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I’m OK with this. Wasps as far as I can tell serve no useful place in the ecosystem. They are not bees after all. They just sting people and that’s it. Good rid
by gaius 8y ago
I’m OK with this. Wasps as far as I can tell serve no useful place in the ecosystem. They are not bees after all. They just sting people and that’s it. Good riddance!
- cryptonector 8y agoThey are a predator. They certainly have a useful place in the ecosystem.
- fipple 8y agoWhat is “useful”? Are humans useful?
- emodendroket 8y agoPersonally I'd accept an anthropocentric view that takes humanity's importance as an unexamined premise and rates other species as "useful" to the extent that they positively affect humans (whether directly or indirectly). I imagine the OP has a similar idea, although for the reasons others have pointed out I don't think it necessarily comes together here.
- hyperpallium 8y agoAwfully important though. Consider the all-powerful god who can create a universe, and all he thinks about all day long is us.
- derrekl 8y agoCheck out these Mud Wasps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber In SoCal, at least, they'll hunt down a bunch of black/brown widows and stick them in a mud nest for their wasp offspring to eat. They almost never sting people and clear up poisonous spiders from your yard!
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoAs well as being significant predators they're also important pollinators.
- fenwick67 8y agoLike any other insect - they eat and are eaten. Many of them pollinate.
- hyperpallium 8y agoBut they pollinate another species. Isn't that bestiality, or worse?
- tedunangst 8y agoThe wasps that do that don't "just sting people and that’s it" so what's the problem?
- detaro 8y agoThere are hundreds, maybe thousands of species of wasps, and as far as I know only a few (<10) social species tend to sting humans, and those don't form galls.
- phyzome 8y agoWasps are pretty important from the wasp's point of view.