I'm good with the honey bee and bumble bee, but yeah, the rest can fuck the right off. :/

[MerryBlooms]

with a flamethrower.

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[enlightenment]

1. Yep.

[NightWatcher]

2. I was about to post the same. They're just assholes.

[Skittles]

4. Bee = Dems Wasp = Repuke

[MerryBlooms]

3. Exactly.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. WASP used the stand for White Aglo Saxon Protestant, assholes like Trump

[truebluegreen]

11. Um, where's the "Anglo-Saxon" part in the family?

Old family name was "Drumpf" and that's Germanic* plus his mother was a Scot and, believe me, that's not the same.



*to be fair, you could link the Angles and Saxons to old Germanic tribes, but in general parlance it refers to people of English extraction...which is why the Scots get het up about it.

[NutmegYankee]

14. There were still Saxons in Germany.

Only part of the tribe went to England.

Interesting note, the current English royal line is from Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor

[truebluegreen]

20. I know that.

I was simply pointing out that Trump is not "Anglo-Saxon", as that term is defined by usage.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

40. I don't believe ANY of this. Trump better start digging out his BIRTH CERTIFICATE

As for religion, it was probably the 666th birth certificate issued.

[truebluegreen]

41. Heh. nt

[laundry_queen]

17. Fucking wasp stung me a couple of weeks ago

Fucking asshole flew into my loose fitting cardigan. I thought it was a leaf (it was a windy day). It wasn't a leaf I found out a few minutes later in my office. OUCH! Nearly stripped naked in the office trying to get the fucker out of there LOL.

That was my first time being stung ever. It sucked.

[enlightenment]

25. Oh, damn.

Awful. My sympathies.

Many years ago I was working on a dig site in Colorado. Wandered down to a little stream to wet my face and hands and apparently chose to stand on a fire ant nest. Nasty things crawled up my boots and into my jeans - I was howling like a rabid dog and stripping off my clothes in front of a crowd of semi-amused archaeologists. Unfun, I can tell you.

[laundry_queen]

27. ugh, I bet.

I'm very glad I live somewhere without fire ants. ick.

[hollysmom]

30. Ihave to defend at least one wasp. Years ago we were hit with a gypsy moth invations

that was killing trees, at night you could hear them munch on the trees, you could not go out without an umbrella because they would drop from the trees on top of you. I fought them with a bacteria, but in nature, they are fought by wasps laying the larvae on the caterpillar and eating them to death. some wasps save us from the caterpillar.

[tymorial]

5. I hate carpenter ants and wasps the most

Some god.damned carpenter ants and bald faced wasps decided to have a party in my 3 season porch last week. I went in there and the ants were swarming. I had nymphs everywhere. I of course get out the raid to poison myself when 5 of the biggest wasps you have ever seen decided to show up from god knows where. I know how the ants got in but I have yet to see the wasp nest. The ant colony is dead... you gotta love boric acid. But I am sure there is a satallite nest around.


Have I mentioned how much I hate ants and flying nails with wings?

[MerryBlooms]

6. Yeah, carpenter ants will fuck your place up and I think something in their scent attracts

predator flyers like wasps, yellow jackets and hornets. We had a similar problem last year, but once the carpenter ants and their nest was exterminated, Satan's flying black and yellow minions disappeared.

[tymorial]

10. I didnt know about the scent.

That makes perfect sense though. I didnt realize the wasps were there until I looked down and saw a black and white bug looking up at me. Honestly, I am surprised that I didnt get stung. My reaction was the opposite of reserved.

[MerryBlooms]

12. The best offense is a great defense.

We now check our house and property every month. Anything looks a little off, we're on it.

[laundry_queen]

18. Not a fan of those ants either

One place I lived in had an infestation (we had a wood basement, and they started to come in) and we found the large nest in the front yard. My then-husband poured boric acid down the hole and then plugged it with the hose and turned on the water for a few hours. We put boric acid all around the house. Never had a problem again. But I still had nightmares - we had a drop ceiling in the finished part of the basement, and there were ants dropping out where it ended over the utility room, onto the washing machine. ack! I was pregnant and the stress from having to do laundry...lol...I was prepared to do laundry in the bathtub upstairs to avoid it. Thankfully the boric acid worked quickly.

[dorkzilla]

7. Colin?

[laundry_queen]

19. Colin is pretty funny

I like get a gun myself.

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[dorkzilla]

21. I've actually posted that graphic on a friend's Facebook page

She is so terrified of spiders that when she first got divorced I had to go to her house and remove a spider from her laundry room.

I'm so not afraid of bugs. Now snakes...that's another matter entirely.

[laundry_queen]

22. HAHA, my mom hates snakes too

She ridicules me endlessly about my fear of bugs (specifically spiders) but if I even *talk* about snakes, she loses her shit, LOL. She won't even watch Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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[dorkzilla]

23. LOL, those are great!

I love the peppermint oil one!

[Shandris]

9. ...insult ferrets, why I oughta....

FWIW, rats and mice make good pets too. But not as good as ferrets!

AND, only ferrets are cute enough to look like mice sometimes, then jump 8 feet onto a counter!

[MerryBlooms]

13. We've had pet mice, rat and ferret...

lizards, frogs, snake, rabbit, dogs, turtle, cats, fish... love them all, but the ferret stunk even after glad removal. Frequent baths didn't help much. Wheezer stole every sock that wasn't nailed down, dug out the under-side of the couch to make his nest and stash his sock booty. He was quite the character.

[theaocp]

15. Baths generally increase the odor

some experience with ferrets. Counter intuitive, but good to know.

[Paulie]

16. Colin should have been Willard

[applegrove]

24. I'm in Ottawa. A mosquito landed on me in a restaurant. I let him feed on me

because she was a non Zika carrying type of mosquito and I want her good and strong with many babies. Zika virus carrying type mosquitos make it as far north as southern new York state presently. I'm doing what I can to mitigate the danger.

[Lordquinton]

28. Um...

[applegrove]

29. I know I had no science behind me. It was the symbolism that mattered.

[Lordquinton]

31. Symbolic of what?

I don't see what you're trying to prove...

[applegrove]

34. Mankind has destroyed the environment. Leading to Zika as the tropics around the world get hotter

and produce more life/disease. And the carrier mosquito made it as far north as Washington DC in 2011 because of climate change and warm winters. So too is there more standing water as man covers the earth with civilization where the man-mosquito-disease collision can take place. So in a one two three punch we've made ourselves vulnerable to zika. I can try and combat such climate change disaster by letting a normally native mosquito bite me to feed her larvae. And perhaps stave off the zika carrying mosquito for a few more years, as I'm sure my blood fed 10,000 new non Zika carrying mosquitos. Futile on the whole. But symbolic like the last scene of grapes of wrath was. By putting myself back in the circle of life in the middle of a city, I perhaps raise my consciousness on the issue and then become more of a environmental issue voter. That is real change. See the symbolism allows me as a human to feel connectedness with something that is not right in front of my nose (the climate change fight) by acting on it right then and there. Things happen in a more efficient way then. It is a start.

[Lordquinton]

36. That... That won't work at all...

Maybe empty out sitting water, but if you had actually researched this one little bit you'd know that the zika mosquito have the virus only in the origin location currently, and the mosquito that carries it breeds in a completely different environment than others.

[applegrove]

37. I know it was only symbolic on my part in that I became part of the ecology instead of

killing that critter. Like I said it was likely a useless act, except for how it taught me my place in the world. Part of something. Not the master of it.

[Orrex]

39. You'd still be part of the ecology if you'd killed that critter.

You can't not be part of the ecology, short of leaving the planet altogether, in which case you'd become part of a different ecology.

[applegrove]

42. Okay. I wanted to promote the ecology of other beings before my own

immediate self interest.

[Orrex]

43. What is the limit to that altruism?

And, for the 99.99% of the population who lack the entomological chops to complete a real-time morphological assessment, what is the general obligation re: mosquito preservation?

[applegrove]

44. I took a step into being a more environmentally aware person. More committed

to the cause. It will take millions and millions of like steps by humans in the years to come to save our own DAM asses. That is where altruism will end. We can only hope.

[kdmorris]

38. You think Zika is the only virus that mosquitos carry?

There are MUCH worse viruses carried by mosquitos... they don't affect fetuses because they don't pass the placenta, but they are fairly fucking awful for the adult that gets them.

Mitigate the danger? FFS...

[Nye Bevan]

26. Ridiculous. These creatures all have an important place in the circle of life.

Actually, on reflection, no. Most of them are indeed annoying assholes.

[kentauros]

32. I like mud dauber wasps.

Plus some of them eat black and brown widow spiders.

They seem to like me, too, yet never sting me. Just hover around me for some odd reason. Maybe they know I won't kill them and appreciate their existence in nature

[countryjake]

33. How's about this wasp? Tarantula hawk - most painful sting of any U.S. insect

http://www.desertusa.com/insects/tarantula-hawks.html

[Revanchist]

35. That video needs the Shatner fight music

from the original star trek series.

[TacoD]

46. Known as Cazadores to Fallout fans :-) nt

[TacoD]

45. Ugh, earwigs (2nd row, 2nd from left)

Yep, anything that has PINCERS PROTRUDING FROM ITS BUTT can fuck right off. Had an infestation of them one year. Yuck.

[KamaAina]

47. I know people who once had a pet rat.

A hooded rat named "Foot-foot". He was kind of fun, but had an annoying habit of peeing on my hand. (This was in Hawai'i, not NC. )