How do wasps spend the winter?

Wasps are widely distributed, varied and fast flying insects, also known as wasps, etc., female bees have a powerful long sting, which will attack in groups when they encounter attacks or unfriendly interferences. it can cause allergic and toxic reactions, and serious ones can lead to death. let's take a look at how wasps spend the winter.

How do wasps spend the winter?

In the colony of wasps, there are queen bees, professional bees (females) and drones. The queen bees were mated with drones after the autumn of the previous year. The drones died soon after mating, while the females stored their sperm in seminal vesicles. When the weather is getting cold, fertilized female bees leave their nests to look for wind shelters such as cracks in the walls and haystacks to huddle for the winter. The lower the temperature is, the tighter the clump is, the higher the temperature is, the looser the clump is, and the group begins to break up when the temperature is higher than 7 ℃. In the following spring, the surviving females went out in groups to find suitable places to build nests and lay eggs on their own. The fertilized eggs laid formed females and unfertilized eggs formed drones. With the increase of professional bees, the hive gradually expanded.

What species are there in the hornet colony?

1. Queen Bee: after a period of activity and supplementary nutrition, the queen bee after overwintering looks for relatively sunny and sheltered places to build nests, lays the first generation eggs while building the nest, and is responsible for all the work such as resisting enemies, hunting food, feeding the first generation larvae, and so on.

2. Drones: drones are spawned and bred by uninseminated individuals in the second generation of female bees, which can mate with a small number of females in the same nest or different nests, or with the same generation or female generation, and die soon after mating.

3. Worker bees: worker bees are responsible for all the internal and field work of the colony. The first generation of adult bees are all workers working in the field. Except for a few female bees of the second generation who successfully mate into new queen bees and individual females that lay male eggs without mating, most of them are worker bees.

How to control wasps?

1. Drug fumigation: spring is an important period for wasps to build nests, when there are only a small number of overwintering bees (one nest for each bee), and the hive is still small. It can be destroyed in the nest stage or removed, or can be fumigated on the nest with strips of cloth and towels stained with pesticides.

2. Pick the nest at the right time: first spray the exit of the hive and the beehive outside the hive with insecticides, then use a woven bag to cover the hive and quickly fasten the mouth of the bag, then remove the hive, throw the bag into the water or pour gasoline and burn it with fire. The time to pick the hive should be at night or on a rainy day.

3. High-pressure water gun: the hive, which is difficult for personnel to reach, aims at the hive with a high-pressure water gun and smashes the hive. Waste cotton soaked in oil can also be tied to one end of the long bamboo pole, lit and extended to the beehive to burn the hive.

4. burn the bee colony: in late autumn, when the temperature drops to 15 degrees, the wasp begins to leave its nest and move to warmer places such as stone caves and haystacks to avoid the cold. Hundreds of wasps often gather together to resist the cold, and it is found that the bee colony can be burned with fire.

5. Water poisoning: wasps have the characteristics of building nests to get water. Where the bees take water, they can manually dig puddles or place water containers to add pesticides. When wasps absorb water, they will be poisoned and die, but at the same time, attention should be paid to the safety of drinking water for people and animals.

6. Body trapping: wasps not only like to eat bees, but also bite corpses of the same kind. Take advantage of this habit and destroy them with wooden rackets when preying on corpses. Be sure to aim at it when slapping, otherwise the wasp will backwash and sting people if it misses.

7. Poison with medicine: after gently holding down with a small screen racket, the wasp smears the toxic pesticide sugar solution on its chest and abdomen, and then releases it. After these wasps return to the nest, other wasps will lick the poisonous sugar liquid on their bodies, causing poisoning in the whole nest.