Bite? Learn about the new Hornets

Hornets - it is a separate species of wasps.
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Therefore, they are very similar. Here are just a hornets larger. Basically, the size of the queen varies from 3 to 5 cm, and the working hornets - from 2 to 4 cm.



The Hornets also quite voracious, but mostly it concerns the larvae.



At a time when adults eat nectar and sap of plants for the larvae they catch protein-rich prey such as small crickets, grasshoppers, bees and wasps.



Once detached from the belly of an insect all the other parts. A sternum masticated and fed numerous offspring.



Do not disdain the Hornets steal honey from bees. They even often settle near apiaries for this purpose. And for one day hornet can kill 2-3 dozen bees.



Working hornets live for about a month.



With the onset of cold weather all the family dies but fertilized the females who fall asleep for the winter in a secluded place. Next spring they wake up and build their own cell for a few tens of cells, take care of the larvae. Subsequently born hornets nest further upset.



The organization of life in the hornet is well thought out. On guard near the nest has a clock, one of the hornet's nest upsets and other feed larvae.



Bites hornets dangerous. Especially if the person is allergic to the venom of wasps and hornets.



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