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Ok, fine, educate me, what do wasps contribute to the environment?
People who post shit like this are being intentionally obtuse and provocative. "Wasp" is a big tent classification, and what everyone else thinks of are a few specific creatures.
Vast majority of things that are "wasps" don't bite/sting and many are important pollinators.
The bitey stingy ones? Fuck em.
I've found the best thing to use against wasps is diatomaceous earth. It's non-toxic, and just very tiny silicate animals that get into their joints. It kills the entire nest and not much else around it.
That's what they used when the wasps were in my siding and stinging me in my bed at night.
You lost me at the end. Now you're the one being obtuse and provocative. Just because something stings or bites doesn't mean it isn't good for the environment.
Just because something is good for the environment doesn't mean the environment can't live without it
The world would survive an extinction event given enough time, that doesn't mean the loss of biodiversity is acceptable.
Fuck you too, then
Why?
They eat the things that eat the things you eat.
(e.g. aphids, caterpillars and mfcking thrips and leaf miners)
PS: ok just one more: if bees are the plant matchmakers, wasps are broad spectrum pest exterminators.
Yeah… well the also eat my peaches and plums. So they eat my food, and that just ain’t cool. On top of that they set up shop by my front door and then sting me for just walking into MY house where I was letting them make a little room of their own. Not no more. Them bitchass mfers are back in hell where they belong, and my world is much better since I opened that portal for them.
yea, ok, we got rid of our peaches anyway, it wasn't that bad :D but yea, keep boundaries, ok.
.... they eat me?
Not unless you are already dead 😁 they like carrion too.
Many wasp species, while not considered pollinators, still transport pollen and pollinate plants. Others hunt pest insects. There are also many species that are vital as prey for birds
Figs.
That's only some types of figs and one type of tiny wasp. Most figs we eat are virgin fruit.
They're pollinators. A popular example is figs but you'll see them in flowers just like bees.