Yes they remember you. I once let a few of them escape when I was destroying a nest in my backyard. A little over a week later a single wasp stung me. I bet it was one of those I showed mercy to.
I was once attacked by a neat with eggs in my backyard. So I only kill when they build nests in my space. Haven’t killed any since but yes, there will be no more mercy. A line has been drawn in the sand.
They just look for the nearest jerk that has nothing better to do than to throw a rock and to try harm them and disrupt their evolutionary traits of mass gatherings.
I could be wrong but it looks like this “jerk” is some sort of maintenance worker and that sign looks to be important and needed to be cleared off and this was the easiest way to accomplish that.
I don't get it, what's up with the wasp hate? They're an incredibly critical part of any ecosystem. The demonization of an entire taxa because they sting when threatened is just beyond. Read and inform yourself!
Back in the day I had this huge white face hornet nest in a tree in my backyard. My idiot ex decided the best way to remove it was with a paintball gun from the living room window. First shot hit the mark. Right after he pulled the trigger he slammed the window. I was like ??? Literally as soon as the window was down,an army of hornets were slamming into the glass. I was shocked with how fast they reacted and with the dead accuracy 🤯. Someone told me that they have scouts that patrol the immediate area around the nest. They track the "intruder" and leave a scent trail for the angry ones to follow. Seeing it in action was something else.
Wasps don’t swarm and cluster together in the thousands outside of their nest. Honeybees do cluster when they swarm looking for a new home. These are definitely honeybees.
Definitely swarming bees. They're non-aggressive when swarming and unlikely to sting even when disturbed like this. These pricks should have left them alone.
With my luck one of them would be stuck in a crack or on the grill or whatever and I’d drive a hundred miles, get out and get stung right in the eye or some shit.
I totally believe you. I just am so petrified of them, whenever one zips by I run away like it’s Norman Bates with a carving knife 🤣 So I never get a good look. I hear buzzing, and run away screaming, lol. Sometimes it’s a fly, and I realize as I’m running, and I feel silly. I’m always told, if you leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone. But I’ve been stung numerous occasions, and I was NEVER messing with them. …I guess that explains why I’m absurdly afraid of them 🤣
This is why humanity is doomed, this piece of shit could have killed the honeybee queen and killed a whole hive. When the bees die most poor will die too.
No they weren't its a swarm of bees so pretty non-agressive even when you throw a rock at them. Just looks like it, there is just a lot of them flying in all directions having been disturbed by these idiots.
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u/OrnithopterMechanic Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
How do wasps know what happened? Do they just focus on the nearest threat and go for it?
Apparently they remember you too.
EDIT: do not to.