what are wasps good for anyways

[Decepticon]

yeah, wasps are just loving starfishs that want to ruin your day. bees happily fly around all dandly and free-like. bees even pollinate flowers, spread seeds, stuff like that, and it helps us live. they don't even get aggravated with you until you start throwing rocks at their hive or swatting at them (which just means ur an starfish)


wasps on the other hand just wanna ruin your forgetding day. They think they're the stuff, and will just stab the hell out of you just because you were standing there, enjoying the weather. they don't pollinate, and we've already got a bunch of bugs working in pest control, so what are they really useful for?

[Ad Bot]

[Nonnel]

they don't do anything
forget wasps

[ThatRandomGuy]

forget wasps

[AtlasBlue]

they don't do anything
forget wasps

[Zanaran2]

I made this handy dandy chart for something like this.

	BEES	WASPS
Produces honey:	✓	✗
Pollinates flowers:	✓	✗
Cares about the environment:	✓	✗
Number of stingers:	1	∞

[Decepticon]

[ThatRandomGuy]

I bet y'all will be happy to see this guy!

[KickFlow]

Took these pictures last summer. The hornets there were nice as forget.

[lilpappaknox]

Wasps are actually used as pest control, due to them preying on pest insects for the most part while having few effects on crops.

[$trinick]

Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their numbers, or natural biocontrol. Parasitic wasps are increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they prey mostly on pest insects and have little impact on crops.

[Alternat¡ve]

I made this handy dandy chart for something like this.

	BEES	WASPS
Produces honey:	✓	✗
Pollinates flowers:	✓	✗
Cares about the environment:	✓	✗
Number of stingers:	1	∞

Nice chart bro.

[Zanaran2]

Nice chart bro.

are you just going to follow me around and forget with me now?

[foulprairiedog]

You see this cool motherforgeter? This is a blue mud dauber wasp. They eat spiders. Specifically black widow spiders. forget yeah.


Do you like figs? Sure you do. Wasps are essential to the reproduction process of the fig. Check it out. if you're afraid of your figs being full of wasps, don't worry. the fig digests them.


Also: by emitting chemical distress signals, some corn, cotton, and tobacco plants can summon tiny parasitic wasps to rescue them from hungry caterpillars like the tobacco budworm and corn earworm. If we didn't have wasps, we wouldn't have corn, cotton, or the tobacco industry! ok i admit we probably don't need tobacco

Wasps are our friends and we should love them. Except for the starfish wasps. forget those.

[Planr]

around here we have tons of mud daubers. they are the kind of wasps that are really non-aggressive and are the natural predators of black widow spiders.

[$trinick]

This is probably the most disgusting thing I've ever learned.