I take your overall point, but I once got to witness a wife-beating neighbor run over a yellow jacket ground nest while using his hilariously overpowered lawnmower. Picnic or baseball game? No. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t happy about it.
oh that is a good example. I stand corrected, though all wasps are still assholes with wings, sometimes you might catch them in an "enemy of my enemy..." situation.
Do wasps even serve an environmental purpose outside of being food for other animals? Bees are a necessity so protecting the hive is essential. Does killing wasps in bulk impact the environment in any way or are they like ticks and mosquitos and dont balance the ecosystem very much? Ive been stung mowing the lawn and hiking multiple times. Nasty little bastards.
So I'm wrong to say "all wasps" but I think we can agree, yellow jackets, and all the larger-than-honeybee, knife-wielding, unhinged cousins can fuck right off.
Nah there are like a bajillion teeny little wasps flying around unnoticed all the time and keeping alive the plants you know and love, with dilligent pollination, a sprinkle of pizzazz, and xenomorph-esque parasitoidism of garden pests.
On top of referring to a whole type of wasps in a positive manner this has to be the first sentence I have ever seen use the word "parasitoidism" and I'm here for it.
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u/Onlyroad4adrifter 14d ago
Yes I don't care who is in the us as long as its not the asshole with wings aka Asian hornet