NATURE & WILDLIFE

Hornets

Season
1
Episode
6
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episode description

The hornet is a much feared creature, but its sting is no worse than a bee’s. They are docile and industrious creatures who build their nests out of a self-made papier-maché. The hornet queen lays up to 40 eggs a day. The larvae are reared by loving nannies, who feed them a special mush made of wasp meat. Soon the little ones hatch, crawling out of their cocoons as grown hornets. This magical process is known as „metamorphosis“. The transformed larvae cut their way through the side of their silk cocoon and, for the first time, enter the wide, open world.

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