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Animal Attacks (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Literally outside eating a peach with a wasp harassing me while reading this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"why doesn't the wild animal think of my happiness??"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's late in the season. They should be more attracted to proteins to bulk for winter than simple sugars like they do early spring.

(at least where I'm from they do this)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

We put some raw chicken in a wasp trap once and my god, I’ve never seen so many wasps in one place. The thing was almost a quarter full by the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That might explain why it was trying to work its way into my ear - to get at my tasty inner ear flesh or some other comparably horrific delight

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Inner ear. A wasp delicacy. Rare around this parts since humans started burying their dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Them carapace'd stinger buzzards are watching their macros to stay swole!