Forests and meadows of central Europe; not so common anymore

Distinguishing Features: 

Looks rather like the common muggle-wasp, yellow and black, but an adult Soporpungum can reach the size of a fully grown goose. What distinguishes it from the common muggle-wasp is it’s sting at the end of it’s body which is long, green and barbed. The sting is poisonous causing deep coma, depending on how long the sting stayed in the body before getting it out, which is very difficult due to it’s barbed nature.  

It’s wings are of a very fine soft membrane which makes it look a little see-through. When it flies, the sound of it’s fast beating wings is so high-pitched, that it cannot be heard by wizard ears, because of that, it can approach and sting anyone. 

A Soporpungum lays eggs in holes on trees or branches. Usually 4 – 5 soft eggs about the size of a marble. They all stick together in a round soft ball. The Soporpungum fertilizes it’s eggs itself, as after the eggs are layed, a gland that has been producing the sperm will then become active. The young grow in the soft membrane eggs for about 21 days. Curiously, the grow into a larva and straight into it’s waspish form within the egg. There is no larva life as such, and no cocoon-time-span. The first Soporpungum that leaves it’s egg will insert his sting into all the other eggs and kill it’s siblings. Very rarely a second Soporpungum survives despite the stinging.

The nature of the Soporpungum is very vicious. It can sense the heat of a wizard’s body and is very eager to suck the warm blood after injecting it’s sting. Even though, the Soporpungum is rare, one or the other has known to be travelling further north across the english channel.

Fir-tree-needles, assorted leaves of plants and trees, blood, blossom-petals. 

Special magical feature and use:  

The poison of it’s sting is a valuable ingredient of diffrent sleeping-, sedation- and anaestethic-potions. Therefore in central europe they set up small Soporpungum farms to breed them in a save enviroment.