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How fast do wasps reproduce?

I raise wasps. I have a nest outside my balcony. It grows a little bigger every day. As far as I know, at this rate, it can grow 3-5 cm in a week. As long as there are enough insects and trees, it is possible for it to grow 10 cm in a week. The host should be careful. Being stung by a wasp is very painful.

As the saying goes, "Ten hornets can kill a cow." Hornets, also known as wasps, are the most toxic bee species, containing neurotoxins or blood toxins. Professor Wei said that hornets are not only highly toxic, but also very aggressive. They will not sting people without reason, but they will only sting people when they are angered. Therefore, citizens should not hit hornets with stones or poke beehives with bamboo poles.

Professor Wei said that if the beehive is small and the location is relatively safe, citizens who want to remove it by themselves must take protective measures, wear thick clothes, wear a hood, and do not expose their skin; wasps are afraid of fire and smoke, so you can light grass, kerosene or rags and other flammable things to smoke the beehive at night; you can also kill some wasps with insecticides first, then cover the beehive with a thick sack, quickly tie the bag, and throw it into the water after removing it. However, firefighters reminded that when removing a wasp's nest by yourself, you must consider your own safety and the safety of nearby people, and do not act rashly. If you cannot solve it yourself, it is best to call the police and ask professional team members to handle it.

In addition, the venom of wasps is large. If you are stung several times, you may have a fever, headache, and severe pain in the stung area. In this case, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time. If the situation is mild, you can apply some ammonia water to the wound to reduce swelling and relieve pain.

The reproduction rate of hornets is related to the climate and environment, and they can usually reproduce several generations a year!

"It's about 50cm long and quite big." Usually it won't be expanded at this size, and it definitely won't grow to one meter.

Oh my god, in this case, don't open the window during the National Day, turn on the fan, and don't turn on the air conditioner too much. If you have time, call 119. 11 means you need to be quick, and 9 means you need to be calm. This is the old way, and it has lost its effect now, but the number will never change, because it means you need to be quick and calm. After dialing, the firefighters will remove the wasp and send it to the forest.

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Wasps are a common species of bee in our daily lives. Can they be raised artificially?

Wasps are a common species of bee in our daily lives. Can they be raised artificially?

1. Wasps can be cultivated artificially, but it should be noted that wasps are highly aggressive and easy to sting. If you want to cultivate them artificially, you must choose a place away from people. In addition to mastering mature breeding techniques, wasp breeding also requires the preparation of commonly used beekeeping tools, such as bee cages, bee sheds, beehives, etc. At night, use insect nets to collect insects at the place where the bee colony hibernates and put them in bee cages for breeding. Put 300 to 500 heads in each bee cage, cover them with black cloth, and put them in a dry, ventilated, undisturbed empty house to reduce the amount of activity and promote their early hibernation. In order to avoid the difficulty of finding the bee colony after leaving the nest, you can also take it back to the original nest in mid-September, put it in a cage or box, and use the upward habit of the bee colony to put ripe apples, peaches and vegetables with more water at the bottom of the cage. This method is very good.

2. Wasps can indeed be cultivated artificially. In some mountainous areas, the original wasp nests were used to take out the pupae and sell them. In some small counties around Panzhihua, Sichuan, there are many restaurants selling wasp pupae, which are expensive and nutritious. Many places have begun to cultivate wasps once a year. For wasps, if the wasps have just built a nest, that is, when there is only the queen bee, and they are caught for breeding at this time, the bee tribe believes that the possibility of successful breeding is not great, because at this time the queen bee is not only responsible for laying eggs and foraging, but also for predation, so the wasps are free to move at this time.

3. If we only catch the queen bee, once the queen bee returns to the wild, it may not necessarily return to our breeding grounds, but if we catch a nest of wasps, there are already worker bees and drones. At this time, the lifestyle of wasps is actually the same as that of honey bees. The queen bee is laying eggs all the time, the worker bees are waiting and feeding on the side, and the drones still have nothing to do. At this time, if we catch both the worker bees and the hive, we can successfully reproduce. Wasps are a large family with many species, but most of them are large wasps that are artificially bred, such as golden wasps, black-tailed wasps, black velvet wasps, yellow-footed wasps, etc. The reason is that these wasps are not only numerous, but also have large larvae. For example, the largest beehive of golden bees can reach 100 kilograms, thereby maximizing the economic benefits of wasp breeding.

It can be raised, but only half-raised. What is half-raised? It means artificially assisting wasps to overwinter safely. When the temperature difference between morning and evening in spring is large, the overwintering queen bees are protected to replenish nutrition and restore their physical strength as soon as possible to avoid the high and low temperatures in spring. The queen bees are weak and die at this time. A greenhouse is built for 500 queen bees. It is built with wooden boards, 2 meters high, 5 meters long, and 3 meters wide. It is covered with sand nets and covered with greenhouse oil paper on the outside for feeding. Before releasing the bees, some straw, bark, rotten grass, apple slices, honey, water, mulberry silkworms, corn stalks and corn cobs with corn borer larvae are put in it. Why put these in, I will talk about it later. Even with artificial assistance, the survival rate of queen bees is only 30%, and there will be a loss of 20% during the nesting period. In the wild environment, the survival rate of queen bees is less than 5%. Sometimes the wrong wintering location is chosen, and the whole army may be wiped out.

I may be the first person in China to raise land bees. I have five years of breeding experience, but it was not very successful. I gave up in 2019. Why do I raise land bees? Because I was a professional buyer of beehives at that time. The price of beehives was not cheap, more than 400 per kilogram. A large beehive weighed three taels and sold for more than 100 yuan. I felt that raising land bees was promising. In the winter of 2014, I began to look for overwintering land bee queens in the wild. There are two types of land bees. One is large, called domestic bees, which make nests on the eaves or branches of houses. The other is called grass bees, which are smaller and make nests on bushes or cracks in rocks in the wild. These two bees have the same appearance characteristics, but their living habits are slightly different. Domestic bees like to prey on caterpillars, mosquitoes, flies, spiders, etc. on trees, while grass bees like to prey on corn borers, young locusts, cabbage worms, etc. Their hives are also different. The size of domestic bees is large, black and hard. They are called big eyes in the industry, which is a big-eyed bee collection. The honeycomb of grass bees is slightly smaller in size and its color is like rotten grass. It is called small-eye honeycomb in the industry. Why are they called big-eye and small-eye? Because the two bees are different in size, the eyes of the individual small houses in the honeycomb cells are different in size. The domestic land wasp is large in size and has large eyes in the honeycomb cells, so it is called big-eye, while the grass bee is small in size and has small eyes in the honeycomb cells, so it is called small-eye. However, these two types of honeycombs cannot be crushed by hand. They are called soft honeycombs in medicine. They are also genuine honeycombs and are expensive.

When is the best time to capture a land wasp queen?

Why capture ground wasp queens in these two seasons?

How to ensure the captured queen wasp safely overwinter?

Why should we prepare corn stalks with corn borer larvae for winter?

Why prepare mulberry silkworm cocoons?

How to feed and manage land wasps when they emerge from sting in spring?

Why are straw, tree bark and rotten grass placed in the beehives of land bees?

How to feed ground wasps in spring?

When will the beehives of land bees be opened to allow them to return to nature?

When land wasps return to nature, will they return to the beehive every day?

How to set up a wintering box for ground wasps in autumn?

How to reduce the cost of manual capture and allow land wasps to automatically enter the box to overwinter?

What are the benefits of artificially breeding wasps?

What is the biggest challenge in artificially raising wasps?

In which provinces are land wasps suitable for breeding?

What kind of environment do ground wasps adapt to?

8,000 words are not enough to answer these questions. I will post a special article on Baijiahao to provide further answers.

Finally, I want to say that as long as there is a suitable environment, wasps can be raised. After the wasps build nests and lay eggs in the beehive, let them live in a natural state. Wasps have the habit of staying in their nests and fly out to prey and feed their young. Otherwise, it is difficult for wasps to survive. They are carnivores and prey on all kinds of insects. How can you catch so many insects if you feed them artificially?

But they should be raised in dispersed manner. If the density of beehives in a mountain forest is too high, food will be scarce, and the bee colony will have difficulty in hunting, which will weaken the population. There are also weather and environmental factors. Wasps like dry and hot weather, and so do various insects.

This is a big eye beehive

Small eye honeycomb

Of course, artificial breeding is actually very good, and it will also have a very good income and profit in the future. Now many people will choose artificial breeding because it is particularly reassuring, and people are also very confident when buying, and there will be many old customers returning.

They cannot be bred artificially because the false wasps of hornets are poisonous, and artificial breeding cannot provide a good living environment for hornets.

They can be bred artificially, but hornets are quite aggressive and are particularly likely to sting people, so they should be bred in places away from people.