Outside: we cool Inside: good god no!
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Beautiful insects with some fascinating behaviour. Just don't disturb them and you are fine
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They get drunk and try to sting me in the fall. Do not like.
Rather rude to group them all together like that. If we're talking mud daubers or paper wasps, we're totally chill.
Ground-nesting yellowjackets get the boiling water and dish soap treatment in the dead of the night if they're in the yard. I've had too many cases of cleaning up yard debris and suddenly getting attacked by the little bastards to attempt peaceful coexistence.
Hate em
hate those little fuckers
The species I'm familiar with, Polistes dominula, is cool: they hang out around noon looking for water sometimes, I splash some and they oblige. Sometimes they hang out where I'm doing stuff and they're calm and move if I gently shove them. They complain a bit when I trim leaves where they happen to be chilling, but fly away. Never stung. They are surprisingly polite and aware of you, plus they eat some pests and polinate stuff. Some other species are assholes, though :/
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I think you mean "assholes with wings."
They escaped from hell to fuck with our outdoor meals.
Meh. All of New England is Meh.
They give me the hair raising creeps but I leave them alone unless they invade my house.
Ok until they have to fly into my ear
We talking hornets too? Fucking fuck the bald face shit heads.
I really haven't had an issue with them. I've been stung a few times, but usually I know what I did wrong. Once or twice my dogs made them mad and they ended up going for me.
I used to have this storage shed that was full of wasp nests. I don't mean just a few small nests, the wall was literally covered with wasps. I could go in there to fetch something and as long as I moved slowly they didn't seem to care. (Though I did try to avoid the day time and visit them when it was pretty cool and they were torpid.) Never even had a close call with those wasps.
"AAAAHHH! FUCK!"