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The Last Word: Animals that eat wasps

By Lucy Dodwell

19 May 2009

Back in 2005, The Last Word asked whether anything eats wasps.

Indeed, this very question gave rise to our bestselling book

Thanks to our readers, we now know that many species do – including other wasps (such as social paper wasps), robber flies, beetles and moths. But it’s not just invertebrates; numerous species of birds, skunks, bears, badgers, bats, weasels, rats and even humans do, too.

We now have an archive of photographs of wasps in the process of being eaten – all sent in by our readers.

See the photographic evidence

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