zoologicallyobsessed:

It’s amazing how little empathy people have towards animals and how little knowledge they have of animal behaviour. 

There’s so many people with comments like “Oh i was sleeping and it stung me for no reason!” like no dude, it was trapped in your room got frightened and stung you in your sleep, or landed on you and you rolled over or touched it while sleeping causing it to sting you or a million other reasons. 

Wasps don’t have the capability (that we know of) to go “I’m going to sting this person for zero reason cause I’m a wasp.” Animals don’t think or behave like that.

I’ve only been stung by a bee/wasp/etc once, and that was because I somehow got a bee in my shoe. Not shockingly, it didn’t like that. I’m actually not even sure it stung me on purpose- it was a honeybee, but there was no stinger in the sting. I think it might have scraped me with its stinger instead of actually stinging. Is it possible for that to raise a welt like a sting would? 

I’ve gotten up close to plenty of hives and nests, and if you move kinda calmly, you can usually get moderately close. Plus, if you watch them, they warn you that you’re too close. They buzz louder and move faster and clearly display that you gotta go. 

Stinging costs venom, energy, and risk. For a honeybee, it costs that worker’s life. They always, always have a reason to spend that energy, effort, and venom.

Finally, “evil” implies intentional malice. For something to be evil, it has to understand that it’s causing significant distress, and continue doing that, for no other reason than to cause distress. I can think of a very few animal species which are maybe, maybe intelligent enough to be capable of that, and most of them are things like cetaceans and elephants. Definitely not groundhogs or any sort of invertebrate. An animal can be needlessly aggressive if made to be by genetics or circumstance, but animals are incapable of evil.