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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

This does have the vibe of those pro-billionaire articles the Washington Post puts out...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Wasps are great. I love watching them fuck with this friend of mine. He makes any encounter with them a million times worse with his absurd flailing. One time it rusulted in him getting stung on the back and I nearly died laughing. He was a stroppy bastard for the rest of the day because of that.

[–] rarbg 3 points 5 hours ago

Compromise, we eradicate yellow jackets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I love having wasps around my garden. They fly around my veggies picking off any caterpillars they see, I don't even use pesticides because the wasps do such a good job keeping the populations low.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Its interesting once you learn more about ecology and biodiversity... Those bugs / animals you used to hate are suddenly awesome.

That said, invasive wasps where I live a devastating native and endemic species so....

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

As a pest control professional, I assure you that wasps aren't trying to fuck you up. They get aggressive in the late season but for the most part they won't fuck with you unless you are a threat. I've knocked down countless wasp nests with my brush and only been stung a few times. Those times I got stung I was really asking for it by how I went about it. They're also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They’re also accidental pollinators so they do help more than people think.

I hear that, I did some things accidentally once, but the stubborn judge insisted I go on the register anyway!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Gotta be careful where you drop pollen these days.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe this is hippie talk, but I simply don't bother any animal. I don't need an article to tell me they deserve to exist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What about disease spreading bloodsuckers? 👉🏻👈🏻

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago

European Wasps are an invasive species where I live and they're fucking up a lot of the local flora and fauna. Also "wasps" is a huge group of species and they're hard to generalise about

[–] [email protected] 67 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Did you just paint that wasp in 20 minutes?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I absolutely did not; it's one of the first image search hits when searching for "wasp typing on a keyboard meme"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So you stole it? How dare you! You wouldn't kidnap a child!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Of course not! Children are annoying and expensive, not to mention the fact that they bring all sorts of bacteria and viruses home from school.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Exactly, what the heck would I do with one? Can't be very good eatin' either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

According to Lord Sauron, wasps are just trying to help, and are very misunderstood. Please let them into your house, they will reform.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

If you're cold, they're cold - let them in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd expect this but from Sky News Australia *squints*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

IKR? a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

They HAD their chance, and they used it to be assholes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago

Sounds like Big Wasp propaganda

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I like the wasps around my house, they're Apache wasps I think. I've shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.

Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We get lots of blue mud daubers where I live and I've seen people freak the fuck out over them.

Like guys, they will straight up never have business with you and their main prey is literally spiders if you have an irrational fear of them too

They're the bros of the wasp world. The dudes can't even sting, only the women, and they can take care of the young which is crazy rare. Yoi'd have to go out of your way to get bitten or stung.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybion_californicum

Hell, many solitary vespids will fuck up other non-solitary wasps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp#Solitary_wasps

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We have yellow jackets, and they're assholes. They'll fly up and sting you for no reason, and then fly away laughing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

And bite. Lots of biting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The other day I felt a shooting pain on my hand out of nowhere. I look down and it’s a wasp. Fucker broke into my house and stung me outta nowhere. Bastard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Imagine a creature that makes you feel bad for spiders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Wasps are coop as hell. Animals don't exist for you convenience

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice... Can't get fooled again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wasps are actually pretty useful in nature, in contrast to the parasitic life form knows as homo sapiens.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

I suppose you haven't heard of tarantula hawks if you think wasps aren't parasitic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Just give wasp an entry level job bro, what’s the worst that could happen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I get apprehensive around wasps too but it's very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

all wasps should be destroyed except for the ones that pollinate crops and can fly unassisted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago