Bee's i get, they have a reason for being, they make honey. To me wasps are just a stinging machine for no real reason!?
2006-11-12 07:01:24 · 17 answers · asked by fr3aky_lb 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
i've often wondered the very same question! however i've found that the purpose of a wasp is simply to make me freak out and do a mad little dance waving my arms in the air whilst making strange noises in an effort to make them not sting me! i've found it to be effective! not good for the image tho, i just look like a mad woman and make it worse by blaming the offending wasp which has flown away, leaving me to deal with looks of pity and the worst look of all; stay away from the mad woman look! eradicate them!
2006-11-12 10:47:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their 'purpose' (as somebody else has already said) is to produce more wasps. Any living organism that can't fulfil that basic goal is doomed. However, since the environment continually changes (both globally and locally), new wasp diseases, parasites and predators come along in order to survive as a species they need to adapt and get better at what they do.
But I doubt they have a purpose in the sense that you might have one. I'd challenge anyone to produce proof that a wasp wakes up and thinks 'what is the meaning of life' or even 'what shall I do today'.
They exist because they are a good solution to a particular ecological niche.
I was convinced of what bold predators they can be when I had one calmly land on a ham sandwich I was holding, grab a lump of the meat and fly off with it.
2006-11-12 22:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wasps are hairless relatives of the bee (Hymenoptera) and are predators of just about any other insect. So a popular use of wasps is to control other, more destructive insects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp#Characteristics
2006-11-12 07:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to sting my daughter, three times in one bloody day! poor thing, we were having a such a good time at the beach until that happened, and no it wasnt one after the other, they were about two hours apart from each other! same wasp? probably the little s**t, now when she sees one she runs as fast as possible, and who can blame her
2006-11-12 07:18:05 · answer #4 · answered by button moon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of wasps is to replicate wasp genes.
2006-11-12 10:33:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate wasps. When I was four me and my bro (he was two) we sat on a seesaw in our bkyrd and there were two nests and they swarmed us. Now I am so scared of them. They're also ugly.
I ahve no clue what the purpose is. Maybe we'll find out in the future. God has a purpose for everything. Maybe it will lead to a cure for some kind of cancer. Who knows!
2006-11-12 09:12:09 · answer #6 · answered by bria. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes. to make my sister run screaming like a 12 year old into the house. it is so funny. huge red wasps have no other purpose .. er i cant think of another.
~peace~
2006-11-12 07:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by East Texan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theyre the creature closest to godliness... the wasp is the creature that should be respected, anger it and it will make your next 3 hours hell, leave it be and it will allow you to escape unharmed. Wasps, ants, daddy-long legs and fleas are all underrated and are all seemingly unpurposeful
2006-11-12 07:10:17 · answer #8 · answered by crash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the chain of life in the animal kingdom, i think wasps exist only to keep other inscect populations down and also to food for they're predators such as birds lizards and such.
2006-11-12 09:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by slightly disturbed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like all organisms, they are part of a food chain and food web.
They are food for other organisms and as they gather their own food, help to pollenate flowers and plants. Theses are just some of their roles.
Removing them would remove an important step of the food web.
2006-11-12 07:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by Silas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋