Yup, while they don't collect pollen, they do visit flowers to find nectar for themselves. They inadvertently transfer pollen from plant to plant.
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
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but have you tried to find out if we really can't live without them? because I would definitely support the anti-wasp movement
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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.
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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.)
Check out the book (or audiobook) Endless Forms by Seirian Sumner! It's a fascinating exploration of the different kinds of wasps and their role in their environments. For example, some figs can only be polite (typo: pollinated) but a certain species of wasp and some wasps use antibacterial compounds to coat their nests.
That depends. How indepth is it? Are there pictures? I ask because I generally don't like bugs. They give me the heebie-jeeies. Especially big insects or swarms of insects. Which is a shame because they are fascinating creatures regardless.
I honestly have no idea if there are pictures because I listened to it, but it does have a pretty accessible breakdown of their anatomy, physiology, and evolutionary biology. Like David Attenborough, but with more words instead of video, and more of the author's story.
Ooh, I forgot about audiobooks! I might see if that's in my library's collection!
Thanks!
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Navy construction personnel are called Seabees. They do other things and might actually operate firearms.
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I figured 'em out. Seems that, despite their microscopic excuse for a brain, they have excellent pattern matching abilities. That's important, because they'll remember your face if you fuck with them.
tl;dr Ignore them. And by ignore, I mean completely ignore. No swatting, staring, etc.
My pet pig has no idea he's "supposed" to be afraid of wasps, they're not on his radar. And they don't hassle him. I watched a nest grow on my porch, right over the door, didn't bother me a bit.
(And no, that doesn't go for every species on planet Earth. Some are wildly aggressive, but I find the evil fuckers to mainly be hornets.)
Meanwhile, mosquitoes... pollinating, cleaning waterways as nymphs, females just needing the slightest amount of blood to lay a couple hundred eggs. Forgotten, maligned, made the focus of actual efforts to purposefully cause species extinction. ._.
Mosquitoes don't directly cause death, though.
They are susceptible to diseases. They pass those diseases on. Those diseases cause death.
Bees cause more direct deaths due to anaphylactic shock from allergies to apitoxin.
Mosquitoes just catch all the blame.
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Not all mosquitoes bite humans. So, you could eradicate the biting variety, and a non-biting variety would step in to fill that ecological niche. I don't see a downside.