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European Wasps are an invasive species where I live and they’re fucking up a lot of the local flora and fauna. Also “wasps” is a huge group of species and they’re hard to generalise about
I like the wasps around my house, they’re Apache wasps I think. I’ve shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.
Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.
We have yellow jackets, and they’re assholes. They’ll fly up and sting you for no reason, and then fly away laughing.
The other day I felt a shooting pain on my hand out of nowhere. I look down and it’s a wasp. Fucker broke into my house and stung me outta nowhere. Bastard.
We get lots of blue mud daubers where I live and I’ve seen people freak the fuck out over them.
Like guys, they will straight up never have business with you and their main prey is literally spiders if you have an irrational fear of them too
They’re the bros of the wasp world. The dudes can’t even sting, only the women, and they can take care of the young which is crazy rare. Yoi’d have to go out of your way to get bitten or stung.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybion_californicum
Hell, many solitary vespids will fuck up other non-solitary wasps.
if sky news says they’re beneficial they’re probably trying to fuck you out of your retirement plan or something
This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…
They HAD their chance, and they used it to be assholes.
I love having wasps around my garden. They fly around my veggies picking off any caterpillars they see, I don’t even use pesticides because the wasps do such a good job keeping the populations low.
Its interesting once you learn more about ecology and biodiversity… Those bugs / animals you used to hate are suddenly awesome.
That said, invasive wasps where I live a devastating native and endemic species so…
I’d expect this but from Sky News Australia *squints*
Wasps are actually pretty useful in nature, in contrast to the parasitic life form knows as homo sapiens.
I suppose you haven’t heard of tarantula hawks if you think wasps aren’t parasitic.
I mean it’s a known fact that WASPs rule the media.
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