Developing response-ability in human-wasp encounters

Learning to live with unloved others is crucial in the ecological crisis. Unloved wasps are feared and disliked for their sting. Understanding of importance increasing, however. Human-wasp encounters changing environmental changes, strategies multispecies cohabitation needed. This study highlights features wasp biology affecting human-wasp analyzes how conflicted relations could be mitigated. The geographical focus Finland, Northern boreal region. Biological analysis specified spatiotemporal aspects encounters: human habitats preferences overlap ubiquitously. From a media analysis, we identified contextual living wasps: exterminating, repelling, relocating, giving space. Wasps do not receive only bad press – diverse contextual. Knowledge ecology may allow cultivating response-ability encounters. Media provides information narratives that reinterpreting “aggression” as vulnerable condition. corporeal often preferably avoided. Therefore, methods developing intimacy without proximity used reflecting on relations. One such method crocheting decoy nests. mitigated by species-specific assess risk involved. However, difficult because confused other black-and-yellow insects.