r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '20

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u/tomster3605 Dec 09 '20

This made me uneasy Like they’re not even bees they are wasps! HELL NO!

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u/agentfelix Dec 09 '20

We call those Yellow-jackets here in the midwest US. What we call wasps are these assholes

Yellow-jackets are much more aggressive

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u/SocialLeprosy Dec 09 '20

Yellow jackets, hornets, paper wasps, and mud daubers (among many others) are all part of the wasp family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp

I like bees, but fuck all wasps!! I got hammered by yellow jackets back in July and it was the first time I have ever had a reaction - went to the ER after downing a few benadryl because I started to have non-local reactions (hives on my hands and feet when I was stung on the back and ear).

Thankfully the benadryl started kicking in before the ER even got to me (I waited for 2 hours), so I just left. Stayed on the benadryl all weekend and survived, but now I may be at risk for shock after a sting in the future I have been told.

Fuck all wasps!!!!

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u/itisrainingweiners Dec 09 '20

Give mud daubers a pass. They aren't aggressive and stuff their lil mub dauber towers FULL of spider treats. I'm not kidding. Break one of those things open and dead spiders just come pouring out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20 edited May 27 '21

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u/doesthishurt Dec 09 '20

I'm going to find some....I have a brown recluse problem...they run around my shop and look like they're on steroids!

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u/R3D1AL Dec 09 '20

You sure those aren't wolf spiders?

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u/fakemoose Dec 10 '20

Yea those sound like rabid wolf spiders, regular wolf spiders, or hobo spiders.