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[Dr Fluff]

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Wasps are beneficial for controlling garden pests, pollinating plants, and contributing to a healthy ecosystem. They act as natural pest controllers by preying on insects like aphids and caterpillars, and while they aren't as efficient as bees, they still help pollinate many plants, including some crops. Additionally, research is exploring the medicinal potential of wasp venom and nests, which may have properties that can be used to develop new antibiotics and cancer treatments.

Pest control

• Natural predators:
  Wasps are crucial predators that help control populations of many common garden pests, such as aphids, caterpillars, spiders, and other insect grubs.
  • Protein source for young:
    Worker wasps feed their larvae a protein-rich diet of other insects, providing natural pest control without the need for chemical pesticides.
    

Pollination

• • Plant pollinators:
    Wasps are pollinators, helping to transfer pollen between flowers as they search for food, which is important for the health of many plants and crops.
    
  • Specialized pollinators:
    Some wasps, like the fig wasp, are the only pollinators for certain plants, such as fig trees, demonstrating their vital role in specific ecosystems.
    

Ecosystem and other benefits

• • Maintaining biodiversity:
    Wasps are an important part of the natural food web, as they are food for other animals like birds and amphibians.
    
  • Yeast carriers:
    Some wasps, including hornets and paper wasps, carry yeast in their guts. They consume yeast from late-season grapes and pass it on to their offspring, helping to spread yeast throughout the next season's crop and playing a role in the production of products like bread, beer, and wine.
    
  • Potential medicinal properties:
    Wasp venom contains peptides that show potential for killing cancer cells, and some wasp nests have been found to contain compounds that are effective against certain bacteria.
  • Fig Wasps - no fig wasp = no figs!
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  • The Africanised honey bee AKA Killer Bees​

  • Most Dangerous Bees in the World: The Africanised honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata), known as the “killer bee”, is the world’s most dangerous bee. Originating in Brazil in the 1950s, it aggressively defends its nest, swarming in large numbers and pursuing threats for up to half a kilometre. Their mass sting attacks have caused over 1,000 human deaths.​

 

[Mossy]

Then crash

When the cold patch hit...?...

 

[Mossy]

Morning Fluffy..

 

[Mossy]

Wasps are beneficial for controlling garden pests, pollinating plants, and contributing to a healthy ecosystem. They act as natural pest controllers by preying on insects like aphids and caterpillars, and while they aren't as efficient as bees, they still help pollinate many plants, including some crops. Additionally, research is exploring the medicinal potential of wasp venom and nests, which may have properties that can be used to develop new antibiotics and cancer treatments.

Pest control

• Natural predators:
  Wasps are crucial predators that help control populations of many common garden pests, such as aphids, caterpillars, spiders, and other insect grubs.
  • Protein source for young:
    Worker wasps feed their larvae a protein-rich diet of other insects, providing natural pest control without the need for chemical pesticides.

Pollination

• • Plant pollinators:
    Wasps are pollinators, helping to transfer pollen between flowers as they search for food, which is important for the health of many plants and crops.
  • Specialized pollinators:
    Some wasps, like the fig wasp, are the only pollinators for certain plants, such as fig trees, demonstrating their vital role in specific ecosystems.

Ecosystem and other benefits

• • Maintaining biodiversity:
    Wasps are an important part of the natural food web, as they are food for other animals like birds and amphibians.
  • Yeast carriers:
    Some wasps, including hornets and paper wasps, carry yeast in their guts. They consume yeast from late-season grapes and pass it on to their offspring, helping to spread yeast throughout the next season's crop and playing a role in the production of products like bread, beer, and wine.
  • Potential medicinal properties:
    Wasp venom contains peptides that show potential for killing cancer cells, and some wasp nests have been found to contain compounds that are effective against certain bacteria.
  • Fig Wasps - no fig wasp = no figs!
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  • The Africanised honey bee AKA Killer Bees​

  • Most Dangerous Bees in the World: The Africanised honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata), known as the “killer bee”, is the world’s most dangerous bee. Originating in Brazil in the 1950s, it aggressively defends its nest, swarming in large numbers and pursuing threats for up to half a kilometre. Their mass sting attacks have caused over 1,000 human deaths.​

I'm taking some persuading...wasps over here are damn vicious.

With the UK wasps you are more likely to get stung by flapping your arms around trying to get rid of them... ..here they attack..en mass....

They make nests in amongst the plants...and if you forget they are there..and pass the hosepipe over them..then run.......coz they will come directly for you.

Plus.. hubby reacts badly to the stings..not anaphylactic...he just swells and swells on and around the sting site.....he used to have to run to the docs for hydrocortisone shots...we have home management now...but hydrocortisone makes him grumpy for days.......

 

[Azton]

I was laying real low for a couple of months like 25 or so years ago. Like real low.
I had found a guesthouse type living for cheap out in the woods where there was an old lady living in the main building and her son was the landlord and he came by once a week or similar to check on his mom.
That woman was absolutely insane when he wasn't there. She could walk up to the guesthouse absolutely naked and scream for example "I SEE WHAT YOU ARE DREAMING!" and then just stand there looking at me through the window with a look on her face like she was in agonizing pain. Then her face turned normal and she would head back to her house and I suppose go back to normal.
Her son never saw this. I tried explaining to him that you know what maybe get some help for your mom but he got angry with me and thought I tried to get his mom in a home and take over the property in some scheme I don't know.
I tried to live on as normal as I could but he got paranoid that I was up to something and he kicked me out maybe two weeks later.
During this time the old lady had thrown pinecones on my window in the middle of the night and just standing staring at me when I asked her what's up. She had repeatedly tried to get her fat cat to attack me like "go get him boy!" And once when he didn't she tried to get a coffee table to attack me. Yup. She had also put a bloody tampon in my mailbox once and screamed at me to give her oral sex.
I wasn't too upset about leaving. But I had no way of ever checking how it all went for her. There was a sweet person inside her somewhere, I could always feel it somehow.

 

[Azton]

That cat loved me. I gave him easy whip for hanging out with me when I smoked. I would have loved me if I was that cat. We hung out and watched MTV.

 

[Azton]

She could had asked NICELY for oral sex. Manners, pfft.

 

[Azton]

You find the strangest people up in northern Sweden. Once I was driving I don't know, far up in the woods. I didn't see any cars or anything and you know, all alone on the road in the middle of the woods. Then all of the sudden there's a circle of trucks on a field standing with their headlights on pointed towards the center. Like an AA meeting for pickups and SUVs. WTF kind of strange cult is that.

 

[Frankthetank]

That cat loved me. I gave him easy whip for hanging out with me when I smoked. I would have loved me if I was that cat. We hung out and watched MTV.

She could had asked NICELY for oral sex. Manners, pfft.

You shouldn’t oral sex cats. Not cool. They already think they’re better than us…

 

[WildBill]

Todd McCormick is is a photo snob stuck in 2014!