The Life of Science and Technology: who stirred up the Hornet's Nest (2009.10.18)

This issue introduces that he has dealt with wasps for more than 20 years and is one of the few wasp experts in our country. He has traveled all over the country in order to understand the distribution and habits of wasps. He has artificially bred hundreds of thousands of wasps in order to eliminate pests in cotton fields. After retiring, he offered ideas and suggestions for the elimination of "killer bees" many times. He is Li Tiesheng, a researcher at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is one of the few experts in China who studies wasps. In the 1970s and 1980s, artificial breeding of wasps was needed to eliminate pests in cotton fields, but in the new century, wasps stung people one after another. Why on earth are wasps beneficial insects or pests? how should human beings live in harmony with wasps? Li Tiesheng will give the answer. (life of Technology, No. 40, 2009)