They pollinate some flowers and plants, eat smaller creatures, and provide food to loads of small mammals and birds.
A big part of the ecology web, and really needed with the modern mass use of pesticides.
It isn't that long ago that you used to have to clear your screen of bugs every ten miles in summer, the M55 used to be awful for bugs, now you hardly get any.
Some are social and live in paper nests, some live totally solitary lives, often living in little holes in the ground, waiting to sting the idiot gardener with no gloves on, and some live individual lives in small groups, only using the others for childminding and breeding.
Well over one thousand species in this country alone.
I get stung two or three times a year, about the same frequency as I hit cat turd with the strimmer.
I prefer wasps.
Humans: "We don't like these creatures! We must wipe them out!"
Army Ants: "Hold my leaf..."
During routine excavation work...
Our specialists uncovered an uncompromising, army of evil from hell itself...
An uncountable, invincible, unemotional, ruthless horde...
They sweep over over the land, decimating all who are in their way...
You cannot reason with them, you cannot defeat them, you cannot escape them, you cannot outrun them...
They breed, they swarm, they multiply...
They are ruthless, they are evil, they conquer all, and you will cower before them.
Sent by an all powerful queen, that resides in a nefarious nest in the depths of hell itself!
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