Shoo it away like any other kind of insect.
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But wasps are angry and they fight back, unlike most other insects.
We've had multiple wasp nests under our roof when I was a kid, and bother then, before, and after that, I've always just shooed then away.
I haven't been stung once.
Yeah I guess my fear of wasps might be irrational.
They hurt like hell when they do actually sting, but they sting far less often than people fear.
Around here paper wasps aren't very aggressive but mud wasps are. Both love to get up close and personal and make me nervous though.
Here we have yellowjackets, which are more aggressive.
We have yellow jackets here but I don't see them as often, probably because of all the landscaping chemicals.
Interesting.
I've always found mud wasps to be docile. I guess it depends on the particular species.
I disturb their nests frequently because they keep putting them in the worst places. That probably plays a part.
I'm Australian, they are cowards compared to real angry bugs.
Oh, come on, you can't leave us hangin' like that!
What are some "real angry bugs" in the antipodes?
You have to gently shoo it away instead of wildly swatting at it. Then it won't get angry.
I will say "please"
Only certain wasps.
The ones that hover around food aren't particularly aggressive in my experience, just annoying
Ignore it. A chill wasp does no harm. I have no reason to un-chill the situation.
Bingo.
Most likely it's a wasp variety that's merely annoyung anyway.
Eat the wasp
Eat the stinger too?
That's the best part!
Kinda crunchy and spicy!
Empty a waterglass (drink? Pour atop some other glass's content?) Then trap the wasp on the plate, ask waiters for next course of action.
Sounds like a practical solution! Hopefully I won't panic while trying to do that.
Better not to piss it off. I patiently eat around it.
This actually happened to me just last week, minus the plate part. Motherfucker could not keep off of my sandwich I was holding, other than to briefly perch on my thumb now and again.
I’m not happy about the situation but I’ve been stung in the eye before and would love for that to be a one-time event.
Restaurant: wave in its general direction with cutlery
Home alone: get up, bat it against the wall with a piece of cardboard (specifically not squashing it, I don't want to scrape insect gore off my wallpaper), scoop it up with glass+cardboard once it's stunned, throw it out of the window.
Shoo it away
Wasps tend to be a bit thick. Ask them kindly to get off my plate and sit in the chair. If I want them to buzz off, I typically just ask them “don’t I know you? Of that’s right, in the checkout line at the liquor store the other day” that’ll usually get them going.
But if I want them to stay, I order them a pint.
A wasp is joining me? Religious people are crazy so ill probably let them have the plate.
Nope, sorry. This thread is about the 80s hair metal subspecies.
I freak out and start screaming like a schoolgirl. I have had a lifelong phobia of bees and wasps. I can finally be around a bee now but wasps no way.
Don’t give me that if you don’t move bullshit either. That has got me stung at least 10 times. Been stung about 30 times in my life minding my own business.
Lean in... whisper: "I'm gonna sting your sorry ass if you don't take off."
Buzzes away. "C'ya chum!", loudly, so people look my way funnily.