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Awww. I am always so prepared to hate hornets and wasps but then they start cleaning their widdle antennae with their widdle feet and I just can't. That said, I am perfectly content to watch this one clean his widdle antennae from my widdle computer chair in my widdle apartment far, far away.
I can totally understand this and it didn't squick me, but I'd never farkin' do it myself.
Last year, we got yellow jackets in a hole in the wall right outside the back door. Took months to get rid of them. We'd kill them off, like, 90%, and then they'd reappear again. Eventually we were completely successful and of course after that I sprayed some expanding foam in their little home, so it wouldn't get re-used (since some wasps do that).
I don't get it. Have you gotten stung before or something? I mean I think we may have an instinctive skeezed out feeling looking at spiders (and whatever this thing is), but bugs like bees and ants make me no more queasy than strange dogs (which are objectively much more dangerous).
Well yeah I have gotten stung, a few times, but I think I'd be squicked out even if I haven't. With this particular video, I was pretty sure that nothing bad was going to happen, but there was definitely some transference going on. I could feel that hornet on my own finger, and I had to stop watching. I haven't ever been attacked by spiders or snakes or rats, and I'm afraid of them too. It's a instictive thing.
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