i like big bugs and i cannot lie

this reminds me of the post about the person who started calling centipedes lovers and their partner was like “A LOVER. A LOVER HAS BEEN SPOTTED. ON THE DRESSER.”

Being an advocate for any Hymenopteran that isn't a honeybee is so exhausting. I saw someone post a picture of a queen Vespa crabro on Reddit, and to my dismay, I saw a comment stating to "kill every one because they kill honeybees which are vital to the ecosystem." I tried to politely educate them, but these situations often seem futile, as they retaliated with a very rude and ignorant comment. Someone else agreed with me, to which I replied and said that honeybees compete with native pollinators, and can spread diseases to native bees and wasps as well. I also defended wasps and native pollinators because they are more crucial to the ecosystem. For some reason that comment got downvoted. I just find it amazing how so many people are uneducated when it comes to nature in general, but especially towards wasps and other Hymenopterans. It's definitely an uphill battle, and quite discouraging. I couldn't just ignore that comment however, since it was totally misinformed, and I felt it was necessary to provide some education, even if it fell on deaf ears. It will be so refreshing to see the day where someone posts a photo of a wasp and the general consensus isn't to immediately eradicate it. I'm so tired.

girls need to be kept in a warm, humid environment to prevent dehydration

My brother in christ do not fall into the same trap I did, those may be woodlice

*storming into plato's academy holding woodlice* behold, a girl!

girl's night at the abandoned woodchip pile

wasps are free pest control too, for the most part. the deadliest thing wasps operate on is "you chill, we chill" and its simple enough to let them do their thing, provided you can remain calm around them.

No pills back then...I wonder if there was something else they compared these little critters to?

So many takes on here that are basically just someone mad that someone else has made a rhetorically situated argument.

If you want the city to stop spraying pesticides that hurt native insect populations, sometimes it's easier to convince suburbanites to "oppose toxic chemicals in the parks where their children play" than to convince them of the importance of native beetles. It still helps the beetles, and you can probably get it to happen faster.

What's little buddy doing?

It’s probably a female digging a burrow for her eggs :)

Doing what it does best I see