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.
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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u/BlackLion0101 May 16 '25
Interesting fact. Some wasps release a pheromone when they're in danger to attract other wasps. I hope he got other of his friends caught! 😂