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Hallo Rivka, Jerry and Mathew, it's been a pleasure to read your interesting comments! Let me just add: At Europe many garden owners/fruit-farmers do hang artificial housings especially for hornets: ![]() Just for their protection AND to have less unwanted insects at their gardens! Wasps and hornets do eat usually only insects - only at a very small percentage - when they are older - they prefer sweet juice. At small Germany we have more than 550 different species of wild-bees, 11 different wasps resp. hornets and only one honey-bee. Some wasps do eat also pollen, some can even collect pollen and many do also pollinate flowers. Hornets do fly 24 h and hunt more than 20 h per day! Hornets do never sleep (only a kind of half-minute-sleep)!!! ciao Hans Jwlehman@aol.com schrieb: I consider the bald faced hornets my friends. On several occasions I observed them taking small horse flies from off my cattle's undersides, eating off their heads then flying off with the body. What called my attention to that act was seeing Bald Faced Hornets flying around under the cattle. I asked myself, Why? So I watched and then made the above observation and after that saw it many times. |
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