...and every year also the questions of concerned citizens:

What should be considered when the animals become all too annoying and sometimes dangerous, and who can help in an emergency?

The contact persons at the lower nature conservation authority can be found below.

Expert beekeepers and pest control companies (see Yellow Pages) will relocate or remove nests for a fee. If required, the nature conservation authority can name contact persons for relocation.

Hornets, all native bumblebees and (wild) bee species as well as some completely harmless digger and leaf wasps are among the animal species specially protected by nature conservation law. They may only be relocated or killed in justified exceptional cases after a special permit has been issued. The nature conservation authority is responsible for issuing such a permit.

All other wasp species - including the sometimes annoying representatives - are only subject to the general protection of the Lower Saxony Nature Conservation Act: Their removal does not require a permit, but their nests may not be damaged or destroyed without reasonable cause.

As the individual species can sometimes only be distinguished by experts, in cases of doubt an assessment should be carried out by an employee of the lower nature conservation authority. A decision can then be made on the necessity or practicality of relocation or removal.