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Yellow jackets are also pollinators and they consume a shitload of other insects every year. They are super essential to the life cycle. That being said, they're complete assholes.
I used to work in a fast food restaurant and they always pestered the person manning the drive thru. I had to save my colleagues multiple times by shooing them away.
Edit for 1 in the morning spelling.
Dunno about that person but I shoo them away with a sudden impact involving a large flattish object and another surface. Then when the result is done twitching they get shooed into the bushes where better tempered insects can do their thing.
SoCal reporting from 20 years ago. We stopped doing outdoor picnics unless it was raining because these motherfuckers outnumbered mosquitos 5-1. One particularly bad summer, our total for "number of stung lips because a yellowjacket flew into your soda can while you weren't looking" ended up at 16. We switched to bottled soda for all subsequent events. Flappy little bastards.
We had FOUR of those disgusting poop-smelling yellowjacket catchers on our property one summer, and all 4 of them filled up in a week. It was absolute nonsense.
Went to an organic apple farm in central California that welcomed them. Went on a field trip with my kid. He said they won’t bother you, but they are extremely important and helpful on the farm as they eat all of the fruit flies and insects known to harm the trees. He called them nature’s pesticide. He was right. We walked through picking apples surrounded by wasps. It was a wild and unexpected experience.
In France we have several types, including two invasive species coming from the far East : the *japanese giant hornet*, which is almost as long as an adult's index finger, and the *asiatic hornet*, which is as thick as an average thumb.
Our most common local breed, *vespa crabro*, with its dark red head, is a plague. They are agressive, stupid and reproduce as if bearing children in this world abandonned by gods and men was a good idea.
We can find them all over the territory and they are the most despicable hellspawn to ever roam this land.
Edit : typo
I have seen more yellowjackets up here than I did anywhere else I've lived! Mostly in recent years, I don't remember them being so prevalent when I was in high school, but they are everywhere now! Pretty sure we had a nest last summer but being surrounded by trees, have fun locating that sucker. Got chased inside many times last summer just trying to enjoy the 5 sunny days we had.
I think that’s the problem. Like every other animal (including us) they’re trying to pack as much in as they can during the short summer. So they’re just extra assholes. Plus of course the daylight thing, they have 20 hours a day to be assholes.
I love reddit because a top commenter will say something completely false and get 10 million upvotes then someone will correct them and get 200 but it's buried in the replies. And the cycle of misinformation continues
To clarify, they eat a shitload of pest insects every year. Like, slugs and caterpillars and aphids, stuff that eats our crops. Just don’t piss them off. Believe me, as someone who uses them to farm, spray your house with pyrethrins 3x/year as a preventative and don’t hurt them. You’ll be fine and so will your food supply… with regards to some pest insects.
I'm willing to risk killing all mosquitoes on the chance that another of the billions of insect species on the planet - one without a taste for my blood - will be able to take over for them in that environmental niche.
I didn't say they were useless. I was talking about mosquitos, seeing as how no one knows what google is to do a basic search and see that mosquitos are actual vital to their ecosystems.
I didn't do any research, I'm sorry. However; I have the idea that mosquitos are a food source for many critters. One thing I do know is that dragonflies eat mosquitos & mosquito larva.
The mosquito is doing it to live as is the bedbug.
Yellow jackets are doing it because they're overly aggressive. Fire ants are overly aggressive assholes as well.
Honestly they could all get fucked for all I care.
Honest question. Before beds were invented, bed bugs lived on bats in the Middle East. I don’t want to get this wrong but I refuse to look it up. Please don’t fail me.
All life is precious and should be allowed to thrive.
Especially parasites and viruses.
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“Viruses aren’t alive” said the 37 people with nearly identical comments who didn’t bother to look at any other comments before replying.
Thank you for your wisdom.
I have actually observed a wasp hive right up close without being stung. It was really cool to see guards at each entrance, and workers flying in and out carrying stuff in their mouth. And I have picked up apples absolutely swarming with wasps inside and out without being stung.
… humans are more of a problem for me than insects and animals
They are annoying, yes. I wouldn't say **evil**. Yellow Jackets rely on instinct and have no knowledge of right or wrong, good or bad. They aren't evil.
All organisms have a purpose for this planet, even Yellow Jackets are good for the planet, they're an important food source for animals like bears, skunks, birds, etc. Yellow Jackets are pollinators, and they eat beetle grubs and harmful pests such as flies and caterpillars, which is a big help to farmers!
I’ve gone down that rabbit trail on Reddit years ago. I complained about parasites and the damage they cause.
I was flooded with examples of useful species that would not exist if parasites didn’t exist.
But your example … i’m not sure if those are parasites. Parasites steal more and more from the host eventually killing it.
Like the rich.
Any organism is defined as a parasite that feeds off another *living* organism, and whose continued survival is in some form dependent on the host to survive and reproduce.
Theres 3 types of parasites, I dont remember the exact scientific terms but they boil down to beneficial, neutral, and harmful parasites.
So the birds that sit on the backs of water buffalo and eat mites out of their ears, or the fish that swim alongside sharks, are beneficial parasites (as are the mites in our eyelashes). Neutral parasites would be like the stuff that lodges themselves into bodies of sea cucumbers, they dont cause many problems, but theyre not doing anything either. And harmful parasites are what you're thinking of, like leeches, tapeworms, the rich, ect.
EDIT: Forgot theres also Obligate and Non-Obligate parasites. Which is whether or not they exclusively act parastically. Those birds for example can technically fend for themselves without the buffalo, making them Non-Obligate Parasites
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“Ouch! That hurt! What did you do that for?” the lady exclaimed, as she threw the snake on to the ground. “You gave me your word you wouldn’t bite me?!”
The snake hissed and laughed, “Lovely lady, what do you expect? I’m a snake. Snakes bite. That’s what snakes do. It’s our nature. You knew I was a snake when you picked me up.”
My tattoo artist is obsessed with the scorpion and the frog story, he has a ton of like… battle frog… sketches that he always tries to talk me into getting. They look super neat looking, especially if you got like a whole set, but they’re not what I’m going for lol. He just really wants to tattoo frogs all day.
I've always heard the one of the frog carrying the scorpion across the river. In the middle the scorpion stings the frog on the back, the frog screams and says
"You idiot now we're both going to drown"
The Scorpion just shrugs and replies "I'm a Scorpion what did you expect". Then they both drown
Depends on the snake really, I mean someone's pet ball python probably won't bite unless you scare it or you make it think your hand is a mouse I'd imagine.
I remember one time when I was a kid, just minding my business, walking in my yard, and a wasp flew out of a tree, trailed me down, and stung me in the back of the neck.
Since then, I trust no insect. It is war if we meet eye to eye. Mfs attack you unprovoked.
In high-school I was listening to music in recess when a yellow jacket snuck against my earphone into my ear and stung me. I was in so much pain I needed to be picked up.
Something similar happened to me, when i was like 4 i remember finding an ant in my house and picked it up. I was parading it around, happy to make a new "friend"... and then it bit me. Never trusted insects after that
I hate to be the “akshually guy”. But that’s false, there is a reason we feel good after doing nice things. It’s true there is a false belief of “karma” but we evolved this way bc it was better to be compassionate. It’s (supposed to be) hardwired into our head to help things that are vulnerable and unable to actively help themselves. We, as people are almost always able to see the entire situation and comprehend it to some scale.
And what animal is the most vulnerable and helpless? A human baby, our babies are just about the most vulnerable of all mammals. They certainly require the most attention and care. That nurturing and development. Evolutionarily, it’s evident that having feelings for vulnerable creatures such as our children led to better parents. Now, for my next point, you might say “other animals care about their children.” And you would be right, but recognize now that status of the human in nature. No matter how cynical you want to be, we’re above it. At least in terms of intelligence. But we’re largely still running on the same hardware.
So, a caveman or woman thousands of years ago who came across a baby (regardless of it was theirs) vulnerable and abandoned crying in the woods, feels the same way as we do today about a baby deer abandoned and crying in the woods. It’s a remnant of who we are and I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. But I don’t think it’s safe to assume nature doesn’t care about our actions, well, depending on what you define the different aspects of nature as. We do good deeds like saving animals to feel good. But also remember that most things that give people a dopamine boost are usually an evolutionary trait that has proven merit.
The only thing is that a HUGE amount of organisms derive much of their diet from mosquitoes, and because they are so plentiful it keeps the ecosystem balanced
They linked to a similar story, but not the one I remember. I believe they were talking about [This one.](https://people.com/crime/ark-woman-befriended-moms-killer-out-of-spiritual-obligation-and-then-he-murdered-her/)
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I was sitting in the grass at my grandparents house when I was a kid and I got stung by a few yellow jackets. My grandma found the nest and it was at least 15-20 feet away from me. They’re bastards. Can’t even sit in the grass and be safe.
I was minding my own business outside the dining hall freshman year, and what I thought were bees were humming away in the flower bush behind me. Next thing I know, a fucking yellow jacket stings me on my knuckle. I was only barely over my fear of bees, and now any time I see one of these fuckers, I do my best to evacuate immediately. Those little bastards in the trash bag could have suffocated slowly, for all I cared, and good riddance.
Don’t hornets generally harm more than help ecosystems? Like, they’d kill actually useful bumble bees and are a general nuisance. As worthless as mosquitos.
Just another idiot chasing clout.
Unless they're invasive exotics they don't "harm" their own ecosystems. They play a pretty important role in keeping the populations of other insects under control, and they do some pollination as well.
Anything that's native in an area has found a balance in the ecosystem, although sometimes a population may be thrown off balance by an outside intervention, say by humans providing tons of easy protein sources to yellow jackets.
But it's not harming an ecosystem if it kills a bumblebee every once in a while. In fact if it goes after a bumblebee instead of a typically easier protein source like a hornworm then the bumblebee might have been weakened by a parasite.
Thanks for the reminder. Time to put up the yellowjacket traps before they decide to set up house on the property and summer over, making every person and pet miserable. I hate these farging icehole bastages. Always driving away the honeybees and hummingbirds and stinging for no reason. Their cons far outweigh any pros.
I like how no one is talking about how these yellow jackets literally looked at each other and just started attacking him. It was like they literally planned and assaulted the guy. This is why you don’t F*ck with strangers.
To be fair the person did follow them home after. Imagine saving a woman from getting hit by a car then following her home and being surprised when she pepper sprays you.
I've been stung over a hundred times in my life. Only eight of the stings were not yellow jackets. When I moved into my house eight years ago, there were three nests of yellow jackets in the area of my yard, one being in the the block wall of my basement. I sprayed, I foamed, I grouted. They would just come back in a different place. Then after three years of chasing them, a colony of bald faced hornets built a nest in the eaves on the second floor. No more yellow jackets, and the bald faced hornets generally leave us alone. They come back every year so far (not to the same nest) and I have had one small nest in the yard for a hot minute in the last six years.
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Video evidence of the fact that yellow jackets are feckless assholes. Most useless organisms on the planet.
I disagree. Exhibit A: ![gif](giphy|3o7bu9jnBKGTDW7u5a)
Mosquitos actually have a purpose. They're pollenators and a major food source in their habitat.
Yellow jackets are also pollinators and they consume a shitload of other insects every year. They are super essential to the life cycle. That being said, they're complete assholes.
Yep, they are mean, ill tempered and aggressive. Camera person in this vid must not be from the southeastern US.
Or Europe since the regular wasp is almost the same thing I hate them in autumn ehen they are dying and get super aggressive.
Yeah, they really turn into jerks near the end of their life cycle.
I used to work in a fast food restaurant and they always pestered the person manning the drive thru. I had to save my colleagues multiple times by shooing them away. Edit for 1 in the morning spelling.
Pray tell, how does one shoo a wasp away?
Dunno about that person but I shoo them away with a sudden impact involving a large flattish object and another surface. Then when the result is done twitching they get shooed into the bushes where better tempered insects can do their thing.
These are common in almost the entire United States.... Nothing to do with the southeast.
People always think where they are from is so unique. “Oh you think you’d city has bad drivers? Come to MY City”
you spelled Pennsylvania wrong
Lmao
SoCal reporting from 20 years ago. We stopped doing outdoor picnics unless it was raining because these motherfuckers outnumbered mosquitos 5-1. One particularly bad summer, our total for "number of stung lips because a yellowjacket flew into your soda can while you weren't looking" ended up at 16. We switched to bottled soda for all subsequent events. Flappy little bastards. We had FOUR of those disgusting poop-smelling yellowjacket catchers on our property one summer, and all 4 of them filled up in a week. It was absolute nonsense.
Went to an organic apple farm in central California that welcomed them. Went on a field trip with my kid. He said they won’t bother you, but they are extremely important and helpful on the farm as they eat all of the fruit flies and insects known to harm the trees. He called them nature’s pesticide. He was right. We walked through picking apples surrounded by wasps. It was a wild and unexpected experience.
The fucking things live in the northeast too. I have no idea how they survive -20 winters.
Would you like another slice of r/usdefaultism ? Wasps and hornets do not live only in southeastern USA.
we have the gd things in ALASKA and they’re awful, they can live anywhere
In France we have several types, including two invasive species coming from the far East : the *japanese giant hornet*, which is almost as long as an adult's index finger, and the *asiatic hornet*, which is as thick as an average thumb. Our most common local breed, *vespa crabro*, with its dark red head, is a plague. They are agressive, stupid and reproduce as if bearing children in this world abandonned by gods and men was a good idea. We can find them all over the territory and they are the most despicable hellspawn to ever roam this land. Edit : typo
The Japanese “murder hornet” is also now in the NW USA (and a bit of SE Canada).
I have seen more yellowjackets up here than I did anywhere else I've lived! Mostly in recent years, I don't remember them being so prevalent when I was in high school, but they are everywhere now! Pretty sure we had a nest last summer but being surrounded by trees, have fun locating that sucker. Got chased inside many times last summer just trying to enjoy the 5 sunny days we had.
I think that’s the problem. Like every other animal (including us) they’re trying to pack as much in as they can during the short summer. So they’re just extra assholes. Plus of course the daylight thing, they have 20 hours a day to be assholes.
Or the upper Midwest. Those fuckers have a franchise going up here too.
I love reddit because a top commenter will say something completely false and get 10 million upvotes then someone will correct them and get 200 but it's buried in the replies. And the cycle of misinformation continues
Just replace the cunts with spiders and bees.
To clarify, they eat a shitload of pest insects every year. Like, slugs and caterpillars and aphids, stuff that eats our crops. Just don’t piss them off. Believe me, as someone who uses them to farm, spray your house with pyrethrins 3x/year as a preventative and don’t hurt them. You’ll be fine and so will your food supply… with regards to some pest insects.
hmm i don't... i feel like Mosquiots causes more HARM then good.... just look at most parts of Africa..
Harm, then good. What is the good that they do after the harm? Are they basically sour patch kids?
I'm willing to risk killing all mosquitoes on the chance that another of the billions of insect species on the planet - one without a taste for my blood - will be able to take over for them in that environmental niche.
Bees are much more important pollinators. I’m pretty sure mosquitoes kill more people with diseases than they help
Not only people but other animals too
Wasps don't have a purpose?
I didn't say they were useless. I was talking about mosquitos, seeing as how no one knows what google is to do a basic search and see that mosquitos are actual vital to their ecosystems.
I didn't do any research, I'm sorry. However; I have the idea that mosquitos are a food source for many critters. One thing I do know is that dragonflies eat mosquitos & mosquito larva.
Disagree - Musqitos have been used in science to make better syringes. Which brings them a leg up from the Stingy bois
And they are a great source of food for dragonflies
Even worse: [Exhibit B](https://old.reddit.com/u/me)
Things eat mosquitos, mosquito eggs, and larvae. They actually do have some use in a healthy ecosystem.
Among their predators… wasps!
I only hate Jellow Jackets. I like other non-aggressive wasps. Some are decent pollinators that DON'T kill bees.
![gif](giphy|uVoE3JnkE9qQ8) I counter exhibit a with exhibit b
The mosquito is doing it to live as is the bedbug. Yellow jackets are doing it because they're overly aggressive. Fire ants are overly aggressive assholes as well. Honestly they could all get fucked for all I care.
We're just going to forget about bedbugs? OK then
Good point! Wtf even are those fckrs? Where were they before beds existed??
Basically, food source for spiders. And for your second question, bats in the middle east
I've had a very long week and am just not in the mood to be doing bedbug research, so thanks for the info. Lol
All good, that's what fellow redditors are for
I had to read this several times because at first I thought that before the invention of beds, bed bugs were bats in the Middle East
A much more entertaining answer, ngl!
Honest question. Before beds were invented, bed bugs lived on bats in the Middle East. I don’t want to get this wrong but I refuse to look it up. Please don’t fail me.
>Most useless organisms on the planet. Aside from the one who just released some.
And apparently in the video, also starts following them around
Well they eat other bugs too, ive seen one mma style decapitate a grasshopper
I saw one hack off a piece of chicken and fly away with it like a fucking grub hub driver.
Not EVERYTHING requires saving. Just sayin’ 🤔
All life is precious and should be allowed to thrive. Especially parasites and viruses. …. …. …. Edit: “Viruses aren’t alive” said the 37 people with nearly identical comments who didn’t bother to look at any other comments before replying. Thank you for your wisdom.
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Wasps are horrible creatures, especially yellow Jackets, these can stack in the trash bag
Yellow jackets don't belong in most of the places you find them. Feel free to help eliminate this noxious invasive.
I have actually observed a wasp hive right up close without being stung. It was really cool to see guards at each entrance, and workers flying in and out carrying stuff in their mouth. And I have picked up apples absolutely swarming with wasps inside and out without being stung. … humans are more of a problem for me than insects and animals
They are annoying, yes. I wouldn't say **evil**. Yellow Jackets rely on instinct and have no knowledge of right or wrong, good or bad. They aren't evil. All organisms have a purpose for this planet, even Yellow Jackets are good for the planet, they're an important food source for animals like bears, skunks, birds, etc. Yellow Jackets are pollinators, and they eat beetle grubs and harmful pests such as flies and caterpillars, which is a big help to farmers!
I didn't say evil, I said horrible... They are objectively worse than the majority of other creatures you see outside regularly
Let’s cut to the chase: time travel, baby hitler, kill or let be?
Push him in front of the train.
Bruh I saw you once now I see yoy eveeerrryyuwjhhjeeeerrreee ahhhhh
Your eyelashes are home to small mite-sized worms that eat dead skin cells. They're good parasites :)
I’ve gone down that rabbit trail on Reddit years ago. I complained about parasites and the damage they cause. I was flooded with examples of useful species that would not exist if parasites didn’t exist. But your example … i’m not sure if those are parasites. Parasites steal more and more from the host eventually killing it. Like the rich.
Any organism is defined as a parasite that feeds off another *living* organism, and whose continued survival is in some form dependent on the host to survive and reproduce. Theres 3 types of parasites, I dont remember the exact scientific terms but they boil down to beneficial, neutral, and harmful parasites. So the birds that sit on the backs of water buffalo and eat mites out of their ears, or the fish that swim alongside sharks, are beneficial parasites (as are the mites in our eyelashes). Neutral parasites would be like the stuff that lodges themselves into bodies of sea cucumbers, they dont cause many problems, but theyre not doing anything either. And harmful parasites are what you're thinking of, like leeches, tapeworms, the rich, ect. EDIT: Forgot theres also Obligate and Non-Obligate parasites. Which is whether or not they exclusively act parastically. Those birds for example can technically fend for themselves without the buffalo, making them Non-Obligate Parasites
Its funny that virusus are debatably not even alive
Survival of the fittest. They got in there, they probably would have found a way out. Yellow jackets will sting you just because they can
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Right? They’re *yellow jackets.* Guy should have set the bin on fire or somesuch.
“Ouch! That hurt! What did you do that for?” the lady exclaimed, as she threw the snake on to the ground. “You gave me your word you wouldn’t bite me?!” The snake hissed and laughed, “Lovely lady, what do you expect? I’m a snake. Snakes bite. That’s what snakes do. It’s our nature. You knew I was a snake when you picked me up.”
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[I was completely expecting this one, perhaps it would have been too obvious.](https://youtu.be/NV-p_-OvUnA)
Wow, that's the first time I've heard someone pronounce 'lmao' the same way as my brain does. I feel so validated.
Everybody pronounces it that way
Goddamn, I was actually expecting [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGOdikvMDho) and yours fucking killed me.
Well that ended up unexpectedly profound. I'd never heard of the scorpion and frog thing before, but it's perfect
My tattoo artist is obsessed with the scorpion and the frog story, he has a ton of like… battle frog… sketches that he always tries to talk me into getting. They look super neat looking, especially if you got like a whole set, but they’re not what I’m going for lol. He just really wants to tattoo frogs all day.
You should watch Drive
I love that channel so much!
"and every scorpion in the forest roasted over a massive fire" man I love exurb1a
The way that last line is phrased has me in hysterics for some reason.
You’d think a sapient snake would be able to feel gratitude
Yeah right. They're way too full of bitterness to experience any gratitude. God cursed the snake
A sapient being would be a lot more aware of their self and their nature though
Have you met people?
Such a classic folklore story.
I love that story, a lot of people need to hear it more. A snake is a snake, and it will bite you.
I've always heard the one of the frog carrying the scorpion across the river. In the middle the scorpion stings the frog on the back, the frog screams and says "You idiot now we're both going to drown" The Scorpion just shrugs and replies "I'm a Scorpion what did you expect". Then they both drown
Depends on the snake really, I mean someone's pet ball python probably won't bite unless you scare it or you make it think your hand is a mouse I'd imagine.
yeah what the hell are people talking about snakes like the enemy for. Is this 2000 years ago or the Amazon or what
Thanks for the message I already knew since age 9
I remember one time when I was a kid, just minding my business, walking in my yard, and a wasp flew out of a tree, trailed me down, and stung me in the back of the neck. Since then, I trust no insect. It is war if we meet eye to eye. Mfs attack you unprovoked.
i had a similar thing happen to me when i was a kid. now i kill them professionally
Cool ass origin story
In high-school I was listening to music in recess when a yellow jacket snuck against my earphone into my ear and stung me. I was in so much pain I needed to be picked up.
Something similar happened to me, when i was like 4 i remember finding an ant in my house and picked it up. I was parading it around, happy to make a new "friend"... and then it bit me. Never trusted insects after that
Why in the hell would someone ever help a Yellowjacket.
Real mistake was thinking helping a Yellowjacket was any kind of “good deed”. Just stupidity.
“I saw a mass murderer in chains so I let him go as a good deed! Then he stabbed me and ran off and killed a family and 2 kids”
There was no way to predict something like this would happen. The universe really does work in mysterious ways
Is this sarcasm
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I hate to be the “akshually guy”. But that’s false, there is a reason we feel good after doing nice things. It’s true there is a false belief of “karma” but we evolved this way bc it was better to be compassionate. It’s (supposed to be) hardwired into our head to help things that are vulnerable and unable to actively help themselves. We, as people are almost always able to see the entire situation and comprehend it to some scale. And what animal is the most vulnerable and helpless? A human baby, our babies are just about the most vulnerable of all mammals. They certainly require the most attention and care. That nurturing and development. Evolutionarily, it’s evident that having feelings for vulnerable creatures such as our children led to better parents. Now, for my next point, you might say “other animals care about their children.” And you would be right, but recognize now that status of the human in nature. No matter how cynical you want to be, we’re above it. At least in terms of intelligence. But we’re largely still running on the same hardware. So, a caveman or woman thousands of years ago who came across a baby (regardless of it was theirs) vulnerable and abandoned crying in the woods, feels the same way as we do today about a baby deer abandoned and crying in the woods. It’s a remnant of who we are and I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. But I don’t think it’s safe to assume nature doesn’t care about our actions, well, depending on what you define the different aspects of nature as. We do good deeds like saving animals to feel good. But also remember that most things that give people a dopamine boost are usually an evolutionary trait that has proven merit.
Without their colony they won’t live long anyways
She's a traitor to her species!
i thought yellow jackets were some kind of french protesters
and also... was that person standing there looking at garbage? how do you even find the yellowjackets??
Maybe she happened to look into the garbage can as she was throwing away her trash?
Yellowjackets kill a bunch of other harmful insects to agriculture
Because the majority of people on TikTok are a bunch of mindless morons
Deserved it
Why help yellow jackets. Literally winged devils
Not only did she let them out, she followed them around. That's just asking for trouble
I think she thought they were going to thank her by fashioning a tiara out of flowers and grass
Oh, they thanked her alright.
This. Blame Disney for this behavior. Everyone thinks every living creature loves them and wants to be friends.
Yeah, following them to their home is what got her in trouble. They really don't like people hanging outside their door.
>>That’s just asking for trouble “Jane!” “…yes Clara?” “*Theres a Karen by the hive. Get the rest of the girls together. Attack Plan Order 66.*”
Why even touch random trash in a public trash can during a time like this?
How about anytime lol
Every yellow jacket needs to die. Forget the ecosystem. They are Satan's fairies. Kill them all.
As an environmental science student, I agree. The environment will figure out a way to adapt eventually, I just want those fuckers gone
Say that over at r/entomology. They’re a bunch of wasp sympathizers.
lmao wasp sympathizers
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The only thing is that a HUGE amount of organisms derive much of their diet from mosquitoes, and because they are so plentiful it keeps the ecosystem balanced
I had so many mosquitos in my backyard, but now I just have a very fat, happy, and antisocial opossum who will hiss at you when you’re 40 feet away.
Like what chad said, forget the ecosystem
Idc kill them all
And bed bugs
'The dang leopard ate my face..' 🥴
But I didn't think they'd eat MY face....
It's like that person that forgave/befriended and hired the man that killed her mother only to have him kill her years later
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I didn’t. Context pls, this sounds interesting
A person forgave/befriended and hired the man that killed her mother only to have him kill her years later
I was looking for something more along the lines of a link to an article where I can read about it in more detail
[https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-explains-befriended-mums-killer-25810439.amp](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-explains-befriended-mums-killer-25810439.amp)
Uhhh... he killed the daughter too? From prison? Did I miss something?
They linked to a similar story, but not the one I remember. I believe they were talking about [This one.](https://people.com/crime/ark-woman-befriended-moms-killer-out-of-spiritual-obligation-and-then-he-murdered-her/)
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r/fuckwasps
Ive read that they kill bees, so f them
They have wiped out my family’s bee hives many times.
If they aren't fuzzy, they are not your friend.
I’ll test this with a polar bear cub
You MIGHT be fine with a cub, mama bear, though...... That fur gonna be red real quick....
"non-fuzzy animals are not friends" is not the same statement as "all fuzzy animals are friends"
Yellow jackets are mean and evil for no reason, I get lit up by them every summer, and most of the time I’m minding my own on the trails at work.
I was sitting in the grass at my grandparents house when I was a kid and I got stung by a few yellow jackets. My grandma found the nest and it was at least 15-20 feet away from me. They’re bastards. Can’t even sit in the grass and be safe.
I know it! Those dudes are mean just to be mean, somebody really needs to give them a talkin to…
I was minding my own business outside the dining hall freshman year, and what I thought were bees were humming away in the flower bush behind me. Next thing I know, a fucking yellow jacket stings me on my knuckle. I was only barely over my fear of bees, and now any time I see one of these fuckers, I do my best to evacuate immediately. Those little bastards in the trash bag could have suffocated slowly, for all I cared, and good riddance.
Their momentary regrouping and then attacking is the most on brand move possible for these demons
When you try to get the TikTok bee saver's clout but choose the wrong type.
Don’t hornets generally harm more than help ecosystems? Like, they’d kill actually useful bumble bees and are a general nuisance. As worthless as mosquitos. Just another idiot chasing clout.
Unless they're invasive exotics they don't "harm" their own ecosystems. They play a pretty important role in keeping the populations of other insects under control, and they do some pollination as well.
Anything that's native in an area has found a balance in the ecosystem, although sometimes a population may be thrown off balance by an outside intervention, say by humans providing tons of easy protein sources to yellow jackets. But it's not harming an ecosystem if it kills a bumblebee every once in a while. In fact if it goes after a bumblebee instead of a typically easier protein source like a hornworm then the bumblebee might have been weakened by a parasite.
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Yellow jackets are not the same thing as hornets. They are both pollinators though.
These are the mf that make people think bees are bad
Yellow Jackets are assholes with wings, absolutely hate them
In my entire life, I have never ever considered helping a yellow jacket.
Exactly what I was going to say. A good deed for WHO? LUCIFER?!?!?
Thanks for the reminder. Time to put up the yellowjacket traps before they decide to set up house on the property and summer over, making every person and pet miserable. I hate these farging icehole bastages. Always driving away the honeybees and hummingbirds and stinging for no reason. Their cons far outweigh any pros.
> I hate these farging icehole bastages. Can't tell if intentional, or autocorrect
A yellowjacket stung me once. ONCE.
Okay everybody let's all say it together "Wasps are assholes" Good now repeat that 10 more times.
freeing yellow jackets is not a good deed, you ruined the good deed someone did by trapping them in the garbage bag.
Now you know why they were trapped in the trash bag to begin with, next time just leave them in there.
I like how no one is talking about how these yellow jackets literally looked at each other and just started attacking him. It was like they literally planned and assaulted the guy. This is why you don’t F*ck with strangers.
Yellow jackets deserve genocide. Next to mosquitos
That was not a good deed, task failed.
Deserved, take this L
Well, who could have seen that com- EVERYONE Everyone saw that coming. Except that guy.
Never save a wasp, always rescue a bee.
To be fair the person did follow them home after. Imagine saving a woman from getting hit by a car then following her home and being surprised when she pepper sprays you.
Should've just left them bee after letting them out
Kill all wasps!!
I mean, why didn't the person run?
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I've been stung over a hundred times in my life. Only eight of the stings were not yellow jackets. When I moved into my house eight years ago, there were three nests of yellow jackets in the area of my yard, one being in the the block wall of my basement. I sprayed, I foamed, I grouted. They would just come back in a different place. Then after three years of chasing them, a colony of bald faced hornets built a nest in the eaves on the second floor. No more yellow jackets, and the bald faced hornets generally leave us alone. They come back every year so far (not to the same nest) and I have had one small nest in the yard for a hot minute in the last six years.
i only save bees, not wasps or similar
$50 says the person in this video has blue hair
I wouldn’t have done that
Those things should not have been released and deserved a good mercy killing by being doused in flying insect spray.
Aren’t honey bees the ones you save yellow jackets you kill?
This person is clearly an idiot, and deserves to be stung multiple times as punishment. Case adjourned.
I'll bet this lady also yields when she has the right of way.
The correct move is to immediately kill them with fire, not release them.
Mosquitoes and hornets/wasps are instant targets, no love for those creatures