- UndercoverUlrikHD ( @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ) 74•1 month ago
OP:
Credits to LittleFuzzyWasp
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 12•1 month ago
Everyone thank OP for pollinating!
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
He’s a fucking wasp, he pollinates nothing but rot and death and misery.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 4•1 month ago
Death, misery, and fruits!
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) 1•1 month ago
I’m perfectly fine in a world without waspcorpse figs.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@mander.xyz ) 8•1 month ago
Shilling for big waspa. I shoulda known.
- verstra ( @verstra@programming.dev ) 23•1 month ago
Bees, wasps, ok, got it.
But mosquitoes? I’be yet to find a biologist that would advocate for preservation of mosquitos. Kill them with fire.
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English15•1 month ago
Ehem
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English9•1 month ago
That thing we do where we dump genetically modified mosquitoes into an area to make sterile mosquitoes and kill them off is awesome because the gene dies out after a few years. It’d essentially a temporary and mild extinction we can do. It’s amazing because we don’t even need to decide if it’s correct to kill off a species.
- LibertyLizard ( @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ) 6•1 month ago
It’s also worth noting that this technique has been used primarily in urban areas with introduced species of mosquitoes. It would have different effects if done in wild ecosystems on native species.
- LordGimp ( @LordGimp@lemm.ee ) 3•1 month ago
Nah that’s just female mosquitoes. Male mosquitoes are pollinators. Unfortunately, male mosquitoes need female mosquitoes.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month ago
Aren’t they a major food source for other animals?
- verstra ( @verstra@programming.dev ) 1•1 month ago
I would like to believe that say amphibians would adapt eating flies or other insects if mosquitoes are lacking.
- morrowind ( @morrowind@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 month ago
Ok, fine, educate me, what do wasps contribute to the environment?
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@mander.xyz ) 13•1 month ago
They eat the things that eat the things you eat.
(e.g. aphids, caterpillars and mfcking thrips and leaf miners)
PS: ok just one more: if bees are the plant matchmakers, wasps are broad spectrum pest exterminators.
- ElJefe ( @ElJefe@lemm.ee ) 13•1 month ago
Yeah… well the also eat my peaches and plums. So they eat my food, and that just ain’t cool. On top of that they set up shop by my front door and then sting me for just walking into MY house where I was letting them make a little room of their own. Not no more. Them bitchass mfers are back in hell where they belong, and my world is much better since I opened that portal for them.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@mander.xyz ) 2•1 month ago
yea, ok, we got rid of our peaches anyway, it wasn’t that bad :D but yea, keep boundaries, ok.
- wer2 ( @wer2@lemm.ee ) 6•1 month ago
Figs.
- amelore ( @amelore@slrpnk.net ) English3•1 month ago
That’s only some types of figs and one type of tiny wasp. Most figs we eat are virgin fruit.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English4•1 month ago
They’re pollinators. A popular example is figs but you’ll see them in flowers just like bees.
- SSJMarx ( @SSJMarx@lemm.ee ) English15•1 month ago
but mosquitoes though
- Todd Bonzalez ( @todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ) 15•1 month ago
They have actually exhaustively studied this, and they offer zero benefit, they aren’t even a good food source for any known animal.
The risks associated with mosquito eradication are extremely low.
That’s like the only bug that’s like that. The rest are crazy important to their ecosystems.
- Rooskie91 ( @Rooskie91@discuss.online ) 12•1 month ago
This is just plain false. Them and their eggs are an important food source for all kinds of aquatic animals and birds. Also, their larva remove contamins for water.
Even logically this doesn’t make sense. What’s more likely: every insect is extremely important except one, or humans are wrong (as we so often are) about one species of insect?
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 2•1 month ago
The specific mosquito species that carries malaria isn’t all that important. Other mosquitos will occupy it’s niches. That’s the mosquito people want to eradicate
- Gloomy ( @Gloomy@mander.xyz ) 6•1 month ago
Sounds like massive human bias at play. Any source?
- Rawrx3 ( @Rawrx3@lazysoci.al ) 3•1 month ago
Bed bugs?
- Todd Bonzalez ( @todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ) 4•1 month ago
Huge food source for cockroaches, which are in turn a huge food source for birds and small mammals.
They live fucking everywhere too, including in caves and drainage systems.
- rickyrigatoni ( @rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ) 3•1 month ago
who is putting their bed in a cave
- fishbone ( @fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•1 month ago
- Rawrx3 ( @Rawrx3@lazysoci.al ) 2•1 month ago
So what you’re saying is they should stay far away from civilization…
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 2•1 month ago
sources?
- Mongostein ( @Mongostein@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 month ago
Don’t bats eat mosquitos?
- alcoholicorn ( @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 month ago
What about ticks?
- ElJefe ( @ElJefe@lemm.ee ) 6•1 month ago
Yeah, fuck ticks and wasps
- alcoholicorn ( @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 month ago
No, wasps are fine and help deal with invasive species, you just have to not bother them. Ticks on the other hand are bad for everyone involved and deserve to be dropped into a tornado of bleach. If that seems weirdly specific, it’s because some scientists did that, then wrote a paper encouraging others to drop ticks into bleach tornadoes.
- seathru ( @seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ) English9•1 month ago
I’m torn by spider wasps. I get irrationally angry when I see one of my wolf spider buddies getting dragged across the yard to their death.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English8•1 month ago
That’s a sign of a healthy ecosystem. Predators are more likely to be keystone species. Spider wasps are predating on predators. You’ve got enough spiders to keep the bugs in control and wasps to take care of the extra spiders? I’m jealous!
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 4•1 month ago
Wait, if spider wasps hunt spiders, what do wolf spiders hunt?
- BlackDragon ( @BlackDragon@slrpnk.net ) English4•1 month ago
Believe it or not, cats.
- ComradeSharkfucker ( @sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 month ago
Pest control guy killed the wasps on my balcony without asking :/ I don’t even use the balcony, they were just chillin. Now theres just a pile of corpses
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English1•1 month ago
I have to hide from the windows when pest control comes. I don’t wanna know what they do. I need to talk to my wife about it, I would’ve cancelled it otherwise.
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•1 month ago
listen, i didn’t ask to be born with a functional aversion to isopods and insects in general, ok.
I didn’t want this shit, but i got it anyway.
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English7•1 month ago
Cordylobia anthropophaga can go die in a fire.
- funbreaker ( @funbreaker@kbin.earth ) 5•1 month ago
I know they’re important. I’m also afraid of them because some members of my family have had adverse reactions to stings from wasps. I would like wasps to live happy, happy lives far, far away from me.
- LordGimp ( @LordGimp@lemm.ee ) 4•1 month ago
Bugs are cool as long as they are spiders who exclusively eat other bugs. And pill bugs.
- MelodiousFunk ( @MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ) 3•1 month ago
I haven’t killed a wasp in years. And that was only because it was building a nest inside my storm door just above eye level. Surprised the shit out of me because I barely saw the nest in the dark, struggled to change focus, and jumped back once I realized what I was seeing. Was not a fun encounter. It’s like, buddy, nobody was gonna be happy with that arrangement.
- Pandantic [none/username] ( @Pandantic@midwest.social ) English4•1 month ago
I gotta kill a wasp nest soon (my bros, paper wasps) because they’re on the balcony and I’m trying to sell my house. Anyone know of a way to relocate them instead? No, I don’t have a bee suit. I feel bad too because I’ve seen a bunch of abandoned nests around the outside while cleaning my house, in perfectly acceptable places, but out in the open so they probably got prayed on and now they’re safe behind the fake shutters. 😭
- cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) 3•1 month ago
get revenge by eating figs
- BougieBirdie ( @Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•1 month ago
Is there a bee-ologist who can tell me if hornets are wasps, or are they their own thing?
The wasps around here have always been pretty chill around me, but I get wary around hornets.
- lenuup ( @lenuup@reddthat.com ) 8•1 month ago
So, first of all a bee-ologist can only help you marginally, as bees are in the same order as wasps, hornets and ants but relatively far removed from them. Hornets (genus vespa) and classic wasps (genus vespula) on the other hand share the same subfamily vespinae and are both considered wasps. This was a nice short dive into wikipedia. As I am a crystallographer any real entomologist can feel free to correct me.
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 month ago
My dad’s not a bee-ologist. He’s an apiarist(bee keeper). He is suuuuuper knowledgeable about wasps, hornets, and ants too because like me he’s a fuckin nerd!
I have not a single thing other than that to add to the conversation! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Blue-eyed ensign wasps are cute :3
Had one indoors the other day at work and someone noticed it and was bothered by its existence. I took a picture of it and the grabbed it to take it outside. Would have preferred to let it be, but worried others might hurt it :\