These are the MOST VENOMOUS Insects in Your Backyard

I hate when those paper wasps stop moving around their nest and start watching you. It's creepy. They just hang onto the nest and just their heads move with their little wasp eyes boring right into you.

I'll pickup a spider before I pickup a 🐝

I’m not taking any crap from wasp or yellow jackets, i got a massive attack from ground yellow jackets whilst cutting my grass, they stung me well over 50 times, i’m not allergic thank God! But I didn’t let them stop me from finishing my grass cutting job, I had them attack me multiple times but i bravely got through it and got the job done, i was wearing long sleeve and jeans and a hat so i got a few head stings , mostly my hands took the stings, they were swollen and burning for days 😢

You can actually usually unafricanize a hostile nest by killing the queen and replacing her with a docile European queen. Ants are actually wingless wasps. Yellow jackets are aggressive.

Alright I’m about to mow grass tomorrow let’s see if I get freaked out enough to put it off 😂

Im fine with 99% of wasps. Dont have much experience even witnessing hornets. But yellow jackets, both ground nesting and otherwise, I'm fine destroying them as a species if they got me on the wrong day. I move a chunk of dirt and get blasted on the face and my neck swells for 2 days 😂

I dropped some root ball that got tipped over and confused me, time slowed down qnd i see HUNDREDS of them floating up like smoke from thr disturbed plant pot... that was a rough day and im lucky im not allergic

Thank you. not only was it educational but the video was very well produced.

That's crazy info re: assassin bugs. I handle the common green ones pretty regularly and I've never encountered any issues. They are curious little insects. Their movement reminds me of Chinese mantises, with their cautious, outstretched arms and graceful motion.

Paper wasps? Id argue yellow jackets.. ground yellow jackets.

Assassin Bugs are fearless.
Wasps are the a-holes of the insect world. 😉

I work at an urgent care. We've seen multiple bee and wasp stings since the weather has warmed up, but one stands out. There was a guy who came in about two weeks ago now who had been stung too many times to count be bees after disturbing a nest. He was sweating profusely, vomiting and looked worse than anyone I've seen come in yet. Luckily, a shot of some steroids and plenty of water later, he was able to go back home. I don't know what came of him after that, but it was a truly scary encounter.

don't care, any wasp or hornet getting into my vicinity will get zapped by the auto-turret AI zap-swatter

EWW NO WASPS ARE SO WEIRD!

In Kingman Arizona, I was stung by one Maricopa Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex maricopa). The sting was very painful and lasted for hours. Is it true that they have the most toxic insect venom in the world?

Honeybees arent native to America? So no big deal realistcally if insecticides in farming kill them off?, at least as far as historic american flora/fawna.

We call those little guys garbage bugs. I didn't know they were related to ant lions.

When the insects take over the planet, I am sure they will make you the human ambassador.

Luv your background music 🎶

The paper wasps I don't mind in my yard. I do mind when they make a nest because they're fierce as hell to defend it so the nest usually get incinerated. They're more than welcome to come to my yard and pond to feed on insects and drink water but they're not allowed to dwell here lol

i know of 2 species you might stay away from because i know they will be all over you real fast,warrior wasps and all the species of the asian giant hornet

Growing up in the south, the most common sting me and those around me have received is that of a paper wasp. It’s sharp and smokey like being stuck with a match. Usually more than one at a time. But the pain fades quickly leaving a hot swollen spot that later begins to itch. Really not that bad. But not fun in the moment.

I love insects of all types they are beautiful, but some have to be respected from a bit of a distance especially those that are a lttle aggressive lol 😆

Just do it

Thank goodness these are so small!

Haven’t really been too nervous around bees, but ngl, you got me a bit nervous there now

The deadly part of Bees, Wasps, and ants is that none of the ones out and about are usually able to reproduce. Their colony's survival is more important to them so workers naturally evolved to be more aggressive since the entire colony has a bigger vested interest in preserving their Queen's life than their own! This makes them take HUGE risks attacking animals hundreds of times larger than them.

Carpenter ants don't sting because Jesus was a carpenter!

i had some blue mud daubers living near my balcony this summer. you can tell that they know what they got lol

Those door hinges need some oil

Stop misgendering the bugs sir

Paper wasps are smart too. They used to get into my house a lot and I'd open the door and let them out. One day I noticed, they'd come buzz by my face, and then go wait on the door windows. If I didn't go open it, they'd come buzz me again and go straight back to the door. I stayed in that house for one summer and I swear I was letting the same 2-3 wasps out nearly every day. The first time I let them out, it took a while for them to find the right window, by the 3rd or so time they'd fly straight to the right one, or maybe just wherever I was waiting. Since I was alone and didn't speak much, and I think they learned that if I talked it meant the door was going open, cause I'd be yelling 'go to door!'

Oh and I just remembered one time I woke up and there was a wasp just sitting on my pillow inches from my face. I freaked out and it went straight to the door.

You should cover robberflies one day, they are quite fascinating in my opinion

Cmon man yellow jackets are DEFINITELY aggressive!!!

Paper wasps (Polistes) get a bad rap, but the only wasps that sting me are yellowjackets. (Our southern and eastern yellowjackets can go on the offensive with little provocation.) Paper wasps have never given me any trouble. IME, if you leave them alone, they leave you alone. They seem to become desensitized to you if they see you a lot (e.g., because they’ve built a nest on your porch). This makes sense, as studies have shown that social wasps can recognize faces and learn to associate them with positive or negative stimuli.

Really fascinatig commentary bro!

I've been stung by Paper Wasps so many times as a High Voltage Electrician servicing outdoor sub stations that their stings no longer seem as painful as they once felt. Honeybee stings seem to help my arthritic pain . I get them often when I walk my dog barefoot around my property during the season when clover coverage is heavy. I really do not mind getting Honeybee stings for that reason.

I got stung by something while I was in bed, I thought was an ant, but when I looked at it, and I mean LOOKED AT IT, it resembled a bee so I got my macro lens for my camera and it was a very tiny bee, about 1 mm long… at the time, I didn’t know they got that small

My kids and I are just mesmerized by your channel. We live in Sonoma County California. They’re digging up all kinds of things now in my backyard.🤣.

They found something really interesting and we would love to send a photo to see if you can identify it .

isnt that the red paper wasp? It is my understanding they are worst of the paper wasps

My first bee sting was when i was a small child and it was from one of those big fat fuzzy bumble bees. I thought it was cute and probably soft so i caught it and it let me know it didnt appreciate that. My second sting was when a honey bee got stuck in my pants. That one was unfortunate.

I can definitely attest to hornets' aggression. I just walked by one one time, didn't even know it was there, brushed up on it by accident while it was mid flight, and it stung me

Howdy from Texas 🤠
Those big red paper wasps almost killed me when I was around four and a half years old. My little cousin and I were walking around a campground together where there were a lot of unoccupied empty cabins here and there. We saw a huge nest of those paper wasps under the eve of one of those empty cabins. And my cousin and I apparently decided that it would be fun to throw rocks at it.

To this day, 57 years later, I can remember hitting that nest and turning to run. And That's when my memory ends. Because apparently three or four of those big boys targeted me and all stung me on the top of my head at the same time. And that knocked me smooth out. Like turning off a light switch.

The rest of this account I heard repeatedly from my mother telling it over the years to come. Apparently my little cousin freaked out and ran to get help. When the adults found me I was unconscious, white as a sheet and stiff as a board. I've never been allergic to anything in my entire life. But apparently three or four of those huge wasps tagging me on top of my head was just too much venom for my four and a half years old body to take at one time.

To make matters worse we were literally out in the middle of nowhere camping and the nearest town with a doctor was over an hour away. According to everyone there. I should have died that day except for one of my uncles who had just happened to join us the day before and who just happened to be in his work truck for the electric company he was a lineman supervisor for. He actually had some epinephrine shots in his truck for his linemen in case they were stung on the job and had an allergic reaction. So he took charge and administered one of those shots to me saving my young life.

Since then I have been stung by everything that could possibly sting me with the loan exception of any type of jellyfish. As long as you don't count Portuguese Man O War as a jellyfish. Because I've been stung by them on multiple occasions as a kid living in Corpus Christi Texas. As well as scorpions, velvet ants, asps, bark scorpions, fire ants, yellow jackets, bees, harvester ants, and just about everything else that can sting .

But nothing has ever effected me like those big red paper wasps did.

I think the world can do without wasps.

A paper wasp that's been hanging out around my house landed on my shirt today! So far she hasn't shown any sign of aggression, and I've even managed to get a good video of her collecting material for her nest! I left a piece of bacon out as a peace offering, but I forgot to check if she accepted it and took a nap 😅 hopefully she managed to get some before a raccoon or something took it lol

There are many paper wasps where I live and none of them were aggressive to me like you're saying, only maybe the warrior wasp but even that one still warned me before even attempting anything and when I backed off it didn't sting me

What about green sweat bees?

I've been stung by yellow jackets and bit by Assassin bugs. I'll take the sting from wasps any day over an Assassin bug bite 😂

At a music festival a few years ago a red wasp was crawling up my friend's neck and I let it crawl on my hand to get it off him. I've never felt more terrified and badass at the same time. He flew away and neither of us were stung.