Working Wasps carrying leafhopper 🐝 - Sony 90mm - Macro Shots
Channel: Macro Shots
Date: 2023-08-05

Working Wasps Dinner time for the wasp 🍽

Working Wasps carrying leafhopper 🐝 - Macro Videography - Sony 90mm - Macro Shots

Unlike bees, wasps can sting repeatedly. Only females have stingers, which are actually modified egg-laying organs. Despite the fear they sometimes evoke, wasps are extremely beneficial to humans. Nearly every pest insect on Earth is preyed upon by a wasp species, either for food or as a host for its parasitic larvae.

A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. The Apocrita have a common evolutionary ancestor and form a clade; wasps as a group do not form a clade, but are paraphyletic with respect to bees and ants.

Wasps are sociable insects, living in colonies of up to 10,000 workers. They build their paper nests in disused animal burrows or in cavities in trees or buildings. Only newly-mated queen wasps hibernate during winter, and emerge in spring to begin building a nest. Queens lay eggs that hatch into sterile females workers. The workers take over nest building and food collection, while the queen continues egg laying.

In spring and early summer the workers collect mainly insects to feed the growing larvae. Towards summer’s end some eggs develop into fertile male wasps, called drones, and fertile females – next year’s queens. These swarm out of the colony and mate. The males die shortly afterwards. As the weather becomes colder all the workers and the old queen die too.

Beware – when a wasp stings or is killed the ‘smell’ of its venom causes other wasps to become more aggressive.

What they eat:
Adults feed on the sugary liquid secreted by the wasp larvae. In late summer, as the larvae have matured, they eat nectar and other sweet substances, eg windfall fruit. Larvae eat carrion and insects.

Length:
Workers are about 15mm long


Equipment -
sony camera
90mm Lens

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