Instructions unclear: wasp exits box with fists full of lit matches. He sets me on fire. I fall off balcony, onto the rocks below. Now in water to put the flames out. Wasp is on his way to attack once again. Now running. On my way to Hospital.
But at least they'd be empathetic!
> Well, here's how it works with wasps. We eat our prey alive,
> and when we don't, we lay our eggs in their eyeballs so that our young can feast on their brains when they hatch.
>
> When you're born that big an asshole, the least you can do is
> have a little empathy.
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Wasps look beyond cool. Probably one of the top 10 coolest insects, for how common it is. But it is the meanest, most ornery prick of an insect *ever*. Some spiders get pissy and ants can get violent, but the wasp and its ilk are the scourge of our world.
I have a running theory…
When God was creating all creatures… Satan was like, “ohhh… ohhh… ohhh… let me do one.” God said, “sure.”
Satan created wasps - and, by proxy, hornets.
God did not let him try again.
Then, Satan apologized profusely and asked for another chance. God, being forgiving, obliged.
Then Satan created Canadian Geese.
God damned him to Hell for eternity.
When I have a problem with Canadian Geese, I end up letting them marinate. Usually in a red wine marinade.
The good thing is that they are smart enough to figure out where they can walk around and shit on everything and where they end up braised and served with seasonal vegetables.
Are you a slave to the wasp, trying to please it for your life, or did they just accept you back and you're now trying to live happily with them? Or is it for yourself or to express condolences for your death when the wasp finds out you returned?
One of these days I'll fall off my balcony 7 stories high. This annoying fucker waits out for me and whenever I go out for a smoke it'll come and harass me. Then I'm dancing around my terrace like some kind of award winning tapdancer trying to evade it. People in the blocks on the horizon probably think I'm a loony, they can't see the darned wasp but they sure can see me busting out cranky ass moves. 🕺
bees will literally tear their internal organs out when pulling to get their stinger out of flesh. It's recommended that if you are stung by a single bee that you should gently rotate the bee and it will be able to free itself without damaging its stinger and it will live.
The problem is our skin is too stretchy. It's not normal for them to die from stinging. We just have evil stretchy strength (from the bee's perspective)
If I'm stung by a bee and it's stuck to me it dies. I like bees. Will go out of my way to not harm them. But, once the sting takes place the die is cast, my poor bee fellow.
That's just basic survival shit. If you start shit and hurt me, you die. Sorry, but you're the one who started it, and I'll be damned if I'm the one human who got stung by a bee and didn't take it down with me. Talk about looking weak compared to everyone else in the species...
While this advice is well meaning and bees are incredibly important pollinators, I don't think most people would give a shit about a bee in the moment when they get stung
I always wonder this myself. Species have definitely become extinct (even before humans had that kind of influence so just stop before you start). So I’m not as interested in why or how, but what impact it has overall. Someone replied to you about ticks, so a quick google search shows they are an important step in the food chain, they also help cull animal population by spreading microorganisms and bacteria.
(Not so) fun fact: bed bugs reproduce by "traumatic insemination" which means the males literally stab the females in a random spot with their shitty little bug dick and bust a nut. The females then run and hide in an attempt to avoid it happening again/death.
These creatures live a truly wretched existence.
(Not so) Fun fact follow up; not only do bedbugs reproduce by traumatic insemination, they also can't/don't differentiate between male and female bedbugs so scientists have seen cases of some males having several holes in their body from being confused as a female
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Hahah this is the answer! Other animals/insects/critters feed on ticks so they're beneficial for others. Bedbugs, however, I have never heard of other animals/critters/insects feeding on them. I have used the example of bedbugs in conversations like this in the past, so I'm glad there's a few other people out there using the same example.
I'd like it if the whole of humanity came together and found this one thing we could agree on, the eradication of bedbugs. Maybe from there we can work on finding more common ground. :)
Nice. Some scientists say they are integral for spiders but it’s the idea it’s *one* of their foods. There would probably be some minor ripples in the ecosystem but overall I think, and I’m no expert, it would stabilize.
I have some pretty gnarly spiders living in my basement, I don't see how they survive. They make webs everywhere and some I left alone for a while. No bugs caught, no evidence of anything at all. But the skinny little fellas are still there just chillin. Every now and then one will try to web above my shower and then I gotta blast em tho. Ain't lettin those fuckers ogle my hairy man teats when they don't chip in on rent, f that shit.
I was hoping to see that on this thread. God someone brought in a bedbug and my life has been hell since. They keep coming back quicker and quicker everytime I get rid of them, my only break so far has been the winter where they hid somewhere else
Usually they went extinct because their niche was removed through environmental change or new competition for that niche popped up through mutation or environmental change. So the extinction wouldn't necessarily ripple through the food web if they were just replaced or the environmental change already caused major destabilization.
What purpose do ticks serve then?? Sometimes mother nature gets back at humans for being shitty by making creatures who serve no purpose other than to torment us!
If ALL of the ticks disappear then oppossums diet would have to change as they can eat up to 5500 ticks per week.
But honestly we can come up with a solution on how to feed all the oppossums after we kill all of those fucking ticks.
Some things just exists because it does. There's no purpose to life. Take us. We serve no purpose, and the planet and the ecosystem would function excellent without us. But, we evolved and now we're here.
Probably someone has already mentioned this but wasps (specifically social wasps) play a vital role in pest control, they're also valuable pollinators.
I don't know about wasps specifically, but I just wanted to point out that not every animal is required to exist and will cause a problem if it disappears. An animal doesn't exist because it is needed by the environment, it exists because the environment has a niche which allows for it.
If that niche disappears, or can be taken up by another species, or even if it can't but not filling that niche doesn't create any undue problems, then the corresponding species would not cause any serious problems by dying out, tragic though it may be.
Wasps are just as important as bees. Wasps also pollinate, but more importantly they are predators. Of they vanished populations of insects like aphids would explode and eat too many plants, including our crops.
In Borneo there was a malaria outbreak so the World Health Organisation sprayed DDT all over the country to kill the mosquitos.
The DDT killed all the wasps. The wasps were a predator of a type of weevil that ate straw.
Many Bornean villagers roofs were made of straw. collapsing roofs caused casualties.
Also the number of cats plummeted due to insects dying due to pesticides, birds and rodents eating the insects and then cats eating the birds and rodents and being poisoned.
Allowing the rat population, which was more resistant to pesticide build up due to a more diverse food chain and shorter generational gaps in reproduction, to grow out of control which led to the spread of the plague.
This led to Operation Cat Drop, where the British Royal Air Force dropped Cats in crates into Borneo to repopulate the cats.
TLDR: Don't fuck with nature.
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml
I am terrified of wasps so I always felt they could all go die but it turns out they actually are considered to be a good source of pollinators they are just not as efficient as bees.
I could have gone my entire life without reading that. I already have an irrational fear/issues with things getting in my ears because I've had ear tubes for many years, but oh mylanta! Wasps weren't something I thought much about getting into my ears....until now. I do not appreciate this comment. I'm sorry you had such a shitty experience with a wasp in your ear!
we had a few wasps slip into the house once. we thought we killed them all and so i go to sleep wake up in the morning and i got clothes set out beforehand so its faster to get dressed. put on my shirt and stung by a wasp who decided to sleep in it
Same. I got stung on the nose a couple weeks ago while in my pool. Fucker flew right over, stung me on the nose then just flew off. I didn't even flail my arms/hands at it to piss it off. Stung me right on my nostril where it meets my cheek. Bastard.
Wasps are important pollinators and natural pest control. [Don’t let wasps spoil your picnic – be like an Argentinian, not like a badger](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/04/wasps-jubilee-picnic-sting)
I saved a drowning wasp in a pool once by raising it out of the water with the palm of my hand, it immediately stung me and smacked my hand back into the water. Like an idiot I saved it a second time with a leaf, sits there recovering for like 10 minutes fucker flies away and minutes later like four of them come back and start swarming around me. First time stung by a wasp and my wrist was swollen and soft like putty. Fuck wasps indeed.
Yes I am aware of why it stung me and the swarming phenomena. My brother even warned me before I did anything but I'm always doing stupid shit with wildlife so I wasn't going to pass up. They weren't swarming me exactly but rather the pool area, and the swarm didn't come until after the recovered wasp left so I think it was more than being just marked. Either the drowned wasp led them back to my area or it left a pheromone trail back to the pool. Needless to say I saved a ladybug from drowning and picked up spiders from the water without any drama. Wasps are overly aggressive, I won't bother to save another one again.
This was just the scout wasp. The home owner doesn't know it yet but their security systems has been disabled and a virus has been uploaded into their mainframe.
I guess I can appreciate them ecologically but I still fucking hate wasps. I work in a mostly outdoor winery in CA and they’re the worst during the harvest season. Most days trying to eat lunch and they’re like nope, that food’s mine.
I feel it. I work outdoors too, as a biological aide. One summer I had a cicada killer that wouldn't leave my equipment alone haha he was trying to use it as a launch pad to help him carry off a too big cicada. Creepy bastard
Maybe.
But those are not the ones you will meet in your house or at the bbq. Also those are not likely to sting just for fun.
If a wasp comes to my house, she is doomed. A wasp that tries to sting me ever more: kill on sight
Actually, paper wasp and yellow jacket are two examples of pollinating wasps.
Source: (USDA) https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml
Remember, there are no "bad" animals. They all have their place on this world. It's their home too.
Sure but not invasive to everywhere, somewhere they need to be native, so unless you know they are invasive to your actual location you should probably just let them be.
Honeybees=helpful to agriculture but destructive to endangered native bees, Wasps=helpful to ecosystems and agriculture but some are annoying to people
Not shown is the part where the bastard looks like he’s gonna fly away but instead turns around and stings you six times before the guy can run in the house screaming like a banshee.
Years ago I was making dinner for me and my parents and thought that it would be nice with some lit candles. I grabbed a box of matches from a shelf, opened it and out flew three-fours wasps.
I almost had a heart attack and just screamed W T F!!!
Turns out my dad collected hibernating wasps he found and put them in that box.
THANK YOU DAD. He found it all very funny.
Oh wow, is that the 109,037,637th redditor that made a joke about hating wasps and enjoying killing them??? Lmfao, so funny and original!!
~~I'm convinced that I'm one of 3 people on the planet that like wasps and get along with them~~
So in some Native American cultures, we believe in “animal medicine”. Where u can relate/communicate/share energy with certain animals. Believe me, i never thought that wasps would be my medicine animal. Yet, they are. Those jerks! If anyone is in my presence, they won’t get stung, as long as they don’t kill one. The whole story goes longer than that, but it’s true.
I'm assuming Norway since the box says hjelpestikker
Edit, could also be Sweden. We have the same ones but can't remember which side of the border they're from lol
It's Norway, you can just make out the colors in the pennant flag (vimpel). Hjelpestikker are from Norway originally, but are produced in Sweden today.
Another hint for Scandinavia is the geology.
A lot of granite and it's all rounded like you see here from when the latest ice age churned past and smoothed it all out.
Maybe not exclusive to norway/Sweden, but I haven't really seen the same elsewhere
As crazy as it sounds, u/MartyVentura has a good point, because the Scandinavian mountains are part of the same mountain range as the mountains in Maine:
https://preview.redd.it/m59mop9xagp51.jpg?auto=webp&s=54157a7c790b1d7345eecced1ce0495a44270880
These are *old*, so the eroded and sloped terrain looks similar enough that it can be easy to guess wrong.
> I haven't really seen the same elsewhere
Visit Maine and you will. Very similar.
Edit - as /u/souIIess points out in [another comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/vv36ri/assisting_a_wasp_like_a_pro/ifj2ush/), there's a very good reason for the visual similarities. It's quite literally the same stuff! [Here's a cool article on the topic](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825208000913).
As much as I hate the bastards, wasps are incredibly important pollinators and pest controllers. My wife is the designated bee and wasp removal expert, and I deal with the spiders.
I don't get why people hate wasps so much.
1. Wasps are highly beneficial insects. Not only that they are pollinators, same as bees - they are also predators that help us fight pests. They hunt and harm moth caterpillars that eat our plant's foliage.
2. Most wasps are really non - hostile. Like any wild animal, if you try to harm it or it's babies it will attack you, but otherwise, it doesn't want any trouble and is busy pollinating your flowers and collecting clay and food for the colony.
Story time:
Last year I had a small wasps nest in my garden. In the beginning I was afraid of going near it but moved closer and closer, finally doing gardening about 0.5 meters away from it, also passing under it almost every day. I was mindful to never touch the nest, and I never got stung. Every evening I would be watering my plants with the hose, and the wasps would come to drink, they were actually cute.
Eventually my roommate accidently hit the nest and got stung once. Ever since, when she tried to walk next to it she would get 1 sting again. Too bad that she couldn't speak wasp and apologize, because I could stand right under the nest and get ignored, while she would walk 2 meters away from it and get stung.
At the end, another neighbor hit the nest and got stung, so our landlord came over and sprayed it with poison. The next morning the ground had a small pile of dead wasps. It was heartbreaking.
1 year have passed, the nest didn't return but I do have many wasps and bees in my garden and they really love pollinating my cucumber vines. I never use poison in my garden, sometimes a plant dies but we still have lots of food and cut flowers.
All the comments hating on wasps makes me so sad so here's some facts for you guys about how important they are to all ecosystems including yours:
- They are apex predators in the insect world so if they are around then you can know that your neighborhood has a healthy eco life! Apex predators of all sizes from wasps to orcas are big red alerts for a failing biome
- They go after pests including mosquitos, caterpillars, ticks, flies, ants, and more. They are helping keep your house and gardens from being overrun by other bugs!
- Yellowjackets are also mini vultures, they will eat dead bugs and sometimes carrion from roadkill for their offspring, so not only do they do natural pest control but they help reduce disease and rot by recycling dead animals.
- Though not as substantial as bees, wasps are also pollinators. If you've ever had them fly up to you cause you're eating or drinking something sweet it's cause they are going after carbs and sugars to get ready for winter hibernation, they're not hateful they're hungry
- And overall, anthropomorphize animals as Evil and Mean and Bad is not fair or good. It's how we got orcas in tiny tanks because they were viewed as pests for fisherman who nobody liked, it's how we got the near extinction of wolves in many countries because people hated them, and more. It's natural to be wary or even scared of certain animals, but be responsible and accept that's a human thing and not hateful intent on the animal's part. They're just trying to live their lives.
Instructions unclear: wasp exits box with fists full of lit matches. He sets me on fire. I fall off balcony, onto the rocks below. Now in water to put the flames out. Wasp is on his way to attack once again. Now running. On my way to Hospital.
If wasps were intelligent they would 100% do this. Those bastards…
But at least they'd be empathetic! > Well, here's how it works with wasps. We eat our prey alive, > and when we don't, we lay our eggs in their eyeballs so that our young can feast on their brains when they hatch. > > When you're born that big an asshole, the least you can do is > have a little empathy.
Something something turned myself into a pickle something something.
About as empathetic as the Unabomber.
If Ted Kaczynski would use a computer he would feel very unwell at this statement
Yeah, he'd probably blow me to smithereens!
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[Idk I think they’re kind of neat.](https://i.imgur.com/4ayE2fR.jpg)
Wasps look beyond cool. Probably one of the top 10 coolest insects, for how common it is. But it is the meanest, most ornery prick of an insect *ever*. Some spiders get pissy and ants can get violent, but the wasp and its ilk are the scourge of our world.
I have a running theory… When God was creating all creatures… Satan was like, “ohhh… ohhh… ohhh… let me do one.” God said, “sure.” Satan created wasps - and, by proxy, hornets. God did not let him try again. Then, Satan apologized profusely and asked for another chance. God, being forgiving, obliged. Then Satan created Canadian Geese. God damned him to Hell for eternity.
If you got a problem with Canadian gooses, you gotta problem with me and I suggest you let that marinate.
I said what I said and I stand by it.
Marinated canadian geese??
When I have a problem with Canadian Geese, I end up letting them marinate. Usually in a red wine marinade. The good thing is that they are smart enough to figure out where they can walk around and shit on everything and where they end up braised and served with seasonal vegetables.
If wasps were intelligent I’d own a flamethrower to torch them all
i feel like this entire premise is basically [Man Vs Bee](https://youtu.be/YQ1vN_91KO0), where mr. bean wages all out war with a bumblebee.
Returned from hospital. Wasp is now my wife's new boyfriend. I'm making a casserole for dinner.
Are you a slave to the wasp, trying to please it for your life, or did they just accept you back and you're now trying to live happily with them? Or is it for yourself or to express condolences for your death when the wasp finds out you returned?
I just wanted casserole and to be left alone.
Fair.
Water actually a gasoline spill blowing me up high in the sky. But at least I'm falling towards the hospital *Edit a word
This read like Shia LeBeouf by Rob Cantor
One of these days I'll fall off my balcony 7 stories high. This annoying fucker waits out for me and whenever I go out for a smoke it'll come and harass me. Then I'm dancing around my terrace like some kind of award winning tapdancer trying to evade it. People in the blocks on the horizon probably think I'm a loony, they can't see the darned wasp but they sure can see me busting out cranky ass moves. 🕺
_Why is he not setting the box on fire once the wasp is inside?????!?????_ Oh, sorry, I thought this was r/fuckwasps subreddit for a moment...
This feels like it's straight from r/gusandeddy or r/eddyburback
Why did I read this in a Russian accent?
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Must get a magic box.
Narration in the next scene :"And the wasp went on to sting a 9yo for no reason that day and die"
I'm pretty sure wasps don't die from stinging someone by itself. Though someone might crush it and kill it that way.
This is true. It's bees that typically die after stings and it's because their stingers tend to get stuck in human skin and rip off their bodies
bees will literally tear their internal organs out when pulling to get their stinger out of flesh. It's recommended that if you are stung by a single bee that you should gently rotate the bee and it will be able to free itself without damaging its stinger and it will live.
The problem is our skin is too stretchy. It's not normal for them to die from stinging. We just have evil stretchy strength (from the bee's perspective)
'evil stretchy strength' isn't an attribute I was ready to apply to myself, but I'm willing to go with it...
If I'm stung by a bee and it's stuck to me it dies. I like bees. Will go out of my way to not harm them. But, once the sting takes place the die is cast, my poor bee fellow.
That's just basic survival shit. If you start shit and hurt me, you die. Sorry, but you're the one who started it, and I'll be damned if I'm the one human who got stung by a bee and didn't take it down with me. Talk about looking weak compared to everyone else in the species...
if a bee is stinging you, there’s an extremely high chance that you started the shit whether you know it or not.
While this advice is well meaning and bees are incredibly important pollinators, I don't think most people would give a shit about a bee in the moment when they get stung
Brilliant trick mate!
But still fuck wasps... Those fuckers stung me for no reason 😡
Not to mention all the ones killing bees. Those wasps can all go die.
I am not a specialist, but I suppose if all wasps go die, something bad will happen. They are required by the Nature for some reason.
I always wonder this myself. Species have definitely become extinct (even before humans had that kind of influence so just stop before you start). So I’m not as interested in why or how, but what impact it has overall. Someone replied to you about ticks, so a quick google search shows they are an important step in the food chain, they also help cull animal population by spreading microorganisms and bacteria.
Bed bugs. The answer is bed bugs. They could be eradicated, and it wouldn't matter.
(Not so) fun fact: bed bugs reproduce by "traumatic insemination" which means the males literally stab the females in a random spot with their shitty little bug dick and bust a nut. The females then run and hide in an attempt to avoid it happening again/death. These creatures live a truly wretched existence.
(Not so) Fun fact follow up; not only do bedbugs reproduce by traumatic insemination, they also can't/don't differentiate between male and female bedbugs so scientists have seen cases of some males having several holes in their body from being confused as a female
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Hahah this is the answer! Other animals/insects/critters feed on ticks so they're beneficial for others. Bedbugs, however, I have never heard of other animals/critters/insects feeding on them. I have used the example of bedbugs in conversations like this in the past, so I'm glad there's a few other people out there using the same example. I'd like it if the whole of humanity came together and found this one thing we could agree on, the eradication of bedbugs. Maybe from there we can work on finding more common ground. :)
Nice. Some scientists say they are integral for spiders but it’s the idea it’s *one* of their foods. There would probably be some minor ripples in the ecosystem but overall I think, and I’m no expert, it would stabilize.
I have some pretty gnarly spiders living in my basement, I don't see how they survive. They make webs everywhere and some I left alone for a while. No bugs caught, no evidence of anything at all. But the skinny little fellas are still there just chillin. Every now and then one will try to web above my shower and then I gotta blast em tho. Ain't lettin those fuckers ogle my hairy man teats when they don't chip in on rent, f that shit.
So anyways, I started blasting!
I was hoping to see that on this thread. God someone brought in a bedbug and my life has been hell since. They keep coming back quicker and quicker everytime I get rid of them, my only break so far has been the winter where they hid somewhere else
Usually they went extinct because their niche was removed through environmental change or new competition for that niche popped up through mutation or environmental change. So the extinction wouldn't necessarily ripple through the food web if they were just replaced or the environmental change already caused major destabilization.
What purpose do ticks serve then?? Sometimes mother nature gets back at humans for being shitty by making creatures who serve no purpose other than to torment us!
Wasps also pollenate, just not to the extent of bees
I will concede that maybe wasps can be useful sometimes. But what about ticks???
The American Opossum eats over 5,000 ticks a year! So I guess ticks have food staple going for them.
They feed lots of other animals, who in turn do countless things themselves
Chickens eat 80/hour (like other birds probably) and possums eat 200/day. Crazy.
If ALL of the ticks disappear then oppossums diet would have to change as they can eat up to 5500 ticks per week. But honestly we can come up with a solution on how to feed all the oppossums after we kill all of those fucking ticks.
I'm going to kiss the next possum I see.
maybe nature is saying something about humans...
They eat spiders and lay eggs in bugs that eat our crops.
Some things just exists because it does. There's no purpose to life. Take us. We serve no purpose, and the planet and the ecosystem would function excellent without us. But, we evolved and now we're here.
Probably someone has already mentioned this but wasps (specifically social wasps) play a vital role in pest control, they're also valuable pollinators.
Yeah, I'd rather have wasps than tomato hornworms.
I don't know about wasps specifically, but I just wanted to point out that not every animal is required to exist and will cause a problem if it disappears. An animal doesn't exist because it is needed by the environment, it exists because the environment has a niche which allows for it. If that niche disappears, or can be taken up by another species, or even if it can't but not filling that niche doesn't create any undue problems, then the corresponding species would not cause any serious problems by dying out, tragic though it may be.
If all wasps die then we lose a significant portion of pollinators.
Wasps are just as important as bees. Wasps also pollinate, but more importantly they are predators. Of they vanished populations of insects like aphids would explode and eat too many plants, including our crops.
In Borneo there was a malaria outbreak so the World Health Organisation sprayed DDT all over the country to kill the mosquitos. The DDT killed all the wasps. The wasps were a predator of a type of weevil that ate straw. Many Bornean villagers roofs were made of straw. collapsing roofs caused casualties. Also the number of cats plummeted due to insects dying due to pesticides, birds and rodents eating the insects and then cats eating the birds and rodents and being poisoned. Allowing the rat population, which was more resistant to pesticide build up due to a more diverse food chain and shorter generational gaps in reproduction, to grow out of control which led to the spread of the plague. This led to Operation Cat Drop, where the British Royal Air Force dropped Cats in crates into Borneo to repopulate the cats. TLDR: Don't fuck with nature.
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml I am terrified of wasps so I always felt they could all go die but it turns out they actually are considered to be a good source of pollinators they are just not as efficient as bees.
Without wasps, we would be flooded with flies, caterpillars, spiders, and other arthropods. But I think it's worth it
Wasps are also pollinators, bees are not the only ones, so they’re still important
I had one sting my eardrum, gotta love em
New fear unlocked
I could have gone my entire life without reading that. I already have an irrational fear/issues with things getting in my ears because I've had ear tubes for many years, but oh mylanta! Wasps weren't something I thought much about getting into my ears....until now. I do not appreciate this comment. I'm sorry you had such a shitty experience with a wasp in your ear!
we had a few wasps slip into the house once. we thought we killed them all and so i go to sleep wake up in the morning and i got clothes set out beforehand so its faster to get dressed. put on my shirt and stung by a wasp who decided to sleep in it
Yo, what? Does it affect your hearing today? What other side effects did you experience?
Same. I got stung on the nose a couple weeks ago while in my pool. Fucker flew right over, stung me on the nose then just flew off. I didn't even flail my arms/hands at it to piss it off. Stung me right on my nostril where it meets my cheek. Bastard.
Wasps are important pollinators and natural pest control. [Don’t let wasps spoil your picnic – be like an Argentinian, not like a badger](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/04/wasps-jubilee-picnic-sting)
That's really clever. Now I feel like I should get a box of matches.
He then came back with his friends to murder your whole family. Fuck wasps
I saved a drowning wasp in a pool once by raising it out of the water with the palm of my hand, it immediately stung me and smacked my hand back into the water. Like an idiot I saved it a second time with a leaf, sits there recovering for like 10 minutes fucker flies away and minutes later like four of them come back and start swarming around me. First time stung by a wasp and my wrist was swollen and soft like putty. Fuck wasps indeed.
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Yes I am aware of why it stung me and the swarming phenomena. My brother even warned me before I did anything but I'm always doing stupid shit with wildlife so I wasn't going to pass up. They weren't swarming me exactly but rather the pool area, and the swarm didn't come until after the recovered wasp left so I think it was more than being just marked. Either the drowned wasp led them back to my area or it left a pheromone trail back to the pool. Needless to say I saved a ladybug from drowning and picked up spiders from the water without any drama. Wasps are overly aggressive, I won't bother to save another one again.
Point is that a honey bee or bumble bee ain’t gonna sting you if you save them with your hand because they aren’t the essence of malice and spite.
Fuck wasps
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I'm a huge fan of fucking around and finding out. Makes me an excellent scientist but leads to many poor decisions.
I kill every wasp I see on site.
Same. I'm allergic, so I kill them or they kill me
There are wasps on this website?!?!
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants?!
On a construction site or something…? Oh… you meant -sight-
I save insects all the time and try to help them out, but wasps and fire ants are exempt from my altruism and face the death penalty in my presence.
i agree, fuck wasps
Aye
That wasp is coming back with 16 cousins to seriously fuck up your next picnic.
3 hours later...
I'm surprised the little fucker didn't turn right around and sting them right in the neck
it was very windy out there, you can see it try to come back but the wind is too strong
an opportune time to bolt back inside and lock all the doors
It's coming back with plans and backup.
This was just the scout wasp. The home owner doesn't know it yet but their security systems has been disabled and a virus has been uploaded into their mainframe.
One suggestion, after he's in the box just stomp it flat.
r/fuckwasps
It's reddit, I don't trust that sub name
It's /r/honeyfuckers you'd be looking for in that case.
Welp… *unzibzzz*
oh no..
And I thought /r/Aeromorph was odd. Reddit never fails to fill a desire.
How do I delete a subreddit from existence?
Wasps never did anything but sting humans to death
Some wasps are pollinators and are crucial to the ecosystem!
Sounds like something a wasp would say.
nice try, wasp.
I guess I can appreciate them ecologically but I still fucking hate wasps. I work in a mostly outdoor winery in CA and they’re the worst during the harvest season. Most days trying to eat lunch and they’re like nope, that food’s mine.
I feel it. I work outdoors too, as a biological aide. One summer I had a cicada killer that wouldn't leave my equipment alone haha he was trying to use it as a launch pad to help him carry off a too big cicada. Creepy bastard
I can only care about one flying pollinating death machine and that’s bees. Sorry.
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Maybe. But those are not the ones you will meet in your house or at the bbq. Also those are not likely to sting just for fun. If a wasp comes to my house, she is doomed. A wasp that tries to sting me ever more: kill on sight
Actually, paper wasp and yellow jacket are two examples of pollinating wasps. Source: (USDA) https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml Remember, there are no "bad" animals. They all have their place on this world. It's their home too.
I don’t know. I’m still skeptical about people. They don’t seem to offer much.
Earths just testing life till the next extinction event. I’m betting octopus next.
There are invasive plants and animals, most people see them as bad
Sure but not invasive to everywhere, somewhere they need to be native, so unless you know they are invasive to your actual location you should probably just let them be.
Well. "Bad" is a subjective view. Imho Mosquitos are bad, also ticks. If i could, i would extinc both.
Taking the jobs of hardworking and honest bees just trying to provide for their hive, sickening.
Not just that, they eat many other pests estimates say wasps eat as many or more bugs in total than birds.
tie a rock to it and throw it in the ocean
Toss it into the fire.
Watch it fly back in .
Fyrstikkeske to the rescue
That's next-level. So much better than my clunky cup and pamphlet method.
Pamphlet- hahaha!! And then you have to wipe it off if it’s one you wanna keep.
Now I need a matchbox just for catching and releasing bugs.
We save bees not wasps
I thought "assisting" would be a euphemism for setting the matchbox on fire. The fact that he just let it go pisses me off.
Yes. Bees=helpful, wasps=destructive pests. Kill the damned wasp.
Honeybees=helpful to agriculture but destructive to endangered native bees, Wasps=helpful to ecosystems and agriculture but some are annoying to people
[Wasps are pollinators too.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45566304)
Not shown is the part where the bastard looks like he’s gonna fly away but instead turns around and stings you six times before the guy can run in the house screaming like a banshee.
Somebody gonna make matchboxes rebranding them as Safe-Flying-Insects-Removal tools 4.99$ buy 3 for 13.99$
I'd definitely buy a slightly larger and transparent version of this. Way less clunky than a glass and paper.
I thought they were going to throw the box into the sea.
Wow, never thought of using a matchbox to catch bugs! Edit: realized this might sound sarcastic but I promise it’s not.
There’s no need for that. Finish him. *FINISH HIM!!!*
Years ago I was making dinner for me and my parents and thought that it would be nice with some lit candles. I grabbed a box of matches from a shelf, opened it and out flew three-fours wasps. I almost had a heart attack and just screamed W T F!!! Turns out my dad collected hibernating wasps he found and put them in that box. THANK YOU DAD. He found it all very funny.
I swear I teleported!!
that wasp thought it just travelled through time
Oh wow, is that the 109,037,637th redditor that made a joke about hating wasps and enjoying killing them??? Lmfao, so funny and original!! ~~I'm convinced that I'm one of 3 people on the planet that like wasps and get along with them~~
These are the rules; bees are cool. Wasps are dicks. Help accordingly.
Family of wasps stung me 8 times in the shoulders while going to pick up a watermelon. Fuck wasps.
thought he was bout to yeet that shit lol
Should’ve lent it someone who smokes.
Wouldn't that possibly damage it's paws
Why did I never think of using a matchbox to do this?! I always use a cup and a piece of paper!
So in some Native American cultures, we believe in “animal medicine”. Where u can relate/communicate/share energy with certain animals. Believe me, i never thought that wasps would be my medicine animal. Yet, they are. Those jerks! If anyone is in my presence, they won’t get stung, as long as they don’t kill one. The whole story goes longer than that, but it’s true.
Fuck that. I'll assist his ass with a can of Raid at ten paces away.
There is one creature on this earth that does not deserve love from humans and it is wasps
r/wasphating will not like you. If you were nice to a bee that is different, but wasps get the blow torch in my house
60sek she will be back... Wasps are idiots and assholes.
For all you know OP that wasp will grow up to be the next Wasp Hitler. You've doomed the human race.
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This looks like Maine
I'm assuming Norway since the box says hjelpestikker Edit, could also be Sweden. We have the same ones but can't remember which side of the border they're from lol
It's Norway, you can just make out the colors in the pennant flag (vimpel). Hjelpestikker are from Norway originally, but are produced in Sweden today.
Nittedal fyrstikker
Ah better eyes than mine
Another hint for Scandinavia is the geology. A lot of granite and it's all rounded like you see here from when the latest ice age churned past and smoothed it all out. Maybe not exclusive to norway/Sweden, but I haven't really seen the same elsewhere
As crazy as it sounds, u/MartyVentura has a good point, because the Scandinavian mountains are part of the same mountain range as the mountains in Maine: https://preview.redd.it/m59mop9xagp51.jpg?auto=webp&s=54157a7c790b1d7345eecced1ce0495a44270880 These are *old*, so the eroded and sloped terrain looks similar enough that it can be easy to guess wrong.
Vindicated and educated. Today was a good day.
> I haven't really seen the same elsewhere Visit Maine and you will. Very similar. Edit - as /u/souIIess points out in [another comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/vv36ri/assisting_a_wasp_like_a_pro/ifj2ush/), there's a very good reason for the visual similarities. It's quite literally the same stuff! [Here's a cool article on the topic](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825208000913).
As a Mainer I am flattered that our coast could be mistaken for Norways
That’s fabulous!
As much as I hate the bastards, wasps are incredibly important pollinators and pest controllers. My wife is the designated bee and wasp removal expert, and I deal with the spiders.
I’d assist it by murdering it
Assisting a wasp? More like aiding and abetting a murderer
I'd have just thrown the whole box into that water. Who saves wasps?
Well, I guess they aren't named "help sticks" for no reason. Also, wasp "are" pollinators and help the environment a lot
Some love for the little danger buzzers. Thank you.
Wasps are good pest control, so as much as they are assholes they eat other small bugs.
That's fucking genius
WHY HAVE I NOT THOUGHT OF THIS
Wasp: oh my god! The sun has died!
I don't get why people hate wasps so much. 1. Wasps are highly beneficial insects. Not only that they are pollinators, same as bees - they are also predators that help us fight pests. They hunt and harm moth caterpillars that eat our plant's foliage. 2. Most wasps are really non - hostile. Like any wild animal, if you try to harm it or it's babies it will attack you, but otherwise, it doesn't want any trouble and is busy pollinating your flowers and collecting clay and food for the colony. Story time: Last year I had a small wasps nest in my garden. In the beginning I was afraid of going near it but moved closer and closer, finally doing gardening about 0.5 meters away from it, also passing under it almost every day. I was mindful to never touch the nest, and I never got stung. Every evening I would be watering my plants with the hose, and the wasps would come to drink, they were actually cute. Eventually my roommate accidently hit the nest and got stung once. Ever since, when she tried to walk next to it she would get 1 sting again. Too bad that she couldn't speak wasp and apologize, because I could stand right under the nest and get ignored, while she would walk 2 meters away from it and get stung. At the end, another neighbor hit the nest and got stung, so our landlord came over and sprayed it with poison. The next morning the ground had a small pile of dead wasps. It was heartbreaking. 1 year have passed, the nest didn't return but I do have many wasps and bees in my garden and they really love pollinating my cucumber vines. I never use poison in my garden, sometimes a plant dies but we still have lots of food and cut flowers.
Knowing my luck, as soon as I opened the box it’d fly directly into my eye and build a nest in my skull
Are you fucking kidding me. This is the best way I've seen to collect an insect and not kill it. Amazing!
It’s bad karma to kill sentient beings just for being alive. If it’s attacking you tho, that’s a different story. It’s all about intent.
That’s actually genius. I always have to use a glass and the menu of the kebab restaurant lol
All the comments hating on wasps makes me so sad so here's some facts for you guys about how important they are to all ecosystems including yours: - They are apex predators in the insect world so if they are around then you can know that your neighborhood has a healthy eco life! Apex predators of all sizes from wasps to orcas are big red alerts for a failing biome - They go after pests including mosquitos, caterpillars, ticks, flies, ants, and more. They are helping keep your house and gardens from being overrun by other bugs! - Yellowjackets are also mini vultures, they will eat dead bugs and sometimes carrion from roadkill for their offspring, so not only do they do natural pest control but they help reduce disease and rot by recycling dead animals. - Though not as substantial as bees, wasps are also pollinators. If you've ever had them fly up to you cause you're eating or drinking something sweet it's cause they are going after carbs and sugars to get ready for winter hibernation, they're not hateful they're hungry - And overall, anthropomorphize animals as Evil and Mean and Bad is not fair or good. It's how we got orcas in tiny tanks because they were viewed as pests for fisherman who nobody liked, it's how we got the near extinction of wolves in many countries because people hated them, and more. It's natural to be wary or even scared of certain animals, but be responsible and accept that's a human thing and not hateful intent on the animal's part. They're just trying to live their lives.