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Common hornet Vespa crabro

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vespabellicosus, 01.08.2006 17:22

Entrance to the nest of the common hornet Vespa crabro . August 1, 2006, Cheboksary neighborhood.

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24.09.2006 18:18, Охотник за осами

tell me,what kind of aggressive hornets are they, have you ever hunted?

24.09.2006 20:50, RippeR

hornets behave normally if you don't start touching them. Once I used a net to catch hornets in places where they ate leaking sap (like poplars). If it turned out that I hit a hornet, and after that I also waved a net, then we flew around, tried to hook it. As far as I remember, some even came back sometimes, tried to sting. In general, it all ended with the fact that one asshole stung me right on the top of the head. smile.gif After that, the head hurt (there was such a big throbbing cap) smile.gif

25.09.2006 9:05, AVA

...I ended up getting stung right on the top of my head by an asshole. smile.gif After that, the head hurt (there was such a big throbbing cap) smile.gif


You're actually lucky with your immune system and that hornet. He (she, essno) I "felt sorry" for you, only slightly hooked. And it could have ended much sadder. It's still a head, after all... tongue.gif

25.09.2006 10:17, Bad Den

Yes, the consequences of the next bite can be much more serious...

25.09.2006 13:12, RippeR

That's more to these reptiles and do not climb.
And it didn't sting me badly! I sat down on my head and as sadanet smile.gifReally probably saved the immune system smile.gif

And what are the general consequences (I do not consider allergetics)?

25.09.2006 15:24, vespabellicosus

Some sources say that the aggressiveness of hornets is determined by the size of the colony. You can agree with this. But I was often attacked by hornets from fairly small nests. Each nest behaves differently. One more point : for the first time , you can come close to any colony, even a powerful one - hornets do not touch. Especially if she hasn't met other people before you.But God forbid that he should be seriously disturbed. For a mile you will have to go around....

25.09.2006 17:10, Bad Den

And what are the general consequences (I do not consider allergetics)?

Banal death from suffocation, if bitten in the head or in the neck - from the fact that everything swells in the area of the bite, the airways are blocked...

25.09.2006 19:42, RippeR

Wow, cool.. Then I was really lucky.. The head didn't swell much (or maybe it didn't swell at all, but it hurt and throbbed exactly) smile.gif

25.09.2006 20:41, Bad Den

Wow, cool.. Then I was really lucky.. The head wasn't very swollen (or maybe it wasn't swollen at all, but it hurt and throbbed exactly) smile.gif

As the well-known army wisdom says, "the head can not hurt and swell, because there is a bone" umnik.gif lol.gif

09.10.2006 18:58, Охотник за осами

in general hornets are giant wasps

11.10.2006 16:52, vespabellicosus

By the way , the Asian Polistes gigas has females up to 40 mm long, and one of the African polistines of the genus Belonogaster even has females up to 54 mm long - which even exceeds the average length of hornets! Although the largest females of Vespa mandarinia are still larger - up to 55 mm.And in terms of their mass and aggressiveness, hornets are certainly ahead among all wasps.

12.10.2006 23:31, taler

By the way, there's plenty of good stuff here.But I am interested in their nutrition.I've never seen them on flowers or drinking juice.But each time, during picnics, they take away pieces of meat, both raw and friedconfused.gif, while behaving relatively politely to people.Why?

12.10.2006 23:37, Chromocenter

I once saw wasps gnaw off chunks of frozen sprat (from the edges where it had thawed), and I paid no attention to the people crowding around and the vendor breaking the briquette. But those weren't crabros. And not in Israel.

13.10.2006 9:48, vespabellicosus

Especially famous for this behavior are the German Vespula germanica and the common V. vulgaris wasps - these are common collectors and scavengers : they can often be seen in markets, where they wander around stalls with meat and fruit. At the same time, they are not confused by crowds of people. In the Middle East, the eastern hornet Vespa orientalis deals with < such cases>.

13.10.2006 21:35, Охотник за осами

do hornets always nest only in the open air?

13.10.2006 22:20, Tigran Oganesov

Just the opposite - hornets prefer hiding places.

15.10.2006 19:53, Охотник за осами

but dolichovespula they just nest mainly in open places, vespula nest only in shelters, but I remember an exception, when I was still a preschooler, I saw a grayish-white ball, one man took a stick and knocked it down and ran away, seeing a swarm I just froze,and the wasps were angry(underline), I was not touched, wasps flew out of this ball one by one

16.10.2006 14:58, vespabellicosus

Counting nesting in shelters - you are right, our Vespa crabro and also Vespa orientalis are secretive. Tropical hornets also have such species. For example , Vespa tropica can thrive in shelters and in the open. The largest hornet, V. mandarinia, nests in earthen voids and under upturned tree roots.

16.10.2006 17:07, Охотник за осами

Let's find a Japanese person to talk about Vespa Mandarinia

25.10.2006 11:15, vespabellicosus

Not necessarily Japanese - there are many sites on the Internet that mention the Asian giant hornet. I have a lot of photos with nests of this species , and all the nests are in shelters.

08.11.2006 15:52, Охотник за осами

In general, all vespins are biologically the same,which is what some have, that is, others(meaning vespula and vespa) and what is important is only two colors of nests gray and brown

09.11.2006 9:44, vespabellicosus

I would not say that they are exactly the same - such parameters as the number of individuals in the nest , the size of the colony , the nesting sites, and even the features of biology are quite different even for hornets. In terms of the color of the nest-yes, they are relatively similar in many hornets , but in this respect the Vespa analis nest is very different from the colony of , say , our V. crabro-analis has a shell with a characteristic red-maroon ornament, which distinguishes it from most monotonous yellow-brown crabro nests.

10.02.2007 20:58, Guest

Hi, that's how many bees stung me behind the ears, in the hands of the legs, eyes in the head more than once, and everything was fine,but I wonder if a hornet stings me, what will happen to me, do you know?

11.02.2007 1:23, omar

Hi, that's how many bees stung me behind the ears, in the hands of the legs, eyes in the head more than once, and everything was fine,but I wonder if a hornet stings me, what will happen to me, do you know?
It hurts, damn it! But maybe it's okay, too... wink.gif

11.02.2007 11:16, Bad Den

but I wonder if a hornet stings me,what will happen to me, do you know?

It's not good enough. I wouldn't try smile.gifit

11.02.2007 11:41, RippeR

"but I wonder if a hornet stings me,what will happen to me, do you know?"
The answer is one - there will be a BOBO at the site of the bite, it may not go down for half a day and it will hurt throbbing. But I do not know - maybe you do not have an allergy to bees, but there are wasps, then you will have a kayak, or if in the neck, there may also be a kayak. In general, if you want to experiment - write a will in my name wink.gif

21.05.2007 18:25, Dronami_inc

to me yesterday flew into the room healthy and pumped up! he didn't seem to behave aggressively - with the help of a newspaper, his father carefully put him out. In general, in the neck, or even worse-in the mouth bites-then you can die without an external incision of the trachea. And the head-well, it will swell up strongly, but there is also a bone, so I think more or less

21.05.2007 23:24, RippeR

What if the bone swells? frown.gif confused.gif umnik.gif

22.05.2007 16:33, Охотник за осами

What if the bone swells? frown.gif  confused.gif  umnik.gif

lol.gif lol.gif lol.gif

01.07.2007 23:37, guest: Сергей

Good day, gentlemen!
I have no idea what kind of animals have settled in my barn: about 3 cm long, decent mandibles, dark, with a metallic sheen, blue, very, very hard, it looks like a hornet, but I'm tormented by doubts. So this evil thing" hammers " the wooden ceiling beams, which is an earthworm on the ground. Moves in the wood ponadelala be healthy, soon the roof will sag. She doesn't care about dichlorvos. One took "Raid" (literally bought in it). Now there is still something left in the beam, it doesn't get out, but sawdust from matchboxes a day falls on the floor under the beam. Please tell us what kind of animals they are and how to get rid of them можно.
РЅ. I live in Crimea.

02.07.2007 0:15, Tigran Oganesov

Xylocopa probably. View the images via Google.

05.07.2007 21:43, Охотник за осами

I don't know what Latin is,but it is popularly referred to as "black bumblebee"

05.07.2007 23:40, Tigran Oganesov

She probably is. Bee carpenter.

25.07.2007 11:13, Vyainemeinen

By the way, there's plenty of good stuff here.But I am interested in their nutrition.I've never seen them on flowers or drinking juice.But each time, during picnics, they take away pieces of meat, both raw and friedconfused.gif, while behaving relatively politely to people.Why?

About being polite - I don't know why.
Meat they (wasps, and hornets, probably) carry to the larvae, which, as far as I know, after receiving meat, give them a drop of sweet liquid. I once saw a hornet crumpling a spider (I didn't have time to shoot it - it took it away).
Food-I saw them-hornets and wasps-together with squirrels and ants drinking the juice that came out of a long-severed branch on an oak tree.
Once I saw a wasp drinking nectar (I just don't remember what it should be written down on...) - until that moment I thought that they don't drink it.

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