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On the network, publications on a severe punishment are popular, which threatens those who killed at least one of the OS in Germany. We decided to check whether such a law exists and whether these insects are really strictly guarded.
About the strict laws protecting German OSs write Information Portals and Media. Social networks (""VKontakte" X, Facebook, Telegram), a blog-platform (""Picabu","Zen") And forums Discuss the odious law, but diverge in the assessment of the alleged fine: some write about € 5000, others - about € 50,000 and even € 65,000. In separate posts Approvedthat residents of Germany are obliged to have a special device with which you can catch the Osa that flew into the house without harming her.
Messages about gigantic fines that threaten the inhabitants of Germany, who raised their hands on the OS, diverge on the Internet for several years. This statement gained a new wave of popularity in the Russian -language segment of the network after the user of social networks on April 24, 2025 Threads He published a photo of a certain device with a proposal to guess what it is and why its existence is possible only in Germany. Many commentators replied that this is a device for catching an OS, so as not to accidentally kill them when trying to drive them out of the home and not run into a fine of up to € 50,000. In many fresh publications On the topic of harsh punishment for the extermination of the OS there is a screenshot of this particular post in Threads.
Such a device really exists, it can be bought on European marketplaces. And on sale there are devices of different sizesome are equipped with a magnifying glass, others go to kit With containers for insects. Judging by the descriptions, manufacturers and sellers offer, using this device, how to catch OS and other insects that flew or crawled into the house, and study them in the wild. Such traps are sold not only in Germany, but also in others European countries, so the user who resumed the discussion of fines is not entirely right-this is not exclusively German know-how. There are such on sale and In Russia.
As for a huge fine, which supposedly threatens each killer of OS, then everything is somewhat more complicated. IN paragraph 39 The Federal Law on the Protection of Nature of Germany states: "It is forbidden to deliberately disturb wild animals, as well as catch, injure or kill them without reasonable reason." Specifically, nothing is said about the Osah in the law, but they can be attributed to wild animals. Paragraph 44 Separately, it prohibits hunting, catching, injuring or killing wild animals of specially protected species or to seize, damage or destroy their forms of development from the wild. Violation of these prohibitions entails administrative responsibility, and if we are talking about specially protected species, the offender may threaten fine up to € 50,000 in list There are several types of OS, for example, such types Boembeks. This list also includes bumblebees and bees. "Checked" earlier It wrote The fact that without bees (and other insects-pollinators, which include wasps) to humanity, although it does not threaten death, but a decrease in the quality of life and increasing its value is quite.
Back in 2018, when some German media were a fine for the murder of the OS, the Correctiv factor of the publication Turned For comments on representatives of the authorities of three federal lands: Northern Rhine - Westphalia, Thuringia and Bavaria. None of the answers of the officials could confirm that in his region someone had ever received a fine for the murder of one wasp. In the Northern Rhine - Westphalia at that time there was a precedent when a local resident was a fine, but he destroyed a whole hornet's nest, and paid only € 45 for this. German officials noted that even in theory it would be problematic to write out fines for the murder of each wasp, because in order to do this, someone must declare an offense. So, if you do not kill the OS en masse, publicly and defiantly, you can not be afraid of fines. German Media annually write The huge hypothetical fines for those who kill the OS, but “verified” did not find reports that someone would bear responsibility for such an offense and was obliged to pay a serious fine.
Thus, in Germany, some species of OS are of specially protected species of animals, for the murder of which, by law, a fine of up to several tens of thousands of euros is entitled by law. However, the loud headlines and posts about the harsh punishment for the murder of the OS are mostly clickbeat. Firstly, in the list of specially protected species hundreds of other animals, birds and insects (which not a word in viral publications), and secondly, most of the OS are not at all related to such species (although harm to any wild animals is considered an administrative offense). In practice, many thousands of fines are not written to anyone because it is extremely difficult to track such cases - the OSA or its relatives will not declare this. And such a harsh punishment is provided only for those who kill insects intentionally and systematically. In addition, the Germans are not at all obliged to have devices for catching OS, photos of which scattered over the network. This is just a device that allows how to safely catch and expel insects flying into the house, without causing them harm, or to catch them in nature for study, and then release them.
Correction of May 6, 2025: The mention of the Tsimbeks was removed from the text, erroneously reckoned with specially protected types of OS. In fact, Tsimbeks does not apply to wasp, but to sawmakers. The initial version of the text can be found by link.
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