BugmanPrice
Twelfth Instar
Wow, That's a great idea! Do you happen to have any pictures? I know it's off the thread topic but it's too intriguing to not ask about.
Just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying this unusual thread. It is very interesting to read about the seldom visited corners of the hobby like wasp-keeping. Looking forward to additional updates. Not much of a story, but in the fall of 2006 I caught a large hornet in my living room (white and black). I put it in a jar with some paper towel that was previously inhabited by a live rhino beetle, just for observation's sake. The towel was soaked with juice from an apple, but had dried. I left it in my garage through the winter. Occasionally, I happened to pick up the container and was always surprised to see that the wasp was still alive. I recall spraying the towel with a bit of water, once or twice. I saw it alive again in the spring, but it died thereafter (probably starved, I'm sad to say).
I have a friend who keeps bees in his classroom. He runs a tube through the wall to the outside. Always hard to walk away from observing all the activity going on in the colony.
Peter