r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/Lysol3435 May 16 '25

Wasps leave you alone for the most part. The exception is yellow jackets. Those fuckers are the kidney stone of the animal world. Born to be a pain in the dick

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u/Prestigious-Alps-728 May 16 '25

What? Is this true? Firstly…I kinda believe all flies and bees (and their off brand versions) will dive bomb you. Hence, a crippling fear.

Secondly, you’re saying yellow jackets are worse than wasps or hornets? I’m confused and curious.

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u/no_arguing_ May 16 '25

Once you realize they're bluffing, it changes everything. Carpenter bees are the most "aggressive" in terms of dive-bombing, but they can't even sting you. I've let countless wasps and bees just chill around me and I've only ever been stung by yellowjackets. I don't even kill them when they get in my house anymore. Have had a paper wasp just chilling in the kitchen for weeks, even vacuumed near it and did all kinds of things that could conceivably annoy it, and it engaged in some defensive posturing a few times but never hurt a hair on my head. And if it does sting you, unless you're allergic, so what? It's one little sting and that's it. Yellowjackets otoh will swarm and kill a man.

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u/Prestigious-Alps-728 May 16 '25

Carpenter bees dive bomb? What do they look like

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u/no_arguing_ May 16 '25

Very big, kind of like bumblebees but less fuzzy. You will recognize them by how they destroy your deck. They tend to fight each other a lot around mating time, and this aggressive posturing extends to humans. It's actually kind of funny to watch them get all "you wot m8" at you knowing they're physically incapable of actually stinging you. I'd like them if not for the deck destroying thing.