I remember yellow jackets being randomly aggressive mean cunts since I was born up until the year 2013 exactly. That very year I saw crawl down someones shirt collar on their nape and I stood silent watching, recalling my dads advice of not moving so they leave you alone, and it stung the fuck out of the guy. What made them stop being evil? Less environmental lead poisoning? Microplastics pacifying them?
>>4906927You created a narrative for an entire species of wasp based on 1 (one) personal experience. That's not what a healthy mind does.
>>4906927It probably felt hot and bothered, so stung to get out of his shirt. Yellow jackets are good boys.
>>4906927I'm about 60% convinced wasps (having exceptional olfactory sense) can smell when a person is hostile to them, perhaps some chemical change when anxiety occurs. I think nowadays there's more people becoming aware of how wasps can be relatively harmless if you understand their etiquette system, and there is now a lot of evidence that wasps have excellent memory, reasoning power, and in some cases possibly rudimentary ethics. So maybe they're becoming more chill as humans start to get less caveman around them
