Weird Wasp Facts Since It Is The Summer: Part One

• Wasps are here, so enjoy these wasp facts to learn more about them.

Did you know the wasp facts like not all of them are yellow and black and not all of them sting? Here are a bunch more things you may not know about wasps.

• Not all wasps can sting. 
• Wasps help farmers by eating insect pests that harm their crops.
• They help flowers to make seeds and grow.
• Wasps have two sets of see-through wings. 
• They are insects, just like beetles, butterflies and ants. 
• Adult insects are the only bugs with six legs. 
• The tarantula hawk wasp is the largest stinging insect in the world.
• Wasps are members of the Hymenoptera order. This name means “transparent wings.”
• Bees and ants are closely related to wasps and belong to the same family. 
• There are 100,000 different kinds of wasps. This is the wildest of all the wasp facts. Who knew?
• Not all wasps are yellow and black. Some are red, black, shiny blue and green. 
• Some wasps are smaller than the size of a period in a sentence, while others like the tarantula hawk wasp can grow up to two and a half inches long. 
• Wasps are found around the world, from hot and dry deserts to lush tropical rain forests. Some also live in meadows and others prefer woodlands or cool forests.
• Some species of wasps are called social wasps and they live in large, well-organized societies. 
• Wasps have a hard, protective body on the outside and soft parts on the inside. 
• Like all living things, wasps need oxygen to breathe. They don’t have lungs but they do have tiny openings in their bodies that allow air to pass through and inside.
• Wasps go through four different stages while growing up and don’t look anything like their parents when they’re young. This is common for lots of species and interesting as one of the wasp facts.
• The growth process of a wasp is called metamorphosis which means changing shape.
• Because of the size difference between wasps and humans, their world is mostly made up of smells and tastes.
• Wasps main sensing tools are their antennae or feelers on their heads.
• Wasps head and body are covered with little hairs that pick up vibrations made from sounds and can tell a wasp how hot or cold it is.
• On top of a wasps head, it has three tiny eyes, called simple eyes and they’re arranged in a triangle. These eyes cannot focus but can see light and dark.
• The wasp has two eyes called compound eyes made out of many lenses.
• The wasps compound eye covers most of its head, allowing it to see front, above and behind, all at the same time. 
• Wasps can sense the smallest of movements and if they sense danger, they can quickly fly away.
• Only female wasps can sting. Did you know about this as one of the wasp facts?
• In social wasps species a few males called drones live inside the nest. 
• Female solitary wasps can lay eggs without mating. 
• Other insects such as hoverflies cannot sting but look just like wasps. 
• Most wasps live solitary lives but some such as common wasps and hornets live in large groups known as colonies. 

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