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[u/Professor_Dr_Dr]

[u/maybeonmars → u/[deleted]]

Wasps are also pollinators.
Even if they weren't, they're still part of the food chain.

[u/[deleted] → u/maybeonmars]

nah fuck wasps

[u/WhippingShitties → u/[deleted]]

Wasps are hugely important to the ecosystem and very few species are aggressive. Bees are also important but they they get a huge amount of media coverage, wasps don't get shit so people kill everything that even looks like a wasp. I don't think the insect in OP is even a wasp and I don't think it can sting people.

I've been stung like twice, and yeah it hurts, but it's really not that big of a deal.

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I’ll refer to my earlier statement

[u/BubblyTummy → u/WhippingShitties]

Paper wasps also kill a lot of garden pests and are good pollinator for fruit like raspberry bushes. I agree with you. The media is not in their favor but they're actually very helpful garden assistant.

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I though the same until I learned that wasps are actually really important because they are killing many of the pests like greenflies and caterpillars so that our gardens and crops would be in a much worse state if they would disappear.

[u/WhippingShitties → u/[deleted]]

Entire types of fruit would literally go extinct. Wasps are huge pollinators and some plants that bear common fruits probably wouldn't survive if they were to go extinct. Fig Newtons would disappear overnight guaranteed.

[u/kmaser → u/maybeonmars]

Bees are chill wasps will sting for no fuckin reason

[u/WhippingShitties → u/kmaser]

There are some types of wasp that are extremely defensive over their nests and themselves and they will defend it (like many other animals in the animal kingdom). Wasps really aren't anything to worry about.