I’m the world’s worse advocate for wasps. Everytime I see people repeating bees=nice good pollinators wasps=bad stinging meanies, I face a deep internal struggle trying to explain how they are important to the environment without explaining wasp facts that freak them out in ways they never even thought
“Bees might be cuter and make honey, but wasps are VERY important too, some of them are necessary as pollinators themselves! Hey anyways you wanna hear some fucked up things about figs?”
“You hate wasps? Well think of a bug that you hate more then wasps. There’s probably a parasitoid wasp that lays their eggs inside them and their babies to devour them alive from the inside, reducing that insect species’ population!”
“Your least favourite bug is parasitoid wasps now? Well you are gonna be THRILLED and CONFLICTED about the existence of hyperparasitic wasps.”
this website’s moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants
Oh also I’ve had people say this comic is inaccurate because this is the kind of talk they’d be giving to the board and let me tell you, I was a literal temp worker at a warehouse and I sat through multiple meetings just like this.
*Stares at screens for 12+ hours a day voice* Yeah I dunno this migrane just came on so suddenly, I should probably lie down in a cave and let the fungus consume me, hold on.
*opens new tab, types “cave fungus wikipedia” while retinas keep audibly searing*
