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[Dunamisdeos]

Spiders are deadly poisonous depending on locale.

Outside of like 2 species snakes here are a cutesy joke, but some humans are still hardwired to fear the danger noodle.

[MrRoboto75]

Also how full your bowels/stomach are. I've found if I've not eaten the night before I weigh much less than I would otherwise.

They said I'm full of shit

[King Zultan]

I never got why people were scared of spiders, I mean they're tiny.

they bite somtimes though and their bites can be really painful

like, wasps are tiny, too, but I figure you probably get why folks are often scared of those

I know spiders can cause pain, just smash the deadly or painful ones and ignore the rest.

My mom is afraid of wasps because she is severely allergic to them, I mostly ignore them but if they're close to the house I go out of the way to kill them, gotta keep the fam safe.

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm afraid of wasps because they fucking sting me even if I'm not bothering them. Fuck wasps.

[TamerVirus]

Meanwhile I have a mud dauber wasp nesting in my bedroom. She's lovely. Not all wasps are assholes, most of them are non-social and really cool.

The wasps must have killed vcd and reanimated the corpse...

[Great Order]

Personally I don't like wasps because about 7 or 8 years ago one climbed into my pocket and stung me because I went to get my wallet out.

This was your fault you damn paper wasp!

[dragdeler]

I've yet to reach apicultist levels of zen but they can be dealt with. Not denying there is the occasional asshole, wasps are especially territorial yet seem to claim everything for themselves... but like the other day I pushed glass bottles into a bulb that was starting to run over, and among the like 50 I disturbed there was only one that started to get kinda uppety and followed me for a hot minute before deciding she won.


If you miss one you're screwed and that's a little unfair, kinda, but you can make it clear where you go and move there in a slow and determined manner and they will acknowledge you're bigger? sorta


Only when they sit on my face I still wait it out. But like my food is my food and I'm not particularly nice about that, so far no problems haven't been stung in years, last time when I reached into a nest during renovation works that I didn't know was there, and once by sitting on a wasp and that's absolutely it.

[Eric Blank]

Just murder the little shits if they're close to your home. It's what they'd do to you if they could. And your animals, when they're trying to get a drink out of their trough or eat their grain.

[McTraveller]

My favorite anti-wasp tool is a shop vac.

[King Zultan]

Best tool for wasp killing I've found is whatever happens to be nearby at the time.


The coolest way I've killed a flying wasp was with a machete.

[scriver]

Well, I never. For the longest time I thought what I now understand to be craneflies - to be male mosquitoes. But it would appear the sexual dimorphism in the bloodsuckers goes the other way.

Growing up, my family always referred to them as "Mosquito-eaters". I didn't learn that they were actually called crane flies (and did not, in fact, eat mosquitoes) until I was well into my 20's.

In Norwegian, they're called "Stankelbein". I can't really translate that, but I can tell you that "bein" is "leg".

Over here in Sweden we call them Harkrank, which means "Hair Cringe," directly translated. Less directly it means "Hairy weak/thin/bent/bad thing".

It could also be translated to "Hair Kraken"

[Dunamisdeos]

Best tool for wasp killing I've found is whatever happens to be nearby at the time.


The coolest way I've killed a flying wasp was with a machete.

We had a massive wasp nest that got built right outside of our door that we had to get rid of, because family allergies.

Took it out with a pot of boiling water mixed with bleach.

[bloop_bleep]

The coolest way I've killed a flying wasp was with a machete.

CDDA cosplaying

[Frumple]

... does remind me I once hit a dragonfly out the air with a walking stick. Can't say it was a good thing, exactly, but it was a pretty good hit regardless. Not sure if I'd be able to do it again even if I tried.

[Rolan7]

Fighting Bug with Bug?
It's not very effective...