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RE: Fighting the Hive
I've hit a couple ground wasp nests in my day...goddamn they're mean, chased me into the house stinging me the whole way. 🤬
This year I have a nest on the back porch and my first instinct was to destroy it, but I thought to myself: they're Iran...they're defensive and territorial and could do me harm, but does that give me the right to kill them? If I say our bombing of their country is murderous evil and I want to live in any principled way, then I had to leave them alone.
So far they haven't caused me or mine any trouble and, in fact, I've found watching them do their thing quite fascinating. If they start to come at me like yours did, though, I'm likely to change my tune real fast.
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I've done that before too. My dad had me move some dirt when I was a kid and turns out I put a shovel right in the middle of an underground nest. I think the problem is yellow jackets can chase off honey bees which are pollinators and on the decline, so we need to protect them. If rubbing out a yellow jacket nest saves a honeybee hive (at some future date), I am all for it.