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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

This is not the first picture I’ve seen of an athlete with a wasp landing on them just before an important shot

Hey France what the fuck how did you not take care of the wasp problem

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was wasps or dealing with mégot, frankly we should feel lucky they were able to deal with the piss smell bouquet of Paris

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

She is being ratatouilled by the wasp.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Waspatoullie

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

KKKrackkker barrel trying literally anything to stop Asians making fools of Western athletes

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

The wasp was blessing her

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wasps are mean little buggers

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

Wasps are over hated. I think more people get stung by wasps cause they freak out when there's one around than much else. They're just doing whatever and would generally want to not be around you either. Unless they wanna cheer you on at archery.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Wasps (at least in my area) get really aggressive if you're within a certain distance of their nest, even if you have no idea the nest is there and haven't done anything threatening. But outside that area they pretty much behave like any bee or other moderate-size flying bug and I say hi and go about my day

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Wasps have no way of gauging your awareness of their nest and most people get a bit weird if a 200 foot tall stranger is on their lawn

[-] booty@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Maybe I'm weird but personally if I met a giant I wouldn't try to murder them for existing near my house, even if they don't speak my language

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

It's not your house it's your city. Also believe it or not, you have a greater reasoning ability than a wasp and realize that applying human reasoning to an insect is absolutely futile and try to meet them at their level, wasps don't question why they pilot the EVA, they reactively fend off threats and don't really have the capacity to reason other than 'defend nest'. Be the bigger smarter animal and don't go near wasp nests.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'll get right on magically knowing the location of every single wasp's nest so that I can never go near them just because an asshole insect has claimed the entire area like some kind of primordial landlord and might attack me for violating the invisible property line it declared

Seriously I'm just explaining why it's reasonable to be annoyed by wasps. It's because they're annoying assholes. We support giving humans who behave this way the wall. They don't know any better but they're still being assholes.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not knowing any better seems like a good excuse. If wasps could reason like humans they'd systematically swarm us to death because we are a their largest ecological threat. It's like being mad that godzilla was attacked by the military but if there were 7 billion godzillas also systemically destroying your ecosystem and driving your species to extinction. If they were ad smart as us, they'd see the existential warfare they're really in. Be nice to wasps

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

I'll say; I smacked one the other day and it smacked me back

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

You smacked first

[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

A few "yellow jacket" wasps hang out along the deck railing while I smoke weed. The yellow jackets I grew up around were aggressive and pushy, but these ones just hang out, mind their own business, look intimidating, and go away. They're basically street punks of the insect world

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I mean, that's nature

Otters are mean little fuckers too when they get defensive, but everyone loves otters

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I got stung on the lip by one in middle school. It sucked ass.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Do wasps in France look like hornets or is that just me?

Also, European hornets are both scary looking and surprisingly super chill for an invasive species.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket

Most common wasp variant over here. In fact I almost never see any others except for like once every few years having to run from hornets as large as dragonflies.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Not that I'm taking the time to figure out measurements from the photo, but the critter looked a bit bigger to me than .5 of an inch for the yellow jackets.

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