• Scientists: Why we should appreciate wasps
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48302414
Wasps are mean though. They're why I don't drink sugary drinks on warm days outside.
That's okay scientists, I won't appreciate you either.
Wasps are fucking dicks meanwhile https://img.purch.com/w/660/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saXZlc2NpZW5jZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4OC84MDAvb3JpZ2luYWwvcnVzdHktcGF0Y2hlZC1idW1ibGViZWUuanBn Kiss boi bumblers are chill as fuck
so does that mean that we can all the mosquitos, yet? Because I hate them more than the wasps.
Wasps are a necessary evil. Its the mosquitos that have to die.
It's noting that a lot of the parasitoid wasps that we use to control pests are less prone to stinging than the social wasps we tend to think of.
Nothing will stop me wishing we could kill all wasps and hornets and replace them with bug-sized crows instead
Without wasps, we wouldn't have figs. They require wasps to reproduce and every fig you eat will contain a wasp that sacrificed it's life to get inside, which is how they are pollinated because figs are specialized flowers and not fruits.
Technically aren't all fruits specialized flowers.
A friend of mine works at a restaurant as a chef and he overheard an argument between a customer and a waiter. It boiled down to the fact that the vegetarian breakfast wasn't vegan because of this aforementioned factoid that figs grow due to a wasp dying to pollinate them. IIRC said breakfast was a bowl of porridge made with various fruits with half a fig placed on top as a sort of garnish. The waiter, after explaining that it was a vegetarian breakfast and not a vegan one, simply took the bowl out to the kitchen, took the fig off and tossed it away and carried it back out. The customer was supposedly happy afterwards.
Wasps are better than pesticides. You use smaller fields so there's more hedges around your field that contain wasp nests. Wasps on a hot day at the motorway services are my phobia. Try putting something in the bins, it's terrifying
most bees in the US have some level of africanisation to them now.
Try going to fill up your tank only to find a wasp nest under your gas cap, or running late for work and finding one in the hingework of the door on the driver's side. I've had both happen to me, if you couldn't tell.
I recognise that wasps are an incredibly useful species, and will do my best to help them if needed. I'm still gonna kill every last one of the fuckers inside my house tho, as well as any of the little cunts that try to stab me.
"Scientists"... nice try wasps https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/460/aa810dbe-727f-42f3-a21f-993b68f64253/what_the_fuck_am_i_doing.jpg
Experimentally I decided to stop trying to kill every wasp I see some years back and a colony of hornets on my house is actually completely non-aggressive despite their reputation. They fly around and do their thing and act just like bees in disposition.
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I'll make them a deal: Keep their arse daggers away from me and I won't go full genocidal maniac on them every time I see them. Simple bargain.
I went ahead and reworded my post since it was actually incorrect, to a degree. Figs are relatively unique in that you are consuming an inside-out flower that contains fruiting bodies, but it is still classified as an accessory fruit, like strawberries and pineapples, due to how it is utilized. The vast majority of fruits are instead ovaries.
But not any wasp you see is a fig wasp though.
They know how bad sugary drinks are for you and want you to be healthy.
The only time I was stung by wasps was when my dumbass friend thought hitting a nest would be a good idea. He also thought closing the garden's gate would stop the wasps. He did it before I got through. Some time after that, the neighbor came, smoked the nest, and then we grilled and ate their larvae. Tastes like pistachios.
No. I will continue to have unending love for moths though. And bees are pretty great too.
Oh mini factoid, if you attack a wasps nest they will not only come after you but if you hide under water they are smart enough to know you are still in there and will have to come up for air eventually. They will wait. At the same time if you attack a wasps nest you kinda deserve everything you get.
Wasps won't recognize you as a threat if you don't flail and whack them away when they come near. Unfortunately they're also both fearless and curious so they might investigate you closely especially if you're eating anything tasty. If you just ignore them, they won't hurt you. If they get uncomfortable close to your ears or face, you can step away while gently pushing them away from the undesirable place with your hand. I haven't been stung so far.
All joking aside, yes of course wasps have a necessary and useful part to play in our ecosystem
Bees give you honey, so they're already good in my book.
Maybe we should leave the wasps alone and exterminate the vegans instead.
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