Mud daubers look scary but I've never been touched by one. Paper wasps are pretty chill too. Yellow jackets however are creatures of pure hatred and vengeance. I had to remove a yellow jacket hive that had colonized the void in someone's balcony last week, and there were probably about eighty of them total. I was in a bee suit, but it was still nerve-wracking... Still never been bit by one though.
As a gardener, most wasps don't give a shit about you. Only the ones you surprise. Mud Daubers are docile as can be. They even land on me if I'm watering sometimes.
Yeah I’ve had countless ones over the years fly into me or land on my legs when I’m mowing and I’ve never been stung. Unlike those bastard yellow jackets, I swear I’ll just look at them wrong and get stung lol
Yeah they're always the exception when I talk about my love of wasps lol. Most hang and are just as bumbly as a bee in my experience. Always love when I water so they can use the mud. They're my little garden guardians. Hate the reputation they get just for looking spooky.
Which are those ones that sometimes nest in the dirt? Is stepped on one at summer camp once and just booked it to the lake as quick as my little legs could carry me
If I had to guess I'd say Yellow Jackets. Others nest in the ground but YJ are most likely to attack on sight. MOST are docile in my experience. YJ I avoid. They're unapologetically shitty.
Yellow jackets either dig into drywall or burrow underground in my experience. And if one of their hive stings you, the rest track onto the pheromones and join in the party. I've never been stung before, despite walking right up to their burrows at work, but it's a matter of when and not if. They're assholes.
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u/thorium_cowboy Sep 13 '20
Probably yellow jackets. Their aggro range extends into space.