The Queen's awakening
The first thing wasps to do each year is to found a new state or state. in solitary wasp species in a small nest. This task is incumbent on a single queen who was fertilized the previous autumn and survived the winter in a freezing cold.
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When the days get warmer and the Queen out of hers Hibernation awakened, the following things are on their to-do list:
- Find shelter for the nest
- Create a nest
- lay eggs
- Raise the first larvae
- Further generations or Raise an army of female workers
First of all, the queen starts looking for a suitable shelter for her nest - depending on the wasp species, this can be a hiding place Tree trunks, an abandoned mice, a pile of stones or, in the case of the large social wasp species, attics and roller shutter boxes in residential buildings from Be human.
The first breeding chambers are set up there, for which the wasp usually gathers wood as a building material.
She lays the first round of eggs in the incubator. Once the larvae have hatched, they have to be fed. To do this, the queen has to constantly fly out and bring in food in the form of protein-rich insects. In all wasp species, the larvae are exclusively carnivores.
After the pupation phase, the first generation of finished wasps is there, which is now available as an active workforce. The queen can now withdraw into the nest and concentrate exclusively on laying more eggs. You and the hatching larvae are now taken care of by the flocking workers.
In the case of social wasp species, especially the Germans and the common wasp, thousands more workers are produced during the spring. They are initially responsible for the care of the workers who follow them. The rest of the spring is spent on colonizing wasps, as large as possible To breed workers' army in order to breed the important sex animals that are then added in late summer supply. The sex animals are then responsible for the conservation of the species.
