• sunbytes@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out…

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Wasps are great. I love watching them fuck with this friend of mine. He makes any encounter with them a million times worse with his absurd flailing. One time it rusulted in him getting stung on the back and I nearly died laughing. He was a stroppy bastard for the rest of the day because of that.

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    12 hours ago

    Maybe this is hippie talk, but I simply don’t bother any animal. I don’t need an article to tell me they deserve to exist.

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    14 hours ago

    As a pest control professional, I assure you that wasps aren’t trying to fuck you up. They get aggressive in the late season but for the most part they won’t fuck with you unless you are a threat. I’ve knocked down countless wasp nests with my brush and only been stung a few times. Those times I got stung I was really asking for it by how I went about it. They’re also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.

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      14 hours ago

      They’re also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.

      I hear that, I did some things accidentally once, but the stubborn judge insisted I go on the register anyway!

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    9 hours ago

    I love having wasps around my garden. They fly around my veggies picking off any caterpillars they see, I don’t even use pesticides because the wasps do such a good job keeping the populations low.

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      8 hours ago

      Its interesting once you learn more about ecology and biodiversity… Those bugs / animals you used to hate are suddenly awesome.

      That said, invasive wasps where I live a devastating native and endemic species so…

  • kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    European Wasps are an invasive species where I live and they’re fucking up a lot of the local flora and fauna. Also “wasps” is a huge group of species and they’re hard to generalise about

  • CRUMBGRABBER@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    According to Lord Sauron, wasps are just trying to help, and are very misunderstood. Please let them into your house, they will reform.

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    17 hours ago

    I like the wasps around my house, they’re Apache wasps I think. I’ve shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.

    Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.