Im not letting you TOUCH the house unless you SIGN IN BLOOD THAT YOU WILL NOT STING ME!

@Greyhuskey1940
I’m not that poster, but I have had many encounters with them too. They’re pretty common where I live.

Their stings are exceedingly painful and can pose a risk to anyone allergic. Most people can tank at least one or two, but it’s not recommended. The real danger is that disturbing their nest will result in every able-bodied wasp attacking you, and multiple stings can accomplish what one sting can’t. Add to that that they tend to make nests where humans dwell, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. They’re aggressive if their nest is attacked or molested and will actively give chase.

On the other hand, wasps from different areas can have different “personalities.” Some are extremely aggressive and will attack everyone if provoked even slightly. Others can be so mild-mannered that they’ll tolerate human contact to an amazing degree, and will warn you off well before you make the mistake of approaching their home too closely (they’ll fly up and “bump” you until you back off). It actually is possible to co-exist with them, but if you have curious children or pets, it’s usually better to get rid of them.

@Background Pony #CB3F
aren’t red wasps like really dangerous?…ive seen a video brave wilderness did and came across one when filming a video at night…they look scary…..also were you ever stung?

im sorry at first id be terrified since wasps scare me more than anything…infact even when we becoem freinds id still be nervouse around her

@somercet
 
No offense taken ^_ It kept away peddlers and less desirable relatives.

That can’s not empty, she just left to refuel!
 

How did I never see this before. D:
 
That link in the description is awesome, btw. The lifestyle of all the yellow and black incests (and also ants and termites) have always been fascinating to me.

@Background Pony #7A68  
She’d understand if you just told her. She’s well aware the bad rap her kind tend to get :D

I hate to be rude towards this cute Wasp Pony OC, but I’m still terrified of being stung by her; I’ve been chased by red wasps one too many times in my life. :(

Cute image and monologue. It reminds me of the spider meme .
 
@Background Pony #DD34  
I must be honest: if I lived next door to you, I’d probably burn your house down.
 
Nothing personal. :D

@Badumsquish  
I have all but three of them (Mariel and the last two books) and read my way through them chronologically. It takes me long enough to do so that I never get tired of them. I like pretty much every one of them, though always was annoyed by the fact that despite the original book implying foxes were neutral, after that point they’re always considered vermin. And we had all of one genuinely good vermin in the entire series. :T Unless you take their word for it that the rats on the island were genuinely good after the Marlfoxes were killed off but even still, that’s out of all 20-some books.

@Keith Mowz  
Yeah… there was one hell of an author right there.
 
I know for a lot of people Watership Down was this, but the Redwall books were my first exposure to the whole “cute talking animals done gritty and dark” kind of thing.

@Badumsquish  
“Doomwyte” was the specific book. It was one of the last ones. (RIP, Brian Jaques. :<)

@Ghost  
Maybe briefly to give you a little nose-snuggle.
 
@Keith Mowz  
I… seem to remember that too…

@Badumsquish  
I’ve seen something vaguely with that theme in a Redwall book; crazy hedgehog lady had swarms of bees she lived with who were basically under her authority. (At least until one of the main characters smashed the vial of wood ant pheromones she was going to use on them to get them stung to death in her hand and they turned on her.)

@Badumsquish  
But how is it with crawling on my face? Wasps I meet seem to have a fetish for that.

@Background Pony #DD34  
That is simultaneously frightening and really cool. Like I could see a horror movie starting like that :D  
That also reminds me of those people who like tame an entire hornet’s nest by “taming” the queen. Damned if I could find the video but he had the queen sitting on his finger eating a drop of nectar or something, and since the queen was okay with him the entire nest was ignoring him.
 
@Ghost  
She’s one of the good ones. She’ll politely ask permission to eat your food and abide by your refusal should you decline.

As long she stays away from my face or my food I will not have anything agenst her.

@Background Pony #DD34  
That sounds both awesome and Horrifying~
 
Oh man. Imagine if you didn’t have any nectar to refill the things at the time when you go out there. You just have thousands of stingy bugs sitting there…Watching you…Telling you they’re hungry and are waiting~

@Badumsquish
 
When I was much younger and lived at home, we regularly fed hummingbirds. There were a lot of hummingbirds nesting nearby, and they’re awesome to watch.
 
We wound feeding a LOT more wasps, hornets and bees. They would tie up in fights with each other until we increased the number of feeders–the magic number seemed to be around 6, since at that point, they’d begin acting reasonably polite toward each other and queuing up, regardless of species, and they’d stop actively chasing off the hummingbirds…as long as the feeders were spaced and kept filled.
 
And several things happened at the same time–first, the number of stinging insects near our home blew through the roof, and wasps apparently began nesting en masse near us. Second, the number of insect stings actually dropped.* To nothing, in fact.
 
I helped clean and refill feeders. Apparently wasps and hornets can easily recognize people and can also understand that we were the ones responsible for the constant supply of food. If we got too close to a nest–and they would tolerate an amazing amount of contact–they would fly out and “bump,” rather than sting. Other people, though, didn’t seem to get that privilege, because they would actively chase away anyone they didn’t know. They would also try to accompany the feeders into the house when we brought them in to clean and refill, and would wait patiently on a wall or a countertop until we took them back outside–the bugs never remained in the house.
 
My mother got a surprise one afternoon when she went outside to check the feeders–they were empty, and each and every exposed surface of the porch and the nearby trees was literally covered in wasps, bees, hornets and yellowjackets, all of them patiently watching her and the feeders and making this low buzzing noise you could actually FEEL in your chest. She later joked that they apparently trying out their Human Summoning chant, and it worked–a few of them went back inside with her when she took the feeders in for cleaning and refilling, and when she brought them back out, they were mobbing the feeders before she could get them back into position. They also completely ignored her, even though several of them actually lit on her (she swatted them off when they did–they didn’t seem to take it personally, though).
 
Shortly after, one of my mom’s brothers in law showed up, and he almost left rather than try to brave the gauntlet of bugs. My mom’s husband told him not to worry about it. “It’s just their pet bugs,” he said.

@Clintr  
Everything is tolerable when you can reason with it. :P

wonder what a female generic messy hair anime anon looks like

@Clintr  
Yep

Normally I am really uncomfortable when Wasps are in my vicinity, but if they were more like this I can learn to tolerate them.