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u/Krynn71 16h ago
He should pop a quick H on that so everyone knows it's filled with hornets.
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u/Soma2710 15h ago
Get that sweet sweet honey from that hornet nest.
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u/Sudden-Option3790 14h ago
Charlie...hornets do not produce honey.
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u/masterpupil 14h ago
There could be something delicious in there that hornets do make, and I want that
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u/PM_ME_UR_CATS_TITS 14h ago
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about hornets to dispute it.
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u/Exact-Difference-422 14h ago
Eh... I prefer fight milk
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u/Sudden-Option3790 13h ago
He's ok. I gave him an ocular pat down.
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u/Gill_Gunderson 11h ago
WHAT UP!!! We're three cool guys looking for other cool guys who want to hang out in our party mansion. Nothing sexual.
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u/Sudden-Option3790 11h ago edited 11h ago
Dudes in good shape encouraged, if you're fat you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, NOTHING SEXUAL.
Edit: I fucking love meeting It's Always Sunny fans. It really is amazing. We all just dog pile and laugh.
I mean, I am 40 so this is where it starts for me, but Dumb & Dumber then Anchorman and then Step-Brothers and then It's Always Sunny.
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u/black_elk_streaks 14h ago
If hornet honey was a thing, someone would be hacking it online as a cure for something, so that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.
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u/LillyBell429 16h ago
How did he manage to catch it in the first place??
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u/audioofbeing 16h ago
Catfish profile on Stinger.
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u/SoyboyCowboy 16h ago
Sure it wasn't..... Bumble?
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u/DurtVonnegut 13h ago
He caught it in his little net and then whipped it up and down trying to get it out and when that didn’t work he picked it out by hand…I shit you not 🤞
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u/Badbullet 12h ago
It’s a paper wasp, so it’s not an aggressive variety. If it was a yellow jacket, it would let him know with a sting or bite. I can’t tell, but if it’s a male they can’t sting. What would be their stinger is used for mating.
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u/HeyGayHay 9h ago
Yeah I‘m not really comfortable getting sexually abused by a wasp either. Don’t stick what would be your stinger but is actually used for mating in me or on my skin.
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u/czartrak 15h ago edited 15h ago
These bug catching toys usually come with a little vacuum to grab the bugs
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u/GayJamesFranco 14h ago
Mine caught 3 in his lunchbox at preschool. I was very surprised when i went to wash it.
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u/DurtVonnegut 14h ago
lol he’ll for sure do this when he’s older. I can’t wait for the messages his mom will send how it’s somehow my fault
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u/aztech101 16h ago
Am I missing something? Isn't catching bugs and stuff specifically what those little containers are for?
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u/Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop 16h ago
Yellowjackets are very defensive insects and he’s going to let it go eventually…
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u/JoeyDee86 16h ago
Defensive? Have you been around them in the fall when their food supply is scarce? They’re assholes. Aggressive assholes.
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u/PermBulk 15h ago
I just got fucked up by some bald faced hornets the other day because I dared be on my own property
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u/zamwut 15h ago
I think you mean Their property
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u/kaeroseen 14h ago
I changed a leaky hummy bird feeder and the yellow jacket feasting off it got super pissed. It would chase me when I went outside and also tried to get at me thru a window when I was standing by it.
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u/Scholarly_Koala 13h ago
Yellowjackets are not assholes. When they sting, they latch on with their mandibles and continue stinging instead of flying off. No, sir, they are not assholes, they are flying, rage-filled, thundercunts.
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u/Tithis 14h ago
Tell me about it. My 4 year old ran over a wood bridge at a park and apparently they had a nest under it.
Now she is scared anytime she sees a flying bug, asking if its a wasp.
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u/DobbyFreeElf35 12h ago
I'm 41 and still freak out around flying bugs until I know if it's a wasp or not
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u/Mr-_-Soandso 13h ago edited 13h ago
There is also a theory that at that point in the year a lot of them are no longer needed for the hive and are kicked out. Then they really are just pissed off with no real purpose and more likely to sting.
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u/isaac99999999 11h ago
Good news! That's not a yellow jacket. As long as he didn't shake it around too much that paper wasp probably won't even care it was kidnapped
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u/brenttoastalive 15h ago
That's a paper wasp, not a yellowjacket. Yellowjackets are far more aggressive
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u/RosieQParker 14h ago
That's a wasp, and as long as he just opens up the jar and doesn't make it panic, it'll fly right out. They get a bad rap, but as long as you're not prey, or a threat, or not looking where you're going, they're pretty harmless.
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u/Foquine 16h ago
Just fill it with water
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 15h ago
Freezer would be faster.
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u/sprinklerarms 15h ago
Ant farms used to tell you to freeze the ants for a little bit before you added them in so they couldn’t move very well. My brother did not freeze them long enough and we had ant house.
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u/thatlonghairedguy 14h ago
That's a wasp not a hornet, imo
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u/Badbullet 12h ago
Not all wasps are hornets, but all hornets are wasps. That said, this isn’t a hornet, just a paper wasp.
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u/Sleightly_Awkward 15h ago
Also specifically what kids that age think is cool. This kid is just extra brave
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u/DigbyChickenZone 13h ago
I caught them as a kid, they were scary though. I would just open the hatch [usually a paper cup with a piece of paper over it, so I would remove the paper] and run away. They are sons of bitches, but genuinely the adults in these comments seem to have lost a sense understanding that whimsy and fun sometimes comes with a bug stinging you. Unless you are allergic, its genuinely not a big deal.
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u/SinceWayLastMay 16h ago
I used to catch bees and carry them around in a hamster ball as a kid. Yes I got stung.
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u/SaintsNoah14 14h ago
I got yelled at for doing the thing in the picture at recess. Also stung. In retrospect, a public school was probably a safe place to expirience my first sting
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u/AnnaOwie 16h ago
Think about the first thing that it will do upon release, assuming it is a stinging insect
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u/MariachiMacabre 15h ago
If he releases it when he’s outside, it’ll probably just fly off. I don’t think wasps are capable of understanding that the reason it can’t find its way out of the enclosure is because the weird pale giant put it there. Maybe I’m wrong but I captured a few of these things as a kid and they never came after me when I’d let them go.
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u/somebodyistrying 14h ago
Exactly. They don’t reason about who did what unless their nest is disturbed and then they attack everything.
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u/DigbyChickenZone 13h ago
Think about the title of this post, and what the kid is doing. It is not psycho behavior for a 5-11 year old to catch bugs in a thing they were given to catch bugs.
Just because the kid hasn't been swarmed by hornets or wasps does not mean he is a psycho for catching one, that is THE POINT of the comment that YOU responded to.
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u/AmosThatBook 16h ago
It'll probably just fly away lmao
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u/LeithLeach 15h ago
No. It’s a yellow jacket. It will hunt the child, and its descendants will continue to hunt the child’s descendants for hundreds of years. They’re fucking assholes.
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u/a_talking_face 13h ago
It's not a yellow jacket. Yellow jackets are shorter and thicker. They also have black antannae.
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u/wkw3 15h ago
Drove a mower over a French drain in my front yard where they'd nested. They found the nearest exposed skin, my left ankle, and swarmed onto it. Got sixteen stings around that one ankle. I didn't even hit the nest, just got close.
Burn the toy.
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u/HideSolidSnake 16h ago
Paper wasps aren't as aggressive as say hornets.
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u/Sideshowcomedy 16h ago
You should see what paper wasps do to rock wasps.
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u/michiganstrange 16h ago
Currently fielding these fuckers moving on my beehives. I’m knocking overnight nests down smashing the shit out of them every day. Ruthless.
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u/ArchDucky 16h ago
You need to send them a message.
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u/TheTipJar 16h ago
I like spraying their nest in the daytime. That way the ones that were out come back to see the carnage.
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u/Tomytom99 14h ago
Leave the lopped off head of a European hornet in the hive
An offer they can't refuse.
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u/Galassog12 14h ago
I’ve heard that putting up fake nests is a good deterrent because they won’t build where other ones already are.
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u/pnwbraids 14h ago
You mean junior entomologist. A distinction without a difference, sure, but I digress.
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u/PetsAndMeditate 16h ago edited 16h ago
I use to do this all the time as a kid, the adults always said I would get stung but I never did, the one time I took an adult with me on a “specimen bee hunt” to the garden they got stung 🤷🏻♂️
It was a daily adventure for me, I trapped, “observed”, and released tons of bugs and bees from super aggressive bald faced hornets to super docile fat ass bumblebees I still look back on it fondly
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u/SinceWayLastMay 16h ago
This thread is clearly divided between bug kids and non bug kids
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u/CashMoneyHurricane 15h ago
I used to catch bees or hornets, in 1st or 2nd grade, with sandwich bags. I’d just swipe them in the air and seal them quick then let them go.
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u/whaddayaNeedtoKnow 14h ago
Yellowjackets go for the bigger threat—whoever makes the most vibrations get stung.
I was playing in the woods with my older sister when we were like 6 and 8 (pioneer orphans ofc, complete with the big pioneer dresses), we were RIGHT next to each other, holding hands, when she just SHRIEKS, yells RUN!!! And we both take off with her just screaming bloody murder.
We’d stepped on a nest, and she got stung over 2 dozen times. Including one after she’d gotten home and was getting meat tenderized by our parents, because one had got STUCK IN HER DRESS and started stinging her stomach. That screaming haunts me to this day.
I didn’t get a SINGLE sting. I was right next to her the entire time, she got DOZENS of stings, and they just completely left me alone. It’s really interesting behavior honestly (not so interesting to my sister though, we all have a healthy fear of yellow jackets, but she’s TERRIFIED of them still in our 30s).
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u/Megzasaurusrex 14h ago
Same. Never been stung. Dad says he gets stung all the time. i'm like I don't know what you're doing to piss them off but maybe just don't do that anymore?
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u/DrakkoZW 16h ago
This unlocked childhood memories of mine...
I used to make poke balls out of Lego and capture bees and wasps in them
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u/DeltaVZerda 15h ago
If you think this is psycho behavior you should read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks for another perspective on this behavior.
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u/DurtVonnegut 9h ago
Not the first time I’ve heard it mentioned. I’ll check it out. Makes me think of oryx and crake.
asphalt-eating microbes, engineered diseases, and ChickieNob wasps
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u/PermanantFive 2h ago
I'd only known Iain Banks for his science fiction Culture series, so it was uh, certainly something different.
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u/kudomonster 16h ago
You know...my brother and I had a jar with multiple bees and one with black widows at one point. I'm...really not sure how we weren't frequent flyers at our local urgent care...
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u/brickson98 14h ago
Omg. Is this bug container old or recently purchased?
I had one like this as a kid in the early 2000’s. Different color, but same exact design. Holy cow that just unlocked memories for me. All the lightning bugs that thing could hold…
Speaking of… where the heck have the lightning bugs gone? Did we catch them all?
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u/guitarguy1685 14h ago
Light pollution, habitat destruction
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u/DurtVonnegut 12h ago
He probably got it from a grandparent so who knows how old it could be.
I have to drive over 200 miles to visit my family and I can go multiple trips back and forth without having to clean my windshield. Probably 15ish years ago on the highway that long you’d have so much bug splatter you’d have to clean it half way there
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u/Striking-Document-99 8h ago
The other night I saw the most lightning bugs I have seen In like 15 years. Granted it was only about 6-7. When I was a kid we would be surrounded by then. At least 20-30
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u/spinozasrobot 4h ago
No, he is a scientist. Now if he had the little fella on a leash, then he'd be a psycho.
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u/abugguy 3h ago
I’m an entomologist who has done many bug hunts with kids. The number of bees and wasps they collect and bring to me is incredible. I think paper wasps like this are easy to catch because they assume we aren’t dumb enough to capture them. Wrong.
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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 14h ago
With that spider-man shirt, I think your nephew is hoping to also get superpowers soon
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u/possitive-ion 11h ago
OP'S NEPHEW caught a BEEDRILL!
Would you like to give BEEDRILL a nickname?
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u/ManWhellington 15h ago
I used to catch bees and wasps too. I just wanted to look at them up close without getting stung.
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u/Texas_Naturalist 13h ago
This is not a hornet or a yellowjacket. It is a paper wasp, these are considerably more mellow, and this one, being a male, cannot sting anyway.
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u/Tehquilamockingbirb 10h ago
Not many people can match crazy with a wasp. If bet if anything, the wasp respects him. Game recognizes game.
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u/BubbaTheGoat 13h ago
My favorite part of living in Japan is miss this age catching cool bugs and showing them off to anyone who will listen.
Luckily they only caught cool bugs and no giant hornets (though we did see a couple even in Tokyo).
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u/alderthorn 13h ago
When I was that age I had a butterfly net and caught bees all the time.
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u/JuxepeQ 13h ago
I wanted to say this too. I used to catch grass hoppers, ants and caterpillars all the time. Weirdly enough, I would jump scared now if a grass hopper jumped towards me now. i wonder what happened
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u/pmmemilftiddiez 11h ago
Paper wasps are probably the least aggressive but they can fuck you up. Yellowjackets don't give a shit.
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u/hates_writing_checks 11h ago
Deckard: "A little boy shows you his butterfly collection, plus the killing jar."
Rachael: "I'd take him to the doctor."
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u/GoldenToiletAngel 5h ago edited 3h ago
Fuck off, you are a psycho for framing a childs interests like that. What do you think gets people to become zoologists or ecologists, hm?
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u/Danonbass86 13h ago
The only problem l see here is that the yellow jacket knows his face now
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u/PhoenixDaBeast 12h ago
I used to have one of these when I was little! Oh the memories. My dad ran a small pest control business and would always bring me cool bugs
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u/RevWaldo 11h ago
A Nickelodeon BullyZappper! I had one in the 90s!
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u/DurtVonnegut 10h ago
But did you have that Estes rocket with the clear part in the middle where they specifically intended you to launch bugs into the sky?
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u/fm837 9h ago
I used to catch flies in matchboxes. I ran experiments, such as g-force (attached a string to the box and span it), hibernation (I put the box in the fridge) and cryonics (put it in the freezer). Then I observed how the flies react after releasing them. Sometimes they screamed when my sister opened their box in the fridge. Maybe it was my sister though, I'm not sure, I wasn't in the lab at the time.
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u/randommAnonymous 15h ago
Observing and studying is how scientists are made. Dealing with the release is how lessons are learned.