They don't ever seem to bother him or anyone else that walks by.
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Hornets in your neighbourhood are a good thing - they eat wasps and other nuisances, and they do not usually sting you.
They mostly pretty on bees though, and at least in my neck of the woods, are considered invasive.
wasp?! I heard about mosquitoes but never heard about wasps
Aye. Technically, hornets are just a bigger kind of wasps, but they still do hunt their smaller cousins.
The only thing really to know is that it is not advisable to get too close to their nest. If you leave them be, they leave you be, too.
Yeah, wasps are hardy a nuisance unless you're close to their nest. Hornets on the other hand go out of their way to ruin my day.
It's exactly the opposite in Germany.
Wasps are generaly all-purpose assholes who go out of their way to bother you, while I've had a hornets nest on my balcony and had one crawl over my fingers without issue.
I have had the same experience too in the US. Yellowjacket wasps are the absolute worst while hornets are chill unless you get really close to their nest.