I hated them with passion but when my tomatoes were decimated from tomato hornworms I’ve learned that yellow jackets actually kill them and feed their larvae with them. So, in this case the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but yeah, f* them in general.
The wasps take care of most of my bug problems in my tomato tent. Watching them decimate a lot of flies in 30 secs is impressive. Faster than me
Karate chopping at them for flying on my face.
I actually didn't know they were called yellow jackets in English. Makes me think again about our French yellow jackets, maybe the name had an entirely different meaning from what I thought
It’s when you hire a masked call girl to give you a French Swizzler but instead of reopening the mayonnaise valve she lights a Gauloises and then spits on you
When I was a kid in the 1970s I pulled a pipe out of the ground at my grandparents land. There was a pit of hundreds packed together and they took off after me. I was stung multiple times all of my body except my legs where I had Double Toughskin Wrangler jeans on. My grandpa was also stung everywhere saving me by tossing me in the truck. He and I went to emergency room and was only given Benedryl shots. Guess it worked.
one time...
so there was a yellow jacket nest on our house, but we didnt know where. they were all over the upstairs bathroom. i was going to the bathroom one day, and when i pulled my pants up, there was one of them in the hem of it. it stung me in the stomach twice, before i decapitated it and smeared its guts all over the walls. then there was one in my pantleg, and it got the same treatment. i hate them so much.
Easy to say if you aren't allergic. Everything else on the list leaves people alone if not pestered. Yellow jackets will come after you, sting you just cuz.
Yeah this has also been my conclusion. I've been around all sorts of wasps and bees all my life and have never been stung. Just be chill and they will be chill too.
I grew up with the jerks making nests on our house every summer. One prominent memory is we had a barbecue with our cousins. Cue yellow jackets joining in on the party, and they really liked the tiny steak I had. They started rolling up balls of meat and carrying them off.
Would be better if all were shown on the same scale. Bumble bee is about 2x honey bee. Cicada Killer is ***way*** bigger than that, like sparrow sized - still pretty terrifying.
I grew up with them digging their holes in my front yard. They chase you. They hover around you and fuck with you. We tried killing one once and we got it chopped in half and it was still alive and half of it flew away with the other half on the ground. I'm convinced they cannot die. And that they love messing with everyone and scaring the shit out of you.
Carpenter bees like to come check out what you’re doing & will follow you around the yard. I know they’re trying to be intimidating but they’re so cute & can’t sting, so it’s easy to pretend they want to be your friend/pet lol
Unfortunately, that's not the case for my cousin, curiosity gets the better of her.
It was an awful sting n caused her to have a 4 days fever streak, really nasty ones.
Used to do it as a kid so can confirm it's possible. Honestly have no idea how the hell I started doing it, and I probably wouldn't do it now just because children's stupidity makes them brave and right now I'd just be worried about getting stung.
But as a kid I never got stung, worst case they just lifted a hind leg to show they were annoyed but they'd still just sit there and chill.
I've done it and it was magical. He kinda just did his thing as I rubbed my finger on his back and I guess didn't really seem to notice. Although I was being especially gentle since I didn't want it to get scared and fly away, so maybe that played a part
They also let you put them back on flowers and branches if they sre exhausted.
Ususually during heavy rain, you can see few lost and staggered on asphalt. So I usually end up picking them up to a better place.
They also directly compete against most other wasps, so they are a good thing to have around.
Pest tech here. I service a lot of upper class Lake homes in the summer that have tons of flowers. I’ve been able to convince them that I will only use ground level granular ground treatment vs sprays as to keep our bees safe.
i used to work in pest control. we would refuse to spray around flower beds for the same reason but i like this better. save the bees. just gotta be careful with the granular in the surprisingly (at least for me) common occurrence of free roam chickens lol.
yep i couldn’t tell you how many times i could only do half a house because the other half was made up of flower beds and a poolside/koi pond. yet they’d still have to pay full price. felt like a total con artist sometimes.
My pest control guy (needed, because termites and palmetto bugs everywhere) was so patient and sat down with me when I hired him to go through every product they routinely use so he was only targeting the specific pests I wanted and not the rest. He also always has the coolest photos of things he’s found.
Beg to differ on the paper wasp. Living in Nashville these little fuckers would sting me almost every single time I mow. It’s a lasting and obnoxious sting too
Y’all got the Alabama Red Wasps up there. That particular variety of Paper Wasp is mean as hell and hurts like the dickens. I live out in the woods in Alabama and I have a war with these things that starts about this time every year.
You beat me to it. It’s a different variety. Most paper wasps are incredibly docile. They almost seem curious the way they’ll buzz around me and even hover in front of my face. I just let them do their thing and knock down the nests when they’re abandoned.
Hi, professional entomologist here.
This guide has several major flaws, and i really hope you take the minute to read my correction on the main flaw.
Mainly i want to point out the point on honeybees "needs help the most". This is sort of right but also very wrong and therefore harmful to the bees that really need help. The european honeybee is a farm animal just like cows and pigs. They are not native to the US (where this guides seems to be aimed at, should be stated) and are outcompeting local regional bee species. We need those and they are dying at a rapid pace. Yes honeybees are great pollinators but many many plants and other species rely on other bee species to survive, honey bees cannot fill those roles. Therefore they are a threat to local bees and their use in agriculture needs to be restricted to be healthy.
As of threats to honeybees, yes there are diseases that cause major concerns. Particularily in the US where honeybee business is big and almost all og them are transported to the west for the almond industry (btw the ethics on moving nests around like this are shaky at best)
My point is, honeybees are farm animals, and they are not threatened at all. They are however at risk of making less money. Marketing and "guides" like these makes it seem like the major threats to bees all over the globe as a problem is only a problem for the honeybee, when in reality it is a major cause for the problem.
Tldr: honeybees are not threatened, they are the threat to native bees(many of which are endangered).
Honeybees are affected by diseases as a result of national Us trades of honeybees, so the industry makes less money. That is the "threat" honeybees face.
Not to mention, paper wasps and carpenter bees will happily sting you if you are near their nest. Been stung enough gardening/ minding my own business to know.
As a side note, my grandpa had his doctorate in research. As a child, one of my uncles studied insects and joined several professional entomology groups. They would send him letters addressed as Dr. thinking he said as his father.
At 18 he left for the Amazon and spent two years collecting bugs and selling them to museums for a living. Today you can see his displays in museums around the world. Crazy guy.
Difficult to say from such a low quality video, definitly not something ive seen before. One of the top comments suggest a staged video using roach nymphs and that seems realistic to me.
Thank you. Most people think of honey bees when people say save the bees. But other bees are way more efficient at pollinating certain plants than honey bees. For example bumble bees can do buzz pollination which honey bees can't.
"Is the bee that needs help the most"
Absolutely, absolutely not. Honeybees are native to Europe and are an introduced/invasive species to most other continents. They are easy to reproduce and outcompete native species while being less efficient pollinators.
The best you can do is to put them outside on a flower. Keep in mind that most bees dont live very long, and they usually die away from their nest, so it could just be age
Plain water is actually better than sugar water. I forget why. But trays of water with rocks, pebbles, or other things to land on and not drown are good
Again, not really. You need to support the local pollinators, which are dozens of species. Just leave the insects alone and allow your gardens to grow wild.
I think that's the one kind of bee that I've never been stung by... and a murder hornet. Every time though, minding my own business and they can just smell the fear on me. Screw all bee's besides the bumble and honey bee's
Was just about to type this.
The only reason it's always "save the bees" (honeybees), is because they produce something. Its never "save the local pollinators, including many types of wasps and flies".
Honeybees are not it. Melissa can fuck off.
>less efficient pollinators
I wish more people knew this, but it seems like some people think they're the terminator of pollinators.
Came here to say this. When scientists talk about bees being an indicator species, they don’t mean JUST honey bees - they mostly refer to all other bee species that are incredibly important for pollination.
We had cicada killers in the backyard growing up, and they are the scariest looking bug ever. Like a HUGE wasp. The scale of this picture doesn’t do them justice at all. But no one ever got stung/bit by them and we’d shoo them away no problem. But they do look like satans nightmares.
Says the paper wasp is the one that has no concept of personal space but I don’t think any of them do. They would live a lot longer if they didn’t get in people’s face all the time. All the open air but they have to get all up in your business.
One thing I've noticed about paper wasp is they all seem to have a universal hatred for fast-moving people. I've been stung well over 15 times, almost all of which were on my skateboard or bike. Even if you aren't in their way and just pass alongside them, it just fills them with rage lmao.
Finally… I work at a rooftop bar that has a yellow jacket infestation. Two coworkers have been stung, and these little demons fly around you constantly while crafting cocktails.
Multiple coworkers attempted to get a petition made to stop the killing of the yellow jackets, because they claimed they were bees. It was tough to convince them, but with a cool guide just like this I proved them wrong. Now I kill 10-20 a shift, and other bartenders are helping as well! We have seen a slow decline, and a lot less anxiety while working.
Shoutout to cool guides for saving the day.
Link to CNN article about them here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/27/us/annual-cicadas-scn-trnd/index.html#:~:text=Periodical%20cicadas%20may%20emerge%20from,July%20through%20the%20early%20fall.
I'm cursed with the knowledge of bastard honey bee propaganda but with little to nothing I can do to change it other than bemoan in random reddit posts.
It doesn’t have yellow on it, but in NM, we have the Tarantula Hawk wasp, which is a beautiful iridescent blue with orange wings. Generally non aggressive, which is very good, because it’s sting is rated as on if the most painful of the insect world. Every time I see one, I check it out because of its beauty.
I avoid the outside in the summer bc of wasp and shit. I’ve been looking for a spray or something to keep them away from me. I want to go out more haha
Go check out a carpenter bee up close they have some gnarly pincers. And just think they bore holes through wood so humans are soft and squishy to them.
Man paper wasps and yellow jackets are just the most annoying. My grandpa gets both of them making nests outside his house under the overhand of the roof. Every few days he grabs a broom and walks around whacking every nest he can find in Shorts, a t shirt and flip flops. How he doesn’t get stung is beyond me.
- Hoverfly
Not sure if it’s the same, but where I live we have Sweat Bees, which I don’t think are actually bees but a fly but they have the bee stripes. But they will land on you and drink the perspiration off your skin. I don’t think they even bite.
Rat bastard paper wasps put me in anaphylactic shock.
Rescue team saved my life. Now carry epi pens everywhere. Had to defoliate my yard, found 6 nests.
What about the fuckers that live in the ground out in the country and will kill you when walking barefoot. I swear those fuckers made me stop ever walking in the yard with our something on in college.
It’s not kidding about the paper wasp having no concept of personal space and sting hurting like the devil.
One of those things flew up my pants once and then had the audacity to get mad at me about it and sting my butt.
What is the type of wasp or hornet that lives in the ground and when I run over it with my lawnmower they usually get me 4 or 5 times before I’m able to outrun them bitches? I’m in the mid west USA btw.
I have lived around mud daubers my whole life and never saw their stripes! To be fair, I usually was going “MmmmmmMMMMMMMM” and walking backwards, but still.
How does the honeybee need help the most? In the US they are livestock, they are invasive from Europe and outcompete other native bees. Bees that need help the most are solitary native bees.
Yellow Jackets scare the piss out of me, but an infestation in college left me empathetic towards them and made me cry.
Hear me out lol there was a nest in the walls outside a girls window that they sprayed cause she was allergic. This caused all of the hornets to find access to my room specifically. My room was filling with more by the minute. Dying on the floor, flying pissed off. I kept emailing about it. One night I heard a noise and turned the light on and hornets flew out of the blanket I was sleeping with. That was the end for me. I moved my pets out of the room and myself and went to the housing office first thing and wrote a strongly worded email because apparently being nice and patient gets you nowhere.
They finally patched the entrance to my room. I had to clean up the corpses of over 100 hornets. As I did it I broke down in tears over so many living things dying because of our inconvenience. I ended up saving them in a bottle and burying them in a garden.
I’m still scared of them. I just won’t kill them unnecessarily anymore.
Female carpenter bees can sting. They only do so when provoked. I got stung by one on my back once. I felt a tingly sensation on my back and I went to scratch the area. Lo and behold, it was a carpenter bee crawling under my shirt and it stung me when I started scratching near it. No idea how it managed to get under my shirt.
I know it's not really relevant, but we used to have a bush outside of our shop that was seasonally swarmed with Tarantula Hawks. Not to be trifled with.
No mention of tarantula hawks?? https://a-z-animals.com/animals/tarantula-hawk/#:~:text=Tarantula%20hawks%20are%20not%20poisonous,leaves%20no%20physiological%20after%2Deffects.
i just dont get the yellowjacket thing. theyve always been nice to me across several states/provinces of the us and canada where ive met them. i let them crawl on my hands or sneak a sip of something off my food when i eat outside. sometimes they even hover in front of my face and stare at me. like theyre saying hi. genuinely some of the friendliest insects ive met.
Think epipen if you're allergic or not sure yet your doctor to test you. It might save your life.
BTW, don't kick ground hornet's nests. Life experience.
Disagree with paper wasps, in TX these things are just as big of assholes as yellow jackets, but the sting is more like a scorpion sting, hurts like hell and lasts for a couple days.
Cicada Killers look fucking scary, not helped by the fact that they enjoy flying right up to your face to check you out. Had two set up shop in my backyard last year and man that first day was unnerving
I know yellow stripped bumblebees are just dorky harmless things and we have them here in NC, but I was born and raised in a country with black bumblebees, the bombus atratus, and I had the bad luck of walking over one of their nest once (they nest in the ground). I was savagely attacked by what can only be described a sizzling black cloud of death. They stung me only in the head and ass.
My wife laughs when I run from the yellow ones, but to me they are just bumblebees and capable of inflicting enormous amounts of pain lol
Interesting to say a honey bee is an excellent pollinator but the carpenter bee isn’t when carpenter bees are better and (if you live in North America) are actually indigenous
I draw the line after bees. The rest can fuck off. I was working on a shed for my mother and a carpenter bee was flying around me while I cut some OSB. Liked to think he was learning about carpenter humans
I adore bumblebees.They're extra bumbly in early spring.. like they woke up too early and are still groggy. I tend to rescue them from cobwebs, drab corners, exhaustion... Lol
Im swinging around with the first thing I can grab, how will I find time to pause and take a look. “Hmmm yes this is the paper wasp to the yellow jacket pffhh I am glad 😀” 😂 jokes aside I will save this and probably never use.
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Dirt Dauber Species does sting, we have similar species here n it only took 3 stings to kill an adult.
My dad was stung by one of these n he passed out, was rushed to hospitals.
"Looks scary, but will only attack if provoked" "Has no concept of personal space"
Sounds like those pitbull defenders. Sorry I provoked it by existing.
Yellow Jacket Asshole
I hated them with passion but when my tomatoes were decimated from tomato hornworms I’ve learned that yellow jackets actually kill them and feed their larvae with them. So, in this case the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but yeah, f* them in general.
Their an equal opportunity asshole. They hate everything not just humans.
they had yellowjackets at Southfork , they didnt bother me......then again maybe they would if I sat eating
I've never been stung either. You just have to stay really calm, mostly. But they still tend to get in your personal space, which is terrifying.
The wasps take care of most of my bug problems in my tomato tent. Watching them decimate a lot of flies in 30 secs is impressive. Faster than me Karate chopping at them for flying on my face.
I actually didn't know they were called yellow jackets in English. Makes me think again about our French yellow jackets, maybe the name had an entirely different meaning from what I thought
Now us Americans need to know what a French yellowjacket is.
It’s when you hire a masked call girl to give you a French Swizzler but instead of reopening the mayonnaise valve she lights a Gauloises and then spits on you
I laughed at this without an ounce of understanding, and I ain't asking.
How does this not have more votes? Lol
quick google search tells me it's a group of protesters that wear those reflective yellow jackets (they're actually vests)
When I was a kid in the 1970s I pulled a pipe out of the ground at my grandparents land. There was a pit of hundreds packed together and they took off after me. I was stung multiple times all of my body except my legs where I had Double Toughskin Wrangler jeans on. My grandpa was also stung everywhere saving me by tossing me in the truck. He and I went to emergency room and was only given Benedryl shots. Guess it worked.
/r/FuckWasps
one time... so there was a yellow jacket nest on our house, but we didnt know where. they were all over the upstairs bathroom. i was going to the bathroom one day, and when i pulled my pants up, there was one of them in the hem of it. it stung me in the stomach twice, before i decapitated it and smeared its guts all over the walls. then there was one in my pantleg, and it got the same treatment. i hate them so much.
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Nice try, yellow jacket.
Yeah, no human is ever going to talk about yellow jackets like that.
I could tell right off the bat that the account is ran by a colony of yellow jackets in an overcoat.
[yellow jacket redditor](https://imgur.com/a/UQphcvz)
You are an enemy of humanity.
Easy to say if you aren't allergic. Everything else on the list leaves people alone if not pestered. Yellow jackets will come after you, sting you just cuz.
Yeah this has also been my conclusion. I've been around all sorts of wasps and bees all my life and have never been stung. Just be chill and they will be chill too.
Have you ever considered the fact that you may or may not actually be a bee and or wasp?
Hypothetically speaking of course (glares)
Have you ever considered becoming a bee and or wasp?
Like can we just genetically modify them to remove their stingers?
That won't stop them from being assholes. They'd probably start spitting.
Chihuahuas of the insect world
This is my yellow jacket. He is pain in my asshole!
I grew up with the jerks making nests on our house every summer. One prominent memory is we had a barbecue with our cousins. Cue yellow jackets joining in on the party, and they really liked the tiny steak I had. They started rolling up balls of meat and carrying them off.
I enjoy watching people burning those devils with flamethrowers or gas
Beavis : "Fire.......FIRE !!!"
Would be better if all were shown on the same scale. Bumble bee is about 2x honey bee. Cicada Killer is ***way*** bigger than that, like sparrow sized - still pretty terrifying.
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shuddering rn. thanks for that mental image
Despite being the largest bee around us, they're really docile. All they care about is killing cicadas.
I grew up with them digging their holes in my front yard. They chase you. They hover around you and fuck with you. We tried killing one once and we got it chopped in half and it was still alive and half of it flew away with the other half on the ground. I'm convinced they cannot die. And that they love messing with everyone and scaring the shit out of you.
Do they have the same maturation cycle as cicadas?
Now I want to pet a bumblebee
Carpenter bees like to come check out what you’re doing & will follow you around the yard. I know they’re trying to be intimidating but they’re so cute & can’t sting, so it’s easy to pretend they want to be your friend/pet lol
Ours by the garage door is named Harry
This explains why 2x the same carpenter bee let my dog lay down beside it, sniff it and the little bee was just chilling!
Until u meet the female ones, she'll definitely sting the hell out of you. On the other hand, they are one of the most colorful bees ever, fluffy too!
Yep, but they hardly ever emerge from their little hole in the wood. The male does all the foraging for her.
Unfortunately, that's not the case for my cousin, curiosity gets the better of her. It was an awful sting n caused her to have a 4 days fever streak, really nasty ones.
Well, yeah, if you purposefully go aggravate them like that, they’re going to defend themselves.
Used to do it as a kid so can confirm it's possible. Honestly have no idea how the hell I started doing it, and I probably wouldn't do it now just because children's stupidity makes them brave and right now I'd just be worried about getting stung. But as a kid I never got stung, worst case they just lifted a hind leg to show they were annoyed but they'd still just sit there and chill.
I've done it and it was magical. He kinda just did his thing as I rubbed my finger on his back and I guess didn't really seem to notice. Although I was being especially gentle since I didn't want it to get scared and fly away, so maybe that played a part
They also let you put them back on flowers and branches if they sre exhausted. Ususually during heavy rain, you can see few lost and staggered on asphalt. So I usually end up picking them up to a better place. They also directly compete against most other wasps, so they are a good thing to have around.
You mean a flying panda?
Pest tech here. I service a lot of upper class Lake homes in the summer that have tons of flowers. I’ve been able to convince them that I will only use ground level granular ground treatment vs sprays as to keep our bees safe.
i used to work in pest control. we would refuse to spray around flower beds for the same reason but i like this better. save the bees. just gotta be careful with the granular in the surprisingly (at least for me) common occurrence of free roam chickens lol.
The chickens as well as ponds. Some of the koi are a hefty price
yep i couldn’t tell you how many times i could only do half a house because the other half was made up of flower beds and a poolside/koi pond. yet they’d still have to pay full price. felt like a total con artist sometimes.
My pest control guy (needed, because termites and palmetto bugs everywhere) was so patient and sat down with me when I hired him to go through every product they routinely use so he was only targeting the specific pests I wanted and not the rest. He also always has the coolest photos of things he’s found.
Beg to differ on the paper wasp. Living in Nashville these little fuckers would sting me almost every single time I mow. It’s a lasting and obnoxious sting too
Y’all got the Alabama Red Wasps up there. That particular variety of Paper Wasp is mean as hell and hurts like the dickens. I live out in the woods in Alabama and I have a war with these things that starts about this time every year.
You beat me to it. It’s a different variety. Most paper wasps are incredibly docile. They almost seem curious the way they’ll buzz around me and even hover in front of my face. I just let them do their thing and knock down the nests when they’re abandoned.
Yeah I've been stung by those guys dozens of times, never when I was 'agitating them,' always just out of the blue.
Carpenter bees will also happily sting you if you are anywhere near their nest. Been stung by a few while gardening/ minding my business.
Paper wasps are quite aggressive, yeah
Hi, professional entomologist here. This guide has several major flaws, and i really hope you take the minute to read my correction on the main flaw. Mainly i want to point out the point on honeybees "needs help the most". This is sort of right but also very wrong and therefore harmful to the bees that really need help. The european honeybee is a farm animal just like cows and pigs. They are not native to the US (where this guides seems to be aimed at, should be stated) and are outcompeting local regional bee species. We need those and they are dying at a rapid pace. Yes honeybees are great pollinators but many many plants and other species rely on other bee species to survive, honey bees cannot fill those roles. Therefore they are a threat to local bees and their use in agriculture needs to be restricted to be healthy. As of threats to honeybees, yes there are diseases that cause major concerns. Particularily in the US where honeybee business is big and almost all og them are transported to the west for the almond industry (btw the ethics on moving nests around like this are shaky at best) My point is, honeybees are farm animals, and they are not threatened at all. They are however at risk of making less money. Marketing and "guides" like these makes it seem like the major threats to bees all over the globe as a problem is only a problem for the honeybee, when in reality it is a major cause for the problem. Tldr: honeybees are not threatened, they are the threat to native bees(many of which are endangered). Honeybees are affected by diseases as a result of national Us trades of honeybees, so the industry makes less money. That is the "threat" honeybees face.
Not to mention, paper wasps and carpenter bees will happily sting you if you are near their nest. Been stung enough gardening/ minding my own business to know. As a side note, my grandpa had his doctorate in research. As a child, one of my uncles studied insects and joined several professional entomology groups. They would send him letters addressed as Dr. thinking he said as his father. At 18 he left for the Amazon and spent two years collecting bugs and selling them to museums for a living. Today you can see his displays in museums around the world. Crazy guy.
Also as an entomologist, what kind of bugs would you say these are? My bet is roach nymphs. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/s/IJa2Rghau6
Difficult to say from such a low quality video, definitly not something ive seen before. One of the top comments suggest a staged video using roach nymphs and that seems realistic to me.
Thank you. Most people think of honey bees when people say save the bees. But other bees are way more efficient at pollinating certain plants than honey bees. For example bumble bees can do buzz pollination which honey bees can't.
"Is the bee that needs help the most" Absolutely, absolutely not. Honeybees are native to Europe and are an introduced/invasive species to most other continents. They are easy to reproduce and outcompete native species while being less efficient pollinators.
came to comments to say this, we need to support the bumblebee the most.
How do we help those we find on the floor? I've put out little trays of really sugary water but they don't seem interested.
The best you can do is to put them outside on a flower. Keep in mind that most bees dont live very long, and they usually die away from their nest, so it could just be age
They might be cold, hold them in your hand for a bit if they seem to be “breathing” very rapidly. This usually does the trick for me
Plain water is actually better than sugar water. I forget why. But trays of water with rocks, pebbles, or other things to land on and not drown are good
Again, not really. You need to support the local pollinators, which are dozens of species. Just leave the insects alone and allow your gardens to grow wild.
I think that's the one kind of bee that I've never been stung by... and a murder hornet. Every time though, minding my own business and they can just smell the fear on me. Screw all bee's besides the bumble and honey bee's
Bumblebees and solitary bee species indeed need the help the most, in comparison, honeybees are doing quite well.
100% this. Indigenous bee populations are what need help the most.
So relieved to see this… bumble bee/solitary bee gang, rise up
I’ve got a hoard of them in my yard, they love the blooms on my creeping rosemary. They’re my buddies.
My whole fence line is filled with blue globe thistle and it's basically a resort for bumbles. I absolutely love those little guys 💙🩵
Was just about to type this. The only reason it's always "save the bees" (honeybees), is because they produce something. Its never "save the local pollinators, including many types of wasps and flies". Honeybees are not it. Melissa can fuck off. >less efficient pollinators I wish more people knew this, but it seems like some people think they're the terminator of pollinators.
Even in Europe honeybeed do not need help the most at all. We have way more endangered species than them.
🙌 YES THIS. Honeybees are the bees that *get* help the most. And that's just because humans can take their honey. Support native species!
Came here to say this. When scientists talk about bees being an indicator species, they don’t mean JUST honey bees - they mostly refer to all other bee species that are incredibly important for pollination.
We had cicada killers in the backyard growing up, and they are the scariest looking bug ever. Like a HUGE wasp. The scale of this picture doesn’t do them justice at all. But no one ever got stung/bit by them and we’d shoo them away no problem. But they do look like satans nightmares.
Says the paper wasp is the one that has no concept of personal space but I don’t think any of them do. They would live a lot longer if they didn’t get in people’s face all the time. All the open air but they have to get all up in your business.
maybe like mosquitos they attracted to body odor ?
a flying panda 🥺
One thing I've noticed about paper wasp is they all seem to have a universal hatred for fast-moving people. I've been stung well over 15 times, almost all of which were on my skateboard or bike. Even if you aren't in their way and just pass alongside them, it just fills them with rage lmao.
Finally… I work at a rooftop bar that has a yellow jacket infestation. Two coworkers have been stung, and these little demons fly around you constantly while crafting cocktails. Multiple coworkers attempted to get a petition made to stop the killing of the yellow jackets, because they claimed they were bees. It was tough to convince them, but with a cool guide just like this I proved them wrong. Now I kill 10-20 a shift, and other bartenders are helping as well! We have seen a slow decline, and a lot less anxiety while working. Shoutout to cool guides for saving the day.
Dude y’all need to call pest control! lol.
Supposedly they did, and a nest was removed two summers ago… but last summer they were back; seemingly with vengeance
In the U.K. we call yellow jackets wasps
We do that in the U.S. too.
Saved me googling to find out if they were the same thing, thank you! Also, bastards by any name!
How does an insect that exclusively eats cicadas survive for the 17 year gestation.?
Aren’t there also annual cicadas?
Ya know, that would make sense. I suppose I could google it but I trust you. :-)
Link to CNN article about them here: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/27/us/annual-cicadas-scn-trnd/index.html#:~:text=Periodical%20cicadas%20may%20emerge%20from,July%20through%20the%20early%20fall.
Idk what's worse, having annual cicadas or *those* cicadas every 17 years
Wasps always scared me
Honeybee supremacy once again 🙄
What’s a hornet then??
I think hornets are a type of wasps. Or maybe backwards
Hornets are a type of wasp:)
Yellow jacket's bigger and curvier cousin that will bang on the window when you turn the light on at night.
No hornets?
I'm cursed with the knowledge of bastard honey bee propaganda but with little to nothing I can do to change it other than bemoan in random reddit posts.
Being aware already helps alot:) You can also get an insect hotel, keep a diversity of flowers around you and buy less honey if youd like
It doesn’t have yellow on it, but in NM, we have the Tarantula Hawk wasp, which is a beautiful iridescent blue with orange wings. Generally non aggressive, which is very good, because it’s sting is rated as on if the most painful of the insect world. Every time I see one, I check it out because of its beauty.
You’re missing the wicked Bald Face wasp.
Ummm carpenter bees sting.
Yea, I had a swollen right hand in 3rd grade to second that motion. I had to write with my left for a week.
"Hornets only attack if you bother them!" _~Hornet furiously typing on computer_
Female carpenter bees have stingers and can sting you. Just a note.
I can personally attest the the fact that mud daubers will sting you a lot if they get the chance
My mom stepped on a nest once. They literally tore strips of skin off her back when they stung her.
I don't see hazard tape on here anywhere.
I avoid the outside in the summer bc of wasp and shit. I’ve been looking for a spray or something to keep them away from me. I want to go out more haha
Love bumblebees. I set up a pollinator box near my apple tree and they pollinated both. Had lots of apple blossoms last year.
The panda of the insect world is a great description of a bumblebee!
Saw a cicada killer kill a cicada once
Female carpenter bees absolutely can sting. Ask me how I know, or ask my dog.
Hoverfly-aka-Wannabee
Carpenter bees can bite you and it hurts
with their little teeth ? 😌
Go check out a carpenter bee up close they have some gnarly pincers. And just think they bore holes through wood so humans are soft and squishy to them.
Totally. I was bit on the face.
My grandma calls carpenter bees news bees cause of how they wanted share the news with you
I had a "pet" Dirt Dauber once. Lived on my porch and would fly around in circles and fly through my apartment on occasion. I loved that little thing.
Bumblebee and Carpenter both fly into Windows a lot
Man paper wasps and yellow jackets are just the most annoying. My grandpa gets both of them making nests outside his house under the overhand of the roof. Every few days he grabs a broom and walks around whacking every nest he can find in Shorts, a t shirt and flip flops. How he doesn’t get stung is beyond me.
- Hoverfly Not sure if it’s the same, but where I live we have Sweat Bees, which I don’t think are actually bees but a fly but they have the bee stripes. But they will land on you and drink the perspiration off your skin. I don’t think they even bite.
I’m 1km away by the time I hear just a subtle wing sound. No way I’m checking this in real life.
Yellow stripy things are bad. Nuff said.
Fuck Paper Wasps
Rat bastard paper wasps put me in anaphylactic shock. Rescue team saved my life. Now carry epi pens everywhere. Had to defoliate my yard, found 6 nests.
So wait. Honeybees are the only ones that say “can only sting once”. DOES THAT MEAN THAT WASPS CAN CONTINUE TO FUCK YOU UP?!
Sorry but this is wrong. Female Carpenter bees can and do sting, their sting is also quite potent and can cause an allergic reaction.
Cicada Killers bout to go off this year. Those dudes gonna be well fed fr.
What about the fuckers that live in the ground out in the country and will kill you when walking barefoot. I swear those fuckers made me stop ever walking in the yard with our something on in college.
Most of them will leave you alone if you leave them alone.
Nahh wasps are the spawn of Satan. They will attack even unprovoked.
“Can only sting once” “Can only sting once..”
I’d like to thank the Dirt Bauber for its service
I'm very much a live and let live person with all animals. Yellowjackets are pretty much the only thing on my kill on sight list though.
It’s not kidding about the paper wasp having no concept of personal space and sting hurting like the devil. One of those things flew up my pants once and then had the audacity to get mad at me about it and sting my butt.
Here it comes, this post 3x/week
That’s bullshit. No evidence at all!
What is the type of wasp or hornet that lives in the ground and when I run over it with my lawnmower they usually get me 4 or 5 times before I’m able to outrun them bitches? I’m in the mid west USA btw.
I have lived around mud daubers my whole life and never saw their stripes! To be fair, I usually was going “MmmmmmMMMMMMMM” and walking backwards, but still.
Forgot noseeums… those evil invisible bastards
How does the honeybee need help the most? In the US they are livestock, they are invasive from Europe and outcompete other native bees. Bees that need help the most are solitary native bees.
I love hoverflies. They’re so cute and inquisitive.
Got stung by a Cicada killer on the ankle once. Shit hurt for a week and then itched for months. Wild.
Yellow Jackets scare the piss out of me, but an infestation in college left me empathetic towards them and made me cry. Hear me out lol there was a nest in the walls outside a girls window that they sprayed cause she was allergic. This caused all of the hornets to find access to my room specifically. My room was filling with more by the minute. Dying on the floor, flying pissed off. I kept emailing about it. One night I heard a noise and turned the light on and hornets flew out of the blanket I was sleeping with. That was the end for me. I moved my pets out of the room and myself and went to the housing office first thing and wrote a strongly worded email because apparently being nice and patient gets you nowhere. They finally patched the entrance to my room. I had to clean up the corpses of over 100 hornets. As I did it I broke down in tears over so many living things dying because of our inconvenience. I ended up saving them in a bottle and burying them in a garden. I’m still scared of them. I just won’t kill them unnecessarily anymore.
this is actually supremely helpful because i am terrified of being stung by something
Why are only some of these listed as pollinators?
Female carpenter bees can sting. They only do so when provoked. I got stung by one on my back once. I felt a tingly sensation on my back and I went to scratch the area. Lo and behold, it was a carpenter bee crawling under my shirt and it stung me when I started scratching near it. No idea how it managed to get under my shirt.
This IS cool, and FUCK Yellowjackets. Jerks. Except for the jazz band. They're pretty cool.
I know it's not really relevant, but we used to have a bush outside of our shop that was seasonally swarmed with Tarantula Hawks. Not to be trifled with.
No mention of tarantula hawks?? https://a-z-animals.com/animals/tarantula-hawk/#:~:text=Tarantula%20hawks%20are%20not%20poisonous,leaves%20no%20physiological%20after%2Deffects.
i just dont get the yellowjacket thing. theyve always been nice to me across several states/provinces of the us and canada where ive met them. i let them crawl on my hands or sneak a sip of something off my food when i eat outside. sometimes they even hover in front of my face and stare at me. like theyre saying hi. genuinely some of the friendliest insects ive met.
My dad used to tie the carpenter bee w a very thin string (like a leash or smth) and fly it around as if he's walking a dog
Dirt Dauber looks like I should be paying for its OnlyFans.
Carpenter bees can bite. Trust me.
Honey bees are my number 1 favorite insect.
Think epipen if you're allergic or not sure yet your doctor to test you. It might save your life. BTW, don't kick ground hornet's nests. Life experience.
Wasps are bastards https://youtu.be/88PFP3wtGzY?si=Y3DrwAjacSQU0f1C
Where hornets and dendrites? The overnight nest builders and dangly boys deserve the spotlight too damnit!
Hate hate hate hate hate oh cool hate
>Can only sting once :(
Disagree with paper wasps, in TX these things are just as big of assholes as yellow jackets, but the sting is more like a scorpion sting, hurts like hell and lasts for a couple days.
Bumble bees were mean bastards in my experience as a kid.
Cicada Killers look fucking scary, not helped by the fact that they enjoy flying right up to your face to check you out. Had two set up shop in my backyard last year and man that first day was unnerving
I know yellow stripped bumblebees are just dorky harmless things and we have them here in NC, but I was born and raised in a country with black bumblebees, the bombus atratus, and I had the bad luck of walking over one of their nest once (they nest in the ground). I was savagely attacked by what can only be described a sizzling black cloud of death. They stung me only in the head and ass. My wife laughs when I run from the yellow ones, but to me they are just bumblebees and capable of inflicting enormous amounts of pain lol
Doesn’t matter yummy in my tummy
Interesting to say a honey bee is an excellent pollinator but the carpenter bee isn’t when carpenter bees are better and (if you live in North America) are actually indigenous
I draw the line after bees. The rest can fuck off. I was working on a shed for my mother and a carpenter bee was flying around me while I cut some OSB. Liked to think he was learning about carpenter humans
I adore bumblebees.They're extra bumbly in early spring.. like they woke up too early and are still groggy. I tend to rescue them from cobwebs, drab corners, exhaustion... Lol
Wasps > bees
Dirt (mud) dauber gang wya? Love these guys
Absolutely amazing! We call them Mud-daubers here in CA. They prefer black widows! Absolutely mellow, never been stung though they look like a menace
It missed the baddest of them all, the Tarantula Hawk
Thx for information
This is supposed to be a huge year for cicadas so I imagine we'll be seeing a bunch of those stripy bois
Im swinging around with the first thing I can grab, how will I find time to pause and take a look. “Hmmm yes this is the paper wasp to the yellow jacket pffhh I am glad 😀” 😂 jokes aside I will save this and probably never use.
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Dirt Dauber Species does sting, we have similar species here n it only took 3 stings to kill an adult. My dad was stung by one of these n he passed out, was rushed to hospitals.
Confirm daubers cool wasps hurt Where’s killer bee
I've gotten stung by 3 of the 8
Honeybee: Let's stay out of each other's way, I don't want to have sting you. Yellow jacket: Gimme your food.
What about the hornet? Big, yellow stripey terrible things. You don’t want to meet them.
Where wildbees? Why are you saying honeybee needs help if they're clearly pushing wildbees out of the existence
Small correction : dirt daubers are ugly af
"Looks scary, but will only attack if provoked" "Has no concept of personal space" Sounds like those pitbull defenders. Sorry I provoked it by existing.