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What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects

By Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL

It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and wasps.

A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects that exist only to make our lives a misery. But with unsustainable wildlife loss across the planet, we need…

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