Are the wasps capable of giving honey, and what are they useful ”? Are there any benefits from the Osa bite? Where are the wasps live, what are the nests built of? What attracts the blast next to a person? What are the hazardouses dangerous?

This article presents information for children and adults about Osah. Interesting facts about the Osah.

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What does the wasp look like?

Os can be mistaken for her closest relative - bee. Wasps belong to the webbing detachment. This also includes bees, bumblebees, ants. But the wasps have a number of differences, in other articles we talked about bees, their features. Today we will consider interesting facts about the Osah.

The structure of the body of the wasp makes it clear why these insects are attributed to the submarine of the stemuchery. The breasts and abdomen of the wasps are separated, representing two parts. A beautiful narrow waist of girls and women is called the “aspen waist” for this reason.

Important: thanks to the structure of the wasps, the people expressed the “aspen waist”, personifying the harmony and beauty of the female figure.

Osa is unlikely to think about the beauty of his body, but such a structure gives it other advantages. For example, due to its anatomical structure, the wasp can without effort to sting his victim at any angle. This contributes to the fact that the washing wins in contractions with other, larger in size, insects.

Crimely determine the Opas by its bright color. The body of the insect is separated by black and yellow stripes of bright color. This type of OS is most often found in our latitudes, the family is called paper wasps. But there are other types of OS, for example:

Grumbling wasps
Wallwoods
Tifia
Road wasps
Scoli
Hornets

Not all the wasps have a black and yellow color. Wasp-shirts of emerald color with a metal tint. Road wasps are black with red spots, less often with white or yellow spots. The wasps of Tifia are dark in color with reddish legs. The sizes of the OS can also be different:

Tifis reach sizes of 1-1.5 cm;
Giant individuals of the Os-scribes can have a body length from 3 to 5 cm;
Shine - small, body length not more than 1.5 cm;
Paper wasps are the same in size as bees.
Horners reach a size of 2.5-3 cm.

Depending on the type, the wasps lead a different way of life, they can live in hollows of trees or burrows. Below are photos of different types of OS.

Are the wasps capable of giving honey?

Often the OS is compared with bees. A logical question arises: do the wasps give honey? Some types of OS are able to make honey. Others - no.

IMPORTANT: Walls are common all over the world. In certain areas of the globe, different types of OS live. Those wasps that live in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus are not able to produce honey.

In the cells of aspen honeycombs, you can see a small amount of substance similar to honey. This is the nectar collected from plants, redesigned and having a characteristic floral aroma. But its consistency differs from bee honey, such honey is suitable only for eating Osami. Insects produce it in such a small quantity that is enough only to food directly insects. Therefore, aspen honey is not of interest to the fights.

In the world there is a form of OS, whose honey people eat. Such wasps live in Mexico and Brazil. A variety of OS was received by the corresponding name - Mexican honey wasp. The rural population sometimes uses this honey for food.

Important: aspen honey is not a valuable nutrient product. Unlike a bee, the wasp does not have such enzymes that can provide honey with nutrient properties.

Video: Varieties OS

Osa bite: benefits or harm?

Walls can sting a person. These bites are not always a defensive reaction. It often happens that wasps attack a person for no apparent reason.

If we compare the OS with bees, it should be understood that the bee almost never stung a person if he does not pose a danger to her. Waxes also bite if you turn their nest, if suddenly the wasp is entangled in the folds of the clothes or hair of a person. But there is a non -reasonable opinion that wasps are aggressors. One wasp can repeatedly sting a person at the same time. Thus, her sting and body are arranged. Often, wasps attack not alone, but several at once. In this case, a person has practically no chance of leaving the winner from the so -called fight.

IMPORTANT: OS bites are very painful, much more painful in the bite of bees. The reason is the composition of the aspen poison. The aspen poison includes a large amount of histamine - a substance that provokes an allergic reaction.

Opinions about the benefits of OS bites, ambiguous. There are studies in which it is proved that Brazilian wasps destroy cancer cells through bites, while not damaging healthy cells.

In our area, this type of OS is not found. And about the dangers from the bites of the OS, there is much more information than the benefits.

What harm can the OS bites can do:

A person may develop a serious allergic reaction manifested by Quincke's edema, pain, and fever.
If a person has an allergy, then the bites can be fatal.

OS bites can be difficult to bear by a person: headaches, dry mouth, nausea and dizziness, increased heart rate, up to loss of consciousness and anaphylactic shock are possible.

Is it possible to treat a wasp with bites?

Important: in non -traditional medicine there is a direction - apitherapy. This is treatment by stinging a person with bees. As for the OS, the stingness of the Osami is not practiced.

This happens for several reasons:

There is no practice in which the beekeepers or appetiterape experts would be engaged in the breeding of the OS for treatment.
The harm from OS bites is potentially greater than the benefit.
OS bites are tolerated by people very painfully.

If you or your friends offer treatment by stinging OS, do not believe such specialists.

If you were bitten by the wasp, you should immediately take measures:

The first thing to do is to leave the place of collision with Osami.
Second: apply a cold compress to the place of the bite.
Third: take an antihistamine.
Fourth: to process the place of the bite with a special ointment from insect bites, or to remove swelling with folk remedies.

It is important to know what you can’t do it, if you were stung by a wasp:

Trying to kill the Osa, the probability that it stung you is re -increasing.
You can not squeeze the sting, this can contribute to the penetration of poison into the bloodstream.
You can not comb the place of the bite, since the poison will spread in subcutaneous tissue.

The place of the bite of the individual cannot be combed

How are the wasps useful?

Despite the inability of the OS to produce honey, given the harm from the bites of these insects, many people believe that the wasp is useless. Often you can hear the opinion that the OS needs to be exterminated.

In fact, this is not at all. Our nature is arranged in such a way that useless creatures in it simply do not exist. So it is with Osami. These insects are an important part of the fauna, why, find out below.

Walls on their paws tolerate pollen that pollinates the plants. And pollination of plants is an important biological process, without which it is impossible to receive fruits, berries, fruits and other vital plant products. Waxes along with bees collect nectar, and help each other to do important work for humanity.

Also, wasps are peculiar orderlies of our gardens and parks. They feed on harmful insects that harm fruit and garden trees, shrubs, colors, vegetables in the beds.

Wasp eat the following harmful insects:

Bear
Caterpillars
Dolgozonoi beetles
Listoists
Flies
Bed bugs

Important: Walls destroy insects with such activity that can only be compared with the hard work of ants. Many gardeners in their sites specially plant plants that attract OS.

Plants that attract OS:

Dill
Chamomile
Marigold
Caraway
Tansy

Waxes feed their larvae insects, because larvae need a large amount of protein. Dozens of insects bring daily in their nests. Walls can easily defeat the insect that surpasses them in size. Asses also use the body of insects for laying eggs. The grumbling bee uses the body of the bear for these purposes.

What are the hazardouses dangerous?

Wasp, along with the benefit of plants, can harm. Consider what the wasps are dangerous:

The neighborhood with bees threatens with bites. Walls can protect their nest quite aggressively, we have already talked about the dangers of the bite of the bees above.
Walls are fed not only by insects or nectar, they do not disdain fruits with rot, and also fly near cesspools. Therefore, wasps can become carriers of intestinal infections.
In addition, wasps can spoil the fruits in search of food.
Hornes are harmful to plants, gnawing the bark.

Important: despite the benefit of the OS, it is better to avoid neighborhood with them, especially if there are children. In the process of playing in the fresh air, restless children can stumble upon an axial nest, then you can’t pass the troubles.

Where are the wasps live, what are the nests built of?

Wasp is not ill to choose a place of residence. They can sore the nest in the barn, on the balcony, under the canopy of the house, on the trees. You can meet the OS in the parks. Wasps build nests where you have to, even on a small pebble can grow a nest that contains about a thousand individuals. Wasps can build nests in the ground.

Important: they often say that the wasps became the first inventors of the paper. They make their nests out of paper.

How does this happen? Walls gnaw the wood and chew it. Thanks to special saliva enzymes, wood is crushed and turns into paper. For this reason, public OS is called paper. This is what a hornet's nest looks like.

Wasp begin to lay the nest after spring awakening. The “foundation” of the nest lays the uterus, then the colony of the OS joins the construction. Walls are erecting their nests very quickly. In the very center of the nest there is a uterus. This part of the nest is built by Osami of the strongest wood materials.

A paper hornet's nest serves as a temporary asylum of insects. Wasp live in it in spring and summer. With the onset of cold weather, the wasps are scattered in search of a place for wintering:

Some of them settle in rotten hollows;
Others are hidden in the cracks of trees;
Also, asylum, wasps use land plots under fallen leaves.

Those wasps that remain in a paper nest are doomed to death. The size of the aspen nest can be the size of a walnut, but the largest sizes can be like a basketball.

Video: What will happen if you open the nest with Osami?

What attracts the blast next to a person?

The wasps in the summer fly on the smell of sweets, fruits, sweet drinks, jam, watermelons.
The wasps are also spinning around the trash can, so it is recommended to close a bucket with waste lid.
The smell of spirits and sweat does not like Osam.
Wasp react to bright colors of clothing.

If you have to pass by the OS, try to go calmly, do not wave your hands. If you are bitten by one wasp, others may fly to the smell of poison, wasps subtly feel it.

You can not judge the Osah unambiguously. On the one hand, these insects protect the garden from insect pests. On the other hand, they can mercilessly sting people, bringing a huge risk of health and life. Most people have a fair opinion that it is better to stay away from these insects.