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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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.