Wasps are beautiful creatures and we could learn a lot from their industriousness and social organisation. Next time you see one close up, don't squash it but have a good close look (or take a pic of it even). Wasps rarely sting and they certainly never sting without good reason. Early in the season they are excellent predators. Later on, the workers become somewhat redundant, having done all their domestic work, and they then dedicate themselves to finding sweet stuff to eat (which is why they adore rubbish bins at picnic sites). Even later, they love to get a bit pissed on rotting windfall apples. Same as me really, except that they cut out the brewery middle-man. Like everybody else, I don't appreciate a wasps' nest in my front porch, but apart from that wasps deserve to be left alone and admired.