Does this trigger /an/? I knocked down a wasp nest that was almost

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>>2381745

F

>>2381745
Good. Fuck wasps.

>>2381745
damn

>>2381745
Good. Fucking assholes need to die.

>>2381745
All wasps should die.

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>>2381745
>this triggers the brassica farmer

Yes, yes it does.

What do wasps even do that is beneficial to me?

>>2381764
Some of them kill caterpillars, so that's beneficial if you're gardening or farming.

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>>2381764

>>2381765
Ok, that's cool. At least they serve some purpose, unlike mosquitoes and ticks.

>>2381769
>mosquitoes have no ecological role meme

A classic from /an/ - I hate Animals & Nature let me woo you with armchair bio I repasted from Scientific American op-eds

>>2381769
Mosquitos are a major food source for birds and bats you SWINE

>>2381771
>Expecting anything different from a retard who asked if wasps did anything beneficial

>>2381773
Well, what the fuck do birds and bats do for me? Fucking nothing

>>2381771
Okayyyyy, but what about ticks? They don't do shit but give me Powassan

>>2381745
My Trypophobia but that's all.

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>>2381745
Update

>>2381823
Are those fire ants?

>>2381823
holy shit. Can you film it? I get so hard

>>2381825
No, some kind of Pheidole known as "big headed ants".

>>2381823
Doing God's work.

>>2381793
reddit

>>2381838
nou

>>2381763
Why would you want wasps in your garden? They kill some pest insect, I assume?

>>2381791

Animals like opossums eat ticks.

Wasp got into my apartment the other day. Big nasty fucker. Had a duel to the death with the bastard. Took a few hits and crushing him with considerable strength to finally kill him. Then flushed the bastard.

You were an honorable opponent, wasp-san.

>>2381897
It bit you??

>>2381789
they are the reason those forests are not eaten alive
and you need that to mouthbreathe.

>>2381745
Enjoy your mosquitos and fruit-flies

>>2381773

They are also a major source of itchy lumps on my arms and legs so I'm still not convinced.

>>2381870
see
>>2381768

>>2381934
>you need that to mouthbreathe.

*golf claps*

>>2381745
Should have stepped on it for good measure. You can never be too careful with fucking wasps.

>>2382240

I think it worked out.
>>2381823

>>2381883

Up here in the northeast we are overrun with ticks this year especially so whoever is supposed to be eating them isn't doing their damn job. Opossums eat lots of stuff anyway, it's not like 99% of their diet is ticks.

>>2382475
Why do edgelord on /an/ call them "opossums" when they are possums?

>>2382517
North America = opossum
Upsidedown land = possum

>summer, 2012
>get out of shower
>enter my room to find my opponent facing me
>Big Fuckin' Wasp
>in my naked form I was powerless
>leave room to find dashiki some pagan hippies gave me, it hangs to the floor, protecting me from most angles
>also throw on this thick wedding cape thing they gave me too
>fucking pagans man
>arm myself with this cane that had a tiger head carved out of the handle
>smite the BFW in the name of mother gaia

>>2382517

I'm an edgelord because I called the animal what it actually is?

>>2382517
Iknorite, they are Didelphidae.

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>/an/ - Animals and Nature
>Where people with zero ecological knowledge go

>>2381745
i fucking hate wasps

>>2383010
>you HAVE to like wasps an screech to obvious bait

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>>2382518
Nope
Most of North America calls them "possum" too

>>2383320
What "most of North America calla them", doesn't magically change the fact the animals actual name is opossum.

>>2383599
>the animals actual name is opossum
no, it's Didelphis virginiana

its common name is opossum or possum.

the funny part is possum in Oz was taken directly from the name used in murrica. We call them possums, that's how the Australian ones got their name.

Doing godswork desu

>>2381870
dude when we got a few wasp nests near the garden, we literally did not have to lift a finger for pest control that year because the wasps cleared out 95% of the caterpillars for us. I was watching them for hours doing patrol and they are the best thing for gardens since fertilizer

>>2383632
Catipilars dont do shit to your garden retard. They do nothing ants dont already do and youll never full clear ants.

>>2383707
Have fun with your dead plants

>>2383707
Wasps also catch flys something ants could never do. What's more is that is you only set on ants is that if they become too successful then they will make giant lice farms on plants to harvest their sugary shit on mass. Biological diversity is great most of the times

Wasps sting for literally no reason so everyone can fuck off

>>2383729
I think they're talking about leafcutter ants?

>>2383752
they die once they ting though

>>2381771
perfect summary of this board

>>2383135
you don't have to like wasps to not enjoy killing them

>>2383787
Incorrect, bees die when they sting, wasps don't have a barbed stinger, so they can hit you as many times as they have venom for. I know this for a fact because I've had one of the fuckers fly up my long sleeve and sting me four/five times in the arm. Also:
Wasps/hornets don't die when they sting source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet
Bees die when they sting Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_sting

>>2383812
Didnt know that, thanks

>>2381934
well if we kill all the bugs then nothing will eat the forests?

checkmate PETI

>>2383752
>The "all wasps sting" meme

Since every other form of retardation has been brought up in this thread already I was wondering when that would come up.

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>>2381745
>Does this trigger /an/?
>I knocked down a wasp ne-

No.

>>2383824
They do all sting. You have to have a stinger to be in the Hymenoptera order. Also, even worse, some wasps' stingers also function as ovipositors, so you get to not only be stung, but have eggs injected under your skin to hatch like something out of fucking Alien

Why the hell is it that when you knock a wasp nest down other wasps come and eat their larvae? Ive noticed this several times when Ive had to deal with nests

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>>2383836

>>2381745
>does this trigger /an/?
Nope.
>>2383707
>Catipilars dont do shit to your garden retard.
But completely false and ignorant statements like this do however.
If you don't know what you are talking about than keep your fool mouth shut.

>>2381745
why would you do such a thing? Do you like being an edgy teenager? Did your parents not love you enough and now you enjoy causing suffering to other weaker creatures? Are you a psychopath?

>>2383812
Bumblebees can sting multiple times without losing their stinger, Honeybees are the ones that lose their sting.

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>>2383896
>Honeybees are the ones that lose their sting

It's not fair.

>>2383836
But that just isn't true...

>>2383824
You do have to admit that the ones that are most common (yellow jackets, hornets, paper wasps, etc) do sting. Even if they keep your garden safe, if their nest is nearby and you're harvesting your plants you're gonna get the shit stung out of you

>>2384681
>If their nest is nearby and you're harvesting your plants you're gonna get the shit stung out of you
Not necessarily. If you don't flail about like a retard and regularly tend to the plants, they should leave you alone. I'm usually within a couple inches of a nest every tomato season.

>>2383896
Bubmlebees don't sting at all where I live. They bite

>>2384681
They're not the most common at all, though. They're the most noticeable, because they're big and bright and you know you should stay the fuck away from them. But they're a really really small minority.

Not to mention a lot of the ones that can sting aren't very aggressive like >>2384696 said. You named paper wasps and they're pretty docile.

>>2384681
I've heard they only get noticably agressive when the new queens are getting from lavae to adult til they fly off

>>2381934
So you're saying that if we kill mosquitoes then birds and bats will have nothing to eat...

the same birds and bats that don't eat mosquitoes, but they make sure to eat things that are detrimental to forest life?

Got it!

>>2384681
Lmao it's like those fuckers know who to sting. I got stung 3 times for literally no reason at all, fuckers chose me over 5 other people at the same table. Every time I ended up with an anaphylactic shock and had to go to the ER.

>>2383836
Hot, desu.

>>2383862
>someone knocks over your stroller
>you can eat your baby or you can let the ants have it
Simple choice isn't it?

>>2381768
Reading this made me itchy.

>>2381823
Like humans eating chimpanzees

>>2383896
what ? where do you live ? they will only bite you here I can catch them with my hand

>>2381773
But are they necessary? Any small Midge flies seem like they would fill that food gap. What specifically about mosquitos do they do that other equally-abundant, non-parasitic flying insects don't for their predators?

>>2385871
They kill niggers.

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>huge honey bee flies in my window and comes right at me
>thinking it's a wasp I punch it right in the face
>realise it's just a bee and feel bad

>>2381823
Glad :)

>>2386698
I love punching bumblebees, just the annoying and hostile ones, wood drilling assholes too. Just avoid making them hit walls so they can live.

>>2381764
What do you do that's beneficial to wasps? (or anything at all). Nothing. They owe you nothing

>>2386779
Those are carpenter bees.

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>>2386779
>punching defenseless male carpenter bees who are just out there trying to make a home for their venomous wives
Heartless

>>2386838
venomous?

>>2386838
Yes, only two or three times a year though. How do you resist punching them when the assholes are drilling into your house like termites?

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>>2386823
With all the mustard and snapple those freeloading cunts have gotten from me, I beg to differ.