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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe i am just naïve but cant we just breed a fuckton of bumble and other more friendly bees to release around neighborhoods so to suppress wasp populations around humans.

Do wasps carry a role that cant be done by a different pollinator?

I get that we should strive for maximum bio diversity but the wasps where i live will literally land and crawl over your face. I can just about hold my breath and handle that, my kid cannot.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wasps usually kill other bugs. So you might end up with more of the biting bugs without them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

TIL wasps kill spiders, (i looked it up). They are now my best friends. Wasps everywhere please. Genocide the spiders!!!

Wait then were gonna get mosquitoes…..

I am starting to feel like maybe we should just let nature alone because it knows best.. NAH, now that would be silly /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait until you learn what spiders kill

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Bears, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Well, spiders, mosquitoes and ticks all play an important role as well ;)

In order to get less parasites maybe we should let the biosphere do its thing and through less disturbance we would probably be less affected as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Considering we're already just killing off native bee populations anyway, probably not