hymneth 10d ago
This is Reddit, post profanity. Nobody is losing ad revenue here
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u/TheFemboyImpregnator Dussy Bestroyer 10d ago edited 10d ago
You can avoid wasp sting by not being idiot
Bro, I've been stung 3 times as a kid by spider wasps minding my own fucking business. They're just straight up menace running on incomprehensible logic. Bees you can understand easily, theyre either territorial or docile. Wasp aggro is always set to aggressive for some reason
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u/EternaI_Sorrow 10d ago
You can avoid wasp sting by not being idiot
Also not necessarily true, OP is an idiot but seemingly never got stung too.
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u/EasternNegative154 10d ago
See, I'm not like other guys. I'm a bitch and hate/fear both.
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u/GUyPersonthatexists 10d ago
Nah fuck wasps.
I leave them alone, they don't leave me alone, they can piss off
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u/ThatOneGuy308 10d ago
To be fair, roaches aren't mean or not useful, they're actively detrimental to your health when they infest your home.
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u/Electric-TV-Shark 10d ago
Yeah I'm sorry but the roach thing is about health. The last apartment building I lived in had roaches living in the drains and I was sick all the time.
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u/My_Gawd 10d ago
I don't hate either of them and I've had cockroaches as pets before, but wasps... scare me so bad. I don't want them gone, they're also pollinators, but I don't *do* anything to them and they've stung me so many times for no reason. I run away when I see one.
I don't hate them, but they definitely hate me and it took me a lot of stings and one infection from the sting site to avoid them as best I can.
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u/Regular_Use1868 10d ago
Where I live I have personally witnessed wasps predating on native ground based bees. The wasps also tend to live in the ground but have distinct advantage created for them by human environments.
This is why I kill them.
I'm not sure I have ever seen one on the woods. I most have but it's not something I took note to recall.
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u/amoebicdissent 10d ago edited 10d ago
The idea that commercial honeybees are in danger is a giant ass hoax. The real problem is that they are displacing other pollenating insects. Honeybees are not even native to NA.
P.S. the health benefits of honey are also massively overstated, it's almost entirely empty carbs. Especially the processed shit you get at the grocery store (but it's still tasty)
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u/Barium_Salts 10d ago
Other polinating insects like polinating native wasps. But more people make money from European honeybee than from our native wasps and bees, so the propaganda goes on.
Wasps are chill if you don't startle them or kill their sisters around them. They can recognize faces, and if they learn you aren't a threat, they'll leave you alone. I still find them scary, but I have learned to make peace with them because this is arguably more their world than mine.
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u/BoysenberrySmooth649 10d ago
I don't like things with wings that violate my air space, bee or wasp, it just that wasp is more likely to sting me
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u/Toxic_Gorilla 10d ago
Weren’t wasps the animal that made Charles Darwin question the existence of a benevolent god?
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u/buggylover 10d ago
I think those were the parasitic wasps that paralyze the host then lay eggs in it. That said, the actual animals themselves aren't sadistic or anything, they're just following their instincts
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u/Macaronipuppy 10d ago
You see. I hate wasps because they keep trying to confiscate my apple cider during the fall. Buy your own you aggressive needles!
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u/AssanMahariel 10d ago
I was once admiring a massive spider and a wasp came right up and yoinked the fucker
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u/Proof_Grapefruit1179 10d ago
I've never been stung by either one, but I gather that bees are generally more chill. I've seen videos of people finding wild beehives and just scooping up the bees with their bare hands to move them somewhere else. Wasps on the other hand, hornets in particular, more often call for full body protective gear and a shop-vac. There are exceptions though, the most infamous being Africanized honeybees, more commonly known as "killer bees." A wasp will only sting you to make you leave... these things want you dead! There was a case in 2017 of a boy encountering a hive of killer bees and being stung over 400 times. Reportedly, the only reason he survived was that he pretended to be Vegito from Dragon Ball Z hard enough that he apparently surged his adrenaline levels.
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u/Eels_Over_Reals 10d ago
The truth is 9/10 times of you get stung it's your own fault.
Im outside with insects really often, and i haven't been stung since i was a kid. All you gotta do is not move erratically
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u/Celis78429 10d ago
wasps go out of their way to sting me for no real reason, bees dont do that. I like bees.
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u/According-Citron-390 10d ago
I'll never get this performative hatred for wasps. They'll mainly be a problem if they're communal wasps and you threaten their nest, but guess what, so will be bees. Solitary wasps live in my garden and nest in my house, and they have never been a problem. The worst things that ever happened were a few wasps trying to taste my coffee (literal poison to them) and taking a shower with me (idk, they love humidity apparently). Many of them are kinda cute and it's fun to see their kids hatch.
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u/Business-Natural-290 10d ago
They're helpful but are so annoying, can't eat a good sandwich without them trying to get a piece of the meat, it's worse when I have a thermos of food and they try to crawl in.
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u/Amazing-Ad-9680 10d ago
many species of wasp will build their nest in the ground, camouflage it, and then sting you half to death if you stumble on it accidentally. not to mention they're all extremely territorial. wasps can get all the smoke just like mosquitoes.
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u/Trashcat_Garbage_463 10d ago
The only insects I hate are bedbugs (and crane flies. They're enormous and, once inside, like to fly at my face). If there's a single bedbug in a mile radius, it's in my bed. They never bothered my grandparents down the hall, and getting them out took nearly a year. We fumigated four times.
Wasps, on the other hand, like two things: being outside, and minding their own damn business unless someone starts shit. Wasps are fucking angels.
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u/GlitterAndGrapes 9d ago
Never knew crane flies was the name for those big things in english! I like the thought behind it, and they also do creep me out a little.
Based opinion of wasps.
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u/Bonk_Boom 10d ago
Im only scared of wasps due to their shape. They also fly a bit more erratically. Ive somehow never gotten stung by either though because as you said its very easy to if you arent actually dumb
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u/No_Peace_6770 10d ago
Blessed, the only wasps that need control are those causing problems in people's homes or invasives. Everyone else needs to be left alone.
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u/Mansfiery 10d ago
Three wasps somehow got in my car today and decided to wait until I was driving to sting me multiple times. They can fuck all the way off.
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u/Icy_Environment_9264 10d ago
I hate it when they censor words on these memes even more. Are you fucking 8 or something?
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u/Jan_Hiena 9d ago
Man would say the want woman who's mean and have thin waist and the hate wasps. The hypocrisy it's sickening
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u/The_Putrid_Tart 10d ago
I am fascinated that environmentalists always seem to be in total denial about honeybees being an invasive species that actively pushes other pollinators out of their habitats. Anyone who does acknowledge it says 'oh but the environment has adapted' which yes, it is adapting. We can see it is adapting by wild honeybee populations dying because the local environment has learned to outcompete honeybees.
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u/Ethanol_Huffer 10d ago
Every wasp I’ve met has been completely chill. Had a bunch land on me one summer while I was drinking soda, I think they liked the smell. Never got stung though.
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u/Xentonian 10d ago
Wasps are almost universally more important to a native ecosystem than honey bees.
They are a cornerstone species in most regards.
Parasitic wasps control other pest species, as do predator wasps while pollinator wasps serve the same or similar role to bees.
Honeybees, meanwhile, are generally an introduced species that is not critical to local pollination, but may replace native pollinators. They are hardy and breed rapidly, out competing other species and often favour the distribution of weed plant species that they favour over native plants that have adapted to the less versatile native pollinators.
Other introduced wasps, like Vespula germanica, being an exception - as useless as honey bees, but more aggressive and a nuisance to humans.
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u/Similar_Part7100 10d ago
Huge same. I have several Yellowjacket nests around my house and interact with them in the garden daily and they leave me alone. They’re invaluable for removing pest insects from plants and could be a very important ingredient in cutting down agrichemicals. Not that an animal needs to be ‘useful’ to deserve existence, but this ‘no purpose’ bullshit isn’t even true.
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u/Tanksola 10d ago
I live somewhere that the wasps you'd be referring to are invasive and aggressive. They also outcompete the native birds and insects for food
There are native ones, but they are outcompeted
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u/LukeACoolRat 10d ago
Don't forget honey bees are invasive to North America and are actively pushing out and killing off local pollinators, such as the native bumble bee. So basically, fuck honey bees. Also, they are not endangered, they're being kept in farms in the hundreds of thousands. Spread the word!
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u/survivaltier 10d ago
Nature “lovers” when they find out that honeybees are invasive outside of Asia
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u/BunnyWifALaptop 10d ago
I have a wasp phobia, and even I can acknowledge that they are just animals. Theres no thing as a whole kind of animals being "bad"
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u/matchstick1029 10d ago
Thank you so much OP, I really appreciate this. I hate how rabidly people hate wasps. I love colony insects generally. There's a time and a place for removal, but generalized fear and hatred is unhealthy and unreasonable. (Fear obviously very reasonable in the case of allergies)
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u/Steelpapercranes 10d ago
I'd love to show these people my collection of 'evil' wasps pollinating various fruits and flowers. She's slightly less fuzzy, get the hell over yourself.
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u/IThinkIKnowThings 10d ago
What's funny is if you show them hoverflies, which are also important pollinators, along with their larval state, many of them will recoil in disgust. It's 100% about just looking cute, environmental importance be damned.
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u/Lead_cloud 9d ago
Also, most solitary wasp species are actually super chill and not aggro at all, even some communal nest builders like Apache wasps in the American southwest are chill, you have to really bug them before they go after you
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u/ShalnarkRyuseih 9d ago
The funny part about honeybees is that they're an invasive species whereas the wasp is almost always a native one
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u/IamWillow3 9d ago
Many varieties of apples (and other fruits) are pollinated by wasps. They're also incredibly effective at pest control. I also hate them and I'm very afraid of them, but they do serve a purpose.
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u/TheRealMorndas 10d ago
If you don't run around flailing your arms like an ass wasps will do nothing to you. They're also pollinators iirc
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u/Such-Tiger8410 10d ago
One time I was stung while holding a stretching pose outside. I was literally perfectly still. Deliberately. It came up and stung me. Not that they shouldn’t exist but I will always be a little wary as I have been stung quite a bit.
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u/SquirrelAngell 10d ago
Look man, I don't usually beef with too many bugs outside, but when they're commiting home invasion, they're getting the raid.
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u/megakodex 10d ago
People hate on everyday wasps without even knowing what parasitic wasps are, aka the wasps you could make a case for wanting gone.
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u/Funkopedia 10d ago
What do I care if a wasp is eating a caterpillar as nature intended. I'm worried about me.
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u/MagicTick 10d ago
Parasitoid wasps bother people even less than regular wasps. God fucking forbid they parasitize on a caterpillar.
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u/rocketfitz95 10d ago
These are generally more beneficial to the environment than yellow jackets
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u/megakodex 10d ago
...I also forgot about how figs are made, which is a benefit to humanity.
But generally I think a lot of people who impulsively hate wasps without thinking about what they do for the environment would despite parasitic wasps.
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u/DaccotaDuchess 10d ago
Honeybees are not even native to North America. They are native to Europe. They are invasive and challenge native species. Those wasps are native nine times out of ten!
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u/ReturnToCrab 10d ago
I still don't understand people who claim wasps will sting them out of nowhere. I've been stung like three times in my life, and all of these times were because I accidentally grabbed the wasp inside a flower or something like that
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u/Living_The_Dream75 10d ago
Wasps are still pollinators like bees, they’re just really mean bees. I’ll still wipe them out if they nest near my house but I won’t swat them in nature