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Does anyone keep wasps?

Started By Pulliamj , Apr 20 2015 11:06 AM

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#1 Offline Pulliamj - Posted April 20 2015 - 11:06 AM

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I'm looking at paper wasps in particular.

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#2 Offline AntTeen804 - Posted April 20 2015 - 1:50 PM

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LOTS of brown paper wasp around my yard.But I don't keep them.

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#3 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted April 20 2015 - 1:57 PM

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Sounds cool!

#4 Offline Pulliamj - Posted April 20 2015 - 2:25 PM

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I think I'll try it this year. It's not my original idea. I looked it up and they have been kept in captivity before. They are voracious eaters. It sounds fairly easy. Make sure they always have water and plenty of food to feed their larva. There is a great write up about it on the Internet.
https://www.google.c...9Tgr-V2y7-4GSMQ

It's a similar forum to this except for venomous invertebrates.

Edited by Pulliamj, April 20 2015 - 2:26 PM.

#5 Offline dermy - Posted April 20 2015 - 6:14 PM

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Yes I have tried my hand at wasp relocations before, but just Yellow jackets, and only Free-Ranging. So far I'm trying to work on a way to Free-Range Ants

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#6 Offline kellakk - Posted April 20 2015 - 8:58 PM

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I'm going to try keeping wasps this year also. I have yet to locate a colony though...

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#7 Offline Trailandstreet - Posted April 21 2015 - 2:52 AM

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There's a journal of a Polistes in a german forum, maybe it could help.

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#8 Offline dermy - Posted April 21 2015 - 2:27 PM

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If you want a great journal I can link you to one.

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#9 Offline Pulliamj - Posted April 21 2015 - 2:38 PM

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Link away 😃

#10 Offline dermy - Posted April 21 2015 - 2:54 PM

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Not about polistes but here is one about Yellow-Jackets:
http://venomlist.com...rnal2-206-2012/

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#11 Offline Pulliamj - Posted April 21 2015 - 3:13 PM

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Very nice read.

#12 Offline dermy - Posted April 21 2015 - 3:17 PM

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I was hoping for a better one sorry, that site is like crashing out [the admins aren't ever there and the site deleted old pictures ] There was an amazing thread about a wasp nest relocation last year.