This is wasp propaganda!

I'm fine with bugs that don't bother me. Around my house, I've got a ton of red paper wasps. They're assholes. My mere existence makes me a threat worth stinging. Same for the rest of my family. They can go fuck themselves.

I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they're weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mate with.

I'm grateful to support that colony; they've been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they're pretty chill. They're not going to attack unless you do first, and they're pollinators.

And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being "gross", just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3

As long as the fuckers don't try to build a nest near the house, they can have their fun. I don't go messing with them otherwise. But my allergic ass ain't playing when they're right outside the door, helllll no.

Calm unless the nest is threatened, but their interpretation of "threatened" is like just walking nearby

Maybe i am just naïve but cant we just breed a fuckton of bumble and other more friendly bees to release around neighborhoods so to suppress wasp populations around humans.

Do wasps carry a role that cant be done by a different pollinator?

I get that we should strive for maximum bio diversity but the wasps where i live will literally land and crawl over your face. I can just about hold my breath and handle that, my kid cannot.

On the old site™️, they once shared a video of how someone killed a whole nest of wasps with gasoline. I commented how that was unnecessary animal cruelty (even illegal in Germany) and got downvoted into oblivion.

They kill ticks

I've always been chill with wasps and never had a problem

Nope wasps were created by satan. They get super aggro during the start of the fall, they get desperate for food and have no problem attacking humans to get it.

Nothing against wasps, but they do not make honey.

YEAH WASP DISCOURSE AGAIN WOOHOO

Smh pro wasp tankie propaganda on my lemmy

A wasp stung me once 10 years ago so I now murder all wasps' nests I see on sight.

Shouldn't have fucked with the insect equivalent of an eldritch god with the power to wipe out your entire colony with a spray can.

Never had issues with them. I've even picked them up from the pool with bare hands and they still wont sting.

Hymenoptera means "membrane wing" which I think is pretty neat.

I am quite afraid of bees and wasps, but I know how to be chill around them and haven't been stung yet. This is good because I also love them.

Wasps are alright by me. If they hitch a ride you just have to wait for them to move on sometimes.

I can’t blame them for not understanding the significance of human communications infrastructure, but I wish they wouldn’t set up camp in poorly tended mailboxes. Granted, ants are worse about this by some distance. (I’ve also had to deal with small birds while delivering)

All things considered, though, they’re cool if you give them an appropriate berth

Finally a good fucking take on wasps. I never understood the hate they keep getting.