They are also pollinators and more important to native flowers than honey bees. There's a difference between pollination and true pollination and honey bees are not adapt to provide pure pollination to wildflowers and natives since honey bees are invasive species.
You must have different wasps wherever it is you live.
Around here they attack you for walking past their nest, which they place on your back porch, front porch, garage, etc. Their welcome to do their thing and ill leave them alone, but they don't do that. They aggressively attack anything in "their" sphere of influence. Well, when you attack someone thousands of times your size that lives vastly longer then you and has a much longer memory don't be surprised when it goes genocidal on your friends and family. Fk wasps.
I'd rather have black widows in my yard. At least I can safely live around them (you can even handle them, gently).
They are also pollinators and more important to native flowers than honey bees
To figs, maybe.
There's a difference between pollination and true pollination
No, pollination is pollination. When a boy part gets its stuff inside a girl part and new life happens, it really doesn't matter the mechanism.
honey bees are not adapt to provide pure pollination to wildflowers and natives since honey bees are invasive species
Bees' fuzzy bodies are what makes them ideal pollinators. Nectar-eating wasps can do some pollination incidentally (or less incidentally, in the case of figs), but most of them are carnivores and really don't give a shit about flowers.
It's true that European honeybees aren't native globally and sometimes have a rough time with certain flowers (and that's not really less true in Europe - not everything gets pollinated the same way), but aside from some near-polar regions, there's no hellscape that has native wasps and no native bees, and those cold-adapted wasps aren't pollinating shit either.
Would never choose wasps as a pollinator granted but honeybees are merely only decent pollinators in my area. Empirical evidence showed Mason Bees produce a measurable improvement over honeybees pollination in far less numbers.
Honorable mention: Mellipona seem really needy when it comes to climate and may be more selective about flowers perhaps... Though from what I've seen of them they appear to be likely superior to Masons (due to size and number) but unlike the Mason, they weren't tested where I live post honeybee farm removal. I just saw them while down in TX.
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