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[–] TodaviaTyler@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like something a wasp would say

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wasps are actually pretty cool by in large. I've only been stung twice by them. Once when I was a kid and it sucked and also don't remember what I was doing. The most recent time was a few weeks ago. They built a nest in the control area of a dryer I was selling. I stuck my hand right up in their nest, and felt what I thought was electric shocks despite this dryer being unplugged for a few days. I don't blame them and the pain subsided in minutes(also wasn't very bad to begin with). And they are a critical player in agricultural pest control. I run into wasps all the time and have only been stung twice in forty years. Wasps, like spiders, are bros as far as I'm concerned.

[–] TodaviaTyler@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Alas, I legitimately have spheksophobia. I appreciate their role in nature, but I don't want them anywhere near me.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I call BS on at least some of those claims. Citation or GTFO

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

The mosquito one is absolutely BS, there's 6k+ species of mosquitoes but only like a couple bite humans

The bats and shit will be fine, it's time to eradicate mosquitoes!

[–] match@pawb.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i am under the impression that mosquitos, as an invasive species, do not fill an important ecological niche and could go extinct and be replaced by other insects

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Invasive where? They can't be invasive in general

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They're invasive of the PLANET

[–] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are invasive in all of North and South America

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

My back patio, the little shits

[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

They're invading my personal space