My local wasps don't bother me and I don't bother them. Long as you aren't close to the nest, most wasps are chill.
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Wasps like feeding on our front door bush. My sister is terrified of them. I ignore them, they ignore me.
*Mason bee gets headache and sees numbers
Mason bee: the numbers, arrrgghhh what do they mean?
Many wasp species are generally non-aggressive, and great pollinators! If they don't fuck with you, then don't fuck with 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.
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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.
The ones in our yard eat all our pears, the cunts
~~Lemon~~ Pear stealing whore
I think wasp get angry in autumn due to low sugar in diet which I think we can all relate.
Wasps go through two dietary phases, one where they eat sugar (usually first part of the year) and second where they eat protein (usually second half) and then there's - well 99% of wasps die every year, nature starves them to death, nature is brutal.
Someone get them a snickers.
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
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There are thousands of wasp species and the overwhelming majority don't even have the ability to sting humans. You probably don't ever even notice them, despite being the most important group of pollinators in the world, because you might mistake them for bees or flies. Also, bees are wasps (and so are ants). For more wasp facts, please like and subscribe.
This is the only correct reply. In case you do not already have the tick version, here you go:
This fucker coined the phrase "touch grass"
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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.
Yup! Was about to type out a similar reply. To further clarify:
Hymenoptera - order of Insecta - ants, bees, wasps, hornets
Aculeata - infraorder of Hymenoptera - bees, wasps, hornets
Apidae - family of Aculeata - bees (also bumblebees)
Vespidae - family of Aculeata - wasps, hornets
Formicidae - family of Hymenoptera - ants
edit20260227: forgot ants belong to aculeata
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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.
Except comment op is wrong. Probably ChatGPT nonsense. Bees, wasps and ants are of the same family, but bees are not wasps.
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Every non-aggressive wasp species:
I once bought a house with two mature, fruiting pear trees. I learned to quickly pick up any pears that fell to the ground, because if I didn't, the pear juice would ferment under the skin, and become slightly alcoholic.
Then wasps would pierce the skin, drink the juice, get drunk, and then chase around anyone who entered the yard. Apparently wasps are mean drunks.
Didn't know that previously, but not surprised. Wasps are dickheads on a good day.
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
Asian Giant Hornet: I am death destroyer of worlds.
Me: Weeping uncontrollably
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
Reported it
The Neighbourhood Watch will get it sorted!
(I kid -- for the unaware reader, they're invasive, they threaten native bees, and you can report sightings to the government).
They look like they threaten native everything.
I had to google it because having those guys here would be super scary. But it seems like like Asian Hornets are invasive in Europe, which are already big. The picture shows an Asian Giant Hornet, which are even bigger.
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Not wasps, but yellowjackets specifically. Irrational anger with wings, little bastards.
Love me some chill time with a mud dauber though.
And it's too easy to confuse them with paper wasps, which normally aren't aggressive.
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The bumble bee part is so accurate. They’re basically the golden retrievers of the insect world—super fuzzy, very friendly, and zero motor skills.
And then the first time you see a cicada wasp...
The sight of one of those will make you want to find a brick to drop on it, until you find out that they're completely harmless. (unless you're a cicada)
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