In nature, there is a huge variety of wasp species. Most familiar to us
paper (social) wasps that build their nests near human habitation and live in families. In this they resemble bees. They also have a queen and worker bees. The nest, in appearance similar to a gray or brown pear, begins to build the uterus. She sculpts it somewhere under the roof, on the wall or on a dry tree.
Dry wood is a working material for construction. With powerful jaws, the wasp gnaws off pieces of wood, chews and soaks with saliva. The result is a durable building material from which honeycombs are built. The uterus lays an egg in each cell. Once the females have reached maturity, they will continue to build a nest that, when dry, resembles layered paper.
The insects in question protect their dwelling, and therefore sting anyone who approaches it. It is very dangerous to accidentally disturb a hornet's nest. Then more than one wasp can sting. The sting, unlike bees, the wasp does not leave in the body of its victim. She injects poison and flies away. But that doesn't make it any easier, of course. The bite site swells, reddens and hurts. Pain goes away within half an hourthe swelling also gradually disappears.
Wasps most often sting in self-defense. Being in nature, you can step on the mentioned creature with bare feet, or lie down in the grass and crush the insect, then the sting of the wasp can stick into the back. Especially dangerous bites in the face.
It often happens that a person accidentally takes food into his mouth, on which a wasp sits. A bite on the tongue can cause swelling of the airways with very serious consequences. The man is suffocating from suffocation, he needs urgent medical help. Wasp stings are especially dangerous for people with allergies. Knowing about their problem, they should carry antiallergic drugs with them, especially when going out into nature.
Because the wasp does not leave a stinger, it can sting more than once. This insect is different from the bee, which leaves a sting in the body of the victim. In a bee, the sting has notches that hold it in the wound. Unable to draw her "weapon", she is fatally injured in her abdomen and dies.
If a bee sting can be seen with a magnifying glass, it is more difficult to find out what a wasp sting looks like, because wasps very rarely leave it in the body of the victim. Some individuals hunt bees, they are also called bee wolves. Catching up with prey, they strike it in the head with their sting right on the fly and carry it to their offspring.
So where does the wasp sting? It is located at the end of the abdomen and looks like a dagger blade, which easily plunges into the body and just as easily out of it.comes out. If you killed the wasp at the moment of the bite, the sting may remain in the wound and must be removed with tweezers. Next, the bite site should be treated with hydrogen peroxide or a pink solution of potassium permanganate.
The place where the wasp has stuck its sting should be cooled by applying a towel dipped in cold water to it, or even better, wrap ice in it. Also, the victim needs to drink plenty of fluids. Most often, wasps bite people in nature, where a wonderful healer, plantain, is always at hand, or rather, under their feet. Its leaves should be washed in water, crushed and put in a bandage. Having applied such a compress to a sore spot, after a while it must be changed. The pain and redness of the skin usually subsides fairly quickly.
