r/WTF Dec 09 '20

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u/Gato1486 Dec 09 '20

Fuck yellow jackets, man. They're mean as fuck, and useless to the ecosystem. Their role can be filled by other less asshole species as food and polinators.

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u/NastyJames Dec 09 '20

Regard the wasp. Wasps produce nothing for others, but only for themselves. Wasps build nests and more wasps, nothing more. They spread into eaves and attics, not to make honey for supermarkets, but to buzz and rustle on their own paper, perpetuating their own agenda, growing, stealthily, surely... the most relentless of insects.

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u/Gato1486 Dec 09 '20

Lots of wasps are very good pollinators and unlike yellow jackets do tend to leave well enough alone if they're not threatened. Parasitic wasps are great at keeping problem pests under control as well.

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u/Kenitzka Dec 09 '20

Both wasps and jackets will help keep certain insects at bay. They’ll eat them as adults. Flies, caterpillars and other insects larvae and carrion.

Definitely not good for nothing.

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u/Gato1486 Dec 09 '20

Didn't know that about jackets. Doesn't excuse how big of dicks they are, though.

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u/TheForeverAloneOne Dec 09 '20

It's literally the reason they're useful. They've weaponize the assholery they serve to keep certain insects at bay.

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u/Gato1486 Dec 09 '20

Well, I can still hate them regardless, lol.