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Name:  Riley
Status:  student
Age:  5
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Date: 2000-2001
Question:
What do red paper wasps eat?

Replies:
Most adult paper wasps are predators and scavengers, that is they will catch and eat other insects or eat already dead things. Many kill an insect or spider to put in the bottom of a tube and lay an egg on the victim, and that is what the larvae eat. I am not sure about red paper wasps specifically, though.

J. Elliott

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