Plants

Other than insects and animals, wasps are at risk from chemicals, carnivorous plants, and other things. Wasps are crucial to the ecology as pollinators, predators, and decomposers. Thus, a wasp poses no danger.

You might be familiar with carnivorous plants. The sundews and pitcher plants are arguably the most well-known of these. Different kinds of carnivorous plants use various tactics to catch and eat their insect prey.

Only Asian hornets, not other wasps or bees, are selectively eaten by one species of pitcher plant, Sarracenia. The native bee population in France is now threatened by the invasive Asian hornet. Asian hornets are drawn to the nectar and pheromones of this particular pitcher plant. The hornets land on the pitcher-shaped leaves' outside rim and then crawl inward until they stumble and fall far within the leaf, where they are digested.