• Nate Cox@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Wasps don’t give a fuck about you; don’t walk up to their nests and slap them and you’ll be fine. They’re defensive creatures rather than aggressive.

    They also serve as excellent pest control. I tend to just leave them be unless they build a nest near a door that would be problematic.

    Hornets, on the other hand, are indeed aggressive and can indeed go fuck themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Wasps don’t give a fuck about you; don’t walk up to their nests and slap them and you’ll be fine. They’re defensive creatures rather than aggressive.

      You clearly have never encountered a yellowjacket, let alone lived your whole life in a country where yellowjackets are (at least seemingly) 99.999% of all the wasps.

      I can count on one hand, two at most, how many of the times being stung by a yellowjacket was my own fault for bothering it and the total number of times I’ve been stung is hundreds if not thousands.