The bottom picture doesn’t make the top picture any less true.

The wasp stings me to protect its family, I kill the wasp to protect mine. Glad it's me who's the giant.

*Beeality

Also, wasps will just sting you because "fuck you." Fuck that. Burn in heck.

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.

Common wasp and germanicus vespula (european wasp) are both considered pest. Both dont pollinate. And both kill and destroy other friendly species when they do not harass you to steal your food. Same for asiatic and common hornet.

All other wasp and hornet like the blue hornet are friendly and help the ecosystem. But you will rarely encounter them cause they let you the fuck alone and mind their own business...

Ok fair but of the choices to have buzzing near me, I'm still picking the bee every time.

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.

Sure, but wasps made a nest right by our front door, and have the audacity to sting me when I simply walked outside. Maybe not assholes on purpose, but they deserved what they got.

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.

Waspaganda!

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.

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.

To them you are a giant who can easily kill them

And I relish in proving them right. Fuck wasps and fuck your wasp propaganda.

I've given bees snacks when they're tuckered out on a hot day. I've let them rest on me. But with wasps and hornets it's on sight.

I had a yellow jacket fly out of the blue then land on my heel and sting me for absolutely no reason! There wasn't even a nest nearby!

Then a week later another yellow jacket landed on my arm and stung me right under my watch band

Pretty rude if you ask me

There we go, that'll learn 'em for having singers. Now to enjoy some peace.

can sting more than once

They have barbed stingers. Their stinger rips the bottom part of their abdomen off when they try to retract it. They don't live through that.

What pests are wasps and hornets killing? The wasps and hornets *are" the pests to me.

I've been stung about half a dozen times by wasps so far this year. They're beginning to piss me off.

And as an adult, my sister stepped on a hornets nest and damn near ended up dead. 150 stings had her in ICU for 4 days.

Well maybe it would be easier to "Give them some Space" if their pupae didn't completely cut off all their food processing in the fall leading to rampant aggression as they seek out sugary and fermented smells such as beer, fruits, and candy.

I have learned thru my years of gardening that wasps and hornets are a good thing to have around, not just bees. Not only do they help pollinate flowers, they are predators to some of the most annoying garden pests. I think I've counted at least 7 different wasp species in my garden this summer, they've done a great job keeping the larger pest populations manageable.

Tarantula Hawk

Wasp equivalent of an A-10 Warthog

Captures tarantulas in a way that resembles Tony Soprano disposing of a body

Doesn't know what the fuck you're staring at and doesn't really care enough to stop what it's doing

Honest question: how do the typical bees (the big ones used for honey production) negatively affect native bee populations? Competition for polen?

I think wasps and hornets are beautiful, fascinating creatures. Most of them don't mess with me even a few inches from a nest. There are one or two species that are looking for war and get the spray.

Should I start calling yellow jackets wasps, or are they just a type of wasp?