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Isnβt that a wasp rather than a bee? Whenever I got stung by a wasp that fucker was fine (unless I caught it)!
Story tiem:
I was eating sushi outside on my lunch break, and ofc a local wasp was buzzing around so I moved a chunk of tuna a bit away from me so it would feel safe to land. It landed, cut out an almost perfect square of tuna, hugged it with it's legs and flew off. It was a bit like watching a cargo helicopter lifting up a container.
Yes, exactly!
I always sacrifice some small piece of fruit or meat to them when the wasps are getting annoying. 65% of the time, it works everytime and they fuck off with their gift and never come back
I just run away in panic. Or don't eat outside during late summer.
I don't negotiate with terrorists. I'll spray or salt shotgun every winged cunt I see.
I was actually expecting the end of the story to have the wasp at some point sting you just because of existing.
Not all wasps are like that, the smaller mud daubers and such are rather bee-like in their apathy of you being around them. But hornets. Yeah, they're evil.
Wasp are arseholes. But yes, hornets are terrifying.
This might vary by region but here in Central Europe hornets are pretty chill. They don't stray too far from their nests and eat all sorts of less agreeable critters. If anything smaller wasps have something of a reputation here but they're really not that bad either unless they gang up on you. Most encounters go south because people start flailing about. If you remain calm and careful not to squash them you can simply coexist.
Hornets look scary as fuck but you are right that they are very chill. And they don't tend to live near houses as much as the common wasp. But I think the hornets in North America are the same. Introduced by Europeans. Maybe they are more aggressive in North America, maybe Americans just don't know how aggressive wasps can be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hornet?wprov=sfla1
He understood the wasp, maybe theyβre so ornery because no one understands what they want. Heβs The Wasperer.
OTOH, Iβd bet it will return and harass and probably sting the next customer that doesnβt give it a piece of their tuna sushi.
All wasps are an important part of the decomposition cycle. Some also tend to decompose your happiness.
This happened to me when I was a kid. My family was having a picnic which included the rare treat of fried chicken. A wasp buzzed down, landed on my chicken and sawed away a chunk of it. Then it took off, faltered because the chunk was so heavy, then buzzed away. Your comparison to a helicopter is spot on! We all just sat there and watched it, not knowing what to do. We still talk about how weird that was.