Wonderful Facts about Wasps
May 12, 2022
❏ Wasps come in any colour imaginable including , blue, green, red and, of course, yellow , orange,and black.
❏ Only female wasps have stingers.
❏ The stingers of wasps are actually a modified egg-laying organ.
❏ Social wasps use their stingers as a defence, while solitary wasps use their stingers and venom for hunting.
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❏ Did you know, Wasps feed their young meat.
❏ Paperwasps creat their own paper by chewing and spitting out barks for nest building.
❏ Potter Wasp make clay to buil their mud nest.
❏ Social wasps in the UK are estimated to capture about 14 million kilograms of insect prey annually.
❏ European Hornets strip the bark from trees, causing damage to trees and shrubs.
❏ A Brazilian wasp Polybia paulista produces a toxin in its venom that eliminates cancer cells.
❏ Did you know there is a family of wasp known as Pompilidae , they hunt spiders to lay eggs.
❏ There 5000 species of Spiders hunting wasp in 6 subfamilies.
❏ The male tarantula hawk wasp does not hunt.
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❏ The female tarantula hawk wasp stings a tarantula paralyzes and drags to a specially prepared burrow and lay only a single egg in it.
❏ The sting Tarantula hawk wasp ranked second most painful among insects.
❏ Did you know , Pepsis_grossa is the state insect of New Mexico.
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References
Wasp 21 facts you won't believe- https://kidadl.com/animal-facts/wasp-facts
