I picked up a wasp with my fingers and

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12. Wasps are beneficial, they are pollinators, they control garden "pests," they almost never...

... sting humans because the wasps like the one you touched is most likely a female and the important
use in "the wasp world" of its stinger is not to sting other critters (except if you were squeezing it in your
hands or were trying to eat a live one and then they would sting you) but to paralyze other bugs, caterpillars,
and or spiders at which they deposit the paralyzed critter into its nest which already has a fertilized egg
in it as a food source for its next generation. Using up its stinger on you to that wasp would be a waste.




Is this the vespid in question?