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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Wasps, on the other hand, are flying terrorists, and must be squashed into a fine paste on sight

[-] TrousersMcPants 8 points 1 year ago

Many species of wasp are important pollinators

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

More like accidental pollinators that could easily be replaced by doing a better job protecting bees.

Should clarify, though: I specifically mean (anti)social wasps, the ones who build hives and go around harassing everyone. Solitary wasps are pretty chill afaik so they can stay.

[-] TrousersMcPants 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean accidental? Do you think bees are purposely going and pollinating plants? The pollination happens as a side effect of bees gathering nectar, same as wasps

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, wasps probably just accidentally land in pollen on their way to ruining someone's day on purpose ๐Ÿ˜›

[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And now they've pollinated my shoe with their guts.

Seriously though, you're right, but when a bee comes into my home I catch and release, when a wasp invades it's search and destroy. While screaming terrified of course

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just cup your hand and smack it out of the air, it'll be stunned for a bit and you can grab a wing a huck it somewhere else. You get to slap a wasp and you're not a random bug murderer.

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 2 points 1 year ago

i use chemical weapons against wasps because they don't deserve the geneva convention. those anti-wasp sprays are the shit, you can blow them out of the sky with them

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[-] TrousersMcPants 2 points 1 year ago

I generally grab a cup or bowl and cover it if it's a hornet, but most wasps won't even sting me if I'm gentle while taking them outside, the vast majority of wasps are quite docile unless you bother their nests

[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

right, hear me out though.

squish

edit: some wasps are chill though to be fair. Mud wasps are doppy little guys who just kinda bop around. They get the cup

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you've never seen a yellowjacket. Those things are super nasty by default, don't even have to be anywhere near their nests.

[-] TrousersMcPants 2 points 1 year ago

Had them living under my porch a while, used to sit out there and watch them buzz around

[-] LambdaDuck 3 points 1 year ago

wasps as in actual stinging wasps (like yellowjackets and hornets) or just their close relatives that are (mostly) harmless to humans?

[-] TrousersMcPants 3 points 1 year ago

All of the above, yellow jackets are important pollinators as well.

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