Jesus that's almost going from swatting to a fist fight

That person would totally win in a thumb war. Don’t even try

Ugh, i saw one of those fuckers buzzing about in south of England. Sounded like a mini military helicopter buzzing about looking for bees to fuck up.

Reported it

JFC, it would take a shotgun to bring that monster down.

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.

And it's too easy to confuse them with paper wasps, which normally aren't aggressive.

This. I have no problem with anything but the yellow jackets. Over the years, dog has been stung, I have been stung and my wife has been stung. All of us minding our own business and just got too “close.” I will burn those f@&)ers to the ground every chance I get.

We had yellow jackets find a whole in the wall, and dig in and burrow out the drywall. Just a thin layer of paper between them and our bedroom. Luckily noticed and got the nest cleared out before they made it inside the house

The less popular bee movie part 2; it's actually about wasps, who are asshole alcoholics, and instead of asking girls if they like the jazz, they start negging and groping them

Yep, surprisingly some of the biggest like the “Cicada Killer” and Bald Faced Hornets (as long as you’re not messing with their nest) are very chill around humans as long as you don’t mess with them. Yellowjackets OTOH can get fucked. Fearless and they’ll chase you in numbers if you even just step by the nest or go by it with a mower.

I agree! The mud daubers and digger wasps can look quite scary with their nipped waists, but they are quite docile. I have a bird bath, and when it’s empty they sit on the edge patiently while I fill it, then gently crawl into the periphery. They have never bothered me in the slightest

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.

I think wasp get angry in autumn due to low sugar in diet which I think we can all relate.

Those red ones can eat my wasp spray

When you squash a wasp it releases a chemical from the wasp that attracts people who tell you facts about wasps.

Whenever you see posts like this assume that the op is referencing yellow jacket waps, after I started gardening ive learned more about wasps and their part to play in my garden, yellow jacks can suck a dick though. They can go from 0 to 100 real quick and little provocation, I will choose to protect my kids over them.

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.

The motherfuckers that set up shop inside my car definitely had the ability to sting humans.

About the only time I can drop an unironic "source: my ass."

AWAB

No, I will not like, or subscribe.

There are thousands of parasitic wasp species. Just because they aren't dicks to us doesn't mean they aren't dicks to us.

Unidan?

In my experience, even the stingy ones aren't that aggressive. They get pissed if you attack them or their hive and can panick if they get stuck in hair or clothes. I usually just (slowly and gently) "push" them away with my hand if they get too close, like at 10cm/s. They usually give up and move on if they were trying to check me out, or continue on if they were passing by too close. If they are trying to get at my food or drink, they might be a bit more persistant about it, but I haven't had one get aggressive because of it.

That said, I had an ex that bugs just seemed to hate/love. Apparently house flies can bite (though I still have a feeling that she was bit by a different fly that looks like a house fly, but can't say for sure because I did see her getting harassed by bugs that just ignored me). So ymmv.

Nah fuck em

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Lolol amirite guys? Guys

Honey, wake up, a new question just dropped:

Which came first, the bumble or the bee?

came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln

As you've said, in both senses it's related to the sound they make. "Bumble" on its own, in the sense of clumsy, meandering movement, is probably unrelated but I guess it's plausible that it also had an influence on the mutation of "humbul" to "bumble" even if the latter was primarily about the noise.

Ive never heard it called a cicada wasp. Where Im from we just call them cicadas. Theyre more like a big ass grasshopper than a wasp

Wasps like feeding on our front door bush. My sister is terrified of them. I ignore them, they ignore me.