wasps

     

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Trivia about wasps

  • A French scientist suggested using wood as a paper source after watching these insects make it
  • Yellow jackets are a social type of this stinging insect
  • Dismissive insectoid name for an American ethnic group of British non-Catholic ancestry
  • Ants are descended from these narrow-waisted stinging insects
  • Some solitary ones make their nests out of mud; social ones, usually from paper
  • The big difference between bees & these close relatives is that bees feed their young honey, not other insects