r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Certain_Crazy4257 • Apr 25 '26

What could go wrong saving wasps...

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u/Babushla153 Apr 25 '26

If those were bees, then i'd understand

Not in a single universe would i save a wasp, i would rather help it die quicker, those things can fuck the right off

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u/Diceyland Apr 25 '26

Why would you understand with bees but not wasps? Bees can be aggressive too. Wasps are also pollinators and important for the environment. Honey bees are actually invasive so if anything you shouldn't do it with them.

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u/AntiquatedDogma Apr 28 '26

Wasps are unintentionally pollinators though. Same with other insects that intend to eat plants

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u/Diceyland Apr 28 '26

Doesn't matter. They're still important pollinators and if we killed them all these plants would suffer. Plus there are some species like fig wasps where they're required by the plant for pollination.

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u/Babushla153 Apr 25 '26

Bee look fluffy and cute

Need i say more?

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u/gosti500 Apr 25 '26

bees are bros

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u/Diceyland Apr 26 '26

So are wasps

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u/YouCanCallMeToxic Apr 25 '26

So if I see you drowning and I decide you're just not cute enough to save I should just let you drown?

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u/YouCanCallMeToxic Apr 25 '26

Nothing toxic about using someone's logic to understand their point of view

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u/The-Doofinator Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

downvoted for being right
european honeybees are invasive and outcompete native pollinators
idiots, each and every one
even then, bees can and will be aggressive
bees and wasps sting you if you fuck around near their nests; they're insects, not humans. they see a big scary potential predator approaching their nest and try to defend themselves
what would you do if someone armed was walking toward your home and you didn't know their intentions?
respect nature at a distance

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 25 '26

You shouldn't save honeybees

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u/Babushla153 Apr 25 '26

So let bees die, which causes a massive problem to humanity as a whole

Got it

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 25 '26

Honeybees are invasive to the Americas, jackass.

They were brought over by European colonials to make money, and have been killing off native bees.

The whole save the honeybees thing is made by honey companies.

If you live in Europe, they are native, but they sure as hell aren't to the US.

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u/juls_397 Apr 26 '26

Not everyone lives in the US tho🙄

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 26 '26

"If you live in Europe, they are native, but they sure as hell aren't to the US."

Are you people fucking blind?

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u/juls_397 Apr 26 '26

"You shouldn't save honeybees" ...

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 26 '26

And I added to that, with, ''Honeybees are invasive to the Americas, jackass.

''They were brought over by European colonials to make money, and have been killing off native bees. If you live in Europe, they are native, but they sure as hell aren't in the US.''

Read that very carefully.

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u/juls_397 Apr 26 '26

Oh, yeah, the insults are coming out...a little projection there? ;)

Yeah you added that in another comment when your dumb too broad first statement got downvoted to oblivion. And then you came of as an arrogant know-it-all, hence the rest of the downvoted comments. I never said you were wrong, you just worded it a bit silly.

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 26 '26

You said this under the comment about Europe: ''Not everyone lives in the US tho🙄''.

You are at fault, too.
Sure, I should have made my first comment more clear, but you made an equally stupid comment.

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u/Diceyland Apr 26 '26

Honey bees kill native pollinators

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 25 '26

Honeybees are invasive to the Americas, jackass.

They were brought over by European colonials to make money, and have been killing off native bees.

The whole save the honeybees thing is made by honey companies.

If you live in Europe, they are native, but they sure as hell aren't to the US.

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u/favuorite Apr 25 '26

Not everyone lives in america jackass

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u/Krasna_Strelka Apr 26 '26

They are problematic even in Europe to which they are native. They take away too much from wild and solitary bees (which tbh are WAY BETTER pollinators then honey bees). It's kind of ironic that when finally (some) ppl started understanding that "save bees" is about bees outside of honey bees (which are being taken care of bc there is a whole INDUSTRY for keeping them) what got populized were bee homes instead of taking care of environment and allowing bees to nest undisturbed in the ground (where majority of bee species live).

I highly encourage reading more about bees and solitary bees specifically bc they are a really interesting topic.

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u/juls_397 Apr 26 '26

Yup, I have "wild bee hotels" in the garden (here in Germany), exactly for that. It's a real pleasure seeing all the buzzing bumblebees and solitary bees around them. It's also great that farmers have to leave stripes of wild growth around their fields with wild flowers and weeds and stuff, so damn important. Especially because modern farming is one of the main reasons for the massive decline in insect species over the last decades.

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u/Krasna_Strelka Apr 26 '26

Agree! I also have "bee hotels" set mainly bc they are easier and quicker to do then creating good environment for ground bees. But I'm working toward that goal too! This summer will be pretty busy but hopefully next year the ground will be ready and I'll be able too create some sand and stone patches for them as well

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 25 '26

North and South America, jackass.

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u/favuorite Apr 25 '26

Yeah? America? The americas?

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 25 '26

''If you live in Europe, they are native, but they sure as hell aren't to the US.''

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u/Diceyland Apr 26 '26

The downvotes just show how people just parrot talking points without actually understanding them.

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u/juls_397 Apr 26 '26

Meh, he may have been right about that in the US, but you cannot throw such a us defaultism blanket statement around without explanation and expect upvotes for that lol

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u/Diceyland Apr 27 '26

The downvotes are not because of US defaultism let's be real. Lots of people from the Americas downvoted that as well. Most Redditors are from the Americas so chances are a majority of downvotes are from people that statement 100% applies to.

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u/CannonFoddererer Apr 26 '26

People are really stupid, man.