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Your post is funny, thanks for sharing. It makes me feel bad for killing a bunch of wasps one day, when I was having some coffee with cake at a coffeehouse wit
by the_af 5y ago
Your post is funny, thanks for sharing.
It makes me feel bad for killing a bunch of wasps one day, when I was having some coffee with cake at a coffeehouse with an open window, and a bunch of yellowjackets got attracted to the sugary things I was having.
Two things of note: I didn't know back then the yellowjacket's sting is one of the most painful, but also, it's very easy to kill wasps without getting stung, especially if they are interested in something else: just don't attack many of them at the same time, strike them with your hand against something hard, and make sure every kill counts so you don't get an angry wasp afterwards. I wasn't stung.
I feel bad about it though. They just wanted some cake, and who would blame them? I guess I was in a bad mood. I wish I had found a nonviolent way of dealing with those yellowjackets :/
- throwanem 5y agoThat took a lot of saying, and I respect it. Incidentally, you're probably a lot luckier than you know that you didn't get stung: yellowjackets' venom includes an alarm pheromone. If one of them had stung you, with so many of her sisters right there...