Wasps

[trickydick]

What is the point of the pests. Bees are useful but all wasps do is sting you.
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[alfinyalcabo]

Everything has it's use Tricky,let me educate you.


"In simple terms, wasps are an insect predator. They're responsible, along with other insect predators such as spiders, for the maintenance and control of their prey's populations. If you start taking predators out of the system, you get an imbalance, which can be disastrous. The insect population would grow and hammer the plants. The plants then wouldn't reproduce properly, which is bad for ants, which eat and disperse seeds, and then the seeds wouldn't be spread.

Wasps are beneficial to humans because they eat a lot of caterpillars and small white larvae that feed on vegetables. They're also part of the bigger picture, the community of animals that we call the ecosystem and that functions only if it has all of the members of that community. We can't be picky and say we don't like wasps but we do like bees. Wasps, rats, cockroaches – all the creatures we call pests – play as valuable a role as anything, including us. "

[trickydick]

Where did you copy and paste that load of tosh from? I shall put it in more simple terms,...If a wasp comes near me it will die. Simple !

[alfinyalcabo]

Where did you copy and paste that load of tosh from? I shall put it in more simple terms,...If a wasp comes near me it will die. Simple !

From that well known and brilliant naturalist Chris Packham..

[trickydick]

At the end of the day we are all god's creatures and should be loved and cherished,...Apart from wasps!!!!

[yoonited]

I'm more worried about these...

[trickydick]

Getting fed up with these muslim invaders. Only the other day our local newspaper reported on muslim sea snakes off the coast of Southsea.

[Markovitch]

How do the wasps on Lothian Regional Buses survive then?

[cpw_cpw]

Where did you copy and paste that load of tosh from? I shall put it in more simple terms,...If a wasp comes near me it will die. Simple !

be humane if you're going to kill mr wasp.

i suggest you talk to him for five mins.

he'll soon be dead of boredom, trust you and me.

[trickydick]

Alton towers wasps are the worst. I remember being attacked by them at a 45 minute wait board.