Be very careful in destroying wasps. Some are very, very good for us (destroy caterpillars), others are really rotten (destroy spiders). Most social wasps are very defensive and easily annoyed. Some people are so sensitive to the poison that a single sting can knock them down and cause real pain or even heart attacks. It is politically incorrect to kill social wasps because they are all socialists.
If wasps start building on your house have an exterminator in, or, even better, move. I admit those high-pressure water hoses are immense fun. Solitary wasps, although often feeding on spiders, are wonderful to observe. A little set in their ways, highly programmed, solitary, not individualistic. The stories I could tell. I could never kill one, but like Fabre, whom I read religiously, observed one species hunt yellow crab spiders who hung out on the little daisies many times. |
