What If We Killed All the Wasps?

Unlike their friendly, flower-pollinating cousin, the bee, wasps are best known for stinging people, ruining picnics, and generally being jerks... so should we just totally get rid of them? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5097029/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28108242 https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef634 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03014223.1991.10757963 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150522-the-wasps-that-rule-the-world https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25290653 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24424343 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4892453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26079670 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160429-a-tale-of-loyalty-and-betrayal-starring-figs-and-wasps https://cmr.asm.org/content/28/3/603#sec-71 https://ipmworld.umn.edu/landis http://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6127/1608.full http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170116-the-tree-that-shaped-human-history https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a182/4a6f574b7c5fc65082563380dee695c22b7f.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25305549 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001651/