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Although wasps feed on insects, and are sometimes purposely introduced by farmers to protect crops as a natural form of pest control, they are also prey for certain bugs. These include the praying mantis, robber flies, dragonflies, centipedes, hover flies, beetles and moths. Large wasps will even prey on smaller ones. For example, paper wasps will often kill young wasps. Although they are actually arachnids and not insects, spiders will also capture wasps and eat them.
When most people think about wasps, they think about being stung. Indeed, wasps do sting, and wasp stings hurt! Just ask entomologist Justin Schmidt, who devised a scale to compare the pain inflicted by various stinging insects.To make matters worse, some wasps can be downright nuisances.he term wasp is used to describe thousands of species within the order Hymenoptera. These include: the parasitic wasps, like ichneumonids and braconids; hunting wasps, like mud daubers, digger wasps, and spiders wasps; and pollinators like the fig wasps.