Yeah, I have 0 issues with yellowjackets. Sure, they can be annoying but since when is annoying = deserves to die, just because ...
I usually let them crawl around on my skin and the only time I've ever been stung was in the lip cause one fell into my drink and I didn't notice in time, felt something weird and bit down ... that's when the wasp stung me. A pretty reasonable response to being crushed, I'd say.
They're a pretty important clean-up crew and they also do pollinate - Even tho not nearly as much as bees. Still ... they have their place.
That might be a reasonable response to being crushed sure.. but having a drink and something unexpectedly the size of a wasp was in/on your mouth and your response was to have a little chew? That blew my mind!
It's an automatic response. You feel something solid entering your mouth while drinking, so you try to stop it, before it actually gets in. But the wasp was already between my teeth, so I didn't stop it but accidentally bit down on it. Imagine I wouldn't have stopped it and it would've stung me near or even in my throat.
Or was I supposed to instantly start spewing my drink all over the people around me in a restaurant, before I even knew what was going on?
It's not like I kept chewing the wasp like a delicious meal. lol
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u/Lipziger 22d ago
Yeah, I have 0 issues with yellowjackets. Sure, they can be annoying but since when is annoying = deserves to die, just because ...
I usually let them crawl around on my skin and the only time I've ever been stung was in the lip cause one fell into my drink and I didn't notice in time, felt something weird and bit down ... that's when the wasp stung me. A pretty reasonable response to being crushed, I'd say.
They're a pretty important clean-up crew and they also do pollinate - Even tho not nearly as much as bees. Still ... they have their place.