{"id":698,"date":"2025-08-20T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:15:45","slug":"from-pest-to-protector-how-to-keep-wasps-away-from-your-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"From Pest to Protector: Keeping Wasps away from your Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From Pest to Protector: How to keep Wasps away from your Picnic\" width=\"510\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0jUqveBx1c?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>No screaming, fainting or peeing yourself is necessary. Wasps don\u2019t want to fight you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019d much rather not tackle us. We\u2019re just too big and strong and panicky for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, wasps can do some things we humans can\u2019t. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019t resist the siren call of your skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just be a good host and wasps will be great guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Piknik z osami: od groze in strahu do so\u017eitja in miru<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Seveda sem se jih naprej bala. A ko se je strah pred osami umaknil firb\u010dnosti, sem se umirila in jih malce bolje spoznala. S kan\u010dkom razumevanja pa je vse la\u017eje.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ose na splo\u0161no nimajo prav nobene \u017eelje, da bi se ravsale s \u010dlovekom, saj se to zanje \u010disto preslabo kon\u010da. Imajo pa zelo rade na\u0161o hrano, saj potrebujejo sladkorje zase in beljakovine za svoje mladi\u010dke.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u010ce ti ose vpadejo na piknik, se zato spla\u010da malce pogledati, katera jeda\u010da in pija\u010da jim najbolj tekne, nato pa je nekaj nalo\u017ei\u0161 na kro\u017eni\u010dek, ki ga polo\u017ei\u0161 malce stran od svoje pojedine. A ne predale\u010d stran!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Osja prisotnost namre\u010d sploh ne prija komarjem, muham in obadom, tako da dokler blizu tebe osice bren\u010dijo, se mali krvosesi raje stran dr\u017eijo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Skratka, \u010de bo\u0161 ti dober gostitelj, bodo ose dobri gostje.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No screaming, fainting or peeing yourself is necessary. Wasps don\u2019t 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\u2019d much rather not tackle us. We\u2019re just too big and strong and panicky for them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Pest to Protector: Keeping Wasps away from your Picnic<\/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":[19,8,10,160,129,17,114],"tags":[175,174,165,130,162,170,171,173,71,169,75,161,163,168,172,166,167,164],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-english","category-food","category-german-wasp","category-insectlife","category-life-in-slovenia","category-neanderslavia","tag-europeanwasp","tag-germanwasp","tag-germanyellowjacket","tag-insectlife","tag-insects","tag-nemskaosa","tag-ose","tag-piknikzosami","tag-slovenia","tag-vespulagermanica","tag-vojnik","tag-waspcoexistence","tag-waspfriends","tag-waspoffering","tag-wasppestcontrol","tag-waspprotection","tag-wasps","tag-waspsagainstmosquitos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}