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What is your opinion on wasps ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Beautiful insects with some fascinating behaviour. Just don't disturb them and you are fine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

See, the problem is that my definition of "don't disturb" and their definition are very, very different. I don't disturb them the same way I don't disturb bees: oh, look, it's a few feet away, I'll just stay over here and mind my own business!

Their definition is: "stay several hundred feet away from me, don't even look at me, if the air anywhere in my vicinity vibrates as an after effect of you breathing half a mile away I will hunt you the fuck down"

So, like, it's a fundamental incompatibility. They can't abide me existing, and I can't abide them being horrifically aggressive because I dared to exist. Unfortunately for them, I have the advantage of size and tools.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And so we went to war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fair enough, I guess we must be used to different species. I've never had a problem with lone wasps, and as for the nest building ones, I once got swarmed by a paper wasp colony but only because one of them got accidentally caught and squashed in my clothing.