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Short answer: Fuck them

Long answer: Too bad they're important for our ecosystem. But still, fuck them

great for a healthy ecosystem

but keep the hell away from them

They're cool af. Look at those colours! And the ergonomics.

I leave water bowls for them during summer.

They're not exactly friendly but when you observe them enough you can judge if you're annoying them and should gtfo. Most of the time they just mind their own business.

White, Anglo Saxon protestants are fine. I usually try to associate with atheists, agnostics, or the generally unchurched, but you do you, right?

Proof that god doesn't exist. Proof that if I'm wrong and god does exist, he's a fucking asshole not worthy of any worship.

Yellowjackets are annoying, but I got a colony of 5-banded Wasps that conglomerate on my trees every late summer- hundreds of males just hanging out, showing off their sweet bods while the ladies fly by perusing selections for mating. They're chill AF and not a pain.

But I mean, there are over a hundred thousand wasp species, and Yellowjackets are what most people think of when you say "wasp", but as annoying as they are, don't let them color your opinions on the otherd

I hate them. I fucking hate them.

I don't much care for them. They build their nests on my home, and they sting.

They are good, but get the fuck out of my face!

The world is better off without them.

I would love them if they had a concept of personal space, or a survival instinct that told them not to get up in someone biggers face.

As I've aged, I've lost the ability to hear them too, so now they love to sneak up on me.

Fire

It depends on whether were talking about Wasps the insects or WASPs the acronym.

Either way not a fan, but I guess the insects are alright as long as they're not in my house.

fuck em all

wasps > mosquitos

Wasps. Been around for a very long time. Important pollinator and pest control. So many different types of them all over from tiny ones to f-ing huge.

But why do you want to annoy me when I’m just trying to eat my picnic!! Just leave me alone!!! Fun fact bees are vegetarian wasps.

I like them! They've got a great style and they're perfectly chill when people aren't trying to swat them. I always let them land on my hand so I can look at them.

You can shoo them away from food a few times and they'll generally just go elsewhere.

I've got a bunch of red wasps around my house, and they're assholes. They're okay most of the time, unless you get too close. Every so often, though, they will be aggressive as hell, attacking you if you're within maybe 20 feet.

If they get near me? Death to them.

Otherwise? Go enjoy that environment bro

I'm fine with them until they start building their home on my home. You will die a breathless death with my spray if you build on my house.

Pricks.

They get an unfairly bad rap because some of them have the audacity to threaten humans right back. They're actually damn important species for all kinds of ecosystem processes that support other species less offensive to our sanitised, idealised view of nature.

1st Worst: Mosquitoes
2nd Worst: Wasps
3rd Worst: Chiggers (that "red bug", technically a mite, like ticks)

Then all Australian wildlife approximatively

I grew up in an area that had yellow jackets. Fuck those fuckers. Pure evil incarnate. They would land on my food while I'm trying to remove it from the barbecue. They would swarm me while cooking.

I later moved to an area that has huge and terrifying looking wasps, but they are pretty docile. I have caught my cat playing with one that got inside twice and neither time she got stung.

Hate most of the things, but some of them are cool. Mud daubers are friends

Annoying stinging fuckers, but they do serve an important role aside from being annoying stinging fuckers.

I tolerate them any time of day except when I’m sleeping.

Best enjoyed at a distance.

They get drunk and try to sting me in the fall. Do not like.

Rather rude to group them all together like that. If we're talking mud daubers or paper wasps, we're totally chill.

Ground-nesting yellowjackets get the boiling water and dish soap treatment in the dead of the night if they're in the yard. I've had too many cases of cleaning up yard debris and suddenly getting attacked by the little bastards to attempt peaceful coexistence.

The species I'm familiar with, Polistes dominula, is cool: they hang out around noon looking for water sometimes, I splash some and they oblige. Sometimes they hang out where I'm doing stuff and they're calm and move if I gently shove them. They complain a bit when I trim leaves where they happen to be chilling, but fly away. Never stung. They are surprisingly polite and aware of you, plus they eat some pests and polinate stuff. Some other species are assholes, though :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_paper_wasp

I have no quarrel with them.

Outside: we cool Inside: good god no!

Beautiful insects with some fascinating behaviour. Just don't disturb them and you are fine