revenge on the effing wasps!

Top man. I hate the bastards.

What is the point of wasps?

The point? Do you believe in an Intelligent Designer? ;-)

Let's assume there is and that s/he/it made wasps on a Sunday morning ... Grumpy at having to work on the day of 'rest' and with a massive hangover from a late & boozy Saturday night! B-)

Apparently, frogs eat wasps. I have a book called 'Does Anything Eat Wasps' which is published by New Scientist Magazine- full of Q&As from it's Last Word column.

My van's seatback is intact as my blowtorch is the trigger variety and can be used for a very short burst of flame... Just right for wasps :)

Do wasps pollinate anything? I thought they were carnivores. Admittedly, there's the fig wasp which causes figs to reproduce, but that's from the wasp laying larvae in them AFAICR.

JGH

Some plants specifically (eg water figwort). I?m no biologist, but wasps that eat nectar surely pollinate.

On a slightly different tack: When wasps come into the house, they usually make straight for a window (presumably to try and escape).

My questions are:

1. Why do they want to come in the first place?
2. Why do they resist all attempts to let them out? If you open the part of the window where they are banging their heads, why do they still refuse to fly out? They either continue banging their heads on the glass, or else move to another pane which isn't open!

There is no glass in nature so they are confused. They don't have a big brain to work it out and can't teach other wasps the solution. If it becomes a survival issue evolution will provide them with a solution, probably a glass cutter.

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Now that would be an evil insect! Successful, though.

So, nothing to do with being off their faces on fermented fallen apples then... ;)