 Let me tell you how much I know about red wasps. When I was a kid, I was at a lake where I learned to ski over in East Texas called Pine Ridge, and I went out on the, I don't know how old I was. I was probably 10 years old, maybe a little older. I went out on a pier, and I sat down and slung my legs over the edge of the pier right into a red wasp nest that was about 8 inches in diameter.