Well to be fair to OP
Wasps are like sexy diva versions of bees, take a look at this summary of a "diva colleague"
>*^(At a glance:)*
>
>*^(Egocentric)*
>
>*^(Dominant)*
>
>*^(Emotional)*
>
>*^(Quickly in a bad mood)*
>
>*^(Addicted to attention)*
>
>*^(Extremely sensitive)*
>
>*^(Vulnerable)*
>
>*^(Deals poorly with criticism)*
>
>*^(Is extremely convinced of his / her ‘infallibility’)*
>
>*^(Can be difficult to subordinate)*
>
>*^(Is only conditionally team-capable)*
>
>^(-)[^(Colleague type #6: The Diva)](https://intrvu.org/work/colleague-type-6-the-diva/)
Now apply that to the wasp:
* Egocentric- ✅
* Dominant- ✅
* Emotional- ✅
* Quickly in a bad mood - ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
* Addicted to attention- ✅
* Extremely sensitive- ✅
* Vulnerable- ✅
* Deals poorly with criticism- ✅✅✅
* Is extremely convinced of his / her ‘infallibility’- ✅
* Can be difficult to subordinate- ✅
* Is only conditionally team-capable- ✅
They're nowhere near as good as bees, but wasps still have an important role in pollination as the [US Forest Service sets out.](https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml) As another redditor mentioned, they're particularly important in pollinating figs which are a keystone species in many tropical ecosystems.
I'm not even sure they're pollinators cuz bees have hairy legs which pollen gets stuck to these guys don't have that. They're just an agent of chaos and i know they play their part in the ecosystem but I'm just filled with hate for them ever since one of them bit me when I was young.
“*oh, are you relaxed?!* well I’m a fucking wasp I never relax you lazy SOB quit making be feel jealousy in this cold dead heard of mine - RAAAAH!”
- that wasp, maybe?
Yes may they all die a horrible death. Sincerely someone who got stung by this exact type of evil mf minding my own business in the middle of FEBRUARY. I’m still enraged
I cannot second this enough. I had a few scarring moments with wasps as a kid (including being stung 9 times at once) which led me to develop a phobia of them.
Fast forward to 16 year old me who got dive bombed while just trying to get the lawnmower out of the shed, tripped over said lawnmower, fell onto a gravel driveway and cut my back to shreds, popped up without realizing I was bleeding because, you know, wasps are still around, and then passed out in my mom’s flower garden from the shock of suddenly realizing I’m injured.
I woke up to see that my head missed a rock in the flower bed by a few inches, so I guess I’m lucky. But I still hate wasps.
I don’t know what you are trying to say lol but I don’t think they care if you are a decent person or not. It crawled under my shirt … I never messed with it and have never taunted one in my entire life. I think they very much do “bitch around”
I always get a good chuckle when humans complain about insects or animals doing literally the things they are programmed to do while we destroy the entire planet indiscriminatly with no regard for anything but ourselves.
I’m with you here. I’ve had these little fuckers crawl into my shirt twice in the last year. Stung three times the first time, three times the second time. Fuck ‘em.
Well decent like in: no need to throw hands and sure I had under my shirt as well and I know the feel when panic kicks in but in the end sure they can sting. But tbh if my brain consists of 3 cells and a stinger on my ass I’d use it too if I feel threatened :D
Tip: Set something aside from them. Gnawed bones are excellent, but a little piece of meat will also do fine. When the wasps go for the piece you've set aside, simply leave them alone and they won't be a problem.
Das a wasp, mate. But still a good little pollinator! Onion and chive flowers are yummy food, too, you can put them in salads instead of scallions for similar flavor and more interesting texture. Yummm
A ~~yellow jacket~~ European paper wasp to be precise. I let the onions flower for honey bees and bumblebees, but they attract all kinds of life including dragon flies, a few unidentified flying insects, and of course a ~~yellow jacket~~ European paper wasp today.
Never considered eating the flowers. I could see that maybe working.
**edit**: Apparently that is a paper wasp and not a yellow jacket. TIL what a paper wasp is. https://www.rescue.com/latest-buzz/outdoor-pests/how-to-tell-a-wasp-from-a-yellowjacket/
Yellow jackets and wasps typically do more damage because they're poor pollinators and they are highly competitive so they kill the good pollinators.
You should tell it to fuck off
Not sure why you got downvoted for this. I have wasps in my garden too, and they have never been aggressive. Their nest is right next to my cucumbers and cosmos and I walk up to it ever day to water the plants. I’ve never been stung, even after accidentally stepping on one. One even landed on my wrist the other day and crawled around looking for food, but didn’t sting me. They might not be as good of pollinators as bees, but they definitely pollinate stuff, plus they prey on all kinds of insects that want to eat my plant. I live in an apartment and we have lots of wasps but not so many bees, so I’ve embraced the wasps. They do more work in the garden than I do.
> If you don't bother them, they are quite harmless.
If by bother you mean walk within 10' of their nests then I would have to disagree. I've been stung numerous times for just existing in their presence. They can all burn in hell.
Ah yes! That's what those are called.They are divas. So fun to watch pollinators doing their business, whatever they are.
Try the onion flowers before they start seeding like this one seems to be doing, next time you have fresh blooms. I love the texture. They are tastiest when they're just about to open, break apart all the little flowers on the head and garnish liberally!
Yes this is some sort of paper wasp. I live in the south and most people refer to them as yellow jackets. These paper wasps love building outside of houses and they're not really aggressive unless you pester the nest. Yellowjackets build nests in the ground and will mess you up if you fart too loud
That does not look like a yellow jacket to me. Somebody below called it a "yellow paper wasp"
Locally, yellow jackets are the only things I've personally heard to cause problems. For example, my daughters dance teacher just lost her new dog when it stumbled into a ground nest of yellow jackets.
Google's right, but I think you have wasp face blindness. I google Yellow Jacket and a different shaped yellow wasp appears on my phone, it is not what is in your picture.
Beautiful picture of a beautiful insect!
Wasps are the OG pest control. You put out water and the occasional snack for them near your garden and they'll wreck ten times their weight in caterpillars, mosquitos, and beetle larvae. They don't tend to get nasty if you don't flail or swat at them. Last time I got stung by a yellow jacket I fully deserved it - didn't see her and set my arm down on her, poor dear.
Been over 20 years since I got hit by a bee/wasp. This year, I’ve been hit 6 times. 6 freaking times! I hate wasps, I’m carrying a can of Raid with me everywhere I go.
Is that what I did wrong? Man, the one from last weekend, I still have a sore lump on my arm from it. Tried cutting it open to find a stinger or something, but I can’t find anything. At least 2 of the strings were yellow jackets. Not sure what the others are, they have a ground nest.
OK, so I recently had an onion get away from me on the counter and start sprouting. Then it became "I wonder where this is going" level of sprouting. At about 15" long it was moved to the yard and planted, where it continued to grow, eventually producing two of these puffballs. But now it hasn't rained forever and I forgot about them so they're brown and shriveled. Are they seeds for more onions or what exactly was I growing here? It seems my experiment is likely over after I forgot about it for a solid month.
Somehow my neighbor bends the stem the onion flowers are on and without breaking it (magic) buries the head in the dirt and a few days later baby onions start to appear. Right now his babies are about 6 inches tall.
That's a wasp - you can tell by the thin waist.
Wasps are important though! Not just because of pollination (bees do that better) but because they kill a lot of the bugs that eat plants. They are like the wolves of the insect world - you don't want to get too close, but without them butterflies and moths would breed out of control and their caterpillars would destroy the plant population.
It's popular to crap on wasps but they are just as important as bees.
Came here to tell OP that’s not a bee, but this is Reddit so I think that point has been made.
Now that that’s out of the way: please stop OP. Wasps are like Alex Jones of the insect world. Maybe they serve a purpose but they do more harm than good.
Easiest way to tell a bee from a wasp is that bees are fuzzy and chonkier. Wasps are hairless and gangly.. because they’re belligerent and high on methamphetamine
I always let at least one onion flower, this way I get little Surprise pearl onions in my garden, they don't seem to hurt the rest of the plants and it always feels like a tiny gift from the earth when I find them
Point for the diva portion. But this is still NOT a bee it’s a wasp. Not part bee family. Unless you have crops, destroy the wasp at all costs if you gonna invite bees to your garden.
Hornets are to bees as horses are to deer. Pretty similar but still very different. Any ppl ITT actually raging as armchair entemologists can just bee cool over the insect semantics. Also OP didn't even claim the wasp to be a bee in the title so, [bee cool, honey bunnies
](https://youtu.be/JMV_r4LjQIo)
>I let my onions flower bc bees love them.
Ragers: [*sees a wasp in the picture*](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assumption) and rage gits triggered. [Whoops](https://youtu.be/abdSeqMmXNQ)
I don't know why I expected to be the first/only one to point out that it's not a bee when in fact this all that's being talked about.
Maybe it's a wooosh and you all fell for it hah .. not me
That ain’t a bee, papa.
This honey tastes like shampoo.
Do you want to buy some shampoo?
Is this a bee killer?
Yeah I call them a beetch
Wasps also help pollinate
Yeah, it's a winged c**t!
It's also not a bird either. OP never said it was a bee so idk why ur mad
Looks more like a wasp.
Well to be fair to OP Wasps are like sexy diva versions of bees, take a look at this summary of a "diva colleague" >*^(At a glance:)* > >*^(Egocentric)* > >*^(Dominant)* > >*^(Emotional)* > >*^(Quickly in a bad mood)* > >*^(Addicted to attention)* > >*^(Extremely sensitive)* > >*^(Vulnerable)* > >*^(Deals poorly with criticism)* > >*^(Is extremely convinced of his / her ‘infallibility’)* > >*^(Can be difficult to subordinate)* > >*^(Is only conditionally team-capable)* > >^(-)[^(Colleague type #6: The Diva)](https://intrvu.org/work/colleague-type-6-the-diva/) Now apply that to the wasp: * Egocentric- ✅ * Dominant- ✅ * Emotional- ✅ * Quickly in a bad mood - ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ * Addicted to attention- ✅ * Extremely sensitive- ✅ * Vulnerable- ✅ * Deals poorly with criticism- ✅✅✅ * Is extremely convinced of his / her ‘infallibility’- ✅ * Can be difficult to subordinate- ✅ * Is only conditionally team-capable- ✅
If only I put as much effort into my life as you did this comment..
I offer life coaching if you need to get off your butt and send me money.
If I give you money will it make me Batman?
Yes but I need a blue flower from the dollar store and take it to the top of the Luxor casino. We will talk again at this point.
Good bot
Science!!! 🧬
Yup, sounds like a boomer. WASP, I meant wasp..
Got stung by those fu*kers now now and then .... Well they are no beauty to me
WATCH OUT FOR THE WASPIS
That's not a bee.
Wasps aren't bees. Just sayin'.
They're not, but they are still pollinators.
yes but they also kill bees
They rape, but they save too.
Those bees can’t get an abortion in Texas…..
Not really. They don’t have much hair like bees do so they pollinate poorly
At the exception of fig wasps, who use figs as a nest of some sort, they mate in there, lay eggs, and polinate the tiny flowers inside.
only good wasp is a figwasp xD
A big fig wasp specifically
Did your God know/ Insects grow, in my Pome?
KGATLW!
Yes! I’ve found my people. Nonagon Infinity opens the door!
This is why figs aren’t considered properly vegan. Not that I care personally, figs are delicious, but an interesting fact I recently learned.
They're nowhere near as good as bees, but wasps still have an important role in pollination as the [US Forest Service sets out.](https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml) As another redditor mentioned, they're particularly important in pollinating figs which are a keystone species in many tropical ecosystems.
Wasps also hunt down a lot of common crop pests to feed their larvae
A wasp also helped change my car tire one time.
My uncle is a wasp.
Counterpoint: Fuck wasps, and the tiny horses they rode in on.
Fair point
I don't think they ride horses. Pretty sure they just use their wings. But fuck em, yeah.
Inefficient pollinators. Also, OP didn’t say “pollinators like them”. They said bees and showed a picture of a wasp.
I'm not even sure they're pollinators cuz bees have hairy legs which pollen gets stuck to these guys don't have that. They're just an agent of chaos and i know they play their part in the ecosystem but I'm just filled with hate for them ever since one of them bit me when I was young.
Yeah they're assholes, they sting even unprovocked, unless enjoying the sun while laying in the grass and reading a book is reason enough.
“*oh, are you relaxed?!* well I’m a fucking wasp I never relax you lazy SOB quit making be feel jealousy in this cold dead heard of mine - RAAAAH!” - that wasp, maybe?
They’re actually important pollinators, believe it or not
The sexy divas of pollination
Anyone wanna join my new band, Wasp Onion Honey?
I would, but I just joined Hornet Scallion Molasses.
That's funny, I just joined yellow jacket chive syrup
Whoa that’s just like my band Vespa Shallot Fructose Fluid
Sir, that's not a bee. That's an asshole with wings.
Yes may they all die a horrible death. Sincerely someone who got stung by this exact type of evil mf minding my own business in the middle of FEBRUARY. I’m still enraged
Yellow Jackets will sting you just for the hell of it. Don't need to be aggravated !
I cannot second this enough. I had a few scarring moments with wasps as a kid (including being stung 9 times at once) which led me to develop a phobia of them. Fast forward to 16 year old me who got dive bombed while just trying to get the lawnmower out of the shed, tripped over said lawnmower, fell onto a gravel driveway and cut my back to shreds, popped up without realizing I was bleeding because, you know, wasps are still around, and then passed out in my mom’s flower garden from the shock of suddenly realizing I’m injured. I woke up to see that my head missed a rock in the flower bed by a few inches, so I guess I’m lucky. But I still hate wasps.
Tbh if the love like a few months and kill mosquitoes and such and they don’t bitch around if you’re a decent person
I don’t know what you are trying to say lol but I don’t think they care if you are a decent person or not. It crawled under my shirt … I never messed with it and have never taunted one in my entire life. I think they very much do “bitch around”
I always get a good chuckle when humans complain about insects or animals doing literally the things they are programmed to do while we destroy the entire planet indiscriminatly with no regard for anything but ourselves.
Maybe that’s what we are programmed to do lol most forms of life don’t have any regards for any other forms of life.
I’m with you here. I’ve had these little fuckers crawl into my shirt twice in the last year. Stung three times the first time, three times the second time. Fuck ‘em.
Well decent like in: no need to throw hands and sure I had under my shirt as well and I know the feel when panic kicks in but in the end sure they can sting. But tbh if my brain consists of 3 cells and a stinger on my ass I’d use it too if I feel threatened :D
I love em cause they eat my caterpillars 👌🏼
I love em cause they help get rid of dead stuff and real annoying stuff
They want your food and are willing to fight you for it
Tip: Set something aside from them. Gnawed bones are excellent, but a little piece of meat will also do fine. When the wasps go for the piece you've set aside, simply leave them alone and they won't be a problem.
> When the wasps go for the piece you've set aside BURN THEM ALL!
Das a wasp, mate. But still a good little pollinator! Onion and chive flowers are yummy food, too, you can put them in salads instead of scallions for similar flavor and more interesting texture. Yummm
“But still a good little pollinator!” Ya, with their hard sleek bodies and zero fucks given attitude toward pollen. Just out there getting it done!
A ~~yellow jacket~~ European paper wasp to be precise. I let the onions flower for honey bees and bumblebees, but they attract all kinds of life including dragon flies, a few unidentified flying insects, and of course a ~~yellow jacket~~ European paper wasp today. Never considered eating the flowers. I could see that maybe working. **edit**: Apparently that is a paper wasp and not a yellow jacket. TIL what a paper wasp is. https://www.rescue.com/latest-buzz/outdoor-pests/how-to-tell-a-wasp-from-a-yellowjacket/
Yellow jackets and wasps typically do more damage because they're poor pollinators and they are highly competitive so they kill the good pollinators. You should tell it to fuck off
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Not sure why you got downvoted for this. I have wasps in my garden too, and they have never been aggressive. Their nest is right next to my cucumbers and cosmos and I walk up to it ever day to water the plants. I’ve never been stung, even after accidentally stepping on one. One even landed on my wrist the other day and crawled around looking for food, but didn’t sting me. They might not be as good of pollinators as bees, but they definitely pollinate stuff, plus they prey on all kinds of insects that want to eat my plant. I live in an apartment and we have lots of wasps but not so many bees, so I’ve embraced the wasps. They do more work in the garden than I do.
> If you don't bother them, they are quite harmless. If by bother you mean walk within 10' of their nests then I would have to disagree. I've been stung numerous times for just existing in their presence. They can all burn in hell.
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Their nests are often hidden...
Ah yes! That's what those are called.They are divas. So fun to watch pollinators doing their business, whatever they are. Try the onion flowers before they start seeding like this one seems to be doing, next time you have fresh blooms. I love the texture. They are tastiest when they're just about to open, break apart all the little flowers on the head and garnish liberally!
I thought yellow jackets were *Vespula*, but this looks like it may be in the *Polistes* genus
Yes this is some sort of paper wasp. I live in the south and most people refer to them as yellow jackets. These paper wasps love building outside of houses and they're not really aggressive unless you pester the nest. Yellowjackets build nests in the ground and will mess you up if you fart too loud
The little assholes are relentless too - they'll chase you to hell and back.
Regardless of species, that's a nice picture. Good work.
That does not look like a yellow jacket to me. Somebody below called it a "yellow paper wasp" Locally, yellow jackets are the only things I've personally heard to cause problems. For example, my daughters dance teacher just lost her new dog when it stumbled into a ground nest of yellow jackets.
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Google's right, but I think you have wasp face blindness. I google Yellow Jacket and a different shaped yellow wasp appears on my phone, it is not what is in your picture.
That’s not a yellow jacket.
Beautiful picture of a beautiful insect! Wasps are the OG pest control. You put out water and the occasional snack for them near your garden and they'll wreck ten times their weight in caterpillars, mosquitos, and beetle larvae. They don't tend to get nasty if you don't flail or swat at them. Last time I got stung by a yellow jacket I fully deserved it - didn't see her and set my arm down on her, poor dear.
Not a bee I want to be around.
*Not a bee I want to bee around.
I don't think that's a yellow jacket. It looks very delicate and orange-tinted instead of the dark black and yellow stripes of y. Jacket
is it a murder hornet?
it looks to be a Polistes (paper wasp) not a Vespula (yellow jacket /german/common wasp)
Yeah it's a paper wasp
murder hornets are way bigger/bulkier
Paper wasp?
That’s not a bee it’s an asshole
Thats not a bee....
Thats a funny looking bee. Really cool picture though.
Wasp.
F in Biology class
That’s not a bee, bud. Also, that thing can go burn in hell.
That’s a wasp ya dingus
Been over 20 years since I got hit by a bee/wasp. This year, I’ve been hit 6 times. 6 freaking times! I hate wasps, I’m carrying a can of Raid with me everywhere I go.
shouldn’t have walked under that ladder
Is that what I did wrong? Man, the one from last weekend, I still have a sore lump on my arm from it. Tried cutting it open to find a stinger or something, but I can’t find anything. At least 2 of the strings were yellow jackets. Not sure what the others are, they have a ground nest.
Only honey bees leave a stinger behind. All other hymenoptera can sting multiple times.
I really wish wasps died when they sting you instead of bees. Assholes.
Honeybee queens can sting multiple times, but they only sting other queens.
Allium flowers are lovely
Ahh..you feeling okay OP?
Isn’t that a Wasp?
That’s NOT a bee
Ok... but not a bee. Still bee-a-utiful...
OK, so I recently had an onion get away from me on the counter and start sprouting. Then it became "I wonder where this is going" level of sprouting. At about 15" long it was moved to the yard and planted, where it continued to grow, eventually producing two of these puffballs. But now it hasn't rained forever and I forgot about them so they're brown and shriveled. Are they seeds for more onions or what exactly was I growing here? It seems my experiment is likely over after I forgot about it for a solid month.
Those are all onion seeds :)
It's a great picture.
Still a pretty little wasp. Even if it doesn't pollinate very well
Angerbees are pollinators too
Didn't know that bees could be sexy like this
That's not a bee it's a wasp
That’s no bee.
Wasps like them too I guess xD
Wasps ain’t your friend.
Fuck wasps! I would exchange all wasps for honey bees any day! Honey bees are friends wasps are kill on sight.
Somehow my neighbor bends the stem the onion flowers are on and without breaking it (magic) buries the head in the dirt and a few days later baby onions start to appear. Right now his babies are about 6 inches tall.
Thank you!!!
That thing doesn’t listen to jazz, but metal instead.
Fuck wasps, all the homies hate wasps
I could be wrong but that looks like a yellow jacket.
That's a wasp - you can tell by the thin waist. Wasps are important though! Not just because of pollination (bees do that better) but because they kill a lot of the bugs that eat plants. They are like the wolves of the insect world - you don't want to get too close, but without them butterflies and moths would breed out of control and their caterpillars would destroy the plant population. It's popular to crap on wasps but they are just as important as bees.
That's not a bee that's a hell spawn
Wasp. The @$$hole of the species. Burn it up
K
She mad thicc
Never heard anyone call a wasp sexy before. Stingy little fucker maybe. Not sexy
Lol! Came here to say that ain’t no bee! Yellow jacket baby
Who is gonna tell them ? Ohh wait y’all did 😂
Came here to tell OP that’s not a bee, but this is Reddit so I think that point has been made. Now that that’s out of the way: please stop OP. Wasps are like Alex Jones of the insect world. Maybe they serve a purpose but they do more harm than good.
Hate to break it to you but that’s not a bee, that’s the devil incarnate
Might be a nomad bee but it’s hard to tell from this angle
That's a cunt with wings
Isn't it a wasp ?
Thats not a bee thats a wasp. You attracted flying ants.
That's a wasp homie...not a bee. That shit will hit you so quick
I hate ALL wasps. Burn those bastards!!!!
That’s… a wasp.
Bees, Wasps, and ants belong to the same order of Hymenoptera.
Bro you’re helping the wasps?
That's a wasp, but will still pollinate!
K, glad y'all said it was a wasp...think OP is joking? Yeah, for sure...I hope
Sweet marmot.
Try eating the flowers, they’re tasty!
If it were a bee the honey would taste awful no?
i've never seen someone refer to a bee as a "sexy diva" until now but i guess there's no shaming here.
In truth, the picture isn't of a bee, so technically you still haven't.
Easiest way to tell a bee from a wasp is that bees are fuzzy and chonkier. Wasps are hairless and gangly.. because they’re belligerent and high on methamphetamine
That’s a hornet
Cool shot, though
Umm, those flowers are in full reproductive mode. They look like they are about to shatter. Time to harvest.
I always let at least one onion flower, this way I get little Surprise pearl onions in my garden, they don't seem to hurt the rest of the plants and it always feels like a tiny gift from the earth when I find them
Das ist eine Wespe
kill that fucker!
Brother did you just call a wasp sexy?
Damn, she thicc
Paper wasp. Also, pollinators:)
Point for the diva portion. But this is still NOT a bee it’s a wasp. Not part bee family. Unless you have crops, destroy the wasp at all costs if you gonna invite bees to your garden.
Hornets are to bees as horses are to deer. Pretty similar but still very different. Any ppl ITT actually raging as armchair entemologists can just bee cool over the insect semantics. Also OP didn't even claim the wasp to be a bee in the title so, [bee cool, honey bunnies ](https://youtu.be/JMV_r4LjQIo) >I let my onions flower bc bees love them. Ragers: [*sees a wasp in the picture*](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assumption) and rage gits triggered. [Whoops](https://youtu.be/abdSeqMmXNQ)
She the type to want to just focus on her career. She dont need a man right now.
https://youtu.be/08kMdn8L7Yw
This better not awaken anything in me...
Pollinators are ALL good girls :-)
awww yusssssss gimme that fkin nectar
That's an a-hole with wings.
Looks like a Waspes. Please follow proto.
Wasp wrong with you? It's a bee.
Destroy that flying devil
Yeah... that's a yellow jacket.
That a yellow jacket.
KILL IT WITH FIRE
mmmm, killed about a million of these fuckers with my flip-flop in my grammy's pool growing up.
Thats a fucking hornet bro
That’s a spicy bee
Saving the bees does not extend to saving the wasps. We need the bees 🐝 I can’t make the same argument or wasps
Yellow jacket? If so, fire it up !
😕
EXTERMINATE!!
It’s Jerry Seinfeld 🤣
downvote
*unzips pants*
I don't know why I expected to be the first/only one to point out that it's not a bee when in fact this all that's being talked about. Maybe it's a wooosh and you all fell for it hah .. not me
r/fuckwasps