If you know where the nest is, you can move around the house without making the hornets nervous see, you can live with a wasp’s nest in the house or garden. In many cases, it is impractical; especially there are children in the house. Then eradication is necessary. A free-hanging hive can be neutralized by […]
Prevention
You can avoid hornets settling into the house, by covering potential nesting holes with nylon nets. First and foremost, the gaps between boards in the eaves and vents in the walls need to be covered.
Hornet stings
Hornets are predators that use their stinger to overpower other insects. As you know, they also use it to defend themselves and their larvae. The stingers are not barbed, and can sting multiple times. Hornets do not sting when they are not provoked, however, especially in the immediate vicinity of the nest, they respond quickly […]
Life cycle
Only young fertilized queen hornets overwinter. The queens wake up in the middle of April, and in May they start the process of building up new colonies. In late May, the first workers hatch, and from there, the colony size quickly grows. In August, there are up to 5000-6000 members of the colony. Until then, […]
Hornets (actual wasps)
In Denmark, there are seven species of social hornets. 6 of them are very similar to each other. They belong to the genera Paravespula and Dolichovespula while the species known as the European Hornet, Vespa crabo is more of a reddish yellow and twice the size of the others. Colloquially, they are often called wasps, […]