Keeping Polistes dominula in a terrarium

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vespa crabro, 15.06.2012 14:26

TERRARIUM::: the terrarium must be ExoTerra, no less 30*30*45*see,it is possible and more.You can buy it at the bird market(this is who lives near Moscow), and so you can buy it in almost every pet store.(the more, the better).

SETTING UP A TERRARIUM:::you can arrange a terrarium according to your own discretion, taste.But the main thing is that there is wood, honey, water, and a nesting platform(Polistes dominula likes protected places).You can make a small cardboard box,a beer can(empty), etc.The rest is at your discretion,you can add decor.

light:::you can also buy an ExoTerra lamp for your terrarium.DON'T BUY AN INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB!!!The temperature should be 25-28 degrees.The terrarium can be placed in the sun,so the wasps will be more active.

HUMIDITY::: 70%-80%.Spray it once a day.Humidity is important because the eggs will dry out.

FOOD::: feed the dominula with small caterpillars, grasshoppers, butterflies, honey on cotton wool.

WOOD::: take dried willow branches,they should be grayish.If you find gray vtek other tree write to me in PM.

SETTLING IN::: in spring, it is very difficult to determine whether the Polistes dominula queen has built her nest or not,so it is better to take a queen with a nest.Glue the nest with super glue and put the queen on the nest somehow(I do this with a jar).The nest will grow,and when the first larvae appear, start feeding.Then everything will go well,there will be workers, then males and females,
they will start mating,workers and males will die, and females will go for the winter.

WINTERING::: if it is possible to put a terrarium on the balcony, then it is horsho,and if not, catch the queens and put them together in a jar with a perforated lid or in another design.When it starts to warm up, pull the queens out of the refrigerator or balcony, and start warming up the terrarium.The queen's nest will be built whenever they want.

Good luck!

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