DiscoverScience for the People#626 Our Friend, the Wasp
#626 Our Friend, the Wasp

#626 Our Friend, the Wasp

Update: 2023-05-25
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Is there an insect more universally despised than the wasp? What have they done to incur so much of our ire? No one likes them. Well... almost no one. Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology at University College London and cofounder of the Big Wasp Survey, is on a mission to improve the wasp's PR with her book "Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps". She joins us to talk about the fascinating biology and behaviour of wasps and their societies, and how we can learn to better coexist with the wasp, thinking of it less as pest and more as pest control.

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#626 Our Friend, the Wasp

#626 Our Friend, the Wasp

Rachelle Saunders, Bethany Brookshire, and Carolyn Wilke