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Much-Hated Wasps Are Actually Quite Useful for Humanity After All
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Much-Hated Wasps Are Actually Quite Useful for Humanity After All

It's important to understand what makes these insects so useful to our ecosystems.

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Back in May of 2019, we reported on a study that indicated that wasps were capable of reasoning and logic. Now, according to a new study published on Biological Reviews, it turns out that these pesky insects are also quite useful to humanity.

“When I tell strangers I study wasps they go ‘oh, what’s the point of wasps?’,” Prof Seirian Sumner at University College London told The Guardian. “Why don’t you study bees instead? They’re much more useful.”

Summer's previous research from 2018 showed that in general people hated wasps.

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"It's clear we have a very different emotional connection to wasps than to bees — we have lived in harmony with bees for a very long time, domesticating some species, but human-wasp interactions are often unpleasant as they ruin picnics and nest in our homes," explained Sumner at the time.

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