Can someone tell be what is the purpose of wasps?

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Bee's i get, they have a reason for being, they make honey. To me wasps are just a stinging machine for no real reason!?

Answer 1

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i've often wondered the very same question! however i've found that the purpose of a wasp is simply to make me freak out and do a mad little dance waving my arms in the air whilst making strange noises in an effort to make them not sting me! i've found it to be effective! not good for the image tho, i just look like a mad woman and make it worse by blaming the offending wasp which has flown away, leaving me to deal with looks of pity and the worst look of all; stay away from the mad woman look! eradicate them!

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Great answer, although some off the other answer are more scientifically informative and have answered my question, your answer i can relate to! I too do the freak out dance, be proud to freak ha ha!

Answer 2

they are the only creature that eats the insects that cause dutch elms disease, but i still say kill 'em

Answer 3

might as well ask why people? They just are, they have a role in nature as a predator of insects.

Answer 4

Wasps are hairless relatives of the bee (Hymenoptera) and are predators of just about any other insect. So a popular use of wasps is to control other, more destructive insects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp#Charac…

Answer 5

Like all organisms, they are part of a food chain and food web.

They are food for other organisms and as they gather their own food, help to pollenate flowers and plants. Theses are just some of their roles.

Removing them would remove an important step of the food web.

Answer 6

to sting us all an make our lives miserable

Answer 7

Its a bit like mammoths and Elephants, there both a bit useless...like humans...destroying the place...lol

Answer 8

they are on this earth to annoy me, ruin picnics and sting you when you're in the middle of no where and can't get anything to relieve the sting.

apart from that they have no purpose!!

Answer 9

theyre the creature closest to godliness... the wasp is the creature that should be respected, anger it and it will make your next 3 hours hell, leave it be and it will allow you to escape unharmed. Wasps, ants, daddy-long legs and fleas are all underrated and are all seemingly unpurposeful

Answer 10

yes. to make my sister run screaming like a 12 year old into the house. it is so funny. huge red wasps have no other purpose .. er i cant think of another.
~peace~

Answer 11

The "purpose" of every living thing is to make more of those living things.

There is no such thing as "purpose" in any other context.

Answer 12

to sting my daughter, three times in one bloody day! poor thing, we were having a such a good time at the beach until that happened, and no it wasnt one after the other, they were about two hours apart from each other! same wasp? probably the little s**t, now when she sees one she runs as fast as possible, and who can blame her

Answer 13

I hate wasps. When I was four me and my bro (he was two) we sat on a seesaw in our bkyrd and there were two nests and they swarmed us. Now I am so scared of them. They're also ugly.

I ahve no clue what the purpose is. Maybe we'll find out in the future. God has a purpose for everything. Maybe it will lead to a cure for some kind of cancer. Who knows!

Answer 14

in the chain of life in the animal kingdom, i think wasps exist only to keep other inscect populations down and also to food for they're predators such as birds lizards and such.

Answer 15

what is the purpose of humans?

Answer 16

The purpose of wasps is to replicate wasp genes.

Answer 17

Their 'purpose' (as somebody else has already said) is to produce more wasps. Any living organism that can't fulfil that basic goal is doomed. However, since the environment continually changes (both globally and locally), new wasp diseases, parasites and predators come along in order to survive as a species they need to adapt and get better at what they do.

But I doubt they have a purpose in the sense that you might have one. I'd challenge anyone to produce proof that a wasp wakes up and thinks 'what is the meaning of life' or even 'what shall I do today'.

They exist because they are a good solution to a particular ecological niche.

I was convinced of what bold predators they can be when I had one calmly land on a ham sandwich I was holding, grab a lump of the meat and fly off with it.