In the Spiderman comics and movies, mild-mannered photographer Peter Parker famously gains arachnid superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. We were wondering what superpowers you’d gain if you were stung by a radioactive wasp…

If workers cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site didn't have enough to worry about, now they've got to deal with radioactive wasp nests. Mud dauber wasps built the nests, which have been largely abandoned by their flighty owners, in holes at south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation in 2003.

What do you think? An uncanny ability to spoil picnics?