2006-09-14 02:51:18 · 14 answers · asked by Ammie 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
of the 2500 types of wasps, they all play a very important roll in our world. Wasps are the number 1 exterminator of agricultural pests - pests that eat and degrade what humans eat! Yes they do sting, but overall they are very mild mannered.
Not to mention pollination, which all flying insects help with - but without wasps a small, but even still substantial portion of our crops, nurseries, and orchards would be devastated by pests that we normally consider harmless.
Good Luck!
2006-09-14 02:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a strictly ecological sense, wasps do not have a "purpose": they simply are. They have adapted to eat other insects, they are sometimes eaten by other predators, and sometimes use the nectar from flowers to provide carbohydrates to their larvae. They exist to pass their genes into baby wasps.
We as humans can infer purpose from that, by saying that the wasps exist to control the population of the things they eat, provide food to those higher on the food chain, and to help pollinate flowers. And some go a step further and say that this purpose was designed into them by God.
It's all in the way you look at it.
2006-09-14 03:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by entoaggie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is not any such ingredient as "objective" in biology. There are ecological niches and there are interrelated ecological dependencies yet once you commence making use of words like "objective" you're implying that nature is designed by ability of a few ideally suited entity that has a reason for starting to be wasps and different animals. there is not any reason to assume that. Wasps developed via fact of random mutations. Their ancestors have been in a position to take earnings of a void in some ecology and that gave them a survival area over their opposition. right this moment they stay to tell the story via abundance of the bugs they prey on and that they don't have sufficient bugs that devour them.
2016-10-14 23:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know of no one in the world to date that USES wasps for anything -- as someone pointed out, they are part of the ecosystem.
I would have to ask, what the PURPOSE of HUMANS is....
we just are here.... but unlike the wasps, we are killing everything on the planet including ourselves...
2006-09-14 03:01:37 · answer #4 · answered by robertta g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To make more wasps
2006-09-14 02:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Indonesia, some people eat wasps. Steamed.
Very delicious (no, I haven't eat it), they said.
2006-09-14 03:01:18 · answer #6 · answered by MayangMajou 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasps
2006-09-14 02:59:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elementary my Dear Watson, to sting you!
2006-09-14 03:02:31 · answer #8 · answered by jotray2001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To survive
2006-09-14 03:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To scare my Mum
2006-09-14 02:58:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋