WASP

[jamest0o0]

I hope there is no next time. Sometimes I wish I also had a adult veiled as well to let loose on these suckers. Or a couple mantis...mantis’? Mantisi???

Mantids

 

[Uri]

Mantids

I thought mantids were the juveniles?

 

[jamest0o0]

I thought mantids were the juveniles?

Oh I'm wrong, it'd be mantises. Mantid is the group that mantises belong to I believe

 

[CasqueAbove]

What if it gets stung?

He won’t it is their natural pray. I feel wasps when I catch them

 

[dinomom]

The problem is it’s chilling right on my chams lights like a moth to a lamp it’s trying to stick itself to my heat bulb

Vacuum hose

 

[Uri]

He won’t it is their natural pray. I feel wasps when I catch them

Prey almost always defends itself in some way. Especially these suckers if supers and hornworms will bit chams as well as crickets then a wasp trying to sting or even a bee is not out of the question. Not to mention my guy wouldn’t be able to eat the wasp due to its size. He’s barely eating 3/8 dubias. If you think about it we are technically wasp predators too or at least a threat to them the same as the Cham is a threat to it and they still have the guts to attack us and I thought my chihuahua was aggressive

 

[CasqueAbove]

Prey almost always defends itself in some way. Especially these suckers if supers and hornworms will bit chams as well as crickets then a wasp trying to sting or even a bee is not out of the question. Not to mention my guy wouldn’t be able to eat the wasp due to its size. He’s barely eating 3/8 dubias. If you think about it we are technically wasp predators too or at least a threat to them the same as the Cham is a threat to it and they still have the guts to attack us and I thought my chihuahua was aggressive

You don’t have to, but it is one of the primary food items. I feed bees and wasps. They know how to target them. I have not had any issues. If yours is young that is different

 

[Uri]

You don’t have to, but it is one of the primary food items. I feed bees and wasps. They know how to target them. I have not had any issues. If yours is young that is different

Mines young and small about 7 months and 6 inches long. He’s still on 1/4 and 3/8 insects

 

[JacksJill]

Black Soldier Flies look like wasps but are actually delicious treats. Didn't you let some larva go in your plants?

 

[Uri]

Black Soldier Flies look like wasps but are actually delicious treats. Didn't you let some larva go in your plants?

Yeah but this was a yellow jacket outside my enclosure I have no idea how it got in but I guess it’s all over now. I got a VERY good look at it when it lunged at me very distinct yellow markings and pulsating thorax with the stinger sticking out even when it was dead

 

[jamest0o0]

Yeah but this was a yellow jacket outside my enclosure I have no idea how it got in but I guess it’s all over now. I got a VERY good look at it when it lunged at me very distinct yellow markings and pulsating thorax with the stinger sticking out even when it was dead

You're missing out, I had a hive of yellow jackets get me 2 years ago. It was so much fun..