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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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.