Looks like a failed ladder 
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Pond froggos
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Is that a sibling? Certainly looks like it!
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KILL IT WITH FIRE 
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@anoek discourse is bitching about “incomplete sentences” again, is that a toggle you can flip? 
Don’t…
First, if it’s because of a hate for wasps that you find near the end of summer buzzing around your barbecue, then that’s not this wasp: this is a paper wasp, not a yellowjacket. Paper wasps eat nectar and mainly hunt insects and aren’t that interested in most human food sources. They actually are quite helpful to farmers in keeping crop-eating caterpillars under control (or at least, to those farmers that don’t try to poison our planet with insecticides).
Paper wasps are also a lot less aggressive than yellowjackets or hornets, but even those are generally harmless if you know how to behave around them. Just stay calm and let the wasp do as it pleases, if you don’t bother it, it won’t bother you either. In fact, if there’s multiple wasps around, and you try to kill one of them and fail, the hurt wasp will release pheromones that actually attracts wasps and makes them sting anything moving in the general area.
If you’re having a barbecue and get bothered too much by wasps, get some peppermint spray and spray it around, that should make mosts wasps want to stay out of your way.
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My mistake, at first it looked to me like what we Australians call a “European Wasp” and they’re quite aggressive here, but I see now it’s not. All other insects I like including paper wasps (our paper wasps look different).
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That’s a yellowjacket, yeah. They’re a bit more aggressive, but not if you don’t disturb them or accidentally come too close to their nest. We have lots of European wasps around my parents’ house, being in the countryside, but I remember only being stung once, as a kid while accidentally stepping on one. But then, stepping on a nail or a piece of glass is worse.
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I’d say that the greatest danger of wasps (yellowjackets) that are attracted to sugary stuff, is accidentally swallowing one. Sudden swelling inside your throat can lead to suffocation. So be careful in the summer when you’re drinking something sweet from a can outdoors.
I once accidentally ate a wasp that was in my tomato soup when we were having dinner in our garden. Luckily I happened to chew it before it could sting the inside of my mouth or throat.
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The real question is of course: why were you chewing tomato soup? 
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You could test if this works for wasps too
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We usually eat tomato soup with some vermicelli (small noodles) and small meat balls in it, or some small chunks of chicken.
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No, she’s a west coast friend I met at Go Congress this summer 
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“Birds of a feather” eh!
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Very jealous! I don’t even dare show my wife those pictures!
How about a shot of the broader environment?
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At the Amazon office in Japan, they can play Go in the cafeteria (From a local Japanese newspaper.).
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