No screaming, fainting or peeing yourself is necessary. Wasps don’t want to fight you.
What they do want is sugar for themselves and protein for their young. They will defend themselves alright if they think they have to. But they’d much rather not tackle us. We’re just too big and strong and panicky for them.
The fact that wasps love our food while also having a healthy fear of humans means you can bribe them into protecting your feast instead of raiding it.
The thing is, wasps can do some things we humans can’t. One of them is putting the fear of God into flies, horseflies and mosquitoes. Those blood-suckers are normally drawn to humans like tiny needles to a giant magnet, but when wasps are around, they prefer to keep their distance.
Turning wasps into your personal security detail is simple: see which food items your wasps are most interested in, put a few chunks on a special plate and move it a little away from your meal (but not too far). The wasps will gratefully descend on the offering and leave you alone, all while scaring away most of the biting insects that normally can’t resist the siren call of your skin.
Just be a good host and wasps will be great guests.
Piknik z osami: od groze in strahu do sožitja in miru
Seveda sem se jih naprej bala. A ko se je strah pred osami umaknil firbčnosti, sem se umirila in jih malce bolje spoznala. S kančkom razumevanja pa je vse lažje.
Ose na splošno nimajo prav nobene želje, da bi se ravsale s človekom, saj se to zanje čisto preslabo konča. Imajo pa zelo rade našo hrano, saj potrebujejo sladkorje zase in beljakovine za svoje mladičke.
Če ti ose vpadejo na piknik, se zato splača malce pogledati, katera jedača in pijača jim najbolj tekne, nato pa je nekaj naložiš na krožniček, ki ga položiš malce stran od svoje pojedine. A ne predaleč stran!
Osja prisotnost namreč sploh ne prija komarjem, muham in obadom, tako da dokler blizu tebe osice brenčijo, se mali krvosesi raje stran držijo.
Skratka, če boš ti dober gostitelj, bodo ose dobri gostje.