Wasp that in my tree?

They're finding that plants communicate with each other as well through airborne chemicals ... not sure if we're allowed to call them pheromones ...
And it's not just in that M. Night Shamalan movie.

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/secret-language-of-plants/

I've read about that too. Although pheromones are more associated with insects and animals, I think it's safe to say that the chemicals plants use are types of pheromones too. Some can even special-tailor their pheromones depending ont eh scenario.

Tobacco plants can actually attract the predators of whatever's feeding on them by absorbing the saliva of the insect feeding on it, mixing it into their 'alarm' response pheromone and releasing it into the air. Predatory wasps, praying manti and spiders are just a few of the creatures that'll come to a tobacco plant's 'aid,' although it's really just ringing a dinner bell.

Mud wasps have been unusually docile in my opinion & experience. Those large Orange bodied with blue/black paper wasps are fairly nasty (been stung by them). Many paper wasps will just as soon sting you as look at you. In fact- they often will sit on the nest UNTIL you look at them- then hells to pay!

I love the Tarantula hawks- they are pretty kewl.

Our lovely Cicada Killer

As long as the same thing that happened in the movie, doesn't happen in real life they can have all the pheromones they want.

Yeah. It was an unfortunate set of circumstances when it happened. There used to be a small, concrete water park in Granville park when I was young, but sometimes the water jets would get stuck and water would just dribble out into the grass nearby which would make a literal 'pool' of mud for the wasps to enjoy too. Usually it was just yellow jackets, but one of the kids at our daycare was running by and I guess he stepped on one because he suddenly started screaming bloody murder. Right away, the staff ran over and I knew right away it was the wasps, so I was telling him to try and walk towards the staff, but he was screaming so loud he couldn't hear me. He ended up tripping and falling butt first into the puddle just as the staff got to him to bring him back to the daycare center, less than a block away.

His foot was all swollen up and it kept oozing a yellowish, clear liquid every time they tried to dab it with paper towel. It was terrifying for a 7 year old to see and I'm sure even more so for him to experience.

Might be (bee?) allergic! That is pretty dangerous.

A yellow jacket got into my little brothers pop can when he wasn't looking & popped him in the lip. Swelled up really big. Was funny looking to us siblings who can be cruel.

when I was a kid , I was myself.

I was cutting though my neighbor's backyard. I was on wooden fence that was over a garage that the roof, and the fence.

it little hard to explain between the end of both neighbor's backyard, there is wooden picket fence with some chicken wires. to avoid what I was doing to and keep animals like dogs.

so I decided to played like tom sawyer and walked the spaces between the fence, where the barb wires and chicken wires were hanging between the spaces. where I put my legs on the fence.

I don't worry about the roof of one neighbor's garage, the fence and the roof were the same height. so I fell on the roof or fell off the fence to other neighbor's backyard.

I would just only go boom -boom to the ground or the roof, I was pretty safety.

this in the summertime, I was my short. I was on the fence acting tom sawyer. I was doing fine.

then a wasp landing on my right knee, but I was standing in between the fence's space, where your hands on the fence to talk to your neighbor. or what I could have climbed over the fence.

before, I could do anything, the wasp bite me. I think about 15 years old. then my knee was swelling like a baseball, then I stopped playing on the fence. then I stepped on the roof, and beside on the neighbor's backyard.

there was little path of grass that led to the bottom of the side of the garage, that I walked down. by time, I got down to the grown , I was limping pretty much.

so, I lived across the street from my neighbor, who never saw me, playing back there.

so my mom also had a cow, when she saw my knee. It really swollen. my mom gave me a cold compass and told me to watching tv in my sister's bedroom with my two sisters.

my family is allergic to bee's stings. so my mom called my doctor immediately. my doctor called back 20 to 30 minutes later. but the swollen was going down a little bit. by the time, I sitting on the floor of my sister's bedroom, with a cold compass.

my mom gave me a benadyl , when I was in our kitchen. our doctors if we get a bee's sting to take a benadyl to reduced the swelling.

when the doctor called back, and told my mom done good. we didn't have
go to the emergency room at all. I was doing fine about an hour later.

other good news in the story, that my family's dog outside's pen was big enough, if my mom did have a cow then.

Honey, I'm almost done with the addition!

it is weird to look at the wasp's nest, don't think it is a face of a cute little animal.

My GySgt got stung by a tarantula hawk wasp. Said it hurt like hell.

I could imagine. Considering it actually paralyzes spiders, one can only imagine the amount of damage it can do to an actual person.

Wow, that was almost three years ago.

And rather than starting another Wasp thread, I'll tag on to this one:

The research found that wasps can use a form of logical reasoning to infer unknown relationships from known relationships, according to a press release.
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 -- an ability that was thought to be a key human trait for thousands of years.
In recent decades, however, scientists have shown that vertebrate animals such as birds, monkeys and fish also have this ability, known as transitive inference (TI).

Link

This guy looks like a wasp... but it is really a type of "soldier fly"... they don't bite or sting... they are imposters....

But if it keeps the predators away...!

Like that fake Monarch butterfly. Supposedly Monarchs taste bad (never tried one) and another species evolved to look like them so they will be left off the menu as well.

Well, it probably wasn't a "purposeful" evolution, more like a "natural selection"

This one goes around telling everyone that he is the GREATEST MOST DANGEROUS KILLER OF ALL TIMES...


or at least since Abraham Lincoln...