- Localhorst86 ( @Localhorst86@feddit.org ) English11•11 hours ago
If wasps realize that I am a giant who can easily kill them, why are they so incessant on invading my personal space?
I’s like going to a kickboxing tournament as an untrained person and flipping off every kickboxer within kickboxing range, then slapping them when they tell you to fuck off.
- MonkeMischief ( @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) English2•1 hour ago
This.
“Ah, behold! A gargantuan dwelling of the giants! We’ll just put our giant clumpy mud hive right up here until we reproduce infinitely unchecked, and then perceive them as a threat for daring to venture outside! Peace an’ love y’all.”
“Ah hah! Look at this patch of grass! The giants stomp around here regularly. We shall burrow and hide beneath it, reacting with furious hellfire should we be tread on!”
“Avast, ye, mammal! You are within like a kilometer of my turf! Your life is hereby forfeit!”
–Various kinds of wasps, probably.
I’m all for letting things be(e), but I get pretty pissed when creatures have the audacity to attach to or otherwise colonize your dwelling and then get mad and violent that it’s your dwelling.
- mugthol ( @mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•10 hours ago
I hope somebody can help me with this: could a bee theoretically evolve to have a stronger stinger so that stinging a human’s skin multiple times would be possible?
If bees would evolve like other animals those who survive stinging humans would produce more offspring, but in this case only the queen produces offspring and the queen probably contact with human skin so this trait wouldn’t be favoured by evolution. Or am I looking at this wrong?
- marilynia ( @marilynia@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•5 hours ago
You also need to consider the overall health of the colony, since if the colony dies/gets outcompeted by other colonies, so will the queen
- mugthol ( @mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•22 minutes ago
Thanks, that is a factor I hadn’t thought of
- Disgracefulone ( @Disgracefulone@discuss.online ) English22•1 day ago
Nope. Don’t care. I’m a scientific realist. 99.999% of the time I educate myself on matters such as these if I am misinformed, and change my stance promptly based on new information.
But not in this case.
Fuck this meme, fuck this info, and fuck wasps.
- Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English3•24 hours ago
in what sense are you a realist
- Disgracefulone ( @Disgracefulone@discuss.online ) English1•3 hours ago
🙄 troll on
- Fleur_ ( @Fleur_@lemm.ee ) English3•7 hours ago
Guy in active denial: “I’m a realist”
- TechieDamien ( @TechieDamien@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 hours ago
They really exist
- ZephrC ( @zephr_c@lemm.ee ) English26•1 day ago
Okay, but bumblebees are the best though. Even fluffier than honey bees, and they almost never sting humans.
Sadly they’re also one of the types of bee that’s losing out in their native habitats to human supported honey bees.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English4•1 day ago
Carpenter bees
- ZephrC ( @zephr_c@lemm.ee ) English8•1 day ago
Carpenter bees are also cool. Not as fluffy as bumblebees though.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English4•1 day ago
Shiny hiney
- UprisingVoltage ( @UprisingVoltage@feddit.it ) English2•23 hours ago
Wait, wasps are pollinators too?
- tigeruppercut ( @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ) English3•9 hours ago
If the female wasp crawls into the caprifig, she can successfully lay her eggs and die. The males hatch first, mate with the females, dig tunnels out of the caprifig, and die. The females, now covered in fig pollen from the caprifig, fly out to begin the cycle again. If the female wasp crawls into a female fig, she will not be able to successfully lay her eggs despite pollinating the fig with pollen from the caprifig she hatched in. The fig will absorb her body and her eggs as the fruit develops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus
- InternetPerson ( @InternetPerson@lemmings.world ) English3•10 hours ago
There are a lot of different species which serve as pollinators besides bees. Afaik, some are more specialised into specific flowers/plants than others and without them, these plants wouldn’t be able to reproduce. (Yucca moths for example.)
- RecluseRamble ( @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•23 hours ago
Yeah. They usually pollinate my sweet toast in spring and my ham in late summer.
- PolarisFx ( @PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•18 hours ago
Wasp nest in wall, specialist comes out, sucks them all out, sprays commercial insecticide into wall cavity. Wasps that were out of nest at the time come back and get confused and piss off, couple days later they’re back and have found new unbefore seen holes to fly into, specialist tells me to buy trap and fill with meat. Buy canned ham and dump in trap. All wasps that came back are now in trap. Thanks Ham.
- EllyEinhorn ( @EllyEinhorn@feddit.org ) English160•2 days ago
- JamesBoeing737MAX ( @JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 day ago
Bees and wasps are the same, we just abuse bees for honey and they are liked for that reason alone.
- jdr ( @jdr@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 day ago
Abuse me for honey
- Cloudless ☼ ( @cloudless@lemmy.cafe ) English44•2 days ago
The bottom picture doesn’t make the top picture any less true.
- JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) English18•2 days ago
What pests are wasps and hornets killing? The wasps and hornets *are" the pests to me.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) English10•2 days ago
Not sure about hornets, but I know wasps eat a lot of herbivorous bugs like aphids and caterpillars.
A lot of people see eating caterpillars as one of the “bad” things wasps do, but population control is necessary if we want crops.
- Cloudless ☼ ( @cloudless@lemmy.cafe ) English1•1 day ago
All hornets are wasps.
Bees will warn you if you get too close, and if they run into you will fly off on their own or otherwise avoid you.
I used to work near a mall with a fountain where one edge of it would always have water splashing up. Place near there had honeybees. In the dry summers there would always be bees chilling out and enjoying the cold fountain water on the ledge, usually next to human workers also on lunch.
Wasps intentionally get in your face and will sting you because you had the gall to exist in their flight path.
- 0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) English4•1 day ago
The wasps local to me will literally chase people, it’s nuts. You can practically hear them saying “Come at be bro! Wait come back here I wasn’t finished with you”. I can’t even have picnics certain times of the year because of them, because instead of just making a run for the food like other bugs they like to chase you away first. I once had to finish my little caesars in the car because a wasp was trying to get between me and my pie in the park. I was literally watching the fucker throw it’s body into my windshield repeatedly as I continued eating in safety, and it didn’t stop until I drove away. Psychotic man. I don’t mess with wasps. Our bees are awesome though.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English2•1 day ago
Not sure how aggressive the wasps are in the US, but for Europe this isn’t really true. We have a nest of European wasps (similar to yellowjackets) in our garden and they really couldn’t care less about us humans. I can stand in their flight path and they just fly around me. But I’m also not as easily panicked as other people so that certainly helps…
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) English5•2 days ago
Really depends on the type of wasp. Most of the ones local to me seem chill if stupid. They’ll smack right into you or get in your hair and as long as you don’t swat at them, they’ll eventually fly away.
- UpperBroccoli ( @UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English13•2 days ago
There are different kinds of wasps. Where I live, out of the many many kinds, only two are annoying in that they are aggressive and try to get your food. All others are chill and will leave you alone if you leave them alone. We had a nest outside our house one year. Often times, our paths would cross. A wasp would collide with us, just sit there in the air for a second, then fly around us. No time to chat, gotta get food for the hive. Also: bees and bumblebees will just take the day off if the weather is shitty. Wasps? MUST GET MORE FOOD. Hailstorm? Tornado? Lightning strikes five yards away? No excuse.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English7•2 days ago
Honest question: how do the typical bees (the big ones used for honey production) negatively affect native bee populations? Competition for polen?
- Podicipedidae ( @Podicipedidae@mander.xyz ) English10•2 days ago
You basically got it. European honey bees consume the already dwindling nectar and pollen resources for North American native pollinators. Furthermore, European honey bees are also worse at actually pollinating North American flowers because they did not co-evolve with the species we have here.
- walden ( @walden@sub.wetshaving.social ) English5•2 days ago
Should I start calling yellow jackets wasps, or are they just a type of wasp?
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) English3•1 day ago
They are of the genus vespa thus are wasps
- xorollo ( @xorollo@leminal.space ) English3•2 days ago
Add dirt daubers to the list. They’re my favorite. They build mud tunnels for their eggs and leave live paralyzed spiders in there for the babies to feed on when they hatch. They ignore humans.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English1•1 day ago
I saw these all the time as a kid, but I rarely do anymore. I still see other wasps somewhat often.