Wasp nests

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21.08.2019 3:17, ИНО

Why bother an important person if you can jump in yourself? It is only necessary to save a spacesuit on a tryzubokelepatelny machine, and if the breathing mixture is with the participation of steppe grasses and mushrooms, then a meeting with an alien mind is guaranteed.

Well, I read this delusional scale (by the way, on the German language exam, I translated a note about this-Schmit himself) - complete crap. Sweaty bees alone are worth a lot!

All polistin in one pile raked, and they are very different., including the pain of stinging. In Rusina's doctor's office, it is interesting to read about some tropics, and I suspect that cryptocheilus is resting there as well. But since this Schmit is an American, it is not a fact that he was stung by European polistami at all, North American species will probably be more dominant in size and soreness.

26.08.2019 12:21, AVA

Dolichovespul I also did not see, there are no them in any "thick of landings". I think that in our climate they are simply uncompetitive, but to the north their short family life gives them a significant head start over the vespulae and polistae in the years of "no summer".

It's strange that dolichovespulae don't come into view. After all, the main species are found in southern Europe, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey and Central Asia. Well, Saxonica and sylvestris are also background species in Ukraine. So, seek and find.
As for the sensations from stings (I don't know about bites - I didn't have a chance somehow), I myself provoked different vespids for comparison. Indeed, polysts turned out to be the most painful, the rest do not hold out, even hornets. I usually forget about the injection after about 20 minutes without any consequences. But for my wife, the injection of dolichovespul causes the discharge of the wound, which then itches for another 3 days. So I guess it's a matter of individual sensitivity.
P.S. The reference to Rusina is not entirely correct. In the American tropics, some local polybias (s.lat.) are not only aggressive, but also painful to prick. Not to mention some bruises that even leave a sting in the wound, like bees.

26.08.2019 21:14, ИНО

What is wrong with Rusina? After all, here we are engaged in a "scientific" argument about who stings more steeply: polistines or vespines. The Russian version of Polistina is steeper. Although it is possible that vespa mandarinia takes the amount of poison and the depth of injection

Unfortunately, in the Donetsk region doloikhovespyl did not fall not only in my field of vision, but also in the field of view of other entomologists. But these are not the insects that easily escape attention. Either they are invisible or they are not...

I've never seen polists bite off anything to each other. I doubt very much that their mandibles are strong enough for this, they are more designed for soft-bodied victims. Except to nibble on one spot for a few minutes - but that will give. Here you can pinch your opponent to death. And the hornet, attacking the nest of polistov in order to get brood, acts exactly like this (this year I observed): grabs adult wasps one by one by the antennae, legs or wings and throws them off the nest. At the same time, it bites with all its might, so that the crippled wasps do not immediately return to the nest or do not return at all. Bitten off like scissors body parts - his handwriting.

27.08.2019 14:25, Hierophis

I don't even know what to call it, professional, wonderful and just cool!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NxOYkw2z54
And the guy obviously took out the nest in order to move it, probably put a box with the nest there later, wait until the workers come together,and take the nest home.

I'm also going to make such a spacesuit this winter, so that you can carefully move the vespula nests at any time of the year

The nest is certainly larger than ours, but not at times, I found 10-tiered germanic nests here, but of course including the royal ones.

And in this video, the defensive power of Vespul is just perfectly visible, without a spacesuit-they will pinch nafig

Here, I don't care what kind of pain there will be when bitten by one wasp)))

27.08.2019 17:28, ИНО

Well, Pan gives! This is New Zealand

, which means that at the hands of a professional guy, these sedges are waiting for relocation not to a new place, but immediately to the next world, and at the expense of taxpayers ' money. And no one's going anywhere. By the way, here is the key advantage of the raproductive strategy of polistov over vespula: the first would fly away with the queen and the next day the nest would be rebuilt, so trying to overcome them in this way would be pointless. A" spacesuit " such Pan Stepova is very unlikely to do, except that being a tailor and having access to special material on which the claws of wasps do not hold, and which the stingers do not pierce them. Not, of course, something outwardly similar he can manage to give birth from an excess of free time, but it will already be a cargo cult.

In America, vespin's underground nests are easier, faster, and more technologically advanced: they suck everyone in with a special suction cup, but they dig afterward, so a "spacesuit" is optional. Here, the authorities also took care of us with a fool: they gave the SES a task to destroy hornet families around the city. But there they act much dumber and more primitive: they sprayed conditional dichlorvos into the tap, plugged it and forgot, so that the unfortunate os still has at least some chance.

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11.09.2019 15:16, Hierophis

These are larvae of the same wasps. Wasps take out their larvae before the end of the life of their family, which means that in your area the life cycles of vespula nests have come to an end. In our area, this usually happens in early November.
By the way, a very good feature characteristic of wasps that are at the top of evolution is to adjust their life cycle to the duration of the optimal temperature period.

But why they do this is not clear. In vespula nests, queens never overwinter, unlike polist nests, where the queens sometimes settle down for the winter and even sometimes use the nest again, so there it makes sense to throw out the larvae.
But nevertheless, the fact is that in a healthy vespula nest, by the end of the cycle, almost perfectly empty honeycombs remain, nothing rots and there are not very many parasites.

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