WASPS MORE THAN ANNOYING INSECTS
WASPS – MORE THAN ANNOYING STINGERS When most people think of wasps, they visualize annoying insects that can leave you with painful stings. You may be surprised to learn that wasps are remarkable pollinators, in late summer and early autumn. Here’s their story. There are actually four different kinds of wasp: paper wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and solitary wasps. Most likely the wasps you tried to escape from at your picnic on the weekend spent their whole summer collecting caterpillars from your veggie garden. It turns out wasps are not pests, but pest controllers. Without wasps we would need to use way more pesticides to get rid of hungry caterpillars devouring our veggies. Female wasps are the workhorses of the wasp colony. During the summer female wasps have one major job along with many others. The females’ job is to feed their baby larvae siblings who number in the thousands and have not yet pupated. So the female wasps go in search of