Asian Giant Hornet: I am death destroyer of worlds.
Me: Weeping uncontrollablyJesus that’s almost going from swatting to a fist fight
They’re big for sure, but there’s some forced perspective in that photo. They’re typically substantially smaller than your little finger.
Yeah it is a majorly warped perspective, look at the size of the thumb.
Still they are big girls, here’s a photo and wiki says…
The hornet has a body length of 45 mm (1+3⁄4 in), a wingspan around 75 mm (3 in), and a stinger 6 mm (1⁄4 in) long, which injects a large amount of potent venom.
TWO INCHES IS BIG ENOUGH FOR THE HIGH YIELD EXPLOSIVES
That person would totally win in a thumb war. Don’t even try
Ugh, i saw one of those fuckers buzzing about in south of England. Sounded like a mini military helicopter buzzing about looking for bees to fuck up.
Reported it
Reported it
The Neighbourhood Watch will get it sorted!
(I kid – for the unaware reader, they’re invasive, they threaten native bees, and you can report sightings to the government).
They look like they threaten native everything.
Is the neighborhood watch where I report thieving kids and crusty jugglers?
I had to google it because having those guys here would be super scary. But it seems like like Asian Hornets are invasive in Europe, which are already big. The picture shows an Asian Giant Hornet, which are even bigger.
JFC, it would take a shotgun to bring that monster down.
Every non-aggressive wasp species:
Not wasps, but yellowjackets specifically. Irrational anger with wings, little bastards.
Love me some chill time with a mud dauber though.
Yeah I learned that besides yellow jackets, wasps can actually help a garden by keeping away pests and won’t hurt anybody if you don’t bother them. Really surprising seeing a wasp just totally ignore me.
We get yellow jackets in our yard every summer and I used to destroy them all on sight but I always felt so bad about taking out entire families with chemical warfare so I’ve switched to a live and let live strategy the last few years. They are chill and we’ve only had one sting in those years and I think that was just an unfortunate accident with my youngest stepping on one and pissing it off. I still have several cans of spray so if they break the treaty then I’m ready to go to war, but for now we’re able to cohabitate.
Some made a nest in our gravel driveway a few years ago and were eating from the fig tree in our front yard. I borrowed a shop vac, put soapy water in it and then laid the nozzle next to the hole for an entire day. After I stopped seeing any I got boiling soapy water and poured it down the hole several times and what was left of the nest (and queen) came out. So many dead Yellowjackets!
We had yellow jackets find a whole in the wall, and dig in and burrow out the drywall. Just a thin layer of paper between them and our bedroom. Luckily noticed and got the nest cleared out before they made it inside the house
And it’s too easy to confuse them with paper wasps, which normally aren’t aggressive.
This. I have no problem with anything but the yellow jackets. Over the years, dog has been stung, I have been stung and my wife has been stung. All of us minding our own business and just got too “close.” I will burn those f@&)ers to the ground every chance I get.
I once bought a house with two mature, fruiting pear trees. I learned to quickly pick up any pears that fell to the ground, because if I didn’t, the pear juice would ferment under the skin, and become slightly alcoholic.
Then wasps would pierce the skin, drink the juice, get drunk, and then chase around anyone who entered the yard. Apparently wasps are mean drunks.
Didn’t know that previously, but not surprised. Wasps are dickheads on a good day.
The less popular bee movie part 2; it’s actually about wasps, who are asshole alcoholics, and instead of asking girls if they like the jazz, they start negging and groping them
Many wasp species are generally non-aggressive, and great pollinators! If they don’t fuck with you, then don’t fuck with them!
Yep, surprisingly some of the biggest like the “Cicada Killer” and Bald Faced Hornets (as long as you’re not messing with their nest) are very chill around humans as long as you don’t mess with them. Yellowjackets OTOH can get fucked. Fearless and they’ll chase you in numbers if you even just step by the nest or go by it with a mower.
Iirc even the tarantula hawk is very chill and reluctant to sting people. I remember a video by coyote Peterson got stung on purpose and really had to annoy the wasp to get stung.
I agree! The mud daubers and digger wasps can look quite scary with their nipped waists, but they are quite docile. I have a bird bath, and when it’s empty they sit on the edge patiently while I fill it, then gently crawl into the periphery. They have never bothered me in the slightest
There’s a few that hang around my yard. They gobble up annoying pests and there’s one that seems to visit me deliberately. We hang out for a bit and then she goes off to her duties.
The ones in our yard eat all our pears, the cunts
LemonPear stealing whore
I think wasp get angry in autumn due to low sugar in diet which I think we can all relate.
Someone get them a snickers.
Wasps go through two dietary phases, one where they eat sugar (usually first part of the year) and second where they eat protein (usually second half) and then there’s - well 99% of wasps die every year, nature starves them to death, nature is brutal.
Those red ones can eat my wasp spray
Mr.Gardener or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wasp.
I’m irrationally fearful of wasps, like I absolutely freak out when one is near me, but I learned they eat some of the annoying fuckers that ruin my vegetables/lettuce so I learned to tolerate them lol
Nah fuck em
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Fuck yeah, spiders 😎
Bumble bee? More like stumble bee.
Lolol amirite guys? Guys
What I want to know is if the bumble bee is called that because of the word bumble, or if the word bumble got that meaning because of the bee…ok, so a visit to wiktionary tells me the word bumble came first, then was applied to the bee.
EDIT: Wait, it may be the other way around. bumblebee came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln humble meaning to buzz. Man, I still don’t really even know.
Honey, wake up, a new question just dropped:
Which came first, the bumble or the bee?
Honey
Very good.
Imma bee honest, that was totally unintended haha
came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln
As you’ve said, in both senses it’s related to the sound they make. “Bumble” on its own, in the sense of clumsy, meandering movement, is probably unrelated but I guess it’s plausible that it also had an influence on the mutation of “humbul” to “bumble” even if the latter was primarily about the noise.
The bumble bee part is so accurate. They’re basically the golden retrievers of the insect world—super fuzzy, very friendly, and zero motor skills.
And then the first time you see a cicada wasp…
The sight of one of those will make you want to find a brick to drop on it, until you find out that they’re completely harmless. (unless you’re a cicada)Carpenter bees: don’t worry about these little holes in your wood framing, I’m justdestroying your home.
Me: back at you!
Wasps are the F-16s of the bee world.
My local wasps don’t bother me and I don’t bother them. Long as you aren’t close to the nest, most wasps are chill.
Wasps like feeding on our front door bush. My sister is terrified of them. I ignore them, they ignore me.
they ignore me
Until they don’t.
*Mason bee gets headache and sees numbers
Mason bee: the numbers, arrrgghhh what do they mean?
