A Hungarian city was ordered closed due to dangerous insects

As soon as you know a Kemma.hu reported, the area was closed to visitors and warning signs were posted. The extermination of horse wasps will continue in the coming days.

The shore of Lake Cseke in Tata it is a popular hiking spot for the locals, a real fishing paradise. Its special attractions, the english park and the romantic ruins there attract countless tourists to the shores of the lake. In recent weeks, however, an ever-increasing horse wasp colony endangers the visitors here.

There are so many dangerous insects that we had to intervene

Mürkl Levente, head of the environmental protection and city management office in Tata, told the newspaper’s question that he was already out at the site on Thursday morning and in the morning by reducing wasps working professional, however there are still insects left in the affected tree.

“Presumably, the den may have several exits, so the specialist will return on Friday morning. Hopefully, after that, the walkway will be free of wasps again”

said the office manager.

They drew each other’s attention to the danger of wasps a few days ago the citizens of Tata on social media. As it was written, on the promenade of Lake Cseke, the Olympic training camp a very aggressive family of horse wasps moved into a burrow in one of the trees next to his fence. Passers-by noticed the wasps last week. Then a man was stung by five wasps.

Eight wasps attacked a walker on Monday.

Fortunately, none of them turned out to be allergic to wasp stings, so they escaped with a few bumps.

Horse wasp stings can be dangerous

A Vespa crabo, that is European horse wasp the largest European bee species. Not only is its size and voice more powerful than those of its ordinary relatives, but its bite is also more dangerous, and you don’t even have to be allergic to it to have serious consequences.

It was not by chance that it got the name horse wasp eitherthe workers can grow to 2.5, while the queen can grow up to 3.5 centimeters. Even in milder cases, its sting causes minimal skin redness and swelling, but a rash and numbness may also occur in the severe pain beside. The insect is active from spring to late autumn, and you can meet it even more often on warm summer days.

In more severe cases after the sting, sweating, dizziness, feeling sick, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, shortness of breath, heart problems, nausea, abdominal cramps, nervous system and muscle system disorderas well as near-fainting and loss of consciousness may also occur.

Among the former, even in the case of milder symptoms a doctor must be consulted urgentlyand if an allergic reaction is likely, an ambulance must be called immediately, because in extreme cases a single bite can be fatal.