Hornet's Nest means a nest built by hornets and is also used as a metaphor for people and collectives that are not good for people.

Introduction of the hive:

The hive, also known as the hive, honeycomb, is the place where the hornet inhabits, reproduces, stores, lives, overwinters, and other activities, and is a general term for the empty spleen, honey spleen, powder spleen, spleen, the son of spleen, the bee path and space inside the hive. The hive is a wax-like structure made of wax secreted by the wax glands in the abdomen of the worker bees and is in the shape of a hexagonal cylinder.

The hive built by the hornet or a closely related bee of the same genus, or the nest with the pupa, is called a dew hive in traditional Chinese medicine. Hornets breeding bees, feathered out of the room, will leave a thin layer of cocoon coat in the hive room, with the increase in the number of generations of insects, the cocoon coat is gradually thickened, the volume shrinks, the color changes from light to dark, and finally into a dark brown, which is a sign of the hive spleen is old, commonly known as the old spleen.

The hornet's nest literature:

"Shennong Ben Cao Jing" classified as the top grade, that its "flavor bitter, flat. The main epileptic convulsion, cold and heat, epilepsy, ghost essence, poisonous intestinal hemorrhoids. The fire boiled good. A bee intestine."

The Classic of the Materia Medica states, "Sweet in flavor, flat and poisonous. Attributed to the stomach meridian."

Introduction to wasps and breeding:

Introduction to wasps:

The wasp (scientific name: hornet), also known as the "ant wasp" or "wasp", is a member of the family of Hymenoptera (wasps). The wasp is an animal of the family Hymenoptera. The adult wasp has the standard physical appearance of an insect, with a degraded oviduct, the poisonous needle, hidden in the tail end of the abdomen. The velum is generally short, the feet are long, the wings are well developed and rapid, and the forewings are folded longitudinally to cover the back of the body when at rest.

The mouthparts are well-developed, and the upper jaw is stout. It flies rapidly and often builds nests from softened pulp-like wood pulp and eats animal or vegetable food. Wasps are distributed all over the world, there are about 15,000 species, more than 5,000 species are known, and 200 species are recorded in China, which is widely distributed.

Breeding and rearing:

The wasp is also called hornet, and the breeding of hornets has high economic benefits and broad development prospects. The life of wasp includes four insect states: egg, larva, pupa and adult, and three generations occur in one year. The first generation of adult wasps will be feathered in mid-June, the second generation usually occurs from mid-June to early July, and the third generation will be feathered from mid-July to early August, and will be mated in late October and start overwintering.

Male bees mostly appear in the 3rd generation, die after mating and have a short life span. Overwintering male bees have swarming, and often hold groups to overwinter against the cold. In the spring, female bees forage and build nests alone, usually in trees or tree holes. Adults prey on Lepidoptera larvae and feed on fruit juices and young leaves.