@[email protected] to [email protected] • 8 months agoIs this a Maggot and, if yes, what kind?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1125
arrow-up1125imageIs this a Maggot and, if yes, what kind?lemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected] • 8 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoGonna be honest chief, I would sooner burn my house down than live with wasps. But thinking about it, I’m willing to bet that house centipedes would clear them up too. Those voracious little buggers eat everything.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 months agoLuckily they are tiny tiny wasps, like specks of dust. Anything bigger and I would have run!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•8 months agoOh, cool! When you said parasitic wasp my brain immediately pictured a tarantula hawk wasp.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•8 months agoAnything fruitfly and above would have meant I’ll just move, but yours sounds so much more horrifying. Oh god.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-28 months agoThe parasitic ones (well, parasitoid since they live free as adults) are very different, sometimes literally microscopic, and never harmful to humans AFAIK. Gruesomely fascinating and widely studied, though. Relevant recent XKCD.
Gonna be honest chief, I would sooner burn my house down than live with wasps.
But thinking about it, I’m willing to bet that house centipedes would clear them up too. Those voracious little buggers eat everything.
Luckily they are tiny tiny wasps, like specks of dust. Anything bigger and I would have run!
Oh, cool! When you said parasitic wasp my brain immediately pictured a tarantula hawk wasp.
Anything fruitfly and above would have meant I’ll just move, but yours sounds so much more horrifying. Oh god.
The parasitic ones (well, parasitoid since they live free as adults) are very different, sometimes literally microscopic, and never harmful to humans AFAIK.
Gruesomely fascinating and widely studied, though. Relevant recent XKCD.