the reason we cook food is it’s like doing some of the digestion for us, which means our bodies don’t have to work so hard to digest it, which means we get net more nutrients and energy from the food.
the reason it tastes good to us is our noses and tongues can kind of detect how easy it is to extract nutrients and energy from stuff. that’s what “tastes good” really is.
Wasps can also smell how easy it would be to digest that food and how beneficial it would be. So they want.
Baby wasps make really sweet barf. Adult wasps live on that in the spring and early summer, along with flower nectar and honeydew from aphids. Once all the baby wasps are grown and the flowers they like are gone, the colony starts starving to death.
You know where wasps can get sweet barf in mid/late summer and early fall before they all die?
Your outside food – beautifully caramelized and packed with sweeteners.
Other commenters have mentioned that cooking food makes it more palatable to almost any animal, so I won’t go into that.
However, there is another factor. Humans make smelly food, and the way we make it makes it much, much smellier.
Might as well make a billboard designed for animals with a lighted flashing arrow saying, “Good food here!”
source: raise wasps for organic pest control
Adult bees and wasps both need nectar (**carbohydrates**) to fuel their bodies.
Baby bees and wasps need **proteins** to build their bodies until maturity. Bees use pollen, wasps use the corpses of our enemies (*pests that eat our crops*)
Bees have a tongue, wasps do not, so bees can drink from almost any flower, **wasps can only drink from a tiny portion (less than 10%!!!). In our urban society, we choose grass, or flowers that wasps can not use**. So the wasps are starving to death.
So wasps will come to our BBQs because they are so desperate for energy that they will try to get a little food by stealing it from giants. Obviously the wasps know this is a risk, but desperate times cause for desperate measures.
People think wasps are assholes, but really they are just starving to death while they are protecting our human food crops and gardens. I think it is sad.
solution, plant more tiny flowering plants that can support wasps and other pollinators (dill, carrot, goldenrod). Lawns are directly connected to wasp ‘aggression’ (starvation)
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