eli5 Why are wasps so interested in human food and so insistant to get into it, when we eat outside?
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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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