# How long does it take for a wasp to starve to death?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 14, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750 "2003-04-14T23:06:20Z")
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### Author: ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750/21 "2003-04-16T13:43:10Z")

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**Mangetout** , that was hilarious. Sounds like an _I Love Lucy_ episode or something.  
RR

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### Author: ![Denimgirl1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@Denimgirl1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denimgirl1)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750/22 "2015-05-29T00:05:52Z")

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A very active wasp was in my living room last night in the window. I shut the window to trap it between the window and screen. It buzzed around for a long time then hung at the top of the screen. This morning, it was on the bottom of the sill, not as active, but it was cool last night and early this morning. He wasn’t flying, but he was crawling around. By 9 AM he had stopped crawling, by 10:30 AM he was dead. Don’t know if the overnight chill or lack of food is what did it, but it was trapped about 14 hours before it died.

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### Author: ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750/23 "2015-05-29T00:21:29Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> _Find_ one or two of them, find.
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> I’m not fond of them at all.

…as you know from personal experience, having tried them at least once.

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### Author: ![apoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@apoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apoor)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750/24 "2018-08-03T14:45:21Z")

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Silly, I know, but I have noticed that bees can get small enough to gain access to a thread…

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### Author: ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750/25 "2018-08-03T15:05:41Z")

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So is the wasp dead yet?

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### Author: ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-wasp-to-starve-to-death/168750/26 "2018-08-03T15:12:17Z")

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Zombies turn up occasionally, too.

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