What are the point of wasps? There's a point to bees, they pollinate. if we got rid of wasp would it matter?

Question

Oh no, I haven't been stung or hate them - my friend and I were just talking about them: we thought if a bee stings you it's because it's its last hope of defense, but a wasp appears to be sting-happy. Then we suddenly thought that we weren't sure if they did anything specific like pollunate (or kindly make honey)...as we couldn't find an answer on google, so we asked you guys.....

Answer 1

I imagine they are a part of a food web.

Take them out the predator that eats them dies out and what the wasps eat overpopulate. Could make a few species extinct.

Answer 2

like spides they keep the population of insects down .

they kill many insects that seem enoying like catepillers grubs bettles spiders roaches and many more.

they scavenge and clean up watse of other animals and keep our forests clean (somewhat anyways)

its just that as we take away their homes they build more on top of ours. and both of us get freaked out and we end up getting stung

they are good for the world but  they're not compatable with us

Answer 3

Yes, actually, it would matter a great deal.  When you think about wasps, you think about the big ones that sting you, but wasps are actually among the most numerous branches of Order Insecta, and most of them are tiny.  It is only when a tiny wasp gets trapped in a fig flower that a fig forms, and believe it or not, the "tarantula killer" is a wasp.  

If you think the wasp that stung you was bad, the baddest wasp on the planet, actually a hornet, is found only in the remote Himalayas, thankfully.  Called a "yak killer," because one sting can kill a 450-lb. yak, it is aggressive, jet black, 2 inches long and has a stinger 1/4 of an inch long.

Wasps are the answer to many, if not most, of the pests faced by organic farmers, and they would be devastated without wasps to control their pests.  Most wasps are harmless to humans.

Answer 4

Wasps scavenge and tidy. They eat lots of other creepy crawlies. You can't condemn a creature just because it isn't cuddly or useful to you.

Answer 5

actually there very intelligent hunters     ,what you should be asking is wat is the purpose of flies   cos they are the most dangerous animal to humans   spreading all kinds of diseases ,but even they are food to birds and lizards ,   and sometimes my dog lol  i try and stop her but she hates them then ates them

Answer 6

I don't know what else wasps do but in my area they kill web worms which can be a major problem for pecan trees in some years.

Answer 7

There really is no point as such. Just the same way that there is not point in humans.

All organisms are products of darwinian natural selection, and have simply evolved and survived. So they're around because they haven't died out. Same reason we're still here.

There'll come a day when there are no wasps and no humans - almost certainly.

Answer 8

It no doubt has its place in the chain & one day we will eradicate a certain species, and that will have disastrous consequences for us all.

Answer 9

I agree, although we are the most intelligent lifeforms on earth we are the most destructive and non contributary species to the planet ravaging it of resources and killing it, and its inhabitants, on a daily basis.

Answer 10

You can't condemn an entire species to extinction because you cannot see the point of them. And whilst we are on the subject, nobody has quite convinced me of the point of humanity

Answer 11

Sounds like somebody's been stung!