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We had a black widow infestation on our wrap around porch and the wasps killed them all. I wasn't sure why I kept finding dead black widows until I saw a wasp just come down and kill it right in front of me.

Wow. This taught me a lot. I won't be inviting them in my house, but now I see they have a purpose.

me: **sits on a bench** wasp: *O R B I T*

Many people need to be educated about this. I see a lot of people saying that we should kill all wasps. They say wasps kill bees. I don't think so. Expect some certain species like the Asian giant and yellow-legged hornet, wasps have just a minor effect on beehives. Yes, wasps shouldn't be too many but when you have a healthy hornet population, it will keep the smaller wasps in normal amounts.

Me : walks Wasp: and I took that personally Edit: cring

Wasps are beautiful animals If you understand them you never get stung I have not been stung in many many years Even in the midst of a yellow jacket colony I wasn't stung a single time

I love my flower wasps that visit every summer! So cute and they never try to sting!

I don't like the fact that wasps recognise borders and the Republic of Ireland is rampant with creepy crawlies that wasps haven't killed

In my town, farms aren't using pesticides but instead use methods to attract parasitoid wasps and paper wasps to deal with crop pests. With that said, during summer in my backyard - I sometimes see one or two mud daubers or those large solitary wasps resting on the mulberry bush after they drank the nectar from the nearby flowering shrubs.

One time I went out for something (I can’t remember what) and loads of wasps came at me and got stuck in my hair and I got stung like 19 times

Imagine have a wasp army. Trillions of wasps trained to attack lol

Narrator: Stop, and watch them. And see just how amazing these disliked and wildly underappreciated insects actually are. The Wasps I See: COME HERE YOU LITTLE CHUMP, OOHHH I'VE GOT SOMETHING REAL NICE YOU'D LIKE TO SEEEEE

Had one walk on my lip and they enjoy the carne asada juice on my fingers at BBQs, never got stung that way but once throwing a log that had a nest inside. Keep seeing peers swatting them away causing a commotion then wonder why they get stung.

I love wasps, they're literally the cutest little things to me😭 whenever I see a tired looking paper wasp I'll always see if I can feed it some sugary syrup to hopefully help it. I love learning about all the different solitary and eusocial species, they're all so beautiful!

I imagine wasps as like the swat team of the bees

My grandma always had a wasp nest on the balcony and she would always tell us that they helped her in the garden. To my best memory nobody ever got stung despite ten grandchildren running wild. The wasps just buzzed around, ate pests, and built truly amazing structures for their homes. My grandma was pretty in love with them and would gush over how cool their nests were and how helpful they were. I was never afraid of wasps.

I have a paper wasp nest on my front porch. I spent all year approaching them with various fruit jellies and sometimes honey (as a treat). They actually recognize people! They get excited when I approach, and have became neutral to humans in general (which was the point, so they wouldn't attack anyone). This fall, 6 of them hatched with defects that made them unable to fly, so I took them in as pets. I can handle them casually and they're very calm. 10/10 would recommend a flightless wasp as a pet. One, you realize how adorable they are. Two, they can recognize and learn things. Three, you're saving a life, since they wouldn't have survived otherwise. The rest are wild, though. Don't take any random wasp in as a pet. lol

Wait, what!?! They can be trained to find explosives and illegal drugs!?! You can’t just say that and not go more in to it!

I had a wasp infestation in my house once. Never stung!

But... If all the wasps "skidadle skidoodle" and therefore don't eat the spiders, then those spiders will able to kill all the left-over annoying insects around my plants right?

I like wasps, I just think there cute. I fischt one out of the water when ppl tried to drown it and other water, by doing this I can observe how cute they are and they don’t feel threatened. It’s also cute observing them cleaning themselves.

I've always liked them, even though they've bitten me before. One once landed on my dashboard on a hot day. I poured out a little bit of my blueberry smoothie (just a few drops) and watched her drink it up.... then she flew out the window. She watched me. Did not see me as a threat at all. It was a really nice interaction. It SUCKS when you stumble upon a nest and get attacked, but they've always been beneficial in my yard; I've seen them decimate nuisance beetles in my siding, coming and going from a tiny hole all summer. They moved into a railroad tie in the backyard, after they ate all the beetles in the siding (they move each December) then a skunk came along and ate every one of them, including all their larvae. Nature did its thing, and it was really neat to watch. Wasps (apparently) nest in one place for a season then move. At least the ones here do.

One of them stung me yesterday on the bicep. At least I have a bigger bicep now.

Video: explains that wasps perform similar jobs to bees Me: yeah well bees don’t build nests on my home and then get pissy when I just try to exist. Bees and I are cool

*shows it it my sis* Please understand My sis: *slight confusion*

people are ok with bees cause they die when they sting. But wasps figured what was the point of that and were hated

wasp is best.

I've just gave a wasp two baths. The first one was educational 8n a cold coffee because I let her wander on my hands but she wanted to try my face too. Then I let her slowly dry and clean herself and I decided that all the caffeine may be too much for her so I showered her with clean water. After a cute cleanup she went off. Hornets are kinda scary tho. I cant do that. Maybe one day

I was learning a trade about landscaping a while back. I didn't completely became a ground maintenence after graduating, because there was a section where you needed a license to handle pesticides. I still to this day don't believe pesticides is the answer to maintain everything in our environment.

Was this video made by Wasps

2:19 That Is NOT A Wasp 🐝 Thats A European Hornet

This wasp nest in my front yard is pretty durable. I can’t even mow that part of the yard anymore. I tried to leave them alone and be in harmony with nature but when I keep getting more aggressive. I sprayed a whole can of wasp/hornet spray on them and they are still there

wasps are the most nicest to me and venomous spiders

Great video but still I'm terrified by wasps and I cannot help it 😫

3:00 so they don't just sting you if they see you?

There was a wasp outside and it kept follow me

1:42 wasps perform similarly to bees, but they don't attack willy nilly unlike bees. Show me somepne handling wasps without protective gear, similar to how I've seen countless bee handlers move their nests without gear whatsoever

In fall they get super aggressive and attacks my dog . Even if you are no where near nest of anywhere usually just yellow jacket tbh from end august to early October ugh . Everyone else leaves me alone including paper wasp .

Unfortunately I must keep them away from the house ,, my dog doesn’t understand she can’t play with them and will try

I need the wasp plushie :0

I hate wasps, but I've seen them tear horseflies apart. Horseflies are a scourge.

They are pretty good at rugby to .

Wow... they can be trained...

i have a bad history with wasps, if someone can make wasps as friendly as bees then i will like them

Eagerly waiting for a wasp to sting me to protect me from cancer !

Like how she tried staying spiders damage plants and act like they also don't kill bugs. If we have to sacrifice figs for no more wasps, that would be a good deal.

Just don't intimadate them, they have feelings too😂

Thank you for this video!

I like spiders in my home less flys

wasps are the devil to me

I've hated wasps since I've been told they will sting anybody and I've only been stung by three wasps while a few other wasps didn't attack me which had me fear and hate them until watching this video and seeing a few videos which changed my mind that they aren't that bad as I once believed. I'm glad that me being curious decided to watch videos about wasps to learn about them or else I would still fear and hate them

Are wasps a big threat to bees?

Wow I learned a ton about wasps today but still hate them they are one 1. Ugly 2.Scary 3.Threatened easily 4. Annoying 5. Ugly 6. Waste of space 7. And hurt humans 8. And I am still terrified of them 9.oh wait did I mention they are ugly

anyone here? after got stung by wasp?

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I still hate wasps this one wasp kept coming back to my window and I couldn’t keep it out unless i closed my window so I was hot for about a week in the summer. I named it Sakura since I hated that wasp and I hate Sakura from Naruto.

Bet you a wasp wrote this script

14 million kg per year in the uk equates to about 2 insects killed per square km per day. Not much. I wish people actually payed attention to the numbers

I would love wasps if they did not have a stinger

Fun fact: some figs has eggs inside of it. Extra protein! 👍

Now I can go outside

a wasp made this video

I addore wasps

But there are many varients

I came here to watch this bc 5 minutes ago i cought the biggest wasp ive evere seen in my whole life inside of a cup now a fly is bothering me ao i came to see if realising the wasp over the fly would make them fight and kill the fly, imma let this wasp go.

NO

even if u hate them they’re kinda cool looking u cant deny. they’re like little jet planes

A few years ago we had a webworm problem in our pecan trees. Those large web tents, containing a LOT of webworms. One day I saw a wasp land on the web 'tent', cut into it with it's jaws, go inside and grab a worm. It flew back to it's nest, and apparently let the others wasps know, that there was a food source there. Then several wasps flew back to the web tent and retrieved worms. They spent that entire afternoon coming back to the webworms again and again until the worms were COMPLETELY GONE from that particular web tent. Very impressive, so as a result, I never kill wasps or destroy their nests anymore.

if you teach me how not to have it sting me, I am pretty sure I will love it.

I love wasps! They buzz merrily around my garden just as peacefully as my honeybees. Never been threatened, much less stung! Even given a few a nice little drip of water to drink on hot days. If you're only calm around them, they won't freak out either.

I'm allergic to wasp. But there is this small colony on the glass of my bedroom window. I watch them from time to time, so know i wanna know more about them.

Wasps are very misunderstood. They're beautiful creatures with amazing colours. I often sit down and hand feed them by putting honey and jam on my hand, and just watch several of them eat from me. As long as you remain calm and still, they'll happily eat away without harming you. They now view me as a friend and a provider of food for them, and I feel they would look after me in return.

I'm a beekeeper. I get stung by my bees all the time. But I don't hate them. They're simply defending themselves. Same logic applies to wasps. They only defend themselves -- they aren't capable of feeling anger or hate, only threatened and defensive. Just because wasps sometimes inconvenience humans doesn't mean they aren't worthy of respect and appreciation, they are critical for the ecosystem. Humans need to stop being selfish and hateful just because some animals defend themselves and/or have a stinger. Boo hoo. Lots of animals are capable of harming us including dogs who sometimes attack and kill humans, doesn't mean they should be "eradicated". The world doesn't revolve around us. Not to mention, most people base their opinion on wasps on a small handful of social stinging wasps, when in reality there are thousands and thousands of wasps and most are solitary. Not all wasps even sting. We use parasitoid wasps all the time in agriculture to control pests that would otherwise decimate our food supply. I actually feed wasps honey or a bit of apple slices by hand when I find them in my garden and none ever stung me. Wasps are awesome, cool and important!

I still hate them. They feel “threatened” so easily and conveniently

This video really educated me a lot about wasps 🤓🤓

This is super cool! Thank you so much for this awesome information!

I'm completely immune to bee and wasp stings. I feel the sting but that's where it ends. Lets kill mosquitoes and leave the wasps alone please. We need them.

society hates wasps .. heh.. well wasp hates society

Watched this because I have a huge wasp phobia. I feel paralyzed around them. Hoping to get more knowledge to lessen the fear

2:45 why do I feel bad for a fake wasp

I love wasps, they're adorable. Once, when I was little, I saw an albino wasp. She was pink and white striped. She was stuck in the lake we were swimming in, but my Mom and I rescued her, we put her on a log and when she dried off enough she flew away. We didn't have a camera with us, so I have no proof - I would swear it was a dream if my Mom didn't remember her too! I called her Candy Cane. I've searched and searched online, but seen no photos of pink and white wasps - was she the only one, I wonder? I've never been stung by a wasp. I've been stung by bees three times, and all three were my own stupid fault for not looking where I was going - or literally picking one up by the wing (I thought she was dead. She wasn't. She didn't die, I managed to get her stinger unstuck from my finger, and she made it okay!) ~Cat~ P.S. this is adorable, and I love this video! ...but what's with the anti-spider propaganda‽ Spiders are important for many of the same reasons as wasps are, and the vast majority of them are totally harmless.

It’s stupid how people don’t see how every animal that exists has a purpose. Just cause your lazy ass is sitting eating tubs of ice cream and they fly around you doesn’t mean anything! Most cases of stinging is because the people swatted or attacked it.

Just teach me How to avoid them better. Wasp always seem to get in my way when I walk down a sidewalk. they change direction often and no matter where I move they end up in my path. and when they do get close I get an ungodly amount of anxiety and stress and tend to just run

yeah, a wasp made this video

I started this video like “THERE IS NOTHING THIS WOMAN WILL SAY THAT WILL MAKE ME APPRECIATE WASPS! 🗣️🗣️🗣️” SOON as she said “we would have more unwanted creatures in our home” I was sold 😭😮‍💨😮‍💨

I love wasps.

did a wasp make this video or something?

Thank you for educating me in Wasp propaganda

A wasp made this

Dam I’ve been merking wasps left and right all summer long 😭

Anything that's small and can fly scare the shit out of me 💀

Bro wasps are un invited creatures in my house.

All the wasp haters can you send your negativity somewhere else because this is about how wasps are good.

I’m not a fan when a wasp orbits you and gives you an excuse to swat it so it can justify stinging you…

I saw a video once where a murder hornet destroys an entire honey bee hive and therefore hated wasps until today. I guess we always see one side of the story

Man... after seeing this video I can now finally say that wasps..... still suck.If I see a wasp outside my house I'm killing it with anything that's next to me. I shot down a wasp nest with my slingshot earlier and after this video I feel a little bad, but not that bad.But I do want a wasp plushie after seeing this video....Where do I get one?

I have a nest outside my window. I knew they have their place in the ecosystem so I think I'll just keep it closed and let them do their thing until theyre gone.

1:17 I could not stop laughing xD

Wow, this really taught me something I'm glad to know that wasp isn't here for nothing but they also help the environment.