in other news these are the wasps we like that live in the bush outside our front door and have never attacked anybody, even the gardeners for our complex that trim said bush
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in other news these are the wasps we like that live in the bush outside our front door and have never attacked anybody, even the gardeners for our complex that trim said bush
in other news these are the wasps we like that live in the bush outside our front door and have never attacked anybody, even the gardeners for our complex that trim said bush
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they were sleepy still
tentamoff
"wasps we like" is so unreal to see
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they're nice wasps!!!!
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I am still allergic so I give them much respect but it's been since spring that they've been here and nobody's been stung!
tentamoff
Nice until someone gives them a reason I bet
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see I thought that too but the lawn people are here at least once a week getting in their business and they trim that bush monthly. it's been 6 months. this particular nest of paper wasps is just?? nice???
tentamoff
I wonder if it's because they grew up having the bush trimmed it just became normal
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yeah, it's like. it is literally "our bags brush this bush as we get to the front door" close, so they've been there used to us coming and going constantly all year, and they showed up right when the lawn people started their warm weather weekly schedule
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so they do seem to have just??? gotten used to us??
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like. this is a picture from a couple weeks ago when Robin put out the decorations, but that's their bush they're on the right
like. this is a picture from a couple weeks ago when Robin put out the decorations, but that's their bush they're on the right
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there**
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that is a narrow entryway, we touch that bush regularly on accident
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and the picture of them in the top level here is only zoomed in 1.1x just so I could get it to focus inside the bush instead of on the leaves
tentamoff
I would have the heebie-jeebies you guys are strong
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they seem to be just normal paper wasps, but the very first one we saw was EXTREMELY blond for their coloring, so when I looked it up I got a type of paper wasp that's arboreal and pretty docile, so I told the roomies to leave it alone despite my allergies just to see
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and despite them probably not being that type, they do just chill
tentamoff
If you go quiet for too long I'm just going to assume the situation changed and you got taken out by wasp ass
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we also have a very specific mud dauber that lives alone, and we leave him tf alone bc he's one of the spider-paralyzing ones and while I have entered my "spiders are BABIES" era, I live with two people who are extremely arachnophobic
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between the wasps we like and the mud dauber, we have had zero inside spiders, only the usual "very persistent tree roaches that are sick of how hot and dry it is and would like a drink of water from the toilet right inside the front door" summer problem
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which we take care of via dustpan and broom and we KNOW some of them are repeat offenders bc we have SEEN them sneak back to the door from outside and they KNOW the dustpan is the transportation to outside
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and just fucking go in it most of the time
tentamoff
Okay now that's funny
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it has cured me of my squickiness surrounding roaches. it helps that Robin named the one that kept coming back last year "Doug," so now all roaches that get in the house are "Doug"
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and it's hard to be scared when someone yells "DOUG ALERT"
tentamoff
LOL
till the end
NAH
till the end
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till the end
: the funniest part of this is that we had a SECOND type of wasp try to move in and they STARTED in my and shiny's bedroom window on the second floor, so I was like "ok they're pollinators, as long as they stay the fuck up there and don't find out how to get inside we SHOULD be safe"
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but then they got violent with our bush wasps in a territorial dispute and also got violent with US which is why I got severely injured in late August
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so we got rid of those ones with extreme prejudice
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but even while getting harassed by other wasps, these bush guys didn't ever get mad at us
tentamoff
Hell they probably see you guys as comrades in arms now LOL
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GOOD BC WE ARE
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I'm thinking about putting up a sign so the little kids that run around outside and parked their little tiny scooters in our parking space yesterday know not to mess with that bush