Wasp nests

And we have wasps active in all

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Hello. Although the topic is dead, but can someone answer the question-how aggressive are the working individuals of the common hornet? And then the female founder of this species settled between the boards of the veranda, yesterday I saw her foraging. Next to the flight hole under the roof ledge is the entrance door to the apartment at a distance of about 0.5 m, so I don't know how safe this neighborhood will turn out. Of course, no one will climb to the hornets if the female survives and the nest is built, but I don't know how they will react next to people at such a close distance. I would like to keep the nest, even unscrewed the lamp at the tap so that it does not interfere with its light.

At the beginning of this month, I observed foraging in the garden of another founder of the same species, settled in a parcel box left for this purpose under the shed roof ledge, but unfortunately she did not survive, eh.

Don't touch them, don't breathe down the drain, and nothing bad will happen.

Don't touch them, don't breathe down the drain, and nothing bad will happen.

Good. Recently, I noticed, in addition to the female founder, foraging of working individuals.

Well, don't touch them. Recently, I tried to catch foragers on my balcony to study the cargo they deliver. After the first one, which ended up in the net, several guards flew out of the nest, and for 30 seconds they were looking for someone to warm up. Apparently, frightened hornets secrete an alarm pheromone, which effectively mobilizes individuals in the nest for defense. If you do not touch them, then you can approach less than 10 cm to the tap and nothing will happen. And the most important thing is not to exhale in that direction.

And I have here is what a miracle nest appeared:

Well, don't touch them. Recently, I tried to catch foragers on my balcony to study the cargo they deliver. After the first one, which ended up in the net, several guards flew out of the nest, and for 30 seconds they were looking for someone to warm up. Apparently, frightened hornets secrete an alarm pheromone, which effectively mobilizes individuals in the nest for defense. If you do not touch them, then you can approach less than 10 cm to the tap and nothing will happen. And the most important thing is not to exhale in that direction.

Interestingly, I did not think that you can already get so close. I remember once in my attic I was sitting near a small hornet's nest nearby, and apparently I exhaled in its direction-suddenly one of the working individuals flew clearly at me, I managed to escape.

I watched the hornets, recorded a video for myself as a keepsake. Everything went great, I somehow didn't bother them too much.

This nest is probably the result of a year-long scientific work on the hybridization of nymphs with gallicuses )))
In fact, hornets, even with calm observation of their nest, can hit, in the season before last I was bitten by a hornet almost under the eye when observing, by the way, nothing special was bitten, like from a German wasp.
And so, of course, cool, hornets on the balcony, a dream, while this season, except for nymphs, leaf cutters and osmias, no one lives)

So there is only a hole outside-a hornet-thrower, the nest is somewhere in the thickness of the insulation-what a dream. But inside, in the furniture, there are already 2 germanic nests. They'll be available when they're empty." And you can even try to keep it longer by closing an external window at night - a glazed balcony (or rather, a loggia). I remember that once upon a time the queen germanica had already settled there, but it died before it could produce workers. And this year it's like some kind of invasion. But unlike polistov, Vespins are not particularly observed in such conditions.

And we have vooot such wasps live!
And their nests are ogogo

What I sednya saw
Anoplius smelled spiders in the hole and decided to take a look.. and it's already taken ...
These are the nests of our sedges, and their eyes are like the head of anoplius

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The hornet foraging increased, and my suspicion of a hornet's nest in the barn was confirmed. It looks like it was made right in the wall between the boards, because in the attic of that shed, I didn't immediately find a nest nearby. True, the attic is used as a storage room, so part of the space is laid - maybe the nest is somewhere under the objects, but I didn't take them apart, because I don't want to destroy it.

Wasps forage noticeably more often than hornets, and the pictures are not very good - the existing lens does not give enough magnification to take a close picture. However, maybe someone will be able to determine the view? Interesting.

The hornet carries something light yellow or white to the nest. Since the corner of the veranda is painted brown, the illumination of the surface was low, so the pictures were taken at high ISO and therefore noisy. You will need to try to make a photo with flash, too, as the os took pictures today.






This post was edited by Nazar - 20.07.2019 19: 54

It looks like Vespula vulgaris, but I'm not 100% sure, because the pictures are really very (focus miss, except on the flying wasp from below, but I don't know any diagnostic signs on the ventral side). And what was filmed?

Nazar, the wasps of course are just super!
But the spiders in the pictures are also amazing! These are almost heteropods, Eusparassus, probably??!

It looks like Vespula vulgaris, but I'm not 100% sure, because the pictures are really very (focus miss, except on the flying wasp from below, but I don't know any diagnostic signs on the ventral side). And what was filmed?

Found a picture of one of the workers from the back, maybe it will be able to make out? I shoot on a Canon EOS 600D with a whale lens EF-S 18-55mm, it has a magnification of only 3 times, so you can't get close. I made some drops, but of course the clarity is not enough. There are several Soviet lenses, you will need to buy an adapter for them and try to take pictures, maybe they will give a better approximation. And even closer to the flight is already risky to be, I think. I took more shots of the hornets with a flash, this time in manual mode.

Nazar, the wasps of course are just super!
But the spiders in the pictures are also amazing! These are almost heteropods, Eusparassus, probably??!

I'm glad you liked them. I don't know what kind of spiders they are, I don't know much about them.
There are occasionally huge houses, like the one I saw a few years ago, or smaller ones like this one.


This post was edited by Nazar - 21.07.2019 13: 36

The spiders you have there are interesting!
The one with the scale is most likely Zoropsis spinimana, it lives in Western Ukraine. But it seems to me that in the corner dead is another spider in Europe there are spiders close to heteropods, maybe this one is like this.
You can get close to the tap, but from the side. Macro rings are of course needed with contacts for such objects..

The spiders you have there are interesting!
The one with the scale is most likely Zoropsis spinimana, it lives in Western Ukraine. But it seems to me that in the corner dead is another spider in Europe there are spiders close to heteropods, maybe this one is like this.
You can get close to the tap, but from the side. Macro rings are of course needed with contacts for such objects..

Thank you, interesting. I also add a picture of a wasp with its prey, an unfinished hornet's nest in a Soviet parcel box, discovered this spring (there are also traces of a wasp's nest that lived there last time), which I mentioned earlier, and an abandoned Saxon wasp nest (presumably), which was discovered in one of the attics this year. Most likely, it was alive somewhere in the year before last, then I did not deal with wasps.

No, the whale does not pull, especially in the teleposition. Pan Stepovoy instead of makrokolets with contacts, after which the picture from the whale will become even more deplorable, of course, could tell you how to make a superpupermakoroobjetiv for 3 rubles from the heavy Soviet heritage, but that info is probably very secret. And I can recommend Jupiter-37A + small and medium macro rings M42, just for such cases when you need to shoot in acceptable quality from a distance (50-100 cm). Although you should not be afraid to approach the tap closer. If you do not make any sudden movements, do not block the road to the wasps and do not breathe in that direction, you can get at least 10 cm safely.

The color of the wasp is V. vulgaris, but I prefer to look at the pubescence.

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No, the whale does not pull, especially in the teleposition. Pan Stepovoy instead of makrokolets with contacts, after which the picture from the whale will become even more deplorable, of course, could tell you how to make a superpupermakoroobjetiv for 3 rubles from the heavy Soviet heritage, but that info is probably very secret. And I can recommend Jupiter-37A + small and medium macro rings M42, just for such cases when you need to shoot in acceptable quality from a distance (50-100 cm). Although you should not be afraid to approach the tap closer. If you do not make any sudden movements, do not block the road to the wasps and do not breathe in that direction, you can get at least 10 cm safely.

Thanks for the information. Still, I won't get that close, although there shouldn't be an allergy to the bite - many years ago they were already bitten and there were no other problems besides the soreness that can be experienced.

So why are you guessing, in ordinary wasps the yellow stripe is interrupted on the cheek, in person it is better seen even than in the photos https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/...key-differences

So why are you guessing, in ordinary wasps the yellow stripe is interrupted on the cheek, in person it is better seen even than in the photos https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/...key-differences

Class, this is really ordinary, in one of the pictures (I did a lot) you can see the gap of a yellow stripe on the cheek of one of the workers.

Today, hornets behave differently - they sit in the number of several pieces at the tap, and slowly walk around it. Foraging nevertheless exists. Why did the behavior change so much? I thought that maybe they were too crowded and were looking for a new place to nest. I noticed recently that they began to gnaw the boards of the veranda from the inside, you can hear such a crackling from the area of the nest location. Mother was found one today under the tap on the asphalt, turned on his back and he disappeared somewhere, maybe flew away. I also found this larva under the hatch, it looks like it came from a nest. I took a picture of the larva on my phone.



This post was edited by Nazar - 22.07.2019 20: 56

Maybe they're getting hot, they're not flapping their wings at the entrance? Sick wasp larvae are thrown out, so there was something wrong with this larva.
A new place for the nest is unlikely, I do not believe that hornets can "move" at all, although I read about this somewhere, their uterus cannot fly because it is too heavy because of the many eggs.

Maybe they're getting hot, they're not flapping their wings at the entrance? Sick wasp larvae are thrown out, so there was something wrong with this larva.

This was not the case during the day, and it was raining - I noticed that they were sitting like this after the rain. Maybe it was still in the morning, but I didn't look in their direction. When it got dark, we flew near the nest a little, I heard a buzzing sound. Now they are sitting inside, I listened to the boards from inside the veranda in the nest area - I can hear them rustling inside. Today and before the rain, and after the heat was not.

Pan Stepova, with his black envy, jinxed my wasps who had spontaneously settled on the loggia: the hornet family was gone, and one Germanicus family was also lost, and the second Germanicus turned out to be vulgaris






In general, of course, these "peaks of wasp evolution" are rather weak compared to polistami - the latter do not simply die out from a sideways glance, although the queen forages almost to her last days, and their nests are open to all adversities. And in vespines, the wombs sit deep in the bowels of fortifications and still manage to die.

Pan Stepova, with his black envy, jinxed my wasps who had spontaneously settled on the loggia: the hornet family was gone, and one Germanicus family was also lost, and the second Germanicus turned out to be vulgaris

Sorry.

I'm doing fine so far. Today I watched how hornets chewed the boards at the tap for a short time, I wonder why, I recorded it on video:
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I also recorded the foraging of vulgaris:
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I thought maybe someone would be interested to take a look, and I made notes for myself as a keepsake. There is a true 4K resolution, but so the clarity is higher. On a not very old computer, you can view it. I used the H. 264 codec, and then my computer does not have iron support for H. 265 decoding, and it does not pull out the percentage of software decoding of such a video stream.

Is the 600D capable of 4K? My computer is very old - even FullHD does not pull. And ordinary mortals will not see the beauty of your 4K on ordinary monitors. Redo it better in 720p.

Is the 600D capable of 4K? My computer is very old - even FullHD does not pull. And ordinary mortals will not see the beauty of your 4K on ordinary monitors. Redo it better in 720p.

No, he can only play the maximum in FullHD, he recorded those videos on his smartphone. I will recode it, but it will probably be time for this only on Monday.

Yes, everything is reproduced normally, I have a computer that is old, iron 2009. Foraging of vulgaris doesn't seem to be large, although it's not yet the maximum number.

And if in Yuzovka, according to Esox Scolia, the maculata are dying out by August, then why be surprised that hornets and germanics are extinct?
About zglaza - as they say-everyone judges to the extent of their depravity

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Is this the strange computer whose pictures pan posted, and I took it for a device for twisting an electric meter? No, I do not have such a thing, but on the usual zero years it is not reproduced, alas. And even if it was reproduced, what's the point with a regular monitor?

And the photo is not a credit card-the hand is knocked out in white.

Well, megascolias have nothing to do in August, they start breeding in May. Probably, all old women flock to Nikolaev to die, but the hornets really died out, leaving no reproductive individuals, but this is on the scale of one family. But in general, the number of this species in Donetsk is steadily growing every year, the SES has already begun to worry, they announced an idiotic campaign of harassment. As a child, I remember seeing only one or two hornets once or twice at a time. And at Pan X*office, I remember, in some year the Germanics were dying out completely, we have such a tin can.

And yesterday I already found a male vulgaris on the loggia dead.

This post was edited by ENO-28.07.2019 17: 43

Well, actually, progress is not to blame for the fact that in the young but proud republics everything is so bad that advanced scientists there still use monitors and computers of the "zero"ones
For 2009, my hardware may have been top-end, still a stump of 4 buckets, but now this is already archaism, and nevertheless it pulls 4k, and the most common monitors now have a resolution of 2000 pixels per side and above, so the difference is quite noticeable

This is strange: between 4K and HD in dynamics, pan sees the difference, but between 14MP and 0.7 Mp in static - no, Even in fotik at once 2 times resizit And "chetyrehvederny stump" still did not help him to master the rav converter in a human way. Meanwhile, the human eye is so designed that the beauty of 4K in dynamics can only be seen on a screen the size of a large wall, the rest is marketing. And 4K of tiny mobile phone cameras is beyond good and evil.

Ah, I almost forgot to ask: it's already the sixth year of the hydration revolution in the yard, and Pan Peremozhets is still sitting on iron from the time of the "bloody dictator" - something is wrong here

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And I took a picture of someone over there:



That's why I was surprised that when the germenicus nest opened in the fall, there were more maggots than wasps in it. Polists of inquilins do not allow themselves, they have only two riders parasitizing with very sophisticated defense mechanisms. A vespula defenseless fly in broad daylight quietly let in the nest. Polisty would quickly feed it to the larvae.

Well, it's over, pooolists only let riders in, only two types
Only for some reason, the number and volume of nests in pooolistov maaaalenkie )
And not the fact that this fly in the nest will remain alive. Maggots and other things appear after the nest is empty.
And the noise, the noise is how much ))

Well, as if a fly turns for a couple of minutes at the tap, ignoring the wasps, and then calmly flies into it, it knows what it's doing. But with polistami, this will not work out, one rider climbs to them at dusk "like a plastunki" (in 90% of cases, he still gets a beating and retreats using a vertical fall, which would be impossible in a vespula nest), and the second one is smaller than drozovfily and still prazes only in dark shelters, in open wasp nests, it is quickly found and driven out. But Vespula's is not a nest, but a passageway.

So these are nice shumchiki(S). You might think that Pan doesn't have them in the photos, and such that you can see even on a tiny resize of the full frame, and not on the crop, as I have. And the most characteristic thing is that even on static frames with a good exposure, where, it would seem, ISO should be at a minimum and a long shutter speed, not like vespul on the fly to freeze in the room, such photos are not observed in pan voosche. Although if you pick up the RAV, you can generally crush the noise in these pictures to zero, but I don't have time.

Links to my same videos in different resolutions. I recoded them, as I mentioned earlier.
Hornets 1920x1080
Hornets 1280x720
Wasps 1920x1080
Wasps 1280x720

Shchurka. She also likes wasps

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Well, even the sky on panovom resize is noisy, like I have on 100% crop, if not worse. You could write it off as an oversharp, but no-the bird is not very sharp. In general, despite the serious size of the lens, they will not take Panov's photo to the poultry house competition.

Alas, my computer also did not digest this, although usually mp4 720p digests it. Some kind of brutal codec.

The codec there is the usual H. 264, I recoded it with a different program with a lower video stream, maybe this will work for you.
Hornets 1920x1080, 6000kbps video stream
Hornets 1280x720, 6000kbps video stream