Wasps are being wiped out as quickly as bees - and their disappearance will be just as disastrous, according to new research.
But the plight of wasps is going under the radar compared to that of their close cousins - because of their unpopularity.
Nature's unloved insects are best known for ruining picnics - and leaving a painful sting when we try to swat them away.
They both pollinate our flowers and crops - but wasps also destroy pests and insects that carry human diseases.
An insect 'armageddon' is under way due to pollution, habitat changes, overuse of pesticides and global warming. And they are vital to the make up of the countryside.
Doubt it. Do you how many wasps AND bees I have around my backyard? too many. Plus the wasps are always building their mud nests on my dodge truck, but I don't bother them as long as they don't bother me.
Aaron James
This year has been INSANE with wasps.
I think most people feel the same way, which makes this whole "wasps are dying" thing smell more and more like bullshit. Not to mention
FUCK WASPS
Matthew Ward
Hornets are parasites, they need to die. Natural bees are fine, but not invasive like mellifera.
Joseph Barnes
Hue. I can't kill the fuckers fast enough to lovingly greet that day.
Daniel Ramirez
We wouldn't have figs without hornets, user.
Eli Hughes
Fuck wasps. Good riddance.
Jordan Hernandez
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Noah Wright
Figs are the original fruit of sin? I thought they were Jesus's favorite fruit and he got so mad at a fig tree for not having any figs to give him that he told it to die and it did.
Julian Richardson
They used fig leaves to cover their bodies for a reason.
Aaron Russell
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Camden Morgan
wasps are flying ants that sting. they wipe out bee populations and many other beneficial insects that are beneficial to plants.
FUCK WASPS. white anglo saxons are ok tho. though im not happy about what they did to the rest of the white race… but it seems theyre paying for that now.
Aiden Davis
"bees disappearing" is a myth. I only hope wasps go extinct.
Brandon Harris
Yellow jackets dummy
Can'thave one with out the other
I've only been stung once by a bee, about 100 times by yellow jackets One fucker bumped into my forehead and stung me there
Almost swallowed one when it went into my drink
eating outside,the more you swat at them, the more they get riled
They eat parasites?
They fertilize?
Sebastian Powell
I used to hate wasps, but they serve a necessary function, they are like spiders, but without the webs.
Lincoln Ortiz
never been attacked by a spider
Nathan Wood
"Do wasps pollinate crops? Wasps are generally not considered to be important plant pollinators, but there are important exceptions, such as fig wasp pollination of figs (cultivated figs in many regions and native wild figs in Western Asia), and scoliid wasp pollination of some Australian orchids" So no, not really. And they fuck up beehives, killing all who get in their way. Wasps look stylish, but they're the rapefugees if the insect world.
Dominic Nelson
Survival of the fittest, don't fly near humans it's not hard
Angel Perry
Is this all certain types of wasps?
Xavier Torres
We are literally performing selective breeding on insects. They better get the genes of STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM TWOLEGGED CREATURES real fucking soon.
Written by a cuck faggot who does not go for a kill when a wasp is in sights.
Colton Bell
I think we should be tolerant to wasps. After all, they're only dying out because we've oppressed them for thousands of years, fellow white man.
ITT: Brainlets fail to comprehend why a sizable part of the local food chain disappearing might be a bad thing.
Once you're up to your neck in chagas beetles and ticks with lyme disease maybe you'll realize there was more to it than "annoying things should be eliminated".
The fruit of the original sin was never specified; figs and apples were largely used as a stand-in when people made art about it.
Ryan Nelson
But that's good, one less species that humans can torture to death.
