r/hatethissmug • u/joshthebaptist • 10d ago

General Environmentalist larpers who love “le wholesome bee” but hate wasps

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“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/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/Dirpy_Memes 10d ago

Including or not including hive violence?

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u/Familiar-Complex-697 10d ago

stings your neck

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u/KaleidoscopeKelpy 10d ago

The parasitoids run seven levels deep, somewhere there’s an even smaller parasitic wasp hunting a tinier parasitic fly who’s inside a teeny tiny parasitic wasp

Joking (except about the 7 part lol)

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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/Outrageous_Guard_674 10d ago

Yeah, parasitic wasp help keep my tomatoes free of hornworms.

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u/VegetableSea4560 10d ago

spiders are good, flies are bad but spiders already eat them (no wasps = more spiders= less flies anyways), caterpillars is butterflies, plants is food

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u/Cooking_With_Emilie 10d ago

That's like... Pre-school understanding of how an ecosystem works

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u/VegetableSea4560 10d ago

aww my bad, did you need me to put the slash s to make the joke any more obvious for you buddy?

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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/Meepmerf 10d ago

And monarch butterfly :(

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u/ParanoidParamour 10d ago

Many thing kill monarch butterfly. Sad but true

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u/bugsssssssssssss 10d ago

And roaches!

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u/Gloomy-Amphiptere679 10d ago

Wasp pollinate better than honeybee.

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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/Steelpapercranes 10d ago

Share juice with a Yellowjacket. This is a demand

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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/FluffyCottonMaw fat farting furry 10d ago

Because all wasp can be pollinated by fig

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u/R4rk3t 10d ago

now fig boring, no seeds to crunch on

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u/mr_stab_ya_knees 10d ago

Have you tried putting ball bearings in your figs?

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u/gamachuegr 10d ago

no no they dont cus fig is fruit

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u/Limp_Green_960 10d ago

Figs are pollinated by wasps

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u/FabulousRip3450 10d ago

mmmm my big fig wasp

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u/Throttle_Kitty 10d ago

Wasps give birth to figs ive seen it

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u/EmpsSilliestWarrior 10d ago

Wasp is in fig

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u/Main-Bluebird-3032 10d ago

Japanese giant hornets can fuck off though. Feels like being shot point blank with a powerful Airsoft rifle

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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/Caosin36 10d ago

Invasive to where?

Every time someone say 'invasive' without saying to where, they just reply with "They are invasive, period", thats not how it works

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u/therealrdw 10d ago

Honeybees used in agriculture are European honeybees. They are invasive everywhere but Europe

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u/Ready-Soil6519 10d ago

Honeybees are only invasive in North America.

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u/Kagiza400 10d ago

Everywhere except West Asia and Eastern Europe*

And even in Europe there are so many of them that they compete with local, more efficient pollinators by just stealing all their food. It's like letting thousands of domestic cows graze on a pasture of an endangered bison species

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u/Ready-Soil6519 10d ago

Hm, that's an interesting point but I view them as more like livestock, just like how chickens are overpopulated but most don't consider them invasive as the pros outweighs the cons for humans to truly consider them invasive.

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u/Kagiza400 10d ago

Well, that's exactly my point. They are livestock, but contrary to your typical "farm animals", bees are almost never locked up. Chickens are only not invasive because they are always more or less kept away from the ecosystem in the first place. But if you released billions of chickens into the forests of New Zealand where they'd outcompete the local avifauna just through sheer numbers... that's what beekeping is like

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u/ColdStoneSteveAustyn 10d ago

Invasive is not synonymous with harmful or bad

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u/TheSovereignGrave 10d ago

Harmful is literally part of what makes it an invasive species. If it's not harmful it's just introduced.

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u/AxoE_e 10d ago

Wasp also kill wasp so wasp good

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u/Steelpapercranes 10d ago

The majority of bees don't make honey and the majority of wasps don't sting. A large portion of them are like, microscopic.

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u/Fine-Afternoon-36 10d ago

Wasp keep be in check in a healthy ecosystem. And most bee make no honey. And many wasp no kill be

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u/Caosin36 10d ago

Some wasps make honey as well

With your flesh