Table 4 Average reported time spent wasp-chasing, number of nests found and reared in hives, and what people chose to do with the wasp harvest, as answered by self-defined wasp chasers
From: Nested Houses: Domestication dynamics of human–wasp relations in contemporary rural Japan
What do you do with the wasp larvae that you harvest in Autumn? | ||||||||
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N | How many wasp hunting trips during spring 2013? | Average number of nests found | Average number of nests kept in hives | Share with family %(SD) | Give to friends in the neighbourhood %(SD) | Give to others %(SD) | Sell %(SD) | |
Kushihara | 10 | 10.4 | 11.3 | 6.7 | 56 (±32.4) | 37 (±33.5) | 24 (±21.9) | 4 (±10.1) |
Ina | 26 | 11.7 | 8.9 | 5.1 | 64 (±28.3) | 37 (±15.5) | 27 (±22.2) | 15 (±21.2) |
Higashi-shirakawa | 37 | 9.5 | 12.8 | 8.4 | 39 (±29.3) | 33 (±28.8) | 18 (±23.8) | 9 (±15.8) |
Total | 73 | 10.4 | 11.2 | 7 | 50 (±31.2) | 34 (±26.8) | 21 (±23.1) | 8 (±14.9) |