キアシナガバチの巣 Paper Wasp Colony

Hive of the yellow paper wasp (Polistes rothneyi) under the eaves in Japan.
Soundtrack (audioswapped): Musicshake - Piano Jazz

写真を見る限り構成員は♀ワーカーのみで♂は羽化していないようだ。この後、スズメバチに襲撃されたらしく、巣は全滅してしまいました。

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• paper
• wasp
• nest
• colony
• worker
• キアシナガバチ
• アシナガバチ
• コロニー

[KawaiiKemonomimi]

This is another animal I kept as a kid (just the eggs and larvae). My dad had found an abandoned wasp nest, didn't know anything was alive in there and gave it to me. When I found out there were live grubs in there, I kept it secret from my parents and took care of it. The larvae ate crushed spiders with water through a tiny dropper. Problem was, some leaked onto the paper and eventually the larvae started eating the cells they were in that had gotten wet. Ants killed them after a few days.

[sigma1920]

thx, that was interesting!

im always impressed at ur rich experiences with bugs in ur happy childhood.

ive heard that orphaned grubs of paper wasp can be fed catfood.

[ijjiGm]

i kept those 2 nest then i put them in something then when 2 days after ant's ate them i had egg and larvae then after that it became to rain and the nest went flat >.,<

[KawaiiKemonomimi]

Cool! Wish I had tried that! I had wanted to hang the nest back outside once some of them had at least pupated and then fed the larvae until an adult came out.

[sigma1920]

thx.

ive heard that some species of wasp do not like dead meat.

[Diatomus]

o_O

they eat almost everything. well i doubt if they'd eat something rotten. anyhow, what's eatable for us is (mostly) eatable for them, especially sweat stuff and meat, that's how it's for our wasps at least

[sigma1920]

wow, do they eat dead fish?

sounds interesting!

[Diatomus]

i reminded some more funny things about our vesps.

when you're drying fish if you don't cover it with gauze very meticulously you will have a skeleton next morning

[Diatomus]

just when i finished comment video changed :\

we have hides everywhere in the countryside house, i mean sometimes there're several hives in a single room! it's very troubling. Though ours seems to be Paravespula Germanica

[sigma1920]

thx for watching.

now my main project is the vid series "waspy pulp nonfiction".

check them out! (filmings are in progress.)

paper wasps showed us lots of interesting behaviours.

i wanna witness the family life and the rise and fall of their dynasty this year.