Friends who like the animal world know that the animal world is not only full of wisdom, but also full of cruelty. Speaking of bees, we are most familiar with bees, just a way of life of bees has to make us five bodies thrown to the ground, just say the honeycomb of bees, that is enough for our people to study for countless years, and the life habits of bees, but also have this similar management system of our human beings, and even a lot of "civilization" may appear before human discovery.
Because the bees and our life is relatively large, so many friends are more aware of bees, but we all know that in addition to bees, other bees are also very much, such as we often say that the wasps, wasps, etc., in fact, these are other bees, and in the world of other bees, in addition to being full of wisdom, it is also full of cruelty, such as the story of the wasp that today's bee tribe Xiaobian wants to share with you about the wasp, I have to say that in the world of the wasp, there is also another kind of "civilization" and cruelty. It's just that wasps have a relatively small relationship with our human lives, so not many people know about it.
Although the wasp has little connection with our lives, it is a role that really scares us humans, because some species of wasps are too toxic, and some have strong tracking ability, if you accidentally provoke, serious injuries are small things, and you may die.
In fact, there is also a heart-warming side in the world of wasps, such as the wasp that the small editor of the bee tribe to introduce to you today, strictly speaking, there are three types of wasps in the current public information, the Austrian wasp, the pointed-toothed wasp and the northern long wasp.
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In the wasp-related research, the three wasps usually call the way of stealing parasitism, although it seems that there is no difference between other socialized bees, but this socialized social structure can be described as full of bloody rain, let's take a look at how this pirate parasitism is formed.
The first stage: aggression
At this stage, there are first two protagonists, one is the wasp colony that already has a "home room", and the other is the queen wasp who has not yet created a "home room". In this process, the queen wasp who did not create a "home room" will try her best to enter the colony that already has a "home room" and then kill the queen in the normal colony.
Step 2: Take over the nest
After killing the queen in a normal colony, the intruding queen will lay her own eggs in the honeycomb and take the honeycomb for herself.
Step 3: Control the opponent's worker bee
We all know that whether it is a wasp or a bee, are socialized social social structures, the members are queen bees, male bees, worker bees (worker bees) such a structure, and the worker bees in the bee colony, is the main guard and attacker, if you want to control the bee colony, as long as you control the worker bee can get it, and this queen bee that breaks into other bee colonies to kill other queen bees, there is this ability, the specific method used to control the worker bees in this bee colony is not clear at present, but more research believes that It is a pheromone secreted by the intruding queen bee that controls the original worker bees so that the worker bees will not resist.
Third: Let other worker bees serve their offspring
In the parasitic behavior of the wasp, there are two kinds of permanent parasitic behavior and semi-parasitic behavior, and the wasp mentioned above is a permanent parasitic wasp, unlike other wasps, even if other wasps successfully occupy other honeycombs, while using the professional bees of other bee colonies, they will also cultivate their own offspring, let their offspring build nests, guard the honeycomb.
But the three kinds of bee tribe mentioned above are not such habits, these three kinds of wasps are permanent parasitic, and they will not cultivate their own professional bees to work, completely use the original professional bees to serve themselves, I have to say that this is really very cruel.
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If we think about a problem carefully, it seems that the above-mentioned parasitic behavior is not rigorous, but it is true that when mentioning the phenomenon of parasitism, many research materials are recorded in this way, and the imprecision here lies in the life span of the wasp.
We all know that the life span of the wasp worker bee is not long, but after the formation of a swarm of wasps, the life of a nest of wasps is about one year, obviously, if a queen bee occupies a nest of wasps, as long as it does not let its offspring work, then the front of the worker bees will always die one day, so how does it complete this permanent act of stealing parasitism? The small editor of the bee tribe believes that there is another problem involved here, that is, the problem of catching "slaves".
In some data, it is recorded that some vespa species will go to other vespa colonies to catch other swarms of professional bees to their own honeycombs to do coolies, until these vespas are tired, it is clear that if the pirate parasitic vespasic wasps want to complete the entire theft parasitic behavior, as long as their offspring do not participate in nesting and other work, then other professional bees are not enough, and finally the bee colony can not continue, then the best explanation is that the wasps produced in this intruding bee colony, although they did not participate in nesting and feeding work, But you keep catching new professional bees from other colonies to supplement them, what do you think about this? Feel free to share your thoughts below.