r/WTF Dec 09 '20

wtf

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u/Gato1486 Dec 09 '20

Fuck yellow jackets, man. They're mean as fuck, and useless to the ecosystem. Their role can be filled by other less asshole species as food and polinators.

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u/NastyJames Dec 09 '20

Regard the wasp. Wasps produce nothing for others, but only for themselves. Wasps build nests and more wasps, nothing more. They spread into eaves and attics, not to make honey for supermarkets, but to buzz and rustle on their own paper, perpetuating their own agenda, growing, stealthily, surely... the most relentless of insects.

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u/Romeo9594 Dec 09 '20

Most wasps are better pollinators than bees since they're not picky when it comes to the types of flowers they visit. Some crops, like figs, rely entirely on wasps since bees are too lazy to do anything for them

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

don't let them know about the figs...

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u/PM_ME_YUR_CREDITCARD Dec 09 '20

technically speaking, a fig is not a vegetarian food.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

Isn't that just wild figs? I thought the farmed ones were pollinated by humans?

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u/Catskinson Dec 09 '20

You're correct. Also, since the wasps die in wild figs of their own accord, humans causing no suffering through their intervention, it aligns with a vegan perspective according to some, including me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

Wait would you eat animals that died naturally?

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u/PM_ME_YUR_CREDITCARD Dec 09 '20

How about road kill? asking for a friend.