by Helen
Briggs BBC News
20 May
2019
Scientists
have put together a map of the UK's wasp population, showing the distribution
of key species.
Data
recorded by volunteers gives an insight into where wasps are living in the
nation's grasslands, woodlands and towns.
The
researchers say wasps are a much maligned insect, which deserve more attention.
Rather
than being "bothersome and pointless", they are in fact beneficial
insects, keeping other pests in check.
Dr
Seirian Sumner of University College London said wasps are nature's pest
controllers and a world without wasps would mean that we would have to use a
lot more pesticides to control the other insects that we dislike and find
annoying.
"They're
the maligned insect of the insect world - they're viewed as the gangsters,
" she told the BBC. "Whereas actually we should be viewing them as a
beneficial insect - they're doing us a favour, and we're just completely
overlooking that favour."
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