Wasps in winter? Queens? What to do?
I'm currently painting various bird and insect houses that I removed from the house wall about two months ago for facade work. Today, quite unexpectedly, I found live wasps in a butterfly house. Now that they're warm, they're crawling around quite a bit. I offered them peanut butter, but they don't seem to like it. Anyway, I'm wondering if they could be queen wasps and how I could protect them. Of course, staying inside isn't an option. But what can I do?
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It’s probably puppy queens who are now awakened by the warmth from their winter stars.
If you want them to survive: put in a cardboard box with a leaf, newspaper, straw outside. Don’t put 20 degrees in -10 degrees. It’s best if it’s over the freezing point during the day or first in the cool cellar and then out.
If you want to reduce the puppy population next year (of course a few dead queens don’t make a big difference): plating.
It can only be a wasp queen. Insects do not eat in winter rest.
I found a wasp queen in the construction market between coal briquette packages and took it.
In the unheated garden she came into a box (ventilated), loosely packed in dry moss. In March she became active and flew out.
So location is dry, cool (untempered) and protected from draft air.
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What are you doing?