Fortunately by their appearance it's clear that these aren't suzumebachi. They don't build hanging paper nests anyways, but rather nest in holes in the ground.If those are suzumebachi, Tan and what'serface are so far beyond idiotic I don't know if there's even a word for it. Pissing off a hive of them is actually a pretty good way to unalive yourself.
There are obviously some invasive species, but it's not at all true that most of them are bad for the ecosystems they live in. There are quite literally tens of thousands of species, and many of them play vital roles as pollinators and predators (including controlling the populations of many insects that would otherwise wholesale devour the crops we rely on).Funny how wasps are such cursed beings, most of the time they're invasive and harmful for the ecosystem
Japanese doesn't have separate words for the two groups, instead using 蜂 (hachi) for all manner of bees, hornets and wasps. This is actually a little bit closer to reality, as wasps and bees are actually not separate groups, taxonomically speaking. (Although ants are also deeply interrelated with them, and Japanese does group them in their own semantic category).Regarding this chapter
So is it bees or wasps???
Tan is a karma engine, all his terrible actions and decisions immediately turn around on him. So far, nothing undeserved has happened to him.Tan really gets the worst of things, doesn't he?
Thank you for the reassurance that Tan wasn't about to get them all killed, I didn't know since I got the mistaken impression that the larger nest found here in Washington was in a tree. (It was found at the base of a dead alder tree, but as you say they dig in rather than hanging a paper nest.)Fortunately by their appearance it's clear that these aren't suzumebachi. They don't build hanging paper nests anyways, but rather nest in holes in the ground.