Paper Wasp Honey Taste Test
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In this episode of the insect hunter I take a look at and taste some honey that was found in the nest of a European paper wasp (Polistes dominula). I compare the honey to one produced by honey bees. I also discuss the human impact of wasps in regards to pollination, as predators and their pest status.
Special thanks to my colleagues who responded to my questions about this topic including:
Lauren Diepenbrock
Megan Asche
Manu Saunders
Image Credits:
Polistes Dominula
David Cappaert, Bugwood.org
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
Honey
Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Honey Bee
Florida Division of Plant Industry , Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bugwood.org
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Sponsored by University of Idaho Extension
Music by Epikus
/ @epÏkus.musÏc
"I left it in the fridge for a month, I think it's dead." Geez
Ya think?
Poor wasp... Wasps nahhhh screw wasps
Wasp starts flying and attacks.
@@clarelay5032 They only attack when they feel threatened
I laughed so hard at his nonchalantness. 🤣🤣🤣
1) finishes video
2) goes hunting for wasp honey
3) is stung horribly by angry neighborhood wasps and regarded as crazy by confused neighborhood WASPs
sounds like a cartoon lol
Are those "neighborhood WASPs" by any chance protestant?
@@timewarpdrive77 That's literally what the P stands for
@@hyperion3145 wooosh
I’m from Europe and I’m no expert but everyone knows back in Europe that paper wasps steel honey from bees to store for their kin . Hopefully it will help you to understand how you ended up with paper wasp honey
It is definitely a possibility.
If that's the case then why it's so oil like?
Am From Europe As well And I seen Paper Wasps Making Their Own Honey
Everyone who?
Well why would the honey taste different from the bees honey then
Yes I agree that insects are so under studied. I have a native plant garden in my backyard here in Texas and it drives me insane when I discover an insect and cant identify it....
I totally agree! Thanks for taking time to share meaningful thoughts and comments.
I have no idea how many insects I couldn't identify was because I just couldn't find results, or if it was just an undocumented species. There's a LOT of undocumented insects, arachnids, etc.. So it's not that rare to encounter something new.
There are ants in the african desert that produce a sugary substance in their abdomen that is edible, look like honey.
@@Enonymouse_ did you just eat them
@Daniel Rivera Have you tried any insect identification apps? You can download them onto your phone and when you take a photo of the bug, it will try and match it to similar pictures to help you find out what you're looking at. I love using apps like that for identifying plants too. :)
Use it for the iron chef secret ingredient
Lol yes. That would be fun. :)
There is a wasp species that does actually produce honey.
It is called Brachygastra mellifica.
Also known as the Mexican Honey Wasp.
They are native to North and South America.
Their honey is considered to be a delicacy in Mexico.
I wonder what it tastes like...
Man eats honey WITH the comb, then with an almost surprised and disappointed look says "this ones a little waxy". Well duh lol 😂
Dude that’s so mean lol. She made some honey, and got frozen to death for her troubles. 🤦🏾♂️
frl
Fax
Why are you laughing
Ikr
look at it this way...there are BILLIONS more just waiting to mess your day up and steal your slushie XD
My heart broke for that frozen wasp
We suddenly began having a thick maple syrup smell in our bathroom in late August. The smell is stronger on a windy day. Discovered wasps outside coming in and out of the bathroom vent. All we’ve ever seen around here are paper wasps and mud daubers. (Eastern Nebraska).
What happened, did you get some wasp honey.
I was a little worried that that might not have been honey at all, but mashed-up caterpillar goo (or something even less appetizing.) Or maybe it was nectar mixed with caterpillar goo? I know at least one species of bee makes meat honey, as terrifying as that sounds.
😩😩😩
Which wasps?
I found a wasp nest with honey too. I was so confused because I had never heard of this. You are the first person I found who has also seen yellow jacket honey. I live in the USA BTW. Hope someone does more research on this. It’s very fascinating.
maybe the wasp was feeding on a left over nest?
Yellow Jackets and paper wasps look similar but are different species
im in the process of trying to tame a wasp hive. i kinda have it tamed they dont sting me when im near their nest, i can also pick them up with my fingers and placd them on my arms
This is me again using my own account this time.
I found another smaller nest with honey this spring left over from last year. This doesn't prove they make honey but I now have two nests with honey.
BTW I don't know the difference between Yellow Jackets and the Paper wasps over here in Washington so I don't know which made the nest.
One honey making paper wasp you are likely to find in northeastern parts of the Americas is the metric paper wasp (polistes metricus). They usually stockpile honey collected from flowers throughout the fall, the queens leave to find crevices to lay dormant in during the winter. On calm winter days, whenever it gets warm enough, they will leave their crevices to feed off of their honey stores. This allows them to live a bit longer than most other wasps. Our other honey making wasps are mostly tropical.
We likely have more than the above mentioned, wasp research is often neglected in favor of bees, so my information is limited.
Dear Jason, I came across your video because some paper wasps started building a nest in my garden in Germany. I also have a friend who does some beekeeping, and we were wondering if there are other insects that produce honey (honeypot ants may count...). I have a book "Wunderbare Welt der Insekten" (Amazing world of insects) by Ulrich Sedlag (East Germany, 1978) which was meant for the general public, but with a scientific background. In it I found a comparison table (bees, wasps, ants, termites) with an entry "food storage". About wasps it says "Only honey wasps (tropical and subtropical America) and, in lesser amount, paper wasps store honey." So the fact itself must have been known to the experts for quite a while...
Did you even watch the video?
Awesome!!!
@@SC1M1why would you think they didn't?
@@diztinger this was a year ago idk why I thought they didn’t watch the video
I have a friend who keeps bees. they always laugh about how their bees are constantly stealing honey from the wasps so they don't have to make any.
Woah I thought wasp stole honey
@@1fiddysquiddy386 bees even steal it from each other. As in other nests.
@@1fiddysquiddy386 Wasps also steal honey.
@@catpoke9557 crime in the vespa world is not uncommon
@@janinebelleestrada7096 vespa only includes wasps hornets etc, the bees are included in the apis genre. which are also from the apidae family, but are part of the hymenoptera both wasps and bees and many other insects
imagine you just found the worlds safest and most potent psychedelic drug ever made on earth, that would be wild.
what if that was the wasp toilet
Ha ha well then they have some pretty sweet poop
honey with almond taste?
Let's harvest paper wasp right now
It really was quite nutty.
Insect Hunter bruh that’s cyanide
Shut up and take my money.
Probably a cyanide compound. Wouldn't eat it if I were him.
I live in America Kentucky and I saw a orange paper wasp collecting pollen from flowers
WASP : "go steal your own honey human, this is my personal stashe"
This video deserves MORE views!!
Agreed
Wow, very cool observation!
I’m not a proper expert, but I do know 2 facts that make me worry about this haha. Firstly, most wasps grind up dead hugs to pack in those cells for their larvae. Secondly wasp larvae crap/pee a “dark, sugary liquid”. So this could be as simple as a bad case of diarrhoea of her babies, mixed with some half broken down bug goos and proteins. I would not taste it haha
*bugs not hugs, they ain’t my grandma haha
Honey is bee poo too though , I think?
@@robinHobin no, but your point probably stands… they don’t poop it, they regurgitate it from their honey stomach and pass it around between other bees until it’s fully broken down, then they spew it into the honeycomb and fan it with their wings until it thickens up and loses water, then they cover the wax over
I wonder if the paper wasp honey had a nutty/ almond taste because it's stored with the paper nest as opposed to beeswax? Maybe it's a bit like when we store wine or spirits in oak barrels and it changes the flavour and colour of the drink. I know that the nectar source can also affect the colour and flavour a lot - e.g. buckwheat honey is also very dark, like what we see here with the paper wasp honey. The store bought honey was likely multi-floral (a mix of nectar from lots of flowers). That might explain why it had quite different flavours (at least partially).
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
I know this vid is 4 years old but a simple Google search answers your question that your researcher friends could not.
What was it I don't see anything on Google about paper wasps and honey
SO INTERESTING!!! Great video :)
Glad you enjoyed it.
The region of Mexico where I’m from (Nuevo Leon, about 30 miles from the U.S. border), we eat this. We eat it with the paper, too. The wasps that make it, though look nothing like these. The honey in our region tastes like delicious honey, not almonds. I actually had some today.
This explains why my dog eats wasp nest with wasp and all. He loves it.
"Wasps are not all bad", he's been taken over by the Bloodflies
Here in central California, every summer we get tons of paper wasps hovering over the back lawn. Usually, late spring until end of august or september, I think they're looking for insects to leave for their young, am I right or is there something else happening? Cuz in September, they sometimes dog-pile onto each other.
I've never had a problem with wasps, personally (hornets are another story). I've even more-or-less befriended a colony that consistently comes back to to life in my yard by not showing them fear and coming to visit them with snacks (honey / nectar) so that they associate me as being a friend. I think the main thing with them is, you can't let them smell/sense your fear.
For me yellow jackets were an issue
European hornets baldfaces paper wasps generally left me alone
Great video.
Thought a wasp flew out when the fly was buzzing around. Cool video thanks for sharing
I drunk water in which Northern paper wasp had boiled, is there any problem
honestly, this is one of the most interesting videos ive seen on this godforsaken site. great vid brotha, im going to do some research and see what i can find on wasp honey!
I saw paper wasp honey about 2 years ago
That as blown my mind. We get them in England by the millions. Fishermen use there nest and larva as bait, it's called royal larva and its quite expensive are you can try get it yourself but I wouldn't recommend it. This is the first time I've seen they produce honey. Absolutely mind blowing 🤯
I swear when i was a kid like 15 i found the same nest like this and no one believed me and i tasted it and it tasted good
I dont think 15 is being a kid anymore sorry
@@bigincognito2095 sorry i offended you bys saying that 'snowflake' do you need a written apology with a hot chocolate drink ?
Do you have a problem with that ? I said a kid yes so what ?
Get a load of this guy !
Huh?
Cat Games I don’t think you understand🤣🤣🤣
@@islandofdoctormoreau what
So glad to find your video. I have discovered multiple European Paper Wasp nest full of honey and it has stumped multiple entomologists.
Subbed. I like your personality
the way bees make honey is from their body fat and calories, wasps have that too so thats the reason they make honey too please reply what type of bees honey is that from that from the company
"perhaps I treated you too harshly"
I live in Los Angeles area, and the paper wasps under the eaves makes honey as well.
Interesting, I have never seen honey stored in Polistes in Europe or Rhopalida in Australia.
very interesting video insect hunter
We have them in Australia. They live in brick wall cavaties and produce honey but it's more like sap
where the video to find springtails
Charlie would be proud
I was looking for this comment. And was disappointed it took this long for the reference to show up
Loved how the fly wanted some too lol
How do you know it's not wasp diarhea?
Amazing.
Yes its crazy what we can learn.
I’ve found a wasp nest with honey in it also
"I left it in the fridge for a month so I think it's dead."
Me: Obviously! It's lifeless.
You can freeze an insect for a few hours and it will come out of the freezer lifeless, then wake up when it warms up
@@whisky-6-fitty752 I learned that a long time ago
I’ve had wasps steel honey from my bees before
I do HVAC. I don't see honey often but I do see it.
I know that bumblebees produce honey, but more as a backup plan than a large-scale winter reserve (so not nearly enough to be harvestable without introducing a real starvation risk to the nest). I also know that there is one species of wasp, the Mexican honey wasp, which is known beyond a shadow of a doubt to produce large-scale honey stores, honeybee-style. Thus, it wouldn't be surprising at all if other species produced it on a small scale like bumbles do.
European paper wasps do produce some honey, there's not a lot of information about it but it's definitely a known thing. I've tasted it and I agree that it tastes like wildflower honey from honeybees.
Also, someone might think that they could have gotten it from a honeybee nest. Paper wasps don't do that, they aren't able to raid beehives like yellowjackets or hornets do.
The function of the honey is to serve as a storage of sugars for fertile females in the winter. Fertile females are females that hatch late in the season, mate and overwinter to start new colonies the next year. Workers store honey for them before dying, in fact the wasp you collected with the nest was probably an old worker.
I think, especially in englisch literatur, you find more about it if you watch for "Wasp Serum" and other variations.
As far as I know, it isn't "classified" as Honey also because it has a different composition - But that's all I know about it.
European Wasps DO NOT and CANNOT make honey. Please do some actual research. I could say that elephants make Pepsi. You would probably believe that too!
@@stansmith4054 I'd drink elephant pepsi.
explain why my wasp colony has survived a whole canadian winter and is on its second winter?
I tried it once over 15 years ago lol. Not bad at all!
They actually are beneficial in the garden for cabbage loopers and armyworms
Depending on where you live.
There are I think 11 kinds of wasps
The two we have here where I live (Germany) are just trash, not good for gardens and forests, they just kill bees
so that how wasp live though winter.
Bro I’m sorry but I’ve seen wasps go out of their way to attack me.
You just gave away the secrets of Honey Nut Cheerios
Lol now you know!
5:37 I like the way he eats here
Wasps are actually responsible for most of the pollenating. They are more common so that is why gardens are getting pollenated.
I found a wasp nest with honey when i was 16
So cool, how is your channel not viral?
I dont know thanks for taking time to comment.
He's nutty. 😮
Put them in the freezer instead of the fridge, it’s a lot less painful and much quicker for them! & they’re much more easily pinnable after too
Maybe you could try tasting the Honey Wasps Honey some day.
Most of you found wasps in your home
my cousin found bees in her house
Africanized bees will populate anything, but I doubt it was those. Does she go on vacations?
Did not know this!
When I was young I found the same wasps nest and had sweet liquid I. It ,, that was in Algeria
Do wasp have queens and workers like bees do? Is it possible that maybe only the queens or if not queens, then at least only certain breeding females produce honey and it's really more like royal jelly?
That is a very good question
theres an vido i saw come out of Australia named like Australia's deadliest wasp nest or something and its huge...this guy is pest control and starts taking down this massive nest and he found a lot of sticky substance in it. You should check it out
This video is exactly 1 years old
You just got subscribed.
I have a big a phobia of every bug
Interesting 🤔
From my understanding wasps breed protein to breed. So a nutty taste would kinda make sense
I'm not a researcher. But I do know that some wasps will catch insect's for their larva to eat, since the adults cannot eat solids. The larva then process it, and leaves behind a nutrients rich liquid they can consume.
Guy is like hey i may have found that wasp maybe make money "i think i should eat it and compare it" why not send it to a lab and figure out what it was...
I've seen honey in European paper wasp hives before but not in the amount you have there.
I see lots of that stuff in huge bald faced hirnets nests here in Saskatchewan canada
Perhaps the original colony died off, and you just happened to find the nest while another wasp was inspecting? Just a curious hypothesis since that species doesn't usually make honey. Nice video, very interesting.
What's a related to be because please overwatch there was social
It's not dead. It's pining for the fjords.
Could it be possible the wasps stole the honey from a beehive and brought it to their hive
You're eating the regurgitated food from the larvae that would have been in there. They feed the larvae meat and fruit, which the larvae digest and regurgitate as a sugary substance that the adult wasps eat.
It's meat honey made from dead bugs.
Could be honey stolen from bees
Is the mic in his throat
CREAM MOUTH.
Me just waiting for that wasp to maybe come back to life to get a real show. Hahah
Whats the name of the intro song?
Nice video btw
Sum Eques by Epikus. You can find more about his channel in the description of the video.
@@InsectHunter ty
Shout out to Fly with the cameo fly 🪰 🙌
I WNAT SOME, do they sell it in stores?
Ha ha no. Not yet anyways.
You are guilty of murdering the wasp.
Hows your new year?
Great so far! :)
"I left it in the fridge for a month, I think its dead"
Me: What the fu-
Was it wise to taste it? It could have been poisonous. But great discovery nevertheless
The amount I consumed was so small that I wasn't too worried about any sort of effect on my body.
My grandfather told about that it was produce honey and it's tasty and I've tasted was funny
Its a mixture of pollen and bug/insect insides lol