Huge hordes of aggressive wasps may threaten Transcarpathia

"They are becoming more and more aggressive," says the famous Hungarian bee keeper Attila Shmutko, who lives in Debrecen. He told about his observations he has been conducting over the past 4-5 years.

Thus, according to Mr. Shmutko, due to climatic changes, over the past 4-5 years, the wild wasps living in the floodplain of the Tisa river have had major problems with their habitat. Forming huge swarms, they often attack people and their homes, causing enormous damage to the health of adults and even children.
And what is most frightening, the number of adult individuals lately has increased in geometric progression. The wasps have also become bigger in size.
For a long time, Atilla Shmutko says, wasps were mostly living on pastures with wild flowers. Now, due to drought and ill-conceived human agricultural activity, the wasps have come closer to the people’s houses.
They, among other things, increasingly often attack colonies of honey bees and, being scavengers, infect the honey bees all kinds of diseases. This is another source of danger for people.
Thus, the ethnomologist summed up, the hordes of wasps threaten not only the eastern part of Hungary, but also the adjoining territories in southern Slovakia and in Transcarpathia in particular.
Source: Hungarian news portal szon.hu.