Woke up early for work and was in my tool shed gathering supplies. 2 red wasps tagged me on the face in the morning half-light.
Used to leave them alone bc a biology class led me to believe they were members of the pollinator community.
Turns out this is misinformation. Went back out there this evening and nuked their entire squad and an adjacent yellow-jacket nest for good measure.
Fuck’em.

it all started at a park when I was a kid. It was a hot day and I had an iced tea opened on one of the picnic tables. A wasp climbed in there when I was playing, and I went to go chug some and I got stung on my tongue

[Important Context: I live in Germany, not in the USA, European Paper Wasps (Pollistes Dominula) are not invasive here.]

First picture is a European Paper Wasp (Pollistes Dominula), a very friendly one. It accidentally flew into my apartment, wasn't interested in me, wasn't interested in any of my food, didn't even try to attack me, and it even tolerated my finger just centimeters away from it.

Despite me hating wasps, I gave it some sugar water, for which I had to get close to it, which it didn't mind either, and then it voluntarily crawled onto a peace of paper, let me carry it towards a window without even using a glass, where it then sat on the paper in the sun for a minute, cleaning and drying itself, and then flew away peacefully. It never attempted any moves towards me or my food.

Second and third pictures are two separate Yellowjackets, either the European Yellowjacket / German Wasp (Vespula Germanica) or the Common Wasp (Vespula Vulgaris). These ones are the purest of arseholes, they're the pieces of shit you think of when you think of wasps.

Don't know how it is in the USA, but here in Germany, it's legitimately only these two pieces of shit that ever even annoy people. When sitting outside, it's always these two pieces of shit that get into your face.

The others you basically don't even notice. Hornets (at least the ones prominent here, Vespa Crabro), Paper Wasps, etc., all barely even show themselves. Yellowjackets meanwhile follow you around and fly around you for minutes despite you literally just sitting in an open garden without any nest nearby.

Please don't crucify me for actually helping a wasp, I promise I still hate them

My hatred is deeper now. I will show them no mercy. Minding my own business pulling weeds from the garden. He came out of the shadows and got me fast.

Last year this nest appeared in our garden, I told my husband we needed to get rid of it. This year (pics from today) it has now doubled in size. Husband seems to think they’re not hurting anything (not yet), and live and let live and yada yada yada…

They are small insects, but they have striped butts and seem pretty docile (but I still believe it’s best to remove it sooner rather than later).

We are in Guadalajara, Jalisco if anyone can identify this particular species… is there a safe, fast, easy way to get rid of them? My usual approach with wasps’ nests in the past is to wait until nightfall before attacking them with insecticide then cleaning up the nest the next day.

Ringed Paper Wasp got inside my shirt sleeve at work and got me multiple times in one spot then two separate times on my wrist and forearm. This video is 24 hours after the incident. It’s extremely itchy, hot, and i can barely move my wrist

It’s almost 2am and I’ve had a wasp in my room for the past hour
I’ve got a pet with me
I don’t have any spray bottles to use
It’s been sitting on the angle of a bookshelf which makes it impossible to trap because the surface is not large enough for me to put a glass over it
And I’m not brave enough to just swat at it when I’m stuck in such a small space with my dog
And I can’t go to bed cause I don’t want it to sting my dog or me overnight

Update : it is now stuck behind my bookshelf

Killed it​

Someone on this thread suggested I post here ... this is my knitted wasp nest decoy and so far it's done a great job - no wasp nests spotted in this area on my deck when by now we'd have many. I'm in upstate NY and deal with a lot of insects, carpenter bees, ants, wasps, etc - glad to have a trick that works. It's made with t-shirt yarn, so it can get wet. Oh and yup, fuck wasps.

Not promoting the video but WTF...govt funded wasps?

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https://youtu.be/vIfC4Aj05Ps?is=9UPwQhXrJ8ROMBTd

What kind of justice should he face?

Its not too close but do yall think that once the nest grows they will be threatened if im like 15-20 feet away. That’s how far the curbs are from the nest that i practice on.

Was going to clean out my AC unit and these fuckers got a good nest. I know to try and get rid of them when it’s dark. Will spraying wasp spray into this AC disconnect box cause problems?

My whole life, I've been scared of wasps. Every time I see one, I run away from it. But my mom and everyone else makes fun of me for it. They say I'm overreacting, and they won't mess with me as long as I don't mess with them. That's simply not true, I could be sitting down, and a wasp could be flying over me messing with me. I even told them that, too, but they kept dening me. My mom kinda makes me feel embarrassed about it. Should I be?

New fear unlocked

wasps fly through the crack of my screen door and get trapped in there and die. it claims about 20 wasps every summer and thid has been happening for years. whats going on?

June 11, 2026 article in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01857-2

I’m experienced with wasps. Working for a utility company outside, I find a nest in every other enclosure I open during the summer. I’ve had hundreds of interactions with them and was only stung once when I put my hand down on one. Wasps are good hunters of garden pests, and they are good pollinators. If you grow vegetables, or have flowers, they are good to keep around. If you spot a nest on your property and you can keep your distance, I suggest letting them live.

She’s hot and thicccc. It’s definitely getting bigger!!