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[NicholasP]

Welcome to my journal on my Dolichovespula maculata queen! I caught this queen on 4/10/2022 at 6:28 P.M. under a log here in beautiful Grand Rapids Michigan. According to what my friends have told me no one has kept this wasp species that is also known as the "Bald-Faced Hornet". Since no one has ever kept I unfortunately do not know what they need but from what I've seen on bug guide their nests are made in trees, so I decided to gather some pine, twigs and cardboard and quickly throw together a nest for her. I realized though that I had a problem... That was that I have no wasp nest to give the queen to start with and she doesn't seem to want to build a nest. Maybe I'm just being impatient but I'm very worried that maybe this species of wasp needs another wasp colony's empty nest to start laying. Any help and information on what I should do would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading the beginning of this journal!

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Edited by NicholasP, April 12 2022 - 4:06 PM.

[United-Ants]

she need a lager home where i have found then nesting 2 to 40 feet up dolichovespula maculata

 

 this might helphttps://www.youtube....S0rlGJ9w/videos

 they don't need a premed wasps nest  they make there own nest 

Edited by United-Ants, April 14 2022 - 7:34 AM.

[NicholasP]

she need a lager home where i have found then nesting 2 to 40 feet up dolichovespula maculata

 

 this might helphttps://www.youtube....S0rlGJ9w/videos

 they don't need a premed wasps nest  they make there own nest 

Are you sure she needs a bigger nest? Because online I see videos showing paper wasps using the nest the same size and being ok.

[ANTS_KL]

Are you sure she needs a bigger nest? Because online I see videos showing paper wasps using the nest the same size and being ok.

 Different species have different requirements to survive.

[NicholasP]

 

Are you sure she needs a bigger nest? Because online I see videos showing paper wasps using the nest the same size and being ok.

 Different species have different requirements to survive.

 

That's definitely true. I'm just being cautious about everything because nothing is known about how to keep these wasps in captivity so I'm venturing completely into the dark. I will try these things though. Although bigger nest will be much more difficult to do.

[United-Ants]

One thang lerd from keeping paper wasps is to take the queen out turn the Cage on the side then glue some cared borde in the back of the Cage on the roof then add the queen back in with a water dish and a honey dish
And ofer here bug like caterpillars crickets every day and more when there are lava

[United-Ants]

And with them once they get workers open the lide so they can freerage and look for there owen food

[NicholasP]

Thanks for the advice!

[AntBoi3030]

I found one of these in a log and then ran away because it was terrifying. if only I knew it was a queen...

[United-Ants]

Update?