They escaped from hell to fuck with our outdoor meals.
I tolerate them any time of day except when I’m sleeping.
They get an unfairly bad rap because some of them have the audacity to threaten humans right back. They’re actually damn important species for all kinds of ecosystem processes that support other species less offensive to our sanitised, idealised view of nature.
I read that they are extremely near-sighted, which is why they like to inspect everything and everyone up close, giving the impression that they want to deliberately annoy you.
But deliberate or not, I still want to eat in peace.
Still though, fascinating creatures, I enjoy watching them as much as I enjoy watching any other insect bugger about.
Like the hornets who hunt them.
Some of them also have larvae that are genetically programmed to eat their hosts’ vital organs last, to ensure the food source doesn’t rot.
It’s not precisely evil, but it’s close. It’s a deliberate, if not conscious, move by evolution to use consciousness as a meat preservative.
Evolution does be like that. The parasitoid wasps are some of the most diverse and ecologically important types, actually, and they don’t sting.
To be clear, I think nature is overrated. I might have come across as a back-to-the-woods guy in that first comment but I’m not. I just don’t think wasp hate in particular is motivated by anything wholesome or educated.
hate those little fuckers
Beautiful insects with some fascinating behaviour. Just don’t disturb them and you are fine
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You disturbed them without knowing it. Your presence in the outdoors is annoying. Your thirst for adventure and outside time is unacceptable. Your very existence is what drives them mad.
Roughly whereabouts in the world do you live? This is nothing like my experiences in the southern hemisphere
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See, the problem is that my definition of “don’t disturb” and their definition are very, very different. I don’t disturb them the same way I don’t disturb bees: oh, look, it’s a few feet away, I’ll just stay over here and mind my own business!
Their definition is: “stay several hundred feet away from me, don’t even look at me, if the air anywhere in my vicinity vibrates as an after effect of you breathing half a mile away I will hunt you the fuck down”
So, like, it’s a fundamental incompatibility. They can’t abide me existing, and I can’t abide them being horrifically aggressive because I dared to exist. Unfortunately for them, I have the advantage of size and tools.
And so we went to war.
Fair enough, I guess we must be used to different species. I’ve never had a problem with lone wasps, and as for the nest building ones, I once got swarmed by a paper wasp colony but only because one of them got accidentally caught and squashed in my clothing.
Annoying stinging fuckers, but they do serve an important role aside from being annoying stinging fuckers.
I like them! They’ve got a great style and they’re perfectly chill when people aren’t trying to swat them. I always let them land on my hand so I can look at them.
You can shoo them away from food a few times and they’ll generally just go elsewhere.
Since I was stung three times out of nowhere, one time just by sitting around, not moving at all: Nope, the moment they try landing on me I freak out.
Your approach is definitely a popular one, although I don’t advise it.
I wouldn’t call freaking out an approach unless you answered the wrong OP
approach: the method used or steps taken in setting about a task, problem, etc
Yeah, I am using that word right! British humour is dry, btw.
For sure, but in written text not obvius enough for me in many cases.
They give me the hair raising creeps but I leave them alone unless they invade my house.
I don’t much care for them. They build their nests on my home, and they sting.
Ok until they have to fly into my ear
We talking hornets too? Fucking fuck the bald face shit heads.
Yellowjackets are annoying, but I got a colony of 5-banded Wasps that conglomerate on my trees every late summer- hundreds of males just hanging out, showing off their sweet bods while the ladies fly by perusing selections for mating. They’re chill AF and not a pain.
But I mean, there are over a hundred thousand wasp species, and Yellowjackets are what most people think of when you say “wasp”, but as annoying as they are, don’t let them color your opinions on the otherd
fuck em all
wasps > mosquitos
Pricks.
