Sort of. If wasps feel threatened they sting. The sting releases pheromones into the air, a chemical signal to other wasps that it is being attacked. If other wasps are in the area, or if you are near the nest, they may also attack you.
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Wasps do not collect other dead wasps. However, if a wasp is injured, it will emit a special pheromone that will warn other wasps that there is danger nearby. Sometimes other wasps will come to see what that danger might be.
Wasps are a group of predatory, flying and stinging insects, while the hornet is the largest insect among the wasps.
Maybe an ounce or more. I'm too scared to figure out, I have a phobia of wasps.
Wasps do not have "stringers".
Wasps eat when they are hungary.
Wasps breath through their skin.
a wasp nest
Wasps are arthropods.
Yes - there are many types of wasps in California including: German yellowjacket, western yellowjacket, California yellowjacket, paper wasp, mud dauber, fig wasp, Western sand wasp, square headed wasp, bee wolf, Pacific burrowing wasp, gall wasp, soldier wasp, club horned wasp, burrowing wasp, blue mud wasp, cutworm wasp, thread-waisted wasp, mason wasp, potter wasp, and pollen wasp. Obviously this is not a complete list - just scratching the surface really - but it does demonstrate that California has plenty of wasps.
All spiders prey on flying insects including all species wasp. Some species of wasps such as the tarantula hawk wasp specialize in hunting and killing crawling spiders. However a wasp is of no consequence to any large orb weaving spider such as the Yellow Garden Spider. Spiders that trap by web can take a wasp as easy as a cat takes a mouse.