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Wasp killing subnitidus ?

Started By Alza , Sep 8 2014 6:22 PM

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#1 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:23 PM

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Don't have a video for this one, but the wasp picked the subnitidus up and flew off with it. Any thoughts ???
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#2 Offline dermy - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:24 PM

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It was likely taking it back to the nest to feed it's young.


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#3 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:25 PM

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Yeah, any insect is a target for ground wasps to feed to their young.


#4 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:32 PM

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Wow

#5 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:35 PM

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They don't have nuptial flights and I'm guessing they can't be kept in test tubes

#6 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:50 PM

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What? Wasps?


#7 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:54 PM

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Looked like yellow jackets

#8 Offline Mads - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:58 PM

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Yes, you can keep wasps, there are a few forums in Europe about keeping many types of social insects, mostly in German however. You capture queens, just as you would ants, you just don't start them in test tubes, obviously. Most of the colonies I have seen were in large cages or aquariums. Their diet is similar to most ants, sugar or honey water and insects to feed their young.

 

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#9 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 7:04 PM

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How do you find them?

#10 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 7:39 PM

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You usually find the paper combs, if active then there is probably an active reproductive in it, I would imagine you have a mesh bag below the comb, and just quickly sever the ties that it has with what it is attached to, and it drops into the mesh bag. By mesh, I mean net that the adults cannot get through. I actually considered getting a hive of wasps for a while, but I don't treat it as a priority. You bet if I find a hive, I will catch it though.


#11 Offline Mads - Posted September 8 2014 - 7:39 PM

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Just look for them as you would queen ants. I have seen a few young queen wasps out and about. They are about 50% larger than the regular workers with a much larger abdomen. You see them quite often in the spring searching for a place to start a nest.

 

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#12 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 7:41 PM

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Just look for them as you would queen ants. I have seen a few young queen wasps out and about. They are about 50% larger than the regular workers with a much larger abdomen. You see them quite often in the spring searching for a place to start a nest.

 

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Hmm, I didn't know that, I will have to keep that in mind.


#13 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 8:51 PM

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I've only seen one wasp colony in my whole life. and only like 5 workers in my life time 


#14 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 9:01 PM

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Yeah, not much wasps in Ventura County thanks to the drought...


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