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Never underestimate a wasp -- new study shows they're smarter than we thought
CNN ^ | May 8, 2019 | Jack Guy

Posted on 05/08/2019 5:01:19 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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They're smart enough not to watch CNN or vote for Democrats.
1 posted on 05/08/2019 5:01:19 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

It is their white privilege.


2 posted on 05/08/2019 5:02:13 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Essentially this means they can work out that if is X is greater than Y, and Y is greater than Z, X is greater than Z

Damn, they're smarter then me. Good thing we invented wasp spray before they invented human spray.......It's war.......

3 posted on 05/08/2019 5:04:40 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (uizzzp)
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To: EdnaMode

Wasps have no natural defense against vacuum cleaners...


4 posted on 05/08/2019 5:04:57 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: EdnaMode

Mathematical relationships are, to a large extent, built into the physiologies of living organisms. Where humans have difficulty in understanding mathematics is in the symbology; they cannot relate the written format to the innate knowledge.

I’m not surprised that an insect would “understand” basic mathematical relationships. After all, they perform feats of advanced mathematics whenever they fly from one place to another and land perfectly at the spot they wanted.


5 posted on 05/08/2019 5:08:37 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: EdnaMode

As exemplified by tuning out of CNN decades ago.


6 posted on 05/08/2019 5:09:54 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yes. Here’s a short video to demonstrate that.

https://youtu.be/Gk52XA4rFpw


7 posted on 05/08/2019 5:09:56 PM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: EdnaMode

My fear of wasps is bordering a phobia. I can’t even watch them when they’re on the other side of a window. They scare the hell out of me.


8 posted on 05/08/2019 5:09:56 PM PDT by peggybac (Government is about force. It always has been about force.)
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To: EdnaMode

Essentially this means they can work out that if is X is greater than Y, and Y is greater than Z, X is greater than Z

Only if they can do it on paper.


9 posted on 05/08/2019 5:15:29 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

WASP = White Anglo Saxon Protestants?


10 posted on 05/08/2019 5:15:39 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yep!


11 posted on 05/08/2019 5:18:46 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Tennis rackets pose a problem for them as well.


12 posted on 05/08/2019 5:25:36 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: EdnaMode

Do not like up grass clippings. The grass will heat up while decomposing and wasps love that for making a nest.


13 posted on 05/08/2019 5:29:16 PM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: EdnaMode

The Bush family shows us that WASPs can be pretty stupid. Please clap.


14 posted on 05/08/2019 5:29:17 PM PDT by cdcdawg (If white, western culture makes you feel out of place, THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE!)
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“My fear of wasps is bordering a phobia. I can’t even watch them when they’re on the other side of a window. They scare the hell out of me.”

I got stung in the neck by a wasp when I was about 8. Ever since I have killed them any way I can.


15 posted on 05/08/2019 5:30:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: GingisK

Yes! Especially if you stand in the flight path.

I had a great afternoon once with my son-in-law.

We had a spray bottle filled with water and about a tablespoon of dishwashing liquid. Sprayer adjusted to stream setting.

We took turns.

Wasp/hornet would fly in and land on the side of my house to crawl up into a nest in the eves.

As soon as one would land, one of us would would step in, douse them, and watched them stagger, trying to hold on.

Their lungs would fill with soapy bubbles, theyd drop off and die.

We kept score, cheered for each other, and had a riot.

Good times.


16 posted on 05/08/2019 5:31:49 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: EdnaMode
"Essentially this means they can work out that if is X is greater than Y"

Sometimes, I think of my ex, and wonder why...

17 posted on 05/08/2019 5:43:25 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

They make the average Democrat look stupid.


18 posted on 05/08/2019 5:52:52 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: EdnaMode

Not sure about others but red wasps are deathly afraid of hornets. I stuff a brown paper bag with plastic grocery sacks to give it some puffiness and hang these in the barn or in a tree near the porch. No red wasps. They think the bag is a hornet nest,


19 posted on 05/08/2019 5:55:31 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Central vacuum works the best.


20 posted on 05/08/2019 5:59:00 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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