{"id":695,"date":"2025-07-29T13:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=695"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:53:06","slug":"a-taste-for-flesh-but-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"A taste for flesh but with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Downed Hornet (short)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynHeY4_UM_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Hornets are famous for their love of picnics which they happily pillage for food, drinks and your screams of horror. If you\u2019ve ever picked up a piece of steak in your trembling hands and inspected it for damage after a hornet raiding party, you probably noticed that they had taken sizeable chunks out of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hornets have powerful jaws and a taste for flesh. But there\u2019s a catch. The adults don\u2019t actually eat meat themselves. Instead, they chew it up and feed it to their young. The babies in turn ooze out a sweet liquid that the adults then happily consume. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case in point, our accidental pet hornet ZhuZhana, the worker-turned-queen who spent the last dozen or so of her hornet years with us, would graciously accept our offerings of sugar water. (She notably dropped some of her enthusiasm for assorted fruits once she had gotten a whiff of pure white sugar.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she never ever deigned to accept any kind of meat. Hornets may possess only a few ganglia but our ZhuZhana clearly knew she could no longer return to her nest to feed the baby hornets. Her cozy new home, complete with an endless supply of sugary treats and our adoring stares, was all she had left and she decided to make the most of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dearly missed by us, she is survived by her family in our old hollow apple tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sr\u0161eni slovijo kot navdu\u0161eni roparji piknikov, kjer se lotijo vsega od sadja, pija\u010de in mesa, pa tudi \u010dlove\u0161kih branilcev pikni\u0161kih dobrot, \u010de po sr\u0161enje presodijo, da se preve\u010d razburjajo. \u010ce \u010dlovek ni preve\u010d zaposlen z vre\u0161\u010danjem in klatenjem po sr\u0161enjih gostih, pa utegne opaziti, da so \u017ee ob prvi najavi njihovega prihoda iznenada poniknile vse druge \u017eu\u017eelke, ki so do tedaj obletavale pija\u010do in jeda\u010do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sr\u0161en je pa\u010d mogo\u010den \u017eu\u017eon, ki vliva strahospo\u0161tovanje \u0161irni okolici, \u0161e zlasti manj\u0161im \u017eu\u017eelkam, ki jih mimogrede hrustne na pol. Prav zato je v osnovi precej mirna \u017eu\u017ea, ki se ne pusti hitro razburiti, kadar je na obisku pri tebi. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Malce druga\u010dna zgodba pa je, \u010de si ti na obisku pri njih. \u010ce te zagledajo blizu sr\u0161enjaka, jim to kar precej pospe\u0161i sr\u010dni utrip. Pa \u0161e takrat hitro pokapirajo, kdo od ljudi je doma\u010d in ne skriva v sebi kak\u0161nih dezinsektorskih namenov. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u010ce ho\u010de\u0161 zanesljivega odganjalca komarjev, moljev in muh skozi vse poletje, si te\u017eko omisli\u0161 bolj\u0161ega od sr\u0161enjaka pod napu\u0161\u010dem. Doma\u010di sr\u0161eni ti ne bodo storili ni\u010desar, razen \u010de ti prvi za\u010dne\u0161, premnoge krilate in tudi kak\u0161ne nogate vsiljivce pa bodo odlo\u010dno napotili drugam.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hornets are famous for their love of picnics which they happily pillage for food, drinks and your screams of horror. If you\u2019ve ever picked up a piece of steak in your trembling hands and inspected it for damage after a hornet raiding party, you probably noticed that they had taken sizeable chunks out of it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A taste for flesh but with a twist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,142,129,128,17,114,12,7,84,94,157],"tags":[143,151,147,145,152,148,130,153,159,144,154,149,146,158,71,155,150,75,89,156],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-english","category-european-hornet","category-insectlife","category-insects","category-life-in-slovenia","category-neanderslavia","category-slovenia","category-objave-v-slovenskem-jeziku","category-vojnik","category-wetlands","category-zhuzhana-the-hornet","tag-europeanhornet","tag-feedinghornet","tag-handfeeding","tag-hornet","tag-injuredhornet","tag-insectfeeding","tag-insectlife","tag-insectrescue","tag-neanderslaviahornet","tag-pethornet","tag-petinsect","tag-rescue","tag-rescuedhornet","tag-rescuehornet","tag-slovenia","tag-srsen","tag-vespacrabro","tag-vojnik","tag-wetlands","tag-zhuzhana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}