Triggers for serious parental abuse, but if you can, please take time out of your day to help Claudia Conway escape her hell of a ‘mother’. For anyone who doesn’t know, Kellyanne Conway is the former adviser to T****, and has leaked nudes of her own 15 year old daughter onto the internet. Which is, sadly, just the tip of the iceberg. Please help send this monster straight into prison for the rest of her disgusting life. CPS has refused Claudia any help, because Kellyanne is white, and has government friends. Let’s keep pushing till we get people who don’t care about those things to file a case against her, and actually get her daughter away from her.
We need to better educate kids on the importance of animals that are typically hated because otherwise you end up with adults who think hating wasps is a personality.
Trufax: hatred of wasps is so widespread that it’s prevalent among biologists as well. An entire field full of people getting excited about species that nobody else has heard of, and many have collectively decided that wasps don’t need to be researched, even though they’re threatened by the same things that are threatening bees, and disappearance of wasps will spell bad things for the number of pests found in gardens and farms.
I have a friend wasp named Queeny. She built her nest on a really inconvenient area where I often dump my birds’ uneaten seed or shake towels out. She would come out angrily and buzz at us, ready to defend her home from the strange giants.
Queeny didn’t know that it was our porch she built her home on, she saw a nice ledge and decided that it was a suitable spot to begin her life as a lone female.
So instead of removing the nest and poisoning her with bug spray, you know what I did? I moved the area where I dump my things and started feeding her. I would tap three times on the railing before leaving a treat like fruit, honey, dog food, or pesky beetles I find in my garden, then move away to give them lots of space. At first she would buzz out, wings spread and ready to fight, but after doing this for just a few days…she stopped!
Now when she comes out, it’s slowly and non-threatingly. She tilts her head at me before gingerly inspecting the offerings. She doesn’t threaten my mom any more either, she’s learned that we mean no harm. We’ve started using that ledge to shake sheets out and dump bird seed and she doesn’t mind at all! She just watches quietly.
She even has a family now! Five daughters and one lad- a husband or son, not sure which lmao -who greet us the same, she must’ve taught them that we’re not enemies (or they just grew up used to us). They even protect my garden, since Queeny’s family has grown the invasive Japanese beetle population has plummeted! They really are delightful neighbors.
To do list:
Befriend some wasps
There have been studies that prove wasps (paper wasps,
Polistes fuscatus
specifically) and honeybees can recognize human faces. Other wasps and bees likely can as well, it was just
Polistes fuscatus that was studied more closely.
If you’re a dick to them, they’ll remember that.
If you’re nice to them, they’ll remember that as well.
Yellowjackets seem to have some ability to do it as well; my parents purposely started leaving out dishes of jam and cut up fruit for a massive underground nest they had no possible hope of eradicating (cabin in the middle of nowhere, no exterminators in the area, and as best they could guess they’d have to dig up the entire garden to get it all). Their aim was mostly to keep the hornets away from the areas people often ate or drank because any time food or sweet drinks were out, the hornets came over to basically hijack everything. Even then, any time people came out to eat, they went over to the table they set up near the garden to put out a mini-picnic for the hornets as well, which did pretty well at keeping them from harassing the people who were about 20 feet away.
The secondary aim was to hopefully get the big ol’ colony to realize they weren’t trying to start trouble after my dad got swarmed into the lake a few times for getting too close to a nest entrance he didn’t even know was there.
After a few weeks of that, the hornets were pretty chill about people and my parents were able to figure out where the nest entrances were and just how much of the garden had tons and tons and tons of yellowjackets underneath it so they could move the plants somewhere else in the yard.
The colony is still there years later and probably larger now, the garden was mostly moved, and they still put food out for the hornets; about the only things that fight with the hornets now are oriels, who also want to eat the jelly and fruit and even they’ve sort of learned to share.
They’re wary of but not aggressive toward new people giving them food but seem to sort of generally recognize people in general is, “They give us food, it’s probably cool.”
The nest entrances have been marked with staked red flags too so nobody accidentally gets too close.
Wasps are just like any other animal. If you leave them alone/let them know you’re not a threat, they’ll leave you alone. You gotta remember that wasps evolved with big critters like us breaking into their nests go eat their protein rich babies, and we’re several hundred times their size - if they aren’t attracted by your food they’re scared of you, and when animals get scared they can get aggressive.
Consider instead: All bees and wasps can and should die.
hey bro have you heard of a little thing called pollination and how we kinda need bees and wasps to do that so we can like, farm enough food to survive?
