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Wasps are pollinators?
No, the idea is that bees are useful because pollinators, and honey.
However, wasps may not be the friendliest creatures around, but they are certainly useful too - like cleaning up corpses, leftovers, and last but not least they eat insects that we think of as plagues
can’t live with em, can’t live without em 😔
but have you tried to find out if we really can't live without them? because I would definitely support the anti-wasp movement
As they are insect hunters, yes their absence would fuck up our already damaged ecosystem. I would guess it would lead to a different insect getting out of control and causing tons of problems - like a non native leaf miner who then proceeds to multiply like crazy and obliterate all leaves off trees kind of deal.
Anti-mosquitoes first please. I have yet to hear a single good point in defense of mosquitoes (unless they just went down the memory hole.)