Wasp are very good at destroying grubs in your yard. They also eat spiders, ants, and other insects that are harmful.
They’re extremely intelligent. They even have the ability for face recognition, and if they know you won’t harm them, they won’t bother you at all.
Most common wasps, like paper wasps, are protective of their territory, and if they recognize you as a ‘co-habitant’, they’ll protect YOUR territory.
There are two of the species that are more aggressive and much less social…the black hornet and the yellow jacket ( and others, I’m sure), but if I see either of these, I leave the area.
I love my paper wasps, though. They nest every year on my front porch and we get along just fine!
@Tadlem43 Pretty much my tboughts! In general, I leave both wasps and spiders alone. If in my house and a nuisance, I try to catch/relocate them outside, unharmed. They’ve got their job to do and usually are good at it. OTOH, yellow jackets usually declare war on me first and then THEY lose. I currently have a wasp’s nest a few feet above my chair on my front porch and we’ve ignored each other for months.
Yellow jackets.
Cthulhu! especially when he is Pissed!
There are too many spiders to be scared of. If spiders had wings, however …
/showme fuzzy scary spider with wings.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “fuzzy scary spider with wings.”
I once had a wasp fly in between my glasses and my eye. It stung me on the eyelid.
Wasp are very good at destroying grubs in your yard. They also eat spiders, ants, and other insects that are harmful.
They’re extremely intelligent. They even have the ability for face recognition, and if they know you won’t harm them, they won’t bother you at all.
Most common wasps, like paper wasps, are protective of their territory, and if they recognize you as a ‘co-habitant’, they’ll protect YOUR territory.
There are two of the species that are more aggressive and much less social…the black hornet and the yellow jacket ( and others, I’m sure), but if I see either of these, I leave the area.
I love my paper wasps, though. They nest every year on my front porch and we get along just fine!
@Tadlem43 Pretty much my tboughts! In general, I leave both wasps and spiders alone. If in my house and a nuisance, I try to catch/relocate them outside, unharmed. They’ve got their job to do and usually are good at it. OTOH, yellow jackets usually declare war on me first and then THEY lose. I currently have a wasp’s nest a few feet above my chair on my front porch and we’ve ignored each other for months.
Hmmm… The answers suggest I should write a script about killer wasp.
@hchavers Killer
waspsyellow jackets, in yellow vests mimicking school crossing guards.Spiders don’t randomly fly at you for no reason and they eat the ladybeetles that hang out near my ceilings.
I don’t find either scary. However, if in my house I will leave a spider alone or catch it and take it outside. I would kill a wasps if in the house.