cloudless@piefed.social to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days agoYou're halfway through your lunch at a restaurant when a wasp decides it’s joining the party on your plate. What’s your move?message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down11
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareYou're halfway through your lunch at a restaurant when a wasp decides it’s joining the party on your plate. What’s your move?cloudless@piefed.social to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 days agoShoo it away like any other kind of insect.
minus-squarecloudless@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·5 days agoBut wasps are angry and they fight back, unlike most other insects.
minus-squaresmiletolerantly@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 days agoWe’ve had multiple wasp nests under our roof when I was a kid, and bother then, before, and after that, I’ve always just shooed then away. I haven’t been stung once.
minus-squarecloudless@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoYeah I guess my fear of wasps might be irrational.
minus-squaresnooggums@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoThey hurt like hell when they do actually sting, but they sting far less often than people fear. Around here paper wasps aren’t very aggressive but mud wasps are. Both love to get up close and personal and make me nervous though.
minus-squarecloudless@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoHere we have yellowjackets, which are more aggressive.
minus-squaresnooggums@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoWe have yellow jackets here but I don’t see them as often, probably because of all the landscaping chemicals.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoInteresting. I’ve always found mud wasps to be docile. I guess it depends on the particular species.
minus-squaresnooggums@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-25 days agoI disturb their nests frequently because they keep putting them in the worst places. That probably plays a part.
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 days agoI’m Australian, they are cowards compared to real angry bugs.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoOh, come on, you can’t leave us hangin’ like that! What are some “real angry bugs” in the antipodes?
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoYou have to gently shoo it away instead of wildly swatting at it. Then it won’t get angry.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoOnly certain wasps. The ones that hover around food aren’t particularly aggressive in my experience, just annoying
Shoo it away like any other kind of insect.
But wasps are angry and they fight back, unlike most other insects.
We’ve had multiple wasp nests under our roof when I was a kid, and bother then, before, and after that, I’ve always just shooed then away.
I haven’t been stung once.
Yeah I guess my fear of wasps might be irrational.
They hurt like hell when they do actually sting, but they sting far less often than people fear.
Around here paper wasps aren’t very aggressive but mud wasps are. Both love to get up close and personal and make me nervous though.
Here we have yellowjackets, which are more aggressive.
We have yellow jackets here but I don’t see them as often, probably because of all the landscaping chemicals.
Interesting.
I’ve always found mud wasps to be docile. I guess it depends on the particular species.
I disturb their nests frequently because they keep putting them in the worst places. That probably plays a part.
I’m Australian, they are cowards compared to real angry bugs.
Oh, come on, you can’t leave us hangin’ like that!
What are some “real angry bugs” in the antipodes?
You have to gently shoo it away instead of wildly swatting at it. Then it won’t get angry.
I will say “please”
Only certain wasps.
The ones that hover around food aren’t particularly aggressive in my experience, just annoying