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

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

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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!”