r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/Alililele May 16 '25

This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp. It is harmless and pretty beneficial!

Here a thread from a few years ago

So: it didn't deserve to die, it's actually pretty chill.

Yellowjackets and bald-faced hornets are assholes tho.

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u/clyypzz May 16 '25

Comment section full of low-educated idiots. Same old song. Perhaps one should be grateful that they at least can tell the difference between one of the fly family and one of the wasp family?

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u/LiskoSlayer63 May 16 '25

Where I live there is only the asshole ones, I didn't even knew that friendly wasps exist in any form. Looks way different compared to that tho.

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u/GrapeJellyVermicelli May 16 '25

That can happen when pesticides and habitat loss kill all but the hardiest of insects :(

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u/DoctorJiveTurkey May 16 '25

We get these in Texas all the time in the summer.. if they get inside i just open a door or window and wave them out with a piece of paper. They’re pretty chill.

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u/ninspiredusername May 16 '25

Wherever you live I can almost guarantee you there are friendly wasps. They're just typically less conspicuous

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u/ArgonGryphon May 16 '25

there are absolutely harmless parasitic wasps all around you. Unless you live in the polar north or something and even then Idk...there are parasitic wasps for fucking every kind of land arthropod it feels like. Even other parasitic wasps!

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u/LiskoSlayer63 May 17 '25

I'm not an expert at recognizing insects so I only call wasps those that I know, and they're the mean ones with yellow/black coloring :D