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yet-another-heathen · 2 months ago

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If you're looking for a good blog for looking at pictures/videos of bugs, I cant recommend @crevicedwelling enough.

They genuinely love the bugs they post about, and their softness is contagious. If you're starting somewhere, start here.

Been working in pest control for 3 months now and i can confidently say that nobody on earth seems to understand that sometimes You Will See A Bugs and that's Normal if you live literally anywhere with oxygen

#I've made a project of befriending the wasps in my garden this year #and it's gone SO WELL #I accidentally opened a shed with a large wasp nest inside it yesterday #and about 30 wasps flew out immediately and were swarming in case of a threat #and I just stood there for a moment and let them realize I wasn't 1) scared of them 2) going after their nest #and within seconds they chilled out. even enough for me to go reaching into the shed where their nest sat FOUR TIMES #without ever even threatening to sting #I've been watching a queen build her nest/colony through an exterior transom window in my bedroom all year #(theres a protected spot there under the eves. in effect its like having a museum terrarium right there above my bed where I can observe)#and seriously. watching her go from a lone female building a nest to mothering a colony of 20-30 paper wasps...#they're so social. they're so gentle with each other. they're so invested in building and caring for their nest #I don't view them at all the way I did this time last year #now I'm looking forward to having wasps around as part of the pollinator population in my garden next year #to the point where I'm planting some flowers specifically for them #I've always loved insects but wasps were the one group I believed the negative allegations about #(total jerks; needlessly aggressive; eager to sting; unpredictable; etc)#and this year actually getting to see what they're like has changed all of that #its opened up a whole new world. they're nothing like I thought #and now seeing them around makes me so happy. I'm so glad I got to see it

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