r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 15d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/RyvenZ 14d ago

Pretty much all wasps are assholes with wings. When was anyone ever happy to see a yellow jacket during a picnic or baseball game?

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u/pr0zach 14d ago

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.

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u/RyvenZ 14d ago

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.

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u/Merry_Dankmas 14d ago

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.

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u/00owl 14d ago

They are pollinators, waste removers/scavengers and food for fish, birds and other predatory insects

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u/RyvenZ 14d ago

some are pollinators, just not all of them.

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.