Detailed Guide to Wasp Farming Techniques: Do Wasps Have Honey?
Today, the editor will introduce you to the wasp. The wasp has another name you may not know - the paper nest wasp. 200 species of wasps have been recorded in China. The wasp is a type of predatory bee. The adult wasp's body is mostly patterned in black, yellow and brown. There is also a kind of wasp that is a single solid color. The wasp has puncture marks of different sizes or a smooth surface. Many members of the public have many curious questions about wasps. Today, the editor will guide everyone through the answers to some of these questions.
Wasp Farming Techniques
1. Nest building: The nest materials are all made from the outer bark of trees, or rotten wood and dead leaves that the wasps chew up and bind together with saliva. The wasp's method of building its nest is: bite off a layer on the inside, add a layer on the outside, so most wasp nests, regardless of size, look like a circle that is constantly growing.
2. The nest foundation is round and multi-layered, composed of several parallel hexagonal shapes, that is to say; they know how to use the least building material to obtain the largest space. The outer shell of the nest is made of 3—5 layers of irregular armor-like plates connected together, with a gap of 2—4 cm between the layers; this shell structure can both keep the nest warm and prevent the temperature inside from getting too high.
3. Food-guarding behavior is mostly seen in large wasp species; when they are feeding (sucking sugary resin, nectar, or cutting up prey) and are suddenly disturbed, they will also attack the disturber.
Do Wasps Have Honey
1. Wasps do not have honey. Wasps and honeybees also have very different eating habits. Honeybees are plant-eating insects that feed on pollen; they are vegetarians, and they play a role in pollinating flowers while collecting pollen. Wasps have complex feeding habits; in addition to sucking nectar, the adults are also predatory, and caterpillars and small green worms on trees are all their prey targets. Since the objects wasps prey on are all pests, in this respect, like honeybees, they are beneficial insects.
2. Wasps and honeybees both have the habit of living in groups. Because honeybees are mostly raised artificially, one beehive can hold tens of thousands of honeybees. Wasps, on the other hand, are mostly wild; the yellow wasp nests found are mostly only the size of a fist, and about one or two hundred yellow wasps can live in one nest. Although they have the habit of living in groups, they are also exclusionary; to members that mistakenly intrude, they will swarm and attack, killing them.
What to Do If Stung by a Wasp
1. The hornet is also called the “wasp”, “mafeng” or “yellow wasp”. It is an insect with a wide distribution, many species and rapid flight. It belongs to the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. The female wasp has a powerful long stinger on its body; when encountering attack or unfriendly disturbance, they will swarm and attack, and can cause allergic reactions and toxic reactions in humans, with severe cases leading to death.
2. Wasp venom mainly contains formic acid, neurotoxins and histamine. After being stung, a person mainly experiences severe local pain, burning, redness and swelling, or blister formation. After being stung by a swarm of bees or a more venomous yellow wasp, the symptoms are more serious, and dizziness, headache, aversion to cold, fever, irritability, spasms and fainting may occur.
3. Around the wound, apply Nantong snake medicine, or choose any one of the following herbs, mash it and apply it externally, such as Chinese violet, Chinese lobelia, Paris polyphylla, dandelion, etc.
How to Extract Wasp Venom
1. The main components of the electric venom extractor are: a wooden frame, a grid-shaped wire mesh, nylon cloth, a glass plate, wires, a switch, a battery box, etc. The wooden frame is 41 cm long, 27 cm wide and 1.2 cm high; the glass is 40 cm long, 26 cm wide and 0.4 cm thick. The nylon cloth is 43 cm long and 29 cm wide, the wire is about 4 m long, there is one switch, and one battery box that can hold 20 ordinary 1.5-volt dry batteries (connected in series).
2. The grid-shaped wire mesh is made of No. 14 or No. 16 stainless steel wire. Two steel wires are straightened and mounted flat on the wooden frame, with a spacing of 6 mm, arranged in a plane. One end of each of the two steel wires is connected to the positive and negative poles of the battery box respectively. When a worker wasp touches any two steel wires at the same time, the circuit is short-circuited; the worker wasp receives an electric stimulus and begins to sting and release venom.
Wasp farming techniques are a issue that many members of the public care about. Many wasp keepers attach great importance to farming techniques, and most of them do very well in this regard. As for whether wasps have honey, wasps do collect nectar. So wasps do have honey. Regarding a series of hot questions about wasps, the editor has already given definite answers in the previous text. As for wasps, the editor reminds everyone to be careful about being stung, and to be sure to deal with it promptly.