When wasps mate, do they sting eachother? If not how do they avoid it?

Answer 1

Wasps mate immediately upon emerging. Fertilized eggs produce female progeny, unfertilized eggs produce male progeny.
Female wasps live 7 to 10 days. Females deposit eggs in hosts (oothecae) early in life (3 to 5 days of adult life).

Females attack 1 to 2 (occasionally 3) hosts in their lifetime.

Developmental time: 32 to 40 days (egg to adult). Dependent on temperature and number of individuals developing in host.

Average number of female progeny per host: Dependent on host - American 45 to 55, Oriental- 60 to 70.

Sex ratio: 80% females.

Some species of Yellowjackets are perhaps among the most hated animals in your everyday garden. Especially in fall, when the colony falls apart, they can be a real nuisance. The thing is that they can afford to be. Their sting has no barbed hooks like the sting of many the bees. If a bee stings, the sting remains in the skin and the bee dies. So a bee can sting you only once, and that's why it is reluctant to do so. Wasps don't care: they can sting you as many times as they want with no harm to themselves. There are many species of Yellowjackets and only a very few will actually sting readily. Most will try to escape from any threats rather than to sting the attacker. The Common Wasp (also known as English Wasp) is a feared stinger that will bother us even when we are sitting peacefully.

Answer 2

Male wasps, drones, do not live long after mating with a queen, but they are not stung during the mating. I think the sperm cells are inserted into the queen on a part of her anatomy that is not actually that close to the stinger, probably in the abdomen instead. She stores the sperm cells inside her body, so only a single mating is required for a queen to populate an entire colony.

Of course, they might just follow the porcupine model. You know: How do porcupines mate? Very carefully.

Answer 3

For one when a wasp stings something it is a voluntary action that they control...not quite like this thing on their **** that stings anything it touches.

For two...reproduction in insects is alot different than for humans...many animals don't even make physical contact during the fertilization process. Fish for example...the femail lays the unfertilized eggs...and the male "sprays" sperm on to the eggs. Wasps could follow a similar process...but i don't know for sure...

Answer 4

Male wasps do not have stings, they have genital capsules. The female wasp sting is only extended when she wants to use it. Normally it is inside her abdomen, so no danger to a male.

Answer 5

I know scorpions are immune to the venom of their own sting and the sting of another scorpion of the same exact species (but not of another species of scorpion). So maybe with wasps it is something similar.

Answer 6

What would YOU rather be or a wasp?

Answer 7

They put on sting-guards.

Answer 8

their sting is retractable like a cat claws.

Answer 9

moving out of there way

Answer 10

with great difficulty.