How to keep Polistes dominula-Polistes nimpha in a terrarium?

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vespa crabro, 30.01.2011 14:52

I have a 40cm terrarium.height 30cm.it is 30cm long.width.

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30.01.2011 18:42, Seneka

Yes, but not from scratch. I took hornet nests in late August and September. It was pampering.
The easiest way was at the dacha. At the end of the summer, to get the nest out of the opening in the wall, I dismantled the plywood in the house. There were about 10-15 workers, the rest of the males and pupae in the nest. The hornets didn't sting me, they probably got used to it(I spent the whole summer watching them from almost 15 centimeters at the tap), and when I got to them from inside the house, they didn't understand anything at all. Without putting me to sleep, I blew a little carbon dioxide(it didn't help), covered it with a cloth, cut it off the wall, put it in a cage with glass, fixed it, brought it home, put it in the window.

With smaller wasps, as far as I remember from my mischievous childhood (Dolihovespula silvestris), I did about the same thing, but I did not take them myself, but gave way to a more experienced mentor who did not understand anything about wasps, but in a completely sober state had the determination to help me. It was in July, on an expedition in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, at night. The nest was in a pile of branches, on the bank of the Katun River. Before the operation started, they lit a fire and smoked. While we were cutting the nest out of the pile with the pruning shears, the wasps(there were many of them) bit us wherever they could. Mostly they bit the mentor, because he worked closer to them and directly disturbed their peace, and I held the branches. I also got a little hurt, but I suffered for the idea.

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25.02.2011 18:40, Hierophis

Oh, my God! And did she build a honeycomb there? I would have died of boredom in such a box in her place, but maybe miracles still happen

I liked the nest of vespula and bumblebees most of all. What is interesting, there is an observation nest for bumblebees almost one in one as I had, in a box with an open top and covered with a cloth. In general, you need to catch queens, you can look for polistov right in winter, they often winter in old nests, but with German nests it is more difficult, they do not winter in nests, they are under the bark, under stones and in piles of leaves.
The beginning of spring is the perfect time to start looking for bumblebee queens to keep. They write that the sooner you catch the queen, the more likely it is that she will settle a good nest, as it is less infected with nosems, and wintered well.

Last year, I supported Vespula Germanica from June until the end of the season. I also kept it during school hours, but it didn't work out with the founder's uterus, once I found a ready-made nest with the uterus of a German wasp, put it in a box, and attached the nest to the top. I held it like this for a day, then opened the letok at night, in general, I did everything like it was supposed to, but it flew away and did not return

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28.02.2011 19:06, Hierophis

In mid-April, it may be a little late even for you. It is better to catch at the beginning of April, and we have polistes sometimes appear in the middle of March, but I don't remember when they start building nests.
We don't have a Saxon wasp. I also dreamed of finding such spherical nests for a long time, I especially wanted to find them on a tree branch, as it was written in books, but it turned out that wasps do not settle in open places here. We have German wasps and common wasps, and occasionally there is a forest wasp, as well as an ordinary hornet, but very rarely. There are several types of polysts. German and common wasps live mostly in the ground, and if they build a nest somewhere in the attic, when it is mostly open, then fix it so that you can not remove it - there is no stalk.