Chrysura refulgens - cuckoo wasp

By Alvesgaspar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

I've asked it, you've asked it, we all have! What is the point of wasps? Well this time Nick and Liam try to answer it with help from Dr. Seirian Sumner and discover that wasps are more than just pests.

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

Liam's blog on 'what is the point of wasps?'

Dr. Seirian Sumner

Wasps eat hundreds of kilos of insects

The big wasp survey

How to make a trap

Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS)

Seirian's work on sociality

Lotka-Volterra

Wasps out-compete New Zealand Birds

Wasps as pollinators - Chiloglotis orchid

Plants attracting wasps

Yeast overwintering in wasps

Ancient Chinese inspiration for paper