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Actually they really don't love the rising temperature at all, because that combined with human activity directly is killing a lot of their food sources, which is why many are endangered. Wasps are important pollinators as well as bees, so if they go it will make life even more difficult for a lot of different flowers. Also, how often are you actually stung by wasps or hornets? Do they actively hunt you down and attack you? I've spent many calm evenings sitting and watching wasps fly around various flowers and bushes right next to me and never been bothered by them.
Thinking we just need to save honey bees is kind of like thinking we need to save cows from extinction, they're domesticated.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/06/climate-change-good-news-wasps-weatherwatch
Wasps are known to be aggressive. There are subtypes that are less or more, but I get stung about once every three or four years and yeah, it seems like they hunt. Perhaps it's some accidental perceived threat that I cause, but I'm not exactly "asking for it". They are notably more prevelant recently.
Bro I've been stung exactly twice (both at the same time, stepped on a yellow jacket nest) my whole life, am I just lucky?
I've only been stung stepping on a nest of ground bees.
Most wasps and daubers around me are pretty chill. But we got a nest of bald faced hornets a few years ago, and damn they were aggressive.
I left the nest alone, and none of us got stung, but def got chased inside a couple of times. They attacked the window for 20 minutes afterward, lol.
2/10 would still leave them alone again.