More like accidental pollinators that could easily be replaced by doing a better job protecting bees.
Should clarify, though: I specifically mean (anti)social wasps, the ones who build hives and go around harassing everyone. Solitary wasps are pretty chill afaik so they can stay.
What do you mean accidental? Do you think bees are purposely going and pollinating plants? The pollination happens as a side effect of bees gathering nectar, same as wasps
And now they’ve pollinated my shoe with their guts.
Seriously though, you’re right, but when a bee comes into my home I catch and release, when a wasp invades it’s search and destroy. While screaming terrified of course
I generally grab a cup or bowl and cover it if it’s a hornet, but most wasps won’t even sting me if I’m gentle while taking them outside, the vast majority of wasps are quite docile unless you bother their nests
Sounds like you’ve never seen a yellowjacket. Those things are super nasty by default, don’t even have to be anywhere near their nests.
Just cup your hand and smack it out of the air, it’ll be stunned for a bit and you can grab a wing a huck it somewhere else. You get to slap a wasp and you’re not a random bug murderer.
wasps as in actual stinging wasps (like yellowjackets and hornets) or just their close relatives that are (mostly) harmless to humans?
