If you have ever in my life been to the cottage, you probably met a.These insects often build their nests in the most unexpected places, sometimes turning innocuous veranda in the restricted area.Meanwhile, the townsfolk of their diet is unknown.
And indeed: the wasps eat?It's not a bee, but because of special love of flowers, they were not seen.
Oddly, but wasps can rightfully be called omnivores, since their diet is extremely diverse.Adults eat nectar, fruit, eat aphids secret.But they are a considerable number of eat insects and their larvae feed only on them.
Much of what to eat wasps, consists of "salad", which includes a variety of pests.The average number of bees settled around your garden, can destroy a season more than one kilogram of parasites.
When the female comes time to lay her eggs, she stings some rather large insect, injecting into the wound is the amount of venom that production is not dead, and plunged into a kind of lethargy.
After that "canned" transferred to the nest, the female lays directly on the body of the victim eggs, then flies away.Hatched larvae are eaten alive by his stock of provisions.As a rule, for its entire life cycle of a wasp making at least a dozen of these nests.And what wasps feed on other species?
Some varieties are eaten only caterpillars, they also laying their eggs.The larvae grow very quickly, in just a couple of weeks turning into the imago (adults).Although the rate of growth, formed the insects leave the nest until the following year.From what eat wasps, depends their population: in the current year, many pests will and a lot of these predators
In France, there are some sub-species, which as its only supply recognized spiders.Moreover, these wasps (species of the genus Priocnemis) often choose their prey of spiders, which are several times larger than themselves.Very interesting and very way this hunt: the victim being kicked out of his lair, and then with pinpoint accuracy is affected her central nervous knot.The poison of these insects is so strong that could paralyze even quite a large mouse.
interesting is not so much their way of eating that many species do not have traffic male wasps.All individuals - females lay eggs, of which overlook again females.However, common to all is still a way to larval feeding: regardless of the type they eat carefully harvested mother "canned."
the way, is not too popular in our area hornets, the bite of which can be fatal, it is also aspen relatives.These "animals" hunted even on very large grasshoppers, beetles, and sometimes even kill small birds and rodents.Thanks to the powerful poison shortage of food, they do not.Production is literally bursting with powerful stings and swallowed.The larvae feed on vomit half-digested mass.
Despite the daunting properties of their venom, many farmers have not recently expelled, and only welcomes the emergence of insects in their possessions: they eat a lot of pests, eliminating the need for pesticides.
So you know that eating a wasp.
