What is the point in wasps?

Don't get me started on moths, mate:smiley-laughing002:

People fear spiders, snakes etc. Understandable. I wouldn't exactly say I 'fear' moths but they give me the heebie-jeebies

 

There's no point to them, they're a pest. If any get in the hoose it gets a smash wae the hardback biography of Lord Kitchener.

 

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ok folks i let u all in to the truth about wasps.they were invented by the CIA in the late 60s i think around the start of the Vietnam war ,they are spies,and see that wee sting they gave you ,well its really a microcosmic that tracks whatever you do or go ,it worked well fe a few years untill they started reproduce them selves then they turned on there inventors and the world has not been the same since,so the next time you get stung ,my advice is to get whatever part the sting is in ,cut off ,leg arm or whatever ,hope this answer the o p question ,,slan

 

CMON THE INSECTS!!!!!

 

Once upon a time a wasp flew through a window into a bedroom. It had found its way in through a skylight, left open a couple of inches to let in some fresh air. After a quick look around, the wasp decided that it didn’t want to be in the bedroom after all, and tried to find its way back out. The wasp could see the sky outside, and the clouds and the rooftops of neighbouring houses, but every time it tried to fly out of the room something stopped it.
The wasp could see the great expanse of blue, but it couldn’t see the pane of glass that separated ‘inside’ from ‘outside’. The wasp flew against the glass, and it walked all over the glass, but try as it might, it couldn’t get through the glass to reach the other side. By now, the wasp was becoming rather tired (as I’m sure you would be too, if you’d just spent 10 minutes repeatedly running into a wall), but it knew that it needed to be on the other side of that glass, and it was sure that there had to be a way through somehow.
Meanwhile, the wasp’s buzzing had attracted the attention of a woman who had come into the room. The woman saw the wasp, and rather than squashing it against the window pane (which she would have to clear up later, and which involved the risk of being stung, both of which she wanted to avoid) she opened the window further so the wasp would find it easier to get out. But still, the wasp kept trying to find a way through the glass.
More time passed and the wasp was getting more and more exhausted, and when it found the gully where the glass meets the window frame, it opted to have a rest. After catching its breath, the wasp decided to see if there was a way out around the edge of the window, and it wandered up and down the gully hoping to find its way back outside. Up and down, up and down it went, looking for a wasp sized gap that set it free.
By now, the woman had opened the window as far as it would go – all the wasp would have to do would be to walk or fly away from the window for a short distance. But the wasp hadn’t noticed, and was entirely focussed on finding a way through the glass, preferably one that was near the gully, so it didn’t have to flap its wings so hard to get there.
The woman gave up trying to help the wasp and went to make a cup of tea.
She went back to the room later that day, and as she closed the window, the tiny dead body of the wasp fell from the window frame onto the floor. The woman found a tissue, carefully picked it up, and threw the wasp out of the skylight onto the roof outside.

 

I've been stung twice by wasps when I was younger... even then it was 1) because I knelt on one which was in my room and 2) I fell on one in the woods.

So other than that I've no problem with wasps. They're pretty harmless most of the time.

 

I used to collect the wee * in jam jars same with bees then watch them suffocate as I forgot to punch wee holes in the lid......

As for wasps keeping pests down,why are they always near bins they are jakey *

 

Absolutely no point to the nasty wee bassas

 

Seen a programme the other day which showed how these huge swarms of trillions of midges affected a whole ecosystem in Africa - they congregate above a lake, mate on the water, and the larva sink to the bottom, providing food for fish, which are then caught and eaten by humans. Really amazing.

 

I can gladly say I have a happy, working relationship with both wasps and bees. Never, ever been stung by one of them.

(It'll probably happen now :smiley-laughing002

 

Hadnt been stung since I was a bairn then last summer got stung twice in the coupon fae the *

 

Contrary to popular belief, wasps don't sting "just for the sake of it". There are a number of reasons why a wasp will sting a person even if there is no nest nearby, but it's usually because the person goes into "baisturt - there's a *' wasp!" mode and they start flailing their arms about trying to hit it. Meaning the wasp goes into defense mode. If someone started flailing their arms at you, trying to hit you for no reason, you'd want to slap them one and it's no different for the wasp.

As for the "point of wasps", well, they are important predators of other insects. As with all predators, wasps fill a gap in their ecosystem which helps to keep their prey populations at reasonable levels. They eat flies, caterpillars, bees, ants, spiders, earwigs, crickets, moths......they also eat plant nectar as well as honeydew.

Everything - even the mere wasp - has it's wee part to play :icon_mrgreen:

 

This thread is driving me to drink :icon_mrgreen:

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But if we done away with them, they'd just come back as Newco wasps the following year, angrier than ever, laying claim to all the stings made by the now-defunct Oldco wasps...

 

Absolute *. Loathe them.

 

What's your point? :icon_mrgreen: