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There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in the UK, comprising a huge variety of solitary and social species. The majority are parasitoids, which have young that eat insects or spiders alive. But ...

Wasps eat other insects in addition to pollen, while bees are not carnivorous and consume only nectar. So you'll see wasps preying on other insects and spiders, but you'll never see a bee hunting ...

Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, ...