There are thousands of wasp species and the overwhelming majority don't even have the ability to sting humans. You probably don't ever even notice them, despite being the most important group of pollinators in the world, because you might mistake them for bees or flies. Also, bees are wasps (and so are ants). For more wasp facts, please like and subscribe.
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Asian Giant Hornet: I am death destroyer of worlds.
Me: Weeping uncontrollably
Jesus 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.

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).
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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)
Bumble bee? More like stumble bee.
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.
Carpenter bees: don't worry about these little holes in your wood framing, I'm justdestroying your home.
Me: back at you!
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.
*Mason bee gets headache and sees numbers
Mason bee: the numbers, arrrgghhh what do they mean?

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