Idk if it's a species difference, but European yellow jacket wasps are pretty fucking chill. I've only been or seen someone get stung if they accidentally squish/step on them.

On the other hand they're soooo persistent about stealing my food and bait. Like no, you can't steal meat from my fork, fuck off. gets slapped, and comes back with 5 more sisters to bully me out of my lunch. It's especially bad in late summer and so we have to eat indoors because of them.

Hornets can go fuck themselves though and I try to kill them on sight if they're around the house.

Bee sting because they're protecting themselve or the colony, wasp sting because they're assholes

I'm a gardener and every time someone approaches my door to solicit pest management, I ask if it will kill the wasps and spiders. Every single time they share an excited yes, I get to tell them that I don't kill my gardening coworkers.

Wasps and spiders eat the bugs that eat my crops. Pesticides also greatly increase your risk of health issues. No thank you.

My dog got attacked by a colony of yellowjackets for having the audacity to go near their nest that was just on the other side of our fence line. He ended up in the ER for anaphylaxis. The neighbor's dogs got stung too, though they weren't allergic. Those little cunts can all die in a fire.

Paper wasps I hate less, I just wish they'd stop trying to make nests on the eaves of my house. They're chill, but I just want them to find somewhere else to call home.

Paper Wasps ✔️ Yellowjackets ❌

A paper wasp keeps trying to make a nest in my doorway and we look at each other every time I open the door. Since they're not aggressive they don't do anything unless you actively are messing with them (and sometimes even then they don't attack!)

Anyways, it flies away and I remove the beginnings of the nest every time. Then it comes back overnight and makes another one in the exact same spot. It's a little game I play with the wasp at this point

The only time I've been stung by a bee is when I was little and walking outside bare foot and stepped on one. I've been stung by wasps for things like being outside or being inside when a wasp got in the house.

I appreciate what wasps do for the environment, but I'm fairly sure that I'm genuinely somewhat phobic of them, presumably stemming from getting stung by one when I was like 3 or 4. It's become more manageable to an extent as I've gotten older, but to this day, seeing or especially hearing a wasp nearby still stirs a bit of fight-or-flight reflex in me.

I don't go out of my way to kill them unless they're actively nesting on my house or something, but I do wish them a very "go do your thing, just far away from me personally."

I'm pretty sure humans have liked bees and disliked wasps for a lot longer than most of us even knew there were sharks or dolphins.

I've been stung by a bee exactly twice in my life. Both unfortunate accidents where the bee and I collided.

I have long since lost count of how many times I have been stung by wasps just for being near them.

Bees don't make nests above my door, or under my patio awning. Or generally everywhere outside I need to be. Fuck them wasps.

This is clearly wasp propaganda because wasps are not cool. They will actually attack you for no reason and then fly away thus indicating they could have always flown away.

Meanwhile bees completely ignore you.

Wasps are the insect tigers, dangerous but worthy of love ❤️

A bee has never aggressively investigated my lunch and refused to fuck off when I'm eating outside.

A few months back I was visiting my retired parents, and I wanted to break the routine a bit and decided to sit at a lakeside table we never used because it was redundant.

As I walked up to the table and sat my stuff down, I heard a “FWOMP” followed by a sound I can only describe as “chitinous rubbing”. I slowly checked my surroundings until I noticed an almost basketball sized mass of wasps waking up that had fallen with part of a hive underneath the table. In a moment of extreme calculation I decided the only one of six things on the table worth risking stings for was the tablet, and I sprinted for the first time in years to get away.

So, I guess thanks to the wasps for the fun new core memory.

I used to own a house with two pear trees. I learned to pick up any fruit that dropped, because the pear juice would ferment under the skin in the warm sun, the wasps would pierce the skin and drink the pear liqueur, and then relentlessly chase me around the yard. It turns out that wasps are belligerent drunks, which shouldn't be surprising.

You can avoid wasp stings in the exact same way as bee stings; not being a fucking idiot

That goes both ways. Wasps like to fuck around and find out.

I don't know, they're not all created the same. When I'm in the pool, I let bees land on me, or will fish them out of the water with my hands. Paper wasps look super frightening, but they're even more docile than honey bees. Yellow jackets on the other hand are complete assholes. We had a nest of them in the yard once and they would go way out of their way to sting people, just for the hell of it. Like not anyone close to the nest or anything, just someone on the patio chilling. I would leave a beehive, but I eradicated the yellow jacket nest.

this fuck stung the back of my head last week for the sin of taking out the trash.

Bees have never chased me down to sting me. Wasps however...

One of them is chill and just zooms around to pollinate. The other tries to get into every place I don't want it to be violently and then starts stinging when it inevitably gets stuck. Wasps always try to get into my food, fly somewhere in my clothes where it'll inevitably get stuck, fly into my face, etc.

I've been stung multiple times by both. Bees was always my full idiocy (I was obsessed with insects as a kid). Wasps was never my fault though, those cunts just put themselves in harms way only to "defend themselves" when the inevitable happens

Last time I was stung by a wasp I was just standing on the street. I wasn't even moving. I was standing for about 30 minutes waiting when suddenly a wasp came, stung me on the neck and went away flying.

It was a "fuck you in particular" with qll the letters.

This is wasp propaganda.

I got stung by a wasp when I was a kid literally just for sitting in the backseat. I had done nothing at all, and I got stung like three times.

The parasitic wasps can fuck right off. I worked in the southern I25 corridor of Colorado for a while and saw Tarantula Hawks. My first thought was that I had seen a humming bird the first time I saw one - they are that big. The poor little male tarantulas are just venturing for a end of life hookup and then they have to worry about being eaten alive by the spawn of these fuckers. Poor bastards.

Nothing personal against wasps. But I prefer them far away from me. Which often comes into conflict with their interests, as they have this nasty tendency to invade the space I occupy, as in my house, my patio, the places I have to go in order to work, etc. If they ignore me, I'll show the same respect. If stingers come out blazing, insecticide starts being sprayed.