German wasp
The German wasp is a black and yellow social wasp that lives in colonies. It is native to Europe, Northern Africa and temperate Asia, but it has spread to many other parts of the world. Because it competes with local wildlife, it is treated as a pest in most areas outside its native range.1

Ho e tseba jwang
- About 13 mm long, with typical wasp colours of black and yellow1
- Workers have three tiny black dots on the clypeus (the front part of the head, between the eyes and mouthparts)1
- Black marks on the abdomen are highly variable, so they are not a reliable way to identify it1
- Grey paper nests, often in the soil or in attics1
Hangata e ferekanngwa le: The German wasp is very similar to the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris). Unlike the common wasp, it has three tiny black dots on the clypeus, but this only applies to workers. In males, the normally unbroken black mark on the common wasp's clypeus can look broken, which makes it hard to tell the two apart. Members of Vespula are also often confused with the paper wasp Polistes dominula.1
Matla a chefo
Chefo e tswa ka lemao le hlabang.
E kotsi hakae ho batho?
Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.
Haeba e hlaba
- Kgwaratla lemao la notshi o le ntshe mme o pholise sebaka seo.
- Haeba motho a hema ka thata, sefahleho kapa qoqotho di ruruha, kapa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshohanyetso ya aletjhi (allergy): letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso mme o sebedise pene ya hae ya adrenaline (adrenaline auto-injector) haeba a na le yona.
Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele
Dula o bolokehile
- O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
- E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
- Haeba e nngwe e o hlaba: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.
Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile
Hokae lefatsheng?
E kgolo hakae?
E telele hakae?
E boima hakae?
e nyenyane hoo e ka dulang lenalong la hao
e bobebe hoo o neng o ke ke wa e utlwa letsohong la hao
e ka fofa ho tshela lebala lohle la bolo ya maoto ka metsotswana e 16German wasp e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E potlaka hakae?
Dintlha
German wasps are invasive. They have spread to many continents and are especially successful at colonising new areas.1
They can outcompete many other animals for food, which has caused considerable harm to native wildlife where they have invaded.1
Female bee moths (Aphomia sociella) sometimes lay eggs in German wasp nests. Their larvae feed on the eggs, larvae and pupae, and can destroy large parts of the nest.1
In Australia, nests can grow very large and some survive the winter. In England, none of the nests in the study survive the winter.1
Queens mate with between one and seven males, and workers can lay eggs, although worker policing keeps most of their sons from reaching adulthood.1
Colonies grow rapidly over summer, with a large increase in worker numbers and nest size. In late summer, the colony focuses on producing new queens and males.1
Ho senya ditshomo
Tshomo: German wasps are paper wasps because they build grey paper nests.
Nnete: The name is used by mistake. Strictly speaking, paper wasps belong to the subfamily Polistinae, while German wasps belong to the genus Vespula.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo
- Lebitso la saense
- Vespula germanica
- Sehlopha
- Dinotshi, di-wasp le di-hornet
- Lelapa
- Vespidae2
- Tatelano
- Hymenoptera
- Dikontinente
- Yuropa, Asia, Afrika
- Masea
- A single queen starts a nest in spring and lays eggs in hexagonal cells, with one wasp developing in each cell through the egg, larva and pupa stages.1
- Kotsi ho batho
- 2 / 5: E bohloko3
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Vespula germanica (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Vespula germanica (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
- Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.
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Ho hlaba
