>have outdoor roll-up blinds >every time I go to roll them up or down in the summer I feel paranoid that a wasp will pop out >last hot day of summer and one actually does fall out when I go to roll it down >bolt out of there the moment I perceive it with preternatural reflexes built from two years of paranoia
whew
I found some wasps flying around my house earlier this week, likely next years queens. I collected them and released them outdoors, hopefully they come back in the spring.
I'll add, one hit my ceiling, fell on my arm, and proceeded to sting my hand. Can't blame her though, it was afraid and didnt understand i had no intention of harming her. Unfortunately she died shortly after but at least her friends will carry on her nests legacy. Some of her friends in picrel
only shit people get stung by wasps. They actually do society a favor because they only go after criminals and degenerates. No innocent person has ever been stung by a wasp.
Wasps keep getting lost in coke bottles around me. I release them, sometimes with a fair bit of shaking. Not a single sting. I don't know whether they recognise that I saved their asses, but I'm not even trying to move carefully with a dozen wasps around me trying to get a sugary sip. Nothing.
Also not a single fly or mosquito around. Bitches know better than to fuck with my wasp bros.
Fucking yellow jackets are assholes who can't find their own fucking business. Every fucking summer those fucks have to bother me when I'm trying to relax outside on my deck.
I don't play games with them anymore. They buzz me while I'm relaxing, they die by paddle
On the other hand the bees are bros. They just enjoy the flower pots on the deck and leave me in peace. Even when one is curious about me it just flies around me for a minute before leaving instead of persisting in my space the whole fucking time I'm trying to relax
Fuck wasps
The majority of wasps in the world are tiny, solitary, and look like this. You're unlikely to even notice one, much less be stung. The only wasps that have ever been dicks to me are Polistes carolina. The rest are chill.
I get the tiny ichneumon wasps that try to land on my computer screen when it's dark all the time, it's really fucking annoying
Most people would probably just see them as 'a bug' because they're so small though, you have to really squint to see the wasp features.
>The only wasps that have ever been dicks to me are Polistes carolina.
Same here. I've been around tons of wasps, including other social wasps that have a reputation for aggressive/territorial behavior like yellow jackets, but that one particular species is the only one that has ever bothered me. Most people I know that hate wasps do so entirely because of experiences with P. carolina.
I have been catching (gently) and petting bumble bees for years because all that time I thought that bumble bees don't sting. I have never been stung by one but once some anon told he got stung by bumblebee and I started arguing and calling him a liar etc then I look it up online yes true enough bumble bees can sting and apparently it might be more painful than a honey bee sting.
I was driving with the windows down yesterday and a wasp flew into the car, I thought it was about to fuck my shit up but it found its way out the other side
>sting people for no reason
I have been stung as many times by wasps as I have been by bees.
The whole "wasp sting for no reason while bees stings only in self-defense" is nonsense pushed by the popular narrative that bees=honey=good that wants you to believe bullshit like how land life will disappear if bees were gone.
>The whole "wasp sting for no reason while bees stings only in self-defense" is nonsense pushed by the popular narrative that bees=honey=good that wants you to believe bullshit like how land life will disappear if bees were gone.
FUCK that gayry, btw.
Apis Mellifera is an invasive species responsible for dozens of extinctions outside of Europe/Near East/North Africa. Through sheer numbers, it crowds out native pollinators, while at the same time being terrible at pollinating (because they're generalists, a lot of the time the pollen they collect lands on different plant species).
There's trillions of the fuckers around, and yet people whine about Muh Bees while cheerfully cutting down their lawns and trampling on the nests of solitary, native bees that the majority of plants in their neighbourhood desperately rely on.
Retards who believe they'll 'Starve to death' if the honeybee disappears, nevermind much of the world doing just fine without them until the 16th to 19th century and our staple crops using wind pollination.
And then these fucking gays don't even fucking EAT the fucking honey their out of control bioweapon is producing.
I want Vespa mandarina to kill them all.
During Summer Wasps are hunting for protein. They feed this to the larva in exchange for a sugary substance that the wasps can digest. This substance contains an enzyme required for wasp digestion.
The Queen during Autumn will abandon her hive in order to hibernate. In the following weeks the last generation of larva will mature into adults. There are no new larva to feed and so the now adult wasps have no access to the sugary enzyme they require for food. The wasps will then begin desperately searching for sugary substances to feed on, unfortunately there is no way of them gaining access to the enzyme..... They are eating and eating, but starving to death.
So yeah.... they get a bit trigger happy around Autumn.
Can we make it artificially or a version of it that wasps can digest? We could then feed the wasps all year round (including winter in warmer climates)
Why would we want to? They're practically the queens inferior sterile clones. Their function is to maintain the colony and produce a constant stream of food so that the Queen can produce a new generation of Queens, along with the males needed to inseminate the Queens of other colonies. It's a brutally efficient system.
Bees use a similar system but maintain a food store so that the last generation can survive over winter in order to have a work force to more rapidly build back up to strength. They still kick all the males out of the colony in autumn to starve/freeze to death.
I am now convinced that wasps can read your mind through their sense of smell. Always hearing of haters getting stung, meanwhile I am allowed to free-handle them. Would not surprise me to hear that cats and dogs also detect human emotions by how our body smells depending on mood
This summer hornets made a nest right next to my pond and I've been sitting close to it everyday, yet I never got stung by them in my life.
Why is that? Am I just more likeable than you?
More likeable than those who get stung then.
I don't belive that's the case, nor I believe that wasps can understand human feelings or that they attack indiscriminately.
What is most likely to be the case is that most people walk in nature in a clumsy and unaware way without paying attention to the life that surrounds them. They constantly step on animals or force them to become defensive.
Wasps simply have an effective way to defend themselves from those bumbling idiots, so they use it.
>wasp hands typed this
Joking aside, you are right. Most people flail like idiots at wasps, while gently pushing them away when close-by does the trick. Live and let live.
When a wasp comes to check you out if you panic and swing at it it's obviously gonna sting you. All you have to do is be calm. Don't blame the wasp for it.
yeah my childhood was like an RPG >item: drying laundry >5% to sting
why the heck would you continuously try to nest in a folded bed sheet or a T-shirt drying outside you absolute asshole
I gave them a bowl of sugar water this summer
They drowned themselves by the hundreds.
>have outdoor roll-up blinds
>every time I go to roll them up or down in the summer I feel paranoid that a wasp will pop out
>last hot day of summer and one actually does fall out when I go to roll it down
>bolt out of there the moment I perceive it with preternatural reflexes built from two years of paranoia
whew
I found some wasps flying around my house earlier this week, likely next years queens. I collected them and released them outdoors, hopefully they come back in the spring.
I'll add, one hit my ceiling, fell on my arm, and proceeded to sting my hand. Can't blame her though, it was afraid and didnt understand i had no intention of harming her. Unfortunately she died shortly after but at least her friends will carry on her nests legacy. Some of her friends in picrel
I wish them good luck!
only shit people get stung by wasps. They actually do society a favor because they only go after criminals and degenerates. No innocent person has ever been stung by a wasp.
The frog from DKC being the only who can kill the bees makes a lot more sense now.
Wasps keep getting lost in coke bottles around me. I release them, sometimes with a fair bit of shaking. Not a single sting. I don't know whether they recognise that I saved their asses, but I'm not even trying to move carefully with a dozen wasps around me trying to get a sugary sip. Nothing.
Also not a single fly or mosquito around. Bitches know better than to fuck with my wasp bros.
Fucking yellow jackets are assholes who can't find their own fucking business. Every fucking summer those fucks have to bother me when I'm trying to relax outside on my deck.
I don't play games with them anymore. They buzz me while I'm relaxing, they die by paddle
On the other hand the bees are bros. They just enjoy the flower pots on the deck and leave me in peace. Even when one is curious about me it just flies around me for a minute before leaving instead of persisting in my space the whole fucking time I'm trying to relax
Fuck wasps
Try to smell less like carrion and you won't attract wasps anymore. Showering is a good start
>Not naming the thread "a bee or not a bee"
ffs
Wasps aren't too bad, it's the hornets that are real asshole bitches
Hornets are wasps also they are nice, I met one recently and we became friends.
The majority of wasps in the world are tiny, solitary, and look like this. You're unlikely to even notice one, much less be stung. The only wasps that have ever been dicks to me are Polistes carolina. The rest are chill.
I get the tiny ichneumon wasps that try to land on my computer screen when it's dark all the time, it's really fucking annoying
Most people would probably just see them as 'a bug' because they're so small though, you have to really squint to see the wasp features.
>The only wasps that have ever been dicks to me are Polistes carolina.
Same here. I've been around tons of wasps, including other social wasps that have a reputation for aggressive/territorial behavior like yellow jackets, but that one particular species is the only one that has ever bothered me. Most people I know that hate wasps do so entirely because of experiences with P. carolina.
I have been catching (gently) and petting bumble bees for years because all that time I thought that bumble bees don't sting. I have never been stung by one but once some anon told he got stung by bumblebee and I started arguing and calling him a liar etc then I look it up online yes true enough bumble bees can sting and apparently it might be more painful than a honey bee sting.
My brother disturbed a bumble nest and got hit about 6 times before he got far enough away
I miss bumblebees tho 🙁
Wasps must be die >:(
Wasps are weird, one day when I was chilling outside a wasp landed on me and started licking me
O-one d-day I w-was chilling o-out suh-side with my family, eating chiki a-an… and the wasp carried a bit of my chiki awaaayyy! Bwaaaaah!!!
You okay?
she probably was enjoying your sweat
they're very kinky
I was driving with the windows down yesterday and a wasp flew into the car, I thought it was about to fuck my shit up but it found its way out the other side
But like I said,
These guys are alright.
You can spend all day around them. Whenever they fly around you, they're flying Around you. Not At You.
The fact I could imagine sticking a finger right in their faces oughtta say something.
Polistes Carolina, Polistes Apachus, the entire Polistinae subfamily are some of the most hateful things to ever live.
Pompilidae are only guilty of looking like them.
Sphecidae are a little annoying and they smell.
Most of the solitary mfs are chill and don't even know you exist.
It's the communal assed paper mfs that got Born one day and Were violence.
Everybody else Woke up and Chose it.
They just Are.
Don't even deposit the things into hell, noone's evil enough to deserve their shit, just send 'em straight into a black hole.
i have a large nest of european hornets living in the walls of my house
i guess i did, rather
it's mid autumn so i doubt many are still kicking about
i like them
Pandant
>sting people for no reason
I have been stung as many times by wasps as I have been by bees.
The whole "wasp sting for no reason while bees stings only in self-defense" is nonsense pushed by the popular narrative that bees=honey=good that wants you to believe bullshit like how land life will disappear if bees were gone.
>The whole "wasp sting for no reason while bees stings only in self-defense" is nonsense pushed by the popular narrative that bees=honey=good that wants you to believe bullshit like how land life will disappear if bees were gone.
FUCK that gayry, btw.
Apis Mellifera is an invasive species responsible for dozens of extinctions outside of Europe/Near East/North Africa. Through sheer numbers, it crowds out native pollinators, while at the same time being terrible at pollinating (because they're generalists, a lot of the time the pollen they collect lands on different plant species).
There's trillions of the fuckers around, and yet people whine about Muh Bees while cheerfully cutting down their lawns and trampling on the nests of solitary, native bees that the majority of plants in their neighbourhood desperately rely on.
Retards who believe they'll 'Starve to death' if the honeybee disappears, nevermind much of the world doing just fine without them until the 16th to 19th century and our staple crops using wind pollination.
And then these fucking gays don't even fucking EAT the fucking honey their out of control bioweapon is producing.
I want Vespa mandarina to kill them all.
>outside of Europe/Near East/North Africa
They're not native in Europe either, and they affect biodiversity here too.
I like wasps. They are a predatory insect and kill a lot of undesirables around the garden.
They also sting beta gays, that's always a plus
Bee
fat fuck
Projection
I was talking about the bee
For a bumble bee it seems somewhat malnutritioned.
Bumble
bum to the bum to the bum to the bass
bum to the bum to the bumble
During Summer Wasps are hunting for protein. They feed this to the larva in exchange for a sugary substance that the wasps can digest. This substance contains an enzyme required for wasp digestion.
The Queen during Autumn will abandon her hive in order to hibernate. In the following weeks the last generation of larva will mature into adults. There are no new larva to feed and so the now adult wasps have no access to the sugary enzyme they require for food. The wasps will then begin desperately searching for sugary substances to feed on, unfortunately there is no way of them gaining access to the enzyme..... They are eating and eating, but starving to death.
So yeah.... they get a bit trigger happy around Autumn.
>They are eating and eating, but starving to death.
Kind of poetic.
Can we make it artificially or a version of it that wasps can digest? We could then feed the wasps all year round (including winter in warmer climates)
Why would we want to? They're practically the queens inferior sterile clones. Their function is to maintain the colony and produce a constant stream of food so that the Queen can produce a new generation of Queens, along with the males needed to inseminate the Queens of other colonies. It's a brutally efficient system.
Bees use a similar system but maintain a food store so that the last generation can survive over winter in order to have a work force to more rapidly build back up to strength. They still kick all the males out of the colony in autumn to starve/freeze to death.
It's the 9th of october and I had a yellowjacket in my bedroom last night.
I am now convinced that wasps can read your mind through their sense of smell. Always hearing of haters getting stung, meanwhile I am allowed to free-handle them. Would not surprise me to hear that cats and dogs also detect human emotions by how our body smells depending on mood
or, you know, people who get stung by the fuckers end up hating them
This summer hornets made a nest right next to my pond and I've been sitting close to it everyday, yet I never got stung by them in my life.
Why is that? Am I just more likeable than you?
Why than me? I never got stung either, but I still hate the fuckers.
More likeable than those who get stung then.
I don't belive that's the case, nor I believe that wasps can understand human feelings or that they attack indiscriminately.
What is most likely to be the case is that most people walk in nature in a clumsy and unaware way without paying attention to the life that surrounds them. They constantly step on animals or force them to become defensive.
Wasps simply have an effective way to defend themselves from those bumbling idiots, so they use it.
>wasp hands typed this
Joking aside, you are right. Most people flail like idiots at wasps, while gently pushing them away when close-by does the trick. Live and let live.
When a wasp comes to check you out if you panic and swing at it it's obviously gonna sting you. All you have to do is be calm. Don't blame the wasp for it.
yeah my childhood was like an RPG
>item: drying laundry
>5% to sting
why the heck would you continuously try to nest in a folded bed sheet or a T-shirt drying outside you absolute asshole
They were probably drinking
I've never been stung by a wasp. They'll float up and check me out and then go on their way.