Wasp nests

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13.06.2012 22:02, Вячеслав Юлин

Hello, fellow OS lovers. Please tell me if it is possible to humanely get rid of a hornet's nest on the balcony in a city apartment. The nest size is 5-7 cm in diameter. Photos are attached. For example, is it possible to carefully cut the nest at night into a breathable container (for example, a jar with a gauze lid) in order to later transfer it to a new living space away, for example, a hollow tree or aba like in the nearest park, with the hope of survival of madame and her surroundings? Or will they die? Or is it such happiness, the scale of which we unhappy people do not appreciate and we need to change our attitude to the phenomenon? We have a cat who loves the balcony and there are fears for dramatic conflicts not in favor of the cat, and he is now in favor. Please respond.

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14.06.2012 15:31, Коллекционер

I went to the forest today to check on the wasps:
I haven't been there for a long time.. the colonies have grown. the first is in a birch trunk.. at first I thought that there was no one, not a single wasp was sitting at the entrance, I knocked.. about 10 pieces flew out.. and in my opinion it's not Germanic..
the second nest is in the ground (photos below are attached), where the colony also grows normally. Periodically flies flies 3-4 wasps
and hornets how many did not drum on the tree, and did not reach, although they may not have heard just a hollow tree at a height of 3x mert all the same

(I dug up their mink a little, so as not to lose it)

I caught some big harpy geese along the way

This post was edited by Collector - 14.06.2012 15: 37

22.06.2012 18:03, Шеффлера

Hello.
Greetings to OS lovers! it turns out that they are different...
But I have a nest appeared in the apartment, just like in the first message of the topic. Young, as I understand it. In the morning, they saw the uterus in the apartment, thought it had accidentally flown in, and caught it with a net through the window. And in the evening the nest was discovered.
How to remove it so that the nest is not damaged, and the most not to be bitten? I was on sick leave for a wasp sting three years ago

And it is also very interesting, what are you attracted to wasps? Is it interesting to watch them? But it's also quite dangerous... For the first time I saw people who are fond of biting insects

This post was edited by Scheffler - 06/22/2012 18: 45

22.06.2012 22:10, Hierophis

People are lucky!!!

And we have very few oss this year, in general sveh, and polistov and vespul. German wasps are very rare to encounter.

Roman Rakochy - but hardly, the fact is that wasps are very sensitive to timing, if the uterus re-lays the honeycomb, now, the nest will not have time to grow queens and males. I have often found nests in which the wasps did not have time to lay their uterine combs, or they were very small.
Probably these are late nests.

And with a frying pan on the nest - this is terrible

, you just need to put it in a bag at night with the uterus, and take it outside, put it in some box, or somewhere else in a suitable place.
In general, it is very shitty, since the wasps are very careful, what prompted the wasp to make a nest in the room is unclear. It is also unclear how she was engaged in construction and foraging, because for this you need to have free access to the street.

Roman Rakoczy, by the way, I found the colony of Vespula Rufa once, so I can tell you about it. First, I immediately noticed their incredible peacefulness! It was just incredible - in fact, in a nest with already 5 tiers of honeycombs, you could chop with a stick about 1 meter long. Their nest structure is the same as that of German wasps or common wasps, but their paper is brown! It was quite amazing.
Otherwise, they have all the same - uterine combs, males in working cells, the nest was under the stove, the stove on the ground. The socket diameter was approx 20cm.

22.06.2012 22:58, Роман Ракочий

Back in the spring, I hung the so-called "hornets" on an oak tree at the edge of the forest. I really wanted to populate the hornets in order to study the development cycle and just watch the colony and post information on the site. Today I arrived (before this, I repeatedly came to check if the hornets were settled), I look for 5 minutes at the hornet's nest (on the left, yellow in the black hornet's nest, Saxon ones are already covered), there is nothing, when I already wanted to go, I looked at the hole-entrance, I see the orange head of the uterus)) I watched, got out of the hole, adjusted my mustache and climbed back in. Then after a minute it flew out, and after 5 minutes it came back again. I will go soon and try to take a picture of the female near the entrance, I will feed her, I will post it on the website))))

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