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Where do wasps go? |
anish
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Wasps do eat nectar and hence help pollenation. Also as Miss UK said above they kill lots of other insects
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Social wasps have a fascinating life cycle. The mated female ('queen') hibernates through the winter in a secluded spot. Then in spring she builds a nest out of paper made by chewing up wood and lays eggs in papery cells. When these eggs hatch into larvae (grubs) she feeds them on other animals (often insects) which she catches and kills. The first generation of wasps mature as sterile females ('workers') which immediately assist the queen to feed and nurture successive generations from eggs that are all laid by the queen (again these all mature into workers).
It is a little appreciated fact that while the colony is growing in this way, the workers hunt and kill vast numbers of other insects (often garden 'pests') to feed the young back at the nest; thus they play a vital role in maintaining a stable garden ecosystem.
Towards the end of the summer the queen produces a generation of wasps which mature into males ('drones') and females (young 'queens'). These leave the nest and mate (often with members of other colonies). Eventually the males and workers die and the mated queen finds a place to spend the winter - starting the cycle again.
Whilst the workers feed the young on meat, they themselves eat nectar and a sugary secretion produced by the grubs. In the late summer, once the colony is no longer producing young wasps, the remaining workers often try to satisfy their sweet tooth from alternative sources, e.g. our picnics! It's generally only during this very limited period that they become a nuisance to us.
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mixin
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we may ask what is the purpose of wasps... but what really is the purpose of humans? (apart from destroying the earth we live on)
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Vlammetje
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once upon a time...... we were intended as part of the food chain 
we just fell out of our natural role and now we have becoem useless and should really not be here at all 
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evo9fq300
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i agree! maybe we should all just be wiped out from existence.. |
gelfen
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we are the only species on earth to have effectively removed itself from the food chain. we have no natural predators, and no natural prey (farming animals for food is not the same as "prey", merely a variation on crop cultivation).
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Sir-SonyEricsson-man
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On 2004-04-27 05:40:38, gelfen wrote:
Wasp: Any of numerous social or solitary insects, chiefly of the superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea, having a slender body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, mouths adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor often modified as a sting.
basically its a honey-bee on steroids, the main differences being wasps don't make honey and they have the ability to sting more than once. most wasps are dark in colour, although some can be very brightly hued.
more info can be found here and here.
however, "wasps" are also White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, a member of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (organized during World War II as part of the U.S. Army Air Forces to ferry aircraft and to test new aircraft - disbanded in 1944), a London rugby league club or a play by Aristophanes.
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Thank you.. i read the word wrong.. i know what a vaspe is
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