I can just imagine Ryan sitting silently while a wasp eats his food thinking about how he's gonna tell his subscribers all about how annoying the wasp is
Erm... Not really... Bee's have barbed stings, so when they strike, it sticks in the target, but than the bee might die. Wasps have a straight sting, so they can serialkill things without harming themselves.
It's kinda comforting to know that extreme wasp aggression can be explained with the phrase "you're just not yourself when you're hungry". They really are fascinating creatures to study by watching videos which were recorded a long distance away by someone who isn't you. Bonus Fun Fact: I am hugely allergic to bee and wasp venom, but I also live in Australia. So every summer I get to do the "Frantic Wasp Waltz" away from the lunch table on multiple occasions.
Wow, i was not expecting the real actual explanation for wasp behaviour in autumn ! The only part missing is that wasps can’t physically eat the food they collect for the wasp grubs, their body is too narrow to allow solids through.
As a lifeguard that spends every day outside, this is completely accurate. I’ve already been stung. Since I can’t move whenever they fly near me, I’m basically at the mercy of God.
I think you've got your job confused with the British Royal Guards. They're not allowed to move. You're most definitely allowed to move... at least a little bit. Unless you're a lifeguard at a British beach, then I don't really know. Sorry for your loss with the Queen n all.
Even though your comment is 1 year old I just want to say yes same here and I love how Ryan repeatedly tackles topics that bug me in real life (like, for instance, "being too tired to sleep") and makes me laugh about it. It is relieving indeed.
We always stop at saying, "Wasps are so aggressive!" and never ask the question "Why are wasps so aggressive?" Thanks for asking the important questions Ryan!
Who cares? I mean, education is good but I don't care how hungry they are. It's still time to murder a den of wasps and hopefully get some of their larva with a slow poison that makes them twitch for many minutes. Anyone who's ever been stung real good is with me and we have no remorse and no pity. They need to die. But bees are cool. They're super chill. They all just want to work hard and pollinate flowers like fuzzy little workmen. And even if they do sting you, so what? It doesn't hurt. And you know they felt genuinely threatened because they'll most likely die. Totally different.
Man, I did not expect to learn so much about wasps from this video. It's really eye opening to know what they're going through... Okay, it's stabbing time!!!
I just started watching your channel and realized that Ryan's characters and you both enter with, "hi there". Theory: Clint is a Ryan George character in disguise. We can't prove it's NOT true.
I remember trying to harvest grapes at my grandparents' house one fall. The wasps wanted them, too, and were NOT willing to share. We found that taking a garden hose and spraying things down with water every few minutes would get them to leave long enough for us to get a few bundles off the vines. The wasps were smart enough to know that getting mad at water is pointless, but not smart enough to realize that the presence of water and the presence of humans were connected.
They can still see you holding the hise, but the water is a threat, and people are not a threat. (Maybe like saying a person isn't smart for simply not disarming a human with a gun. The wasp could disarm you too, but drowning sucks as much as getting shot 😜)
Oh my god, this had me laughing so hard, especially because this October a wasp crawled up my pants and stung me like 3 times. I looked up the species and apparently they're "non-aggressive" unless they're scared. Like my dude, it's not my fault you chose to crawl up my leg.
Yeah, know that song. "Just ignore them and you'll be fine", "no fast movements, ideally no movement at all for... as long as the hang around... which could be pretty long if there's anything edible or drinkable nearby" "If a wasp swarms around your face inches away, or lands on your face, just sit perfectly still and you'll be fine", "If it decides to crawl up your nostril or into your mouth, don't move, or it will feel threatened and stab you!" "If a wasp annexes your food or drink like a winged Putin, it's no longer yours and you should not try to take it back... or it will feel threatened and nuk... I mean stab you!"
@@teebodk3917 I heard that one too, so one day when a bee landed on my arm I decided to just wait for it to lose interest. That is the story of the only time I've ever been stung.
@@teebodk3917 Yeah, I know several people who listened to those "tipps" and didnt move when a wasp landed on them and they just got stung for nothing.
Meanwhile, I put on my shoe after going wading in the creek with the kids, and I felt a strange buzzing sensation. I tried to ignore it, but it didn't stop, so I took the shoe off again. A bumblebee crawled out, groomed its wings for a moment, and flew away as if I didn't almost squish it. I'm not sure stinging me ever even crossed its mind.
Ryan George, in 25+ years of using the internet, you are by far one of my favorite discoveries. Thank you 🙏🏼 for your contributions to our society. You are a genuine and highly valuable treasure
@@emordnilap4747 Many hoped to learn about wasp diets from Ryan George? What an oddly specific thing to hope for. What else do they hope for? One day I hope to learn of the exact manner of my death while eating a taco in the presence of 13 performing sea lions in the process of balancing a ball on their nose while the William Tell Overture is playing through the stereo carried by a 400lb naked man with a clown themed full body tattoo. A man can dream.
@@MaikeruDagurasu emordnilaP said "Nobody did. Though many of us hoped for it." I thought that was an oddly specific thing to hope for. Hence my example of an oddly specific thing to hope for.
Yeah how does he manage to find that many actors that look exactly like him except they can somehow grow a weird fake looking mustache on top of their mustaches and he even finds insects that not only look like people, but like him specifically and can also Speak English and is a knife expert. He must have searched through millions of wasps before finding that one. I guess you didn't see the one about the man who invented fiction. He's lying to you and so are all those TV shows and movies. Haven't you noticed that when anything happens on the news, Superman, Spiderman and all the rest of them are nowhere to be found? Some call me a conspiracy theorist but I'm telling you, it's all lies. Gilligan, Ginger, Mary Ann and them were never trapped on an island, The Duke boys never played Boss Hog for the fool in Hazard county, that astronaut never actually found a hot genie. And if you don't believe me think about this. How would we even know what happened a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away?
@𝑵𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒂 That's a lot of negatives. You like that everyone got the joke? Why not go all the way? "The lack of people who didn't get this joke doesn't fail to not make my day not worse." Mathematicians would have your sentence on some blackboard with equations scribbled all over. Two factions would square off against each other. "He's saying he likes that people got the joke." "No he's saying he doesn't like that people didn't get it." 10,000 years later. "And that is why our society has been at war for the last 10,000 years. We've squandered all the resources of the earth. We must put this behind us and forget that sentence ever existed. But first, we must destroy our sworn enemy. The one's who do not believe he didn't like that people got the joke." See what you did?
The number of times I've said "Why are wasps like this?" and thought they were just assholes like ostriches, just to be taught by Ryan George that they're hangry.
its actually incorrect. they are drunk from living off rotted fruit. the part about the larvae is correct, but that leads them to living off the sugars of rotted fruit making them drunk and aggressive. You could have answered your own question at any point with a quick google.
Perfect representation and yet I bloody love this wasp. 😆 I don't know how many times I've watched this now. You always make me laugh Ryan. This is definitely a laugh out loud favourite. Hilarious 🤣
I remember trying to eat my lunch at school outside in September once. This one wasp wouldn’t leave me alone and kept flying near my lunch. And since I’m deathly afraid of anything that stings, I just shouted, “Alright fine! You want my lunch? Here, take it!” and threw my tray to the ground. I went hungry for the rest of the day
After working as a bartender towards the end of July I appreciate this video both for it's comedy and also the information it provides. I was wondering why they went so damn crazy.
"They're just as scared of you, as you are of them" The wasp screams "please don't hurt me! I have a family!", as it charges at you and digs it's stinger into you. "Please! I'm so scared 🥺", it says, as it pumps neurotoxins into your bloodstream.
I wanted to grow some chili plants on my balcony, but had a few yellow jacket nests. I debated killing them wondering if they'll pollinate the plants for me, but realized they didn't give a shit about my plants and were just killing the actual bugs doing the pollinating. Fuck wasps.
One time a friend was like "There's a wasp flying behind you" I turned around but couldn't see it so I decided to run down the street away from it. Next thing I know *STAB* right in my neck.
I've never had a bad experience with wasps and part of that is I'm not afraid of them, I can even handle them with no issue. When you are scared animals sense it as erratic behaviour so, a threat. Also, hate the discourse that we should only respect animals that are directly beneficial to us. Honey bees? Yeah, love honey. Also invasive in most places and destroying biodiversity, yet we not only tolerate them but encourage their presence. Really not all that different from yellow jackets.
Last year, my family decided to have a lovely Labor Day picnic outside in the park. The wasps. Were having. NONE of it. ...and that's pretty much the exact reason I had to click on this video. :P
I've been stung by three bees in my life. One was a wasp, one was a bumblebee and one was a yellowjacket. None of them were tolerable, and I don't think them having Ryan's face would have helped.
When I was a kid, our local ice cream stand had a trashcan beside the queue, which served as the base of operations for our town's wasp mafia (waspfia). I always refused to get out of the car, but I'm pretty sure everyone in line had to pay some sort of protection money to avoid unfortunate stinging "accidents."
@@mr.regular589 No unnecessary aggression by either party. I was so shocked at how chill they were after I stopped freaking out every time they were around. Lol.
Aaahahaha! I love that you explained why they do it, I have told people so often to make sure if they have fermented fruit on the ground.. You'll be dealing with Yellow Jackets or Wasps who are VERY ANGRY AND DRUNK.
I've found fermented fruit makes them so drunk they sometimes die. Frequently they do nothing all day. Most are incapable of flight. Then you get the powerwasher.
if all they're after is food, is there some kind of sugar water mixture we can leave out for them instead? then instead of stabbing us for our fermented fruit they can just get more sweet stuff and be happy. then the wasps will be on our side and they'll attack anybody who messes with us. guard wasps!
This is why I put a little bit of my drink on a part of the porch far away from where I’m gonna end up spending my time. The wasps end up gathering there instead and drinking it.
Literally every labor day party my family had in my old backyard the wasps were all like this lol, one would fly into my drink and drown, then a different one would sting me like I did it on purpose 😂
I'm not kidding When I was out by a pool by myself getting some sun a wasp landed on the other side ( it was an inground pool) and just looked at me....I then started to get up and it began chasing me. It was a Scooby do style chase as it was perfectly following just behind me as I ran for the door.
recently a wasp flew into my drink and I immediately fished it out with a spoon and threw it into a bush were it crawled upwards and presumably waited to dry. once it was able to fly it went straight back for my drink - dumbo didn't learn anything.
Let's just appreciate the fact Ryan went through the trouble of looking for a honey bee shirt for this skit. Or maybe he already had that shirt and decided to make a skit out of it.
I have a saying that I use every year: Never trust a September bee. (I'm aware we are talking about wasps here, but I'm lumping every flying, stinging, yellow and black insect into the "bee" category here, because a saying shouldn't take 5 minutes to say.) My friends laugh everytime I say it and tell me that insects don't have calendars. Ryan just gave scientific justification to my axiom. Thank you Ryan.
In the infinite realm of possibilities that exist, Ryan George turning into a wasp turning into Bill Nye: The Science Guy was not one i was prepared for.
What's even better is that bees can recognize faces lol. So it will likely remember you, whether your interaction is good or bad. It could be that they're scanning our faces when they do that. I'll wave them away, but gently.
Completely serious here, I really love that this video ends up helping people sympathize with wasps more. They aren't monsters who want to hurt you for fun, they're living beings at the mercy of their own need to survive, just like everyone else. And they're important parts of the ecosystem, just like bees!
Depends whether by equivalent you mean in content or funding model. We don't actually do the paid-by-donations approach, so for that we just watch and appreciate PBS too. The similar ones that get government funding, however, are provincial: TVO and TVF (in Ontario), PPT in Manitoba, another in Newfoundland... and nationally some CBC (oops, not CBS) content is like PBS too, yes.
In the US, we used to see wonderful animations by Norman McLaren and others from The National Film Board of Canada occasionally, in school or on PBS. Ryan's sketches are different, but just as good, in my opinion.
I think everyone saying CBS is the equivalent of PBS actually means CBC because CBS is not a Canadian station. CBC is federally funded and runs a lot of children's educational program.
It's comforting to know that all floating Ryan's (i.e. Ryan's without their feetsie's touching the ground) have the same greeting "Hey, Hi there, hello,"
Forgot one of the most common things wasps do: Fly at you and then suddenly disappear as if by magic right when they’re about to hit you, only to not be found anywhere, until you finally calm down and realize it’s gone - and THEN it suddenly teleports right in front of your face
We need a t-shirt with yellow and black horizontal lines on it and "ITS STABBIN TIME!" written in big letters. Then people would know that we were Ryan fans.
I used to live in CO where the paper wasps were super-chill all season. I never bothered them and they never bothered me. I'd sit outside just feet from their nests and it was all good. Then I moved to FL where paper wasps swarm and sting you just for looking at them from 15 feet away. Thank God for Raid.
I feel Ryan could have an entomology degree before he learned acting and screenwriting. His insect-related sketches are next level, such as the naming department one.
Our neighborhood wasps aren't aggressive. We have super-sweet grapes growing on the side of our house, and they happily devour those every fall. We only pick the ones we can reach, while the majority is cleaned up by wasps, bees and birds. Luckily, there aren't any huge wasp nests nearby, so those grapes can feed them all and they are quite calm. By the time grapes run out, it's too cold for them to fly around stinging people.
Just remember that wasps can secrete a pheromone that makes other wasps want to sting you… If you make Ryan wasp mad, an entire army of them can come for you… and that terrifies me
That pheromone can get into your system, once you've been stung, and it doesnt wash off. You basically get marked as an "enemy" and are more likely to get stung again...
Glad I have justification to not wanting wasps near me, beyond having a really bad phobia. My mom used to make traps by using alcohol, causing them to drown themselves.
We really did just get bodied by evolution cause even things the size of your FINGER can kill you in ways that's super easy, barely an inconvenience. For them.
My grandpa's farm in Spain has been invaded by wasps. There's around 10 nests 2 of which were abandoned. The interesting thing is that the wasps have gotten used to people and don't attack anyone as long as you don't start screaming or making noise. Me and my grandparents walked literally centimeters from their nests in some cases and never got stung. One of their friends however started screaming at the site of one DVD immediately got stung. There's even a nest on a door and as long as we open the door carefully they don't care.
They don't "get used to" people that's always been normal for wasps and they only attack if something hurts them/their hive (or you're nearby when something else does). Now the africanized versions that's not the case at all. Those buggers are aggressive as heck and will attack anything near them.
@@YSLRD i do not believe you on the hornets. all the other ones you said, i agree, are totally fine and easy to get along with. but i've never met a chill hornet in my life!
This is honestly one of the best pieces of wasp oriented media I have seen!!!! I always like to teach people about wasps so it is really cool seeing someone else spreading something other than hate for them. Fun fact- wasps are also pollinators! And the majority cannot sting. Great content! Always love it!
1. They're honestly kind of terrible at pollinating because they aren't fuzzy. 2. Majority may not be able to sting, but wasps are like two of the three extremely ow level stings.
@@kh6853 I've actually delved into the scientific literature on this. There aren't many studies because most people take wasps for granted, but of the studies that exist, they're actually better pollinators than honey bees. There's even a study that showed that at least in a greenhouse setting paper wasps were better pollinators than bumbles because they move between plants instead of focusing on a single plant. Of the studies that exist they have a very good track record as pollinators.
@@kh6853 as for stings, I mean sure they have a bad sting. But they also don't sting for no reason, despite popular myth- they might have a hidden nest, or they might remember your face from when you previously wronged them (they can do this), but it's never for no reason. The tarantula hawk, the most painful wasp sting not counting ants, will refuse to sting unless practically forced to.
The "I'm going now - just kidding I'm back" is the most accurate representation of wasps ever
For real! 😂
Keep this comment at 666 likes.
Only for yellow jackets and some types of hornets though...
Ikr
*Agreed!!!*
I can just imagine Ryan sitting silently while a wasp eats his food thinking about how he's gonna tell his subscribers all about how annoying the wasp is
No. He keeps his shot glasses handy and soon has a dozens of them trapped in tiny glass prisons.
They all have the same waspy face. 🐝
I’m going to be a flying insect I’ve decided.
Ryan and wasps go a long way back, you know...
999th like :)
Annoying Wasps r Tight
I love how Ryan can indicate what month it is through subtle acting cues and intelligent hints
Like the hint of it saying September?
@@Grimmis667 Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. Either exactly or r/woosh.
@@jeromevaleska2014 r/wooooshwith2os
@@kingnoob3550 If you're r/wooshing me I made it very clear that I wasn't sure, and I put that along with exactly to be safe.
@@jeromevaleska2014 well he was originally agreeing with you, but not it seems to have gone over your head
Sometimes I'm just minding my business, having a normal day. Then I think of that wasps "blade work' and laugh to myself.
I can't decide if Wasp Ryan is adorable or terrifying. Maybe he's adorifying.
Adorifying that's hilarious 😂
Yeah, like Ryan Jr in the Christmas video
Here before this blows up
Oh, being adorifying is tight
it definitely fits the awwwtf category
I just love how scientifically accurate this skit is - down to the specific knife brand the wasp uses.
wait why what knife brand is the wasp using
@@dietotaku I like to think wasps use butterfly knives.
Erm... Not really... Bee's have barbed stings, so when they strike, it sticks in the target, but than the bee might die. Wasps have a straight sting, so they can serialkill things without harming themselves.
@@meleardilpeople like you clearly need to find a time to find a sense of humor. you literally missed the JOKE by a mile.
@@meleardil it was a joke. I know wasps use spears, not knives.
It's kinda comforting to know that extreme wasp aggression can be explained with the phrase "you're just not yourself when you're hungry".
They really are fascinating creatures to study by watching videos which were recorded a long distance away by someone who isn't you.
Bonus Fun Fact: I am hugely allergic to bee and wasp venom, but I also live in Australia. So every summer I get to do the "Frantic Wasp Waltz" away from the lunch table on multiple occasions.
Their also dy8ng its late life depressi9n mixed with a sweet tooth
@@demonic_myst4503learn how to type
"Frantic Wasp Waltz", I love that! Can I start using that?
@@natralskitsophrenia8465 Please do. Cheers. :)
Just get stung my smaller wasps to build up immunity to bigger wasps, then you won't be allergic anymore
Wow, i was not expecting the real actual explanation for wasp behaviour in autumn ! The only part missing is that wasps can’t physically eat the food they collect for the wasp grubs, their body is too narrow to allow solids through.
Wow. So it is true they can only live off that secretion?
@@MargetMints They can drink other liquids like fruit juice- fallen apples, for instance- and nectar, which isn't really available in autumn.
@@MargetMints Other things too, but not solid food, but somehow the babies can eat solids? The babies are like tiny blenders I guess?
So that's where the expression "wasp waist" is coming from.
As a lifeguard that spends every day outside, this is completely accurate. I’ve already been stung. Since I can’t move whenever they fly near me, I’m basically at the mercy of God.
Ive been stung over two weeks ago. The spot necrotised a little. Its healing but I still have a little hole in my arm. Wasps suck.
yes
Oh really?
I think you've got your job confused with the British Royal Guards. They're not allowed to move. You're most definitely allowed to move... at least a little bit. Unless you're a lifeguard at a British beach, then I don't really know. Sorry for your loss with the Queen n all.
How do you guys manage to get stung? I bareley ever get stung as long as i dont step in thier nest...
Fun fact: wasps can't talk and fly at the same time. Their wings stop flapping, and they just kind of hover.
WASPS CAN TALK?!?
@@theblinkingbrownie4654 yeah, you didn't know that???
That makes a lot of sense. Wasps can't focus on too many things at once so instead of having to fly and talk they use psychic abilities to hover
Man! I knew that bee was lying about that. Bees are such LIARS!
@@theblinkingbrownie4654 Of course they can talk, we just saw one talking. Think they could fake a thing like that?
“OK IT’S STABBING TIME!”
Still gets me no matter how many times I watch it
As someone who is dead scared of having a wasp fly near them, this gave me good laughs :D
Very accurate portrayal of the little buggers.
I got stung twice in my life. Once in the neck for crying out loud. Hurt like a beach.
@@drollfurball2863 I got stung once in the middle of my palm as a kid, it hurt like the sun of a beach
Even though your comment is 1 year old I just want to say yes same here and I love how Ryan repeatedly tackles topics that bug me in real life (like, for instance, "being too tired to sleep") and makes me laugh about it. It is relieving indeed.
@@communist_orangesOne time a wasp flew right smack dab into my forehead, I didn’t even know it stung me with that flyby, like that was too quick.
It’s about time we discussed the discomforting effect of the word “pupated.” Thanks for raising this important issue, Ryan
LET'S GET READY TO PUPATE
Just pretend that "pupated" really means "slightly pulling back a fleshy prepuce, to reveal the moist protuberance beneath." ...Hope that helped!
Imma pupate
I think we need to add “secretions” to this list...
she pupate me
We always stop at saying, "Wasps are so aggressive!" and never ask the question "Why are wasps so aggressive?" Thanks for asking the important questions Ryan!
But we always arrive at the question of "What are we going to do about the wasps?" And the answer usually involves chemical warfare!
@@Flaris ha
Very wise yes... OK STABBY TIME!
Who cares? I mean, education is good but I don't care how hungry they are. It's still time to murder a den of wasps and hopefully get some of their larva with a slow poison that makes them twitch for many minutes. Anyone who's ever been stung real good is with me and we have no remorse and no pity. They need to die. But bees are cool. They're super chill. They all just want to work hard and pollinate flowers like fuzzy little workmen. And even if they do sting you, so what? It doesn't hurt. And you know they felt genuinely threatened because they'll most likely die. Totally different.
Hangry
1:14
Even the wasp's stunt double looks like Ryan George!
"That's some very skill blade work OH NO."😂
I don't know what's more impressive, the fact that you found a wasp that can talk or that you found a wasp with such good blade artistry.
Lol it's not a real wasp. It's Ryan on a green screen.
@@JoeTakagi00😮😯😲 🤯
@@JoeTakagi00 what are you talking about, it's clearly a real wasp
Definitely the latter
@@JoeTakagi00 nah man you must be seein things. oh yeah and r/wooooosh
I will never get tired of hearing Ryan say “hey hi there hello.” Makes my day every time. That along with “I decided”
Hearing Ryan say "hey hi there hello" really does make one's day, I decided. :P
hahahahahaha and the "*silence* OKAY ITS STABBING TIME"
I’ve watched so many Ryan George videos that “Hi there hello” has become a normal part of my vocabulary
The first guy to ever make a decision?
I decided that us hearing Ryan say "hey hi there hello" makes everyone's day
*1:05** "Just kidding...I'm back!!!!"* 😂😂😂😂
"you never really know what someone is going through" comedic timing at genius level
Man, I did not expect to learn so much about wasps from this video. It's really eye opening to know what they're going through... Okay, it's stabbing time!!!
I just started watching your channel and realized that Ryan's characters and you both enter with, "hi there".
Theory: Clint is a Ryan George character in disguise.
We can't prove it's NOT true.
@@Gildedmuse *cough* russels teapot *cough*
o hi there
Are wasp a great pet??
🔪🔪🔪
I remember trying to harvest grapes at my grandparents' house one fall. The wasps wanted them, too, and were NOT willing to share. We found that taking a garden hose and spraying things down with water every few minutes would get them to leave long enough for us to get a few bundles off the vines. The wasps were smart enough to know that getting mad at water is pointless, but not smart enough to realize that the presence of water and the presence of humans were connected.
Looks like those wasps were a bunch of stupid idiots.
A powerwasher is about 4000x as effective as a hose.
Not only are they wet. They are forced to leave.
They can still see you holding the hise, but the water is a threat, and people are not a threat.
(Maybe like saying a person isn't smart for simply not disarming a human with a gun. The wasp could disarm you too, but drowning sucks as much as getting shot 😜)
Lucky you. The ones here always seem to figure out that it's us using the hose.
I had the same problem with wasps and my grapes, but weirdly enough they let me handle them like bees. To this day, I don't know how I survived.
Oh my god, this had me laughing so hard, especially because this October a wasp crawled up my pants and stung me like 3 times. I looked up the species and apparently they're "non-aggressive" unless they're scared. Like my dude, it's not my fault you chose to crawl up my leg.
Yeah, know that song. "Just ignore them and you'll be fine", "no fast movements, ideally no movement at all for... as long as the hang around... which could be pretty long if there's anything edible or drinkable nearby"
"If a wasp swarms around your face inches away, or lands on your face, just sit perfectly still and you'll be fine", "If it decides to crawl up your nostril or into your mouth, don't move, or it will feel threatened and stab you!"
"If a wasp annexes your food or drink like a winged Putin, it's no longer yours and you should not try to take it back... or it will feel threatened and nuk... I mean stab you!"
@@teebodk3917 I heard that one too, so one day when a bee landed on my arm I decided to just wait for it to lose interest. That is the story of the only time I've ever been stung.
@@teebodk3917 Yeah, I know several people who listened to those "tipps" and didnt move when a wasp landed on them and they just got stung for nothing.
Meanwhile, I put on my shoe after going wading in the creek with the kids, and I felt a strange buzzing sensation. I tried to ignore it, but it didn't stop, so I took the shoe off again. A bumblebee crawled out, groomed its wings for a moment, and flew away as if I didn't almost squish it. I'm not sure stinging me ever even crossed its mind.
meanwhile I run like a fucking madman whenever I see a bee, wasp or anything.
Ryan George, in 25+ years of using the internet, you are by far one of my favorite discoveries. Thank you 🙏🏼 for your contributions to our society. You are a genuine and highly valuable treasure
Therapist: "Wasp-Ryan isn't real, he can't hurt you"
Wasp-Ryan: "I'm gonna freakin' stab you, I decided"
i like how everyone in the ryan-verse says that (i decided)
Thats some really skilled blade work!
Scared
Then he did a backflip, snapped the bad guy’s neck and saved the day!
Ohhh, stabbing people is TIGHT!
Hilarious Ryan! Insect based humour is always relatable. (Not because I'm an insect)
that's hella suspish...
Well, you'd say that, wouldn't you?
that sounds like something a wasp would say
@@saucerar7615 wasssp
Oh, insect-related humor is TIGHT!
Ryan: "Don't stab me!"
Wasp named Don't:
Don't, stab me!
Wow you really had to reach for that one huh?
is he related to "stab him?" czcams.com/video/AUe9pFmh0JA/video.html
I’m surprised Wasp Ryan wasn’t scared of Human Ryan. Human Ryan had a much more commanding mustache.
I think Ryan has a Masters Degree in diagnosing EVERY LIVING BEING'S intentions.
And in naming them.
Another gem 😂 Ryan and George are truly the pair of the decade
hi
You do know that his name is Ryan George? (This is A joke)
@@swooperduck6856 thats the joke
@@swooperduck6856 there is clearly two people in the video
@@swooperduck6856 you do know this is a joke (i think)
I want to see the sketch where Ryan randomly learns a cool fact about wasps and then debates with himself about how to put it into a sketch.
Ryan's videos are not just funny but also educational.
I didn't think I'd ever learn about wasp diets through a floating half wasp half ryan, but here we are.
Nobody did. Though many of us hoped for it.
@@emordnilap4747 Many hoped to learn about wasp diets from Ryan George? What an oddly specific thing to hope for. What else do they hope for? One day I hope to learn of the exact manner of my death while eating a taco in the presence of 13 performing sea lions in the process of balancing a ball on their nose while the William Tell Overture is playing through the stereo carried by a 400lb naked man with a clown themed full body tattoo. A man can dream.
@@PaulTheSkeptic ....what?
@@MaikeruDagurasu emordnilaP said "Nobody did. Though many of us hoped for it." I thought that was an oddly specific thing to hope for. Hence my example of an oddly specific thing to hope for.
@@PaulTheSkeptic lol. Love how you took my dumb little joke to a whole new level there.
Wow, he even managed to hire a literal wasp that looks just like him to be in this skit. Just amazing
The dedication to his craft cannot be understated.
Yeah how does he manage to find that many actors that look exactly like him except they can somehow grow a weird fake looking mustache on top of their mustaches and he even finds insects that not only look like people, but like him specifically and can also Speak English and is a knife expert. He must have searched through millions of wasps before finding that one. I guess you didn't see the one about the man who invented fiction. He's lying to you and so are all those TV shows and movies. Haven't you noticed that when anything happens on the news, Superman, Spiderman and all the rest of them are nowhere to be found? Some call me a conspiracy theorist but I'm telling you, it's all lies. Gilligan, Ginger, Mary Ann and them were never trapped on an island, The Duke boys never played Boss Hog for the fool in Hazard county, that astronaut never actually found a hot genie. And if you don't believe me think about this. How would we even know what happened a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away?
i guess the ryan-verse now includes insects. lol
@𝑵𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒂 That's a lot of negatives. You like that everyone got the joke? Why not go all the way? "The lack of people who didn't get this joke doesn't fail to not make my day not worse." Mathematicians would have your sentence on some blackboard with equations scribbled all over. Two factions would square off against each other. "He's saying he likes that people got the joke." "No he's saying he doesn't like that people didn't get it."
10,000 years later. "And that is why our society has been at war for the last 10,000 years. We've squandered all the resources of the earth. We must put this behind us and forget that sentence ever existed. But first, we must destroy our sworn enemy. The one's who do not believe he didn't like that people got the joke."
See what you did?
@@PaulTheSkeptic I went back and liked his comment because of yours.
I was literally wondering about this just last week. I'd be stoked to see Ryan do even more educational comedy like this.
The number of times I've said "Why are wasps like this?" and thought they were just assholes like ostriches, just to be taught by Ryan George that they're hangry.
its actually incorrect. they are drunk from living off rotted fruit. the part about the larvae is correct, but that leads them to living off the sugars of rotted fruit making them drunk and aggressive. You could have answered your own question at any point with a quick google.
@@bmartin2304 -Thanks!
@@bmartin2304 Gotta love it when somebody explains something, and then brags about their willingness to google it. That almost _always_ impresses me.
@@David_Fellner It`s that the knowledge is just that common.
Why are wasps like this? Why any animal is like this? Why you get angry when someone breaks into your house?
"That's some really skilled blade work oh no" made me laugh so hard, I love they way he delivers it
YES!! The delivery is perfection. It’s hysterical
Perfect representation and yet I bloody love this wasp. 😆 I don't know how many times I've watched this now. You always make me laugh Ryan. This is definitely a laugh out loud favourite. Hilarious 🤣
I remember trying to eat my lunch at school outside in September once. This one wasp wouldn’t leave me alone and kept flying near my lunch. And since I’m deathly afraid of anything that stings, I just shouted, “Alright fine! You want my lunch? Here, take it!” and threw my tray to the ground. I went hungry for the rest of the day
the only valid option
This is why I set a little bowl aside when I go on a picnic
After working as a bartender towards the end of July I appreciate this video both for it's comedy and also the information it provides. I was wondering why they went so damn crazy.
Hey that's true. 😃👍🏼
@@leonardoyramm1856 no
Its* comedy. 😛
@@englishatheart it's so easy to mess up i often catch myself putting an apostrophe in the possessive.
@@TheJacklikesvideos I am definitely aware of the difference, but with me; my autocorrect keeps on changing the word! Its annoying as he'll!
"They're just as scared of you, as you are of them"
The wasp screams "please don't hurt me! I have a family!", as it charges at you and digs it's stinger into you. "Please! I'm so scared 🥺", it says, as it pumps neurotoxins into your bloodstream.
I wanted to grow some chili plants on my balcony, but had a few yellow jacket nests. I debated killing them wondering if they'll pollinate the plants for me, but realized they didn't give a shit about my plants and were just killing the actual bugs doing the pollinating. Fuck wasps.
One time a friend was like "There's a wasp flying behind you" I turned around but couldn't see it so I decided to run down the street away from it. Next thing I know *STAB* right in my neck.
@@PotentFrost Getting stabbed in the neck is tight!
I've never had a bad experience with wasps and part of that is I'm not afraid of them, I can even handle them with no issue. When you are scared animals sense it as erratic behaviour so, a threat. Also, hate the discourse that we should only respect animals that are directly beneficial to us. Honey bees? Yeah, love honey. Also invasive in most places and destroying biodiversity, yet we not only tolerate them but encourage their presence. Really not all that different from yellow jackets.
@@aldranzam3456 We tolerate bees because of the understanding that they can only sting us once, and also because some of them are fuzzy.
I love that Ryan is wearing a black and yellow striped shirt. Just going for it 100%. It's adorable 🐝
Last year, my family decided to have a lovely Labor Day picnic outside in the park.
The wasps. Were having. NONE of it.
...and that's pretty much the exact reason I had to click on this video. :P
Ryan’s really putting a lot of work into these videos can’t believe he actually got a wasp to play in it. So authentic!
and he managed to find one that looked exactly like him.... mostly
except for the bottom 2/3 I decided
They even resemble each other. Great casting!
It's a clone
He promised the wasp some food in return for appearing in the video
@@NoxiousRob look more like a collaboration, because wasp say he already making his own food
If wasps were more like this, I wouldn't mind them so much.
What? Capable of Speech?
@@PaleGhost69 🤣
@@PaleGhost69 exactly
I've been stung by three bees in my life. One was a wasp, one was a bumblebee and one was a yellowjacket. None of them were tolerable, and I don't think them having Ryan's face would have helped.
@@PaleGhost69 Yes. That way we could properly communicate with them, and talk about our feelings.
Damn, Ryan demonstrates how considerate and flexible he is by twisting his body 180 degrees so we don't have to see his wasp junk.
Learning science while watching Ryan is super easy barely an inconvenience
When I was a kid, our local ice cream stand had a trashcan beside the queue, which served as the base of operations for our town's wasp mafia (waspfia). I always refused to get out of the car, but I'm pretty sure everyone in line had to pay some sort of protection money to avoid unfortunate stinging "accidents."
My backyard is ruled by wasps. We have to pay taxes in insects or we get the stabby stabby
Me and the mud daubers in my yard made peace at a sit down last year, so we’re cool.
@@Ivy94F How did you convince them?????????????????????????????
@@mr.regular589 No unnecessary aggression by either party. I was so shocked at how chill they were after I stopped freaking out every time they were around. Lol.
@@Ivy94F Dang. Ok I'll call a meeting. But I don't know how we can make them stop taxing us.
Aaahahaha! I love that you explained why they do it, I have told people so often to make sure if they have fermented fruit on the ground.. You'll be dealing with Yellow Jackets or Wasps who are VERY ANGRY AND DRUNK.
It's my new headcanon that every wasp is just drunk and hangry
I've found fermented fruit makes them so drunk they sometimes die. Frequently they do nothing all day. Most are incapable of flight.
Then you get the powerwasher.
if all they're after is food, is there some kind of sugar water mixture we can leave out for them instead? then instead of stabbing us for our fermented fruit they can just get more sweet stuff and be happy. then the wasps will be on our side and they'll attack anybody who messes with us. guard wasps!
I can't stop laughing 👌🏼
I've watched this like 40 times! 🤣👌🏼❣️👍🏼
This is why I put a little bit of my drink on a part of the porch far away from where I’m gonna end up spending my time. The wasps end up gathering there instead and drinking it.
So you basically give the wasps an offering to leave you alone
@@The_Bigot And you wouldn't, they're wasps man. Wasps!!
GENIUS!!!!
The wasp acting like it was leaving then came right back was gold.
My daughter, “That’s EXACTLY what they do!!”😂😂😂
It's not gold it's YELLOW!
@@tonysmith9905 Har, har, har. (I did actually laugh)
"This is where i live, man"
"Ah, me too"
I honestly never thought of it that way, and he's right.
"That's some really skilled blade work, oh no!"
I don't know why, but "That's some really skilled blade work, oh no!" made me laughed SO hard!
Literally every labor day party my family had in my old backyard the wasps were all like this lol, one would fly into my drink and drown, then a different one would sting me like I did it on purpose 😂
Wasps are really angry at any backyard party in the fall. They like Coca Cola, beer, apple juice, orange juice, also watermelon and grape.
I'm not kidding
When I was out by a pool by myself getting some sun a wasp landed on the other side ( it was an inground pool) and just looked at me....I then started to get up and it began chasing me. It was a Scooby do style chase as it was perfectly following just behind me as I ran for the door.
recently a wasp flew into my drink and I immediately fished it out with a spoon and threw it into a bush were it crawled upwards and presumably waited to dry. once it was able to fly it went straight back for my drink - dumbo didn't learn anything.
0:36 that is how every single wasp approaches me and explains why i am terrified of them.
Better effects than She-Hulk
best "youre not you when youre hungry" commercial ever.
Let's just appreciate the fact Ryan went through the trouble of looking for a honey bee shirt for this skit. Or maybe he already had that shirt and decided to make a skit out of it.
I think it's the latter.
He does have some good style I won’t lie I got some good style ideas from him lol
Of course he already had it. He's had it since the bee movie came out.
'It's going to be hard to find a honey bee shirt'' ''actually it's going to be super easy barely an inconvenience''
That's clearly a yellowjacket
I have a saying that I use every year: Never trust a September bee. (I'm aware we are talking about wasps here, but I'm lumping every flying, stinging, yellow and black insect into the "bee" category here, because a saying shouldn't take 5 minutes to say.)
My friends laugh everytime I say it and tell me that insects don't have calendars.
Ryan just gave scientific justification to my axiom. Thank you Ryan.
You just took 5 minutes to explain that you didn't want to spend 5 minutes explaining.
@@SimpleAmadeus You must read and/or type really slow.
@@SimpleAmadeus you do explain it once to a new audience, so you don't need to do it every time you use the saying with 'em again.
Also, never trust a fart.
You need more science friends.
Ryan is the only person who could make you have some compassion for wasps 😄
GENIUS😂🙌🏽
In the infinite realm of possibilities that exist, Ryan George turning into a wasp turning into Bill Nye: The Science Guy was not one i was prepared for.
Wasps always zoom right toward your face, then get mad when you wave them away, like you’re the one that challenged them to a duel of the fates.
What's even better is that bees can recognize faces lol. So it will likely remember you, whether your interaction is good or bad. It could be that they're scanning our faces when they do that. I'll wave them away, but gently.
@@bb8518 yes I’ve heard that too! Very interesting! Yeah gently is a good idea haha
THAT'S SOME REALLY SKILLED BLADEWORK, OH NO!
Completely serious here, I really love that this video ends up helping people sympathize with wasps more. They aren't monsters who want to hurt you for fun, they're living beings at the mercy of their own need to survive, just like everyone else. And they're important parts of the ecosystem, just like bees!
This is the best representation of wasps. Every frame of this video is true.
Wow, Ryan's videos are getting more and more educational. Can't wait to see him on PBS, and/or whatever the Canadian equivalent is, I don't recall.
CBS, at a guess.
Depends whether by equivalent you mean in content or funding model. We don't actually do the paid-by-donations approach, so for that we just watch and appreciate PBS too. The similar ones that get government funding, however, are provincial: TVO and TVF (in Ontario), PPT in Manitoba, another in Newfoundland... and nationally some CBC (oops, not CBS) content is like PBS too, yes.
In the US, we used to see wonderful animations by Norman McLaren and others from The National Film Board of Canada occasionally, in school or on PBS. Ryan's sketches are different, but just as good, in my opinion.
@@peter9477 yea TVO has some great documentaries for all ages.
I think everyone saying CBS is the equivalent of PBS actually means CBC because CBS is not a Canadian station. CBC is federally funded and runs a lot of children's educational program.
That wasp has a sweet ass mustache! Also, impressive mastery of the English language, wasp school systems are incredible!
I will never get tired of your skits / sketches. These are far too entertaining.
Being funny and teaching us somthing at the same time, Fantastic!
It's comforting to know that all floating Ryan's (i.e. Ryan's without their feetsie's touching the ground) have the same greeting "Hey, Hi there, hello,"
"I'm the wasptronaut and I'm here in waspace."
@@web4639 I'm here to tell you about our sponsor. Raid: sha... wait, wasp killer? this is a terrible ad spot. I'm not doing this. Whoopsie!
“That’s some really skilled blade work, oh no!” Had me rolling lol 😂
An education AND funny. My favorite. Something for the whole family.
Forgot one of the most common things wasps do:
Fly at you and then suddenly disappear as if by magic right when they’re about to hit you, only to not be found anywhere, until you finally calm down and realize it’s gone - and THEN it suddenly teleports right in front of your face
“It’s stabbin’ time” was truly one of the lines of all time
We need a t-shirt with yellow and black horizontal lines on it and "ITS STABBIN TIME!" written in big letters. Then people would know that we were Ryan fans.
I am so sick of the Morbius meme. It's just not funny anymore.
STOP
@@coolnerdlll6053 7800 or so languages in the world and you chose to speak facts
I can't believe Ryan just tricked me into actually learning something
This is why I carry one of those handhold vacuums with me everywhere in September.
Wasp. The only character that is crazier than writer and producer guy.
I like how the wasp said "It's stabbing time" and stabbed all over him. Truly one of the moments of all time
😬
memes dead
Being a wasp at the end of summer is Super hard very much an inconvenience
Oh wow oh wow
Being near one as well. Ima need them to get all the way off my ba.....ouch the mf stung me on my back.
Wow wow wow
“This is… where I live, man…”
“Oh me too”
“Ahh…”
That, that's some really skilled blade work, oh no!" PMSL, Ryan Never change my dude.
I can see real events behind this, and Ryan searching “why are wasps so aggressive at the end of summer?”
I can’t believe Ryan the wasp gave such an inspirational speech and then said” It’s waspin’ time”
I used to live in CO where the paper wasps were super-chill all season. I never bothered them and they never bothered me. I'd sit outside just feet from their nests and it was all good.
Then I moved to FL where paper wasps swarm and sting you just for looking at them from 15 feet away. Thank God for Raid.
If that was a hornet he would have just devoured Ryan immediately.
I hadn’t considered that literally every life form in this world would look like Ryan 😮
I heard them mention Matt Demon once, not sure how would he look like in that verse
Except for cats. 🤔
@@jw8160 🤔
Waiting for a Ryan/Green Porno mashup
I feel Ryan could have an entomology degree before he learned acting and screenwriting. His insect-related sketches are next level, such as the naming department one.
Our neighborhood wasps aren't aggressive. We have super-sweet grapes growing on the side of our house, and they happily devour those every fall. We only pick the ones we can reach, while the majority is cleaned up by wasps, bees and birds. Luckily, there aren't any huge wasp nests nearby, so those grapes can feed them all and they are quite calm. By the time grapes run out, it's too cold for them to fly around stinging people.
I love how short the wasp animation is and it’s just him going down every frame.
Just remember that wasps can secrete a pheromone that makes other wasps want to sting you…
If you make Ryan wasp mad, an entire army of them can come for you… and that terrifies me
That pheromone can get into your system, once you've been stung, and it doesnt wash off.
You basically get marked as an "enemy" and are more likely to get stung again...
Wasps don't do that, bees do.
@@jankoodziej877 bees and wasps can do it
Glad I have justification to not wanting wasps near me, beyond having a really bad phobia.
My mom used to make traps by using alcohol, causing them to drown themselves.
We really did just get bodied by evolution cause even things the size of your FINGER can kill you in ways that's super easy, barely an inconvenience. For them.
You just snuck in there and educated on me. I feel... all educated on. It's like sticky, but with a lot more dryness.
The amount of actual entomology that Ryan had to study to write a sketch about angry wasps...
Thank for telling the wasp's side of the story. Everyone loves a sympathetic serial killer series.
My grandpa's farm in Spain has been invaded by wasps. There's around 10 nests 2 of which were abandoned. The interesting thing is that the wasps have gotten used to people and don't attack anyone as long as you don't start screaming or making noise. Me and my grandparents walked literally centimeters from their nests in some cases and never got stung. One of their friends however started screaming at the site of one DVD immediately got stung. There's even a nest on a door and as long as we open the door carefully they don't care.
They don't "get used to" people that's always been normal for wasps and they only attack if something hurts them/their hive (or you're nearby when something else does).
Now the africanized versions that's not the case at all. Those buggers are aggressive as heck and will attack anything near them.
I’m glad you and the wasps have made peace, but I kinda think you deal with your wasp infestation.
Well, thats a form of home security.
I see bees, wasps of several kinds, hornets and yellow jackets in my yard. We get along fine.
@@YSLRD i do not believe you on the hornets. all the other ones you said, i agree, are totally fine and easy to get along with.
but i've never met a chill hornet in my life!
This is honestly one of the best pieces of wasp oriented media I have seen!!!! I always like to teach people about wasps so it is really cool seeing someone else spreading something other than hate for them. Fun fact- wasps are also pollinators! And the majority cannot sting. Great content! Always love it!
1. They're honestly kind of terrible at pollinating because they aren't fuzzy.
2. Majority may not be able to sting, but wasps are like two of the three extremely ow level stings.
@@kh6853 I've actually delved into the scientific literature on this. There aren't many studies because most people take wasps for granted, but of the studies that exist, they're actually better pollinators than honey bees. There's even a study that showed that at least in a greenhouse setting paper wasps were better pollinators than bumbles because they move between plants instead of focusing on a single plant. Of the studies that exist they have a very good track record as pollinators.
@@kh6853 as for stings, I mean sure they have a bad sting. But they also don't sting for no reason, despite popular myth- they might have a hidden nest, or they might remember your face from when you previously wronged them (they can do this), but it's never for no reason.
The tarantula hawk, the most painful wasp sting not counting ants, will refuse to sting unless practically forced to.
Wow. This was surprisingly informational while also funny. Thank you, Ryan!