How aggressive is a paper wasp in contrast to ther wasps?
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The paper wasp is about medium in levels of aggressive when compared to aggressive species like bald-faced hornets, or giant Japanese wasps, and with low aggression species like honeybees or bumblebees.\n\nHowever, the vast majority of the wasp Order (Hymenoptera) go completely unnoticed by humans because they are very tiny, or do not bother humans at all.  Many of them are parasitic on other species of insects, using their stinger to lay their eggs inside caterpillars or other pests, and are actually quite beneficial to man.  These wasps generally go unrecognized because they are tiny.  In some cases, smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.  Compared to these wasps, paper wasps are insanely aggressive towards humans.
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BIG and UGLIES...some people call them flying cockroaches...water bugs or tree roaches.   Whatever you want to call them they attack before they run away from you, they are BIG and UGLY and I don't want to get anywhere near them...!!!!!
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There are red carpenter ants and black carpenter ants that are the same species but highly rascist ants. Unless you mean the Red Imported Fire Ants of the southern US. Those indeed will sting you since they are not red carpenter ants.
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The nest is made from chewed wood fibres, mixed with saliva. It has open cells and a petiole attaching the nest to the substrate. The wasps produce a chemical which repels ants and secrete it around the base of this petiole in order to avoid ant predation.\n\nA solitary female queen starts the nest, building 20-30 cells before initial egg-laying. This phase begins in spring, depending on climatic conditions. She fashions a petiole and produce a single cell at the end of it. Six further cells are then added around this to produce the characteristic hexagonal shape of the nest cells. The spherical nest is built up from layers of cells.\n\nOnce the larvae have hatched as workers, they take up most of the colony’s foraging, brood care and nest maintenance. A finished nest may contain 5,000–10,000 individuals.
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clipped from www.wisegeek.com\n\nFor sheer length you can't beat a female Giant Walking Stick (Phobaeticus serratipes). Found in Malaysia and Singapore, looking like an assemblage of twigs, it is perfectly camouflaged among the branches where it lives. The longest specimen on record was an amazing 21.8" (55.5cm). Some people even keep these huge insects as pets.\n\nThe Giant Walking Stick may be long, but it doesn't have much mass. For that you have to turn to the giant scarab beetles. Among them, entomologists have settled on 5 contenders:\n\nThe South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus giganteus) of French Guiana makes perhaps the most impressive showing with a body length over 6.5" (16.7cms).\n\nA shorter but far thicker competitor is the Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) of South America. Males can grow to 5.3" (13.5cms) long by 1.6" (4cms) thick. \n\nThe Elephant Beetle (Megasoma elephas) found in Mexico and Venezuela has a shorter body than the Aceton, but a longer snout, making its total recorded length 5.4" (13.7cms).\n\nBringing up the rear are two species of Goliathus: regius and goliatus, both measuring in at 4.3" (11cms).\n\nIn 1874 the Rev. J. G. Wood published Insects Abroad, in which he claimed to have in his possession a 9" (22.8cm) South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus). A specimen this large has never been documented since, and no one is quite sure what method he used to measure the bug. Therefore the accepted recorded length remains at 6.5" (16.7cms), which still leads the top five contenders.\n\nAlthough the Giant Walking Stick and scarab beetles win for length and mass, for sheer weight you'll have to turn to the giant wetas (Deinacrida heteracantha) of New Zealand. A pregnant female can top the scales at over 2 ounces (71gms)! \n\nThere are well over 1 million insect species known, with an estimated 10 million still undocumented. However, the title of world's biggest insect remains a matter of what constitutes "biggest" to you: length, mass or weight!
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I was going to suggest the same site that Haysoos posted. So I'll just second his advice :-)\nHere are other useful sites for insect identification:\nhttp://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/animal-info/insects/insect_identification.htm\nhttp://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugid.html\n\nHere's more information on predatory wasps:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps/StingingWasps.htm\n\nAnd many spider-eating wasps belong to family Pompilidae. Here's some info and photos, just in case the one you saw is one of these:\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/3919
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anythin rabid would lose i'd think. unless it was fightin like a worm or somethin. (0_o)
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An Asp is a type of African viper. It's a snake.  Perhaps a Wasp is what you meant? That's a flying insect, along the lines of a bee.
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The queen makes it out of her spit usually. It looks really ugly and drab. We get wasp nests all the time under our eaves. Go to a hardware store and pickup wasp and hornet spray. The less expensive kind works just as well at the pricier version (I've done a side by side comparison).\nWear goggles if the eaves are really high up so the spray doesn't get in your eyes, otherwise it's not necessary.\nWait till early morning somewhere between 2:30 am -6:00 am when it's very dark outside to spray. (That's when they sleep.) Have a pole/broomstick handle and plastic bag handy. Aim a steady stream at the nest until no more wasps fall out of the nest usually 3 min depending on the size of the nest. Golf ball sized nests are small in my book.\n\nJust spray until no more wasps fall out of the nest. Wait a few minutes and knock down the nest. The stem is slightly sticky so it takes some force. Wrap it up in a bag and throw away.
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The Tasmanian Devil (sarcophilus harrisii), a marsupial would for sure win the fight as it is an extremely aggresive animal and has very sharp teeth too. The devil will attack while a wolverine and badger would only defend themselves. The badger would lose the fight though.
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http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/2circle/\n\nit tells you how
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If you are referring to insects, some wasps are pollinators, and some are predators or act like parasites for other insects.  Because wasps frequently prey on other insects, they are useful in agriculture where insect control is needed.
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All wasps can sting. It just depends how much they're annoyed.
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In India we have reincarnation. Ex-policemen and army types usually come back as flies and wasps and they don't let their size affect them. I'd stick to swatting western flies which are not reincarnated police.
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Does the parasitic wasp also prey on other species that we wouldn't want it to?  And, if it does, will it multiply unchecked?
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Aggressive would be my first choice, because it include the same suffix (-ssive)\n\nAssertive, attacking are other possibilities.
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what about 34 feet?,that off beat wasp,I know hey can still sting you even playing dead ,first hand expreince.