![]() ![]() If the wound remains hot and inflamed for more than eight to 12 hours, seek immediate medical attention. Wasp stings may also transfer harmful bacteria that could result in infection or even sepsis. If you start to experience dizziness, fatigue, nausea or trouble breathing, seek immediate medical attention. These behaviors will release pheromones that attract other angry wasps.Īfter a sting, wash the wound with water to remove the venom and treat with an antihistamine product that can help ease the pain. To avoid their stings, leave the immediate area and don’t swat or squash wasps. Wasps can sting repeatedly causing pain, swelling and whole-body effects that can trigger allergic reactions that may result in death. Humans can also experience severe reactions when stung by paper wasps. Paper wasps will sting to protect their colony, releasing toxins that can be harmful to mammals like birds, wolves, cats and dogs. While paper wasps can be dangerous and aggressive, they generally do not attack unless they or their nests are bothered. Only fertilized queens will survive the cold. Mated females will go into hibernation during the winter and emerge in the spring to form colonies of their own. In late summer or fall, males, unmated females and the founding queen will all die. If the queen dies, the most aggressive female will become the new queen and begin to lay her own eggs. By late summer there are as many as 5,000 wasps in a nest. ![]() Once her larvae grow to adulthood, the queen reigns and lays eggs as her young gather food, build nests and tend to the larvae. ![]() These nests are built in protected locations. Since paper wasp nests are fragile, the queen will seek out a protected area like a doorway, eave, doorframe, tree limb, dense vegetation or even stacks of wood for her kingdom. By scraping and chewing wood into a pasty pulp, paper wasps make paper-like nests in the shape of an umbrella. These cells come together to form a nest resembling an upside-down umbrella, giving paper wasps the nickname “umbrella wasps”. Paper wasps get their name from their nests, which are built from wood fiber collected from plants, which is chewed to form paper-like, hexagonal cells. ![]()
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