Stinging wasps are so much more important than you realize – here’s why

[Mike Wehner]

Mother Nature is pretty good about eliminating anything that isn't working correctly. With plants and animals, it's called natural selection, and it ensures that every organism that continues to exist is doing something right. Wasps have been around for a very long time, so despite most of us disliking them intensely, they're obviously filling a need and doing it well. A new study published in Biological Reviews makes that argument and backs it up with a whole bunch of data to prove that wasps are indeed important.

As annoying as they are, wasps are perhaps undervalued, at least according to the research team led by Professor Serian Sumner. Sumner and his colleagues produced an extensive meta-analysis of over 500 research papers, including data on some 33,000 species of wasp, and it suggests that we'd all be in a very tough spot if wasps suddenly disappeared from the planet.

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