"A few years ago, when we picked up a radio message from space, we assumed that it might have been a message from another species in space. We wouldn't dare answer in case it wasn't actually for us. But here is another idea. What if it was for wasps? After the signal was recieved, there was a significant increase in wasps out and about. There is plenty of evidence to show that wasps are not of this earth. Unlike any animal, they serve no purpose. They're not in the food chain, they can't make honey and they're not fluffy. Nature has a habit of extinguishing its more useless experiments, such as the dinosaur when it became too big and the dodo when it lost its wings. Yet the wasp soldiers on. Plus, a wasp can smell a bowl of sugar from five miles away. How? Sugar does not smell. And they can organise flight paths from their nests to known sources of food. And another thing, wasps are vindictive. This means that while every other creature will attack when it's hungry or threatened, a wasp will attack if you've annoyed it in some way. A wasp can lay its eggs inside a caterpillar, knowing that when they hatch the baby wasps will eat the creature from the inside out. Normally, the host's immune system would destroy the eggs before they hatch, but they are coated with a virus that [i] genetically modifies [/i] the caterpillar to ignore the invasion. In other words, a wasp can alter the very being of another creature. Biologists have examined this virus and found that it exists nowhere else on earth. They've also worked out that it's been around for more than 100 million years. Which is when the strange radio signal was sent. Furthermore, wasps are indestructible. If you chop off its head, the antennae will still be alive, wiggling, perhaps sending messages into space." [b] -Jeremy Clarkson, [i] The Sunday Times. [/i] [/b] So there you have it. Wasps are aliens. [Edited on 09.18.2009 4:16 AM PDT]