Hornet wasp in Surgut (!?)

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cherepahovod, 15.06.2012 21:51

Hello everyone! I have a question here - do hornets live in Surgut (Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug)? Well, I couldn't.. that one... Together with my grandmother, we saw it in reality...
I used to be naive, I always thought that in such a wilderness as Surgut, there were no hornets and there were none.
But no.. At first I thought, maybe a sawfly what (eyesight figovenkoe... bad..). Photographed-just like a hornet! It was so humming, u-uu-uhh!))
In general, I am waiting for an answer to the question-are there definitely hornets in Surgut?

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20.06.2012 10:01, Роман Ракочий

If you need to bait and catch a hornet, then I will immediately say that hornets are not attracted to the smell of sweets and so on. (such as German wasps). I would advise, in my experience, to look for hornets in places where sap flows out of: birch, oak, elm, sometimes willow. Here is a photo of a female on a birch tree from my website - http://vespidae2012.narod.ru/vespa_crabro.html. If, for example, you have a birch tree there, from which the sap flows abundantly, then 5-8 hornets can gather there. You can still catch a hornet when, now, the queens are looking for nesting sites, although many have already found them. When the female is looking for a place, she flies slowly and is easily caught with a net.

This post was edited by Roman Rakochy - 06/20/2012 10: 03

21.06.2012 10:21, cherepahovod

pofluzhu chuut-slightly...
We have all sorts of anomalies... I thought, " who is flying at great speed, and even opaque, unlike a dragonfly?" The "it" flew near the lilac tree, but then abruptly and very quickly flew in front of me, and then dived straight into the net.

I couldn't believe my eyes... the" it " was there.. bedstraw hawk moth!! Unfortunately, it was very shabby, but I was amazed at the size of it (after all, the span of 7 cm and the body length of 3 cm together with the thickness of 1 cm, just... super-giant!). I don't care about Surgut at all... Then hornets (but it turns out this is not surprising), then hawks... in the evening, by the way, yesterday I caught another one, a medium-sized wine, already at the gas station. I found it in the gazebo, maybe it flew to the light... Such are the cases, Surgut surprises me more than ever.