WASPS!!!!

[spiff]

Look. I HATE wasps. My question is...what do they actualy do? would the whole biosphere collapse due to the eradication of those yellow/black devils? Seriously, I'd like to know. Thanks.x

[Quizmonster]

Their disappearance would probably not result in the biosphere's collapse, but - if you click http://www.spacefornature.co.uk/default.asp?search
index=traverse&ftr=Features%5CWildlife%5Cxx%20Wasps.xml - you'll find a website that claims they do play a vital part in the system.

[IndieSinger]

I know the feeling. Bees are buggers too, but at least they make honey (and lay glass jars to store it in).

Maybe wasps make marmelade or something.

[Greedyfly]

Wasp Marmalade - what a great concept! The other day I had the idea of breeding pigeons with frogs - then we would have jumping, flying rat b*****ds instead of just flying ones. It'd be soooo much fun watching them.... God Im crazy, arent I?

[woofgang]

would the biosphere collapse if humans were eradicated? honestly, what good do they do ?

[jjf2003]

Well, wasps did invent paper you know (their nests are made from chewed wood pulp). Only they weren't smart enough to take out the patent on it :-)

[boobaaboo]

Wasps? The British summer wouldn't be the same without them. When we finally get a scrawny couple of days of weather nice enough to go for a picnic or a garden pub lunch - what do they do but goad and torment us and dive bomb our food and when, pushed to the limit we lash out, they respond with a nasty sting, and death for 1 in 100 of us.

[IndieSinger]

Haha, sorry, just have to say that your comment boobaaboo left me with a fantastic image. I imagined thousands of people outside a pub, enjoying the sunshine, until a wasps stings someone and then 1 in ever 100 people stood there fall down dead!