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1. Wasps are fierce predators which, believe it or not, serves a useful purpose. They hunt and eat almost every insect pest that harms crops. Wasps eat grasshoppers, aphids, flies and even other bees. They also eat nectar, tree sap, fruit and even human food. Making them an unwelcome picnic crasher.
2. Not all wasps live in colonies. With approximately 30,000 different species of wasps, they can be quite diverse. There are two primary subgroups: social wasps and solitary wasps. As the name implies, solitary wasps live alone, like the mud dauber.
3. Most wasps make nests from bark and wood by chewing the pulp to form paper cells. Other wasps, like the mud daubers, will use mud to build tubes as their home.
4. Wasps can sting more than once. Yes, that is right. Wasps can repeatedly sting over and over Ow! This is because their stinger is not barbed and will not come off, unlike a bee.
5. Wasps life cycle. Each summer, new queens are born who will bunker down for the winter in an old log, burrow or inside void areas of structures and all the other wasps will die off in the fall. The queens will start a new colony in the spring and can grow a colony as large as 50,000 wasps in one summer.

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wasps are the worst animal to exist

nature's dickhead

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6. Wasps are fucking assholes

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Mud duabers?
U mean mud divers?
AND WTF IS A WORM STATION?

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I have made an observation that whenever wasps build nests around my house all the other bugs are gone. I assume it is because they know not to fuck with them.

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Big_Nabendu posted...

Mud duabers?
U mean mud divers?
AND WTF IS A WORM STATION?

also called "dirt dobbers"

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Big_Nabendu posted...

AND WTF IS A WORM STATION?

What is this? A station for worms!?

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The world would better without them.

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Without wasps your yard would be covered in caterpillars. All because a picture on Reddit tells you wasps don't pollinate flowers it doesn't mean they all deserve to die
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How could this topic exist but not mention parasitic wasps laying their eggs in other insects that eat them from the inside?

TheDurinator posted...

How could this topic exist but not mention parasitic wasps laying their eggs in other insects that eat them from the inside?

The thought of those bastards give me the creeps.

I kill yellow jackets and red wasps at my place. The ones I do like are the smaller red ones that twitch their wings super fast all the time. I would find them carrying fresh spider daily.

Plus they aren't assholes and leave you alone,like dirt daubers do.


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