• Ooops@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    Thing is it’s not actually wasps but just a few very specific kinds of wasps that are assholes ruining the reputation for all.

    Something similiar happens for bees. When people talk about them being endangered nowadays they don’t mean the domesticated honey bees many think about (those are cared enough for that populations are rather growing) but the many kinds of wild (and often solitary) bees.

    • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
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      14 hours ago

      I feel like wasps seem more interested in both sweaty humans and our food compared to bees, so they get in your face in another way than bees do.
      Our southern red brick wall houses a lot of red mason bees every year and even though they live just next to the porch they leave us be. I’ve had a tired bee take a break on my sun-warm shoulder once or twice, but that’s pretty much it.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah not all wasps.

      But pretty much all the wasps I ever interact with. Idc about some other wild wasps that I never see because they’re chill and stay in the forest or something on their own.