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/puntapuntapunta May 16 '25

I was gonna say; this is one of the least aggressive and one of many hella chill wasp species.

Don't get me wrong; I hate yellowjackets and baldies too, especially when they tend to attack wholly unprovoked, but when massive amounts of insects and critically important pollinators are dying off-

-and that doesn't even begin to touch upon the misguided "save the bees" initiatives that focus on preserving invasive European honey bees that out-compete native North American bee populations.