RESCUING BABY WASPS! RELOCATING MULTIPLE PAPER WASP NESTS AND QUEENS TO SAVE BENEFICIAL INSECTS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Welcome to the Green Wasp Removal TH-cam Channel! In this episode, we were contacted by a local resident, on May 14, 2024, who asked us to remove multiple paper wasp nests from their upstairs bedroom windows because sometimes when they opened their windows the wasps would enter the bedrooms and get stuck inside the house.
These were very tall old windows that were unable to be opened fully due to being painted shut for years so we had to work from the inside of the home and utilize telescopic nets to remove the wasps from the awkward spaces between the storm windows and the inner windows.
We were able to capture two beneficial native Polistes metricus, or Metric Paper Wasp nests with their queen foundresses, and one invasive European Paper Wasp, or Polistes dominula nest and queen.
We relocated all these nests to another property where they were transferred to free range birdhouse, and a plastic planter container, which were installed under the eaves of a barn. The native wasps will be able to live out there lives safely in the ecosystem, and the invasive wasps will be raised until they can be collected for venom immunotherapy (VIT).
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Keys: Venom Immunotherapy, Venom Collection, VIT, Baldfaced Hornets, Bald Face Hornet, White Face Hornet, Black Jackets, Wasp, Wasps, Wasp Nest Removal, How To Remove Wasp Nest, Hornet, Yellowjacket, Yellow Jacket, Yellowjackets, Paper Wasp, Polistes, Polistes Dominula, Polistes Fuscatus, Northern Paper Wasp, European Paper Wasp, Invasive Species, Beneficial Species, Green Wasp Removal, How To Kill Wasps, Natural Pest Control, Animal Videos, Baby Animals, Documentary, Entomology, Polistes Metricus, Biological Control Agent, Wasp Stings, Stung, Vespula Germanica, German Yellowjackets, Removing wasp nest without pesticides, natural pest control, non-toxic pest control, removing wasp nest without poison, North Manchester Indiana Pest Control, Wasp Control, Bee Removal, Ground Bees, Vespula Maculifrons, Vespula Squamosa, Eastern Yellowjackets, Common Yellowjacket, Southern Yellowjacket, Relocating Wasp Nest, Wasp Nest Relocation, Manchester University Wasp Survey Team
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Thanks for not killing these important pollinaters
Always happy to relocate wasps. We need all the native pollinators and biological control agents we can get in our local ecosystems!
@@greenwaspremovalas a kid i agree and my freinds also
Go kids! You are the future of the earth, and you are so important to the preservation of our environment and all the precious life forms in our biosphere.
@@greenwaspremovalive got lots of paper wasps nests at my house there all healthy
I hand-fed a resting native paper wasp looking for nest locations in front of some youngsters today :) one of them wanted to zap it with an electric bug net but I wanted to show them that the local paper wasps are very docile, of course I mentioned to absolutely not to repeat what I did but it was a valuable education moment on a commonly misunderstood insect
Hi T. Thanks for your comment. Your willingness to teach a group of children about the beneficial nature of wasps is encouraging to hear about. Many youngsters will remember that moment for a lifetime and they will walk away with a better understanding about the value of all nature around them. In our experience, kids simply get it, they do not have to be convinced. They are absolutely willing to embrace all forms of life if they are taught the importance of co-existence with nature, as opposed to being brainwashed into believing that all wasps are just pests to be feared/killed/poisoned. Education is everything, especially at a young age.
You are doing things that I would have loved to do long ago. Your videos are incredibly interesting to watch! Wasps are just coming out here now but no nests yet in the usual places. There's a yellowjacket queen scouting around my front ramp and quite a few bumblebees, most who have found nesting places now. It looks like you are at least 2 weeks ahead of me here in NW Ct with the wasps.
Hi b. Thanks for your comment. Interesting that our wasps are out in NE Indiana before yours are out in NW CT. Hopefully you'll get a bunch of queen wasps out building their nests soon!
Have you ever considered hanging up bird houses to attract wasps? i made a birdhouse myself and hung it up and after a month, a Polistes Carolina foundress decided that it was going to nest there!
Hi p. Great that your birdhouse attracted native wasps. Wasps need all the help they can get with safe lodgings where they won't get attacked by people with toxic poison, or by natural predators. Dedicated birdhouses are perfect for this. To help attract and protect wasps you can also cover the birdhouse entry hole with wire mesh that allows the wasps in but keeps birds out. We have installed several birdhouses along our barn wall as wasp habitats. They work great. Some were empty birdhouses that attracted wasps naturally in the wild, others were birdhouses that we intentionally used as relocation habitats for wasp nests that we glued into the birdhouses. We've had success both ways. Your native wasps are lucky to have you in their range. Keep it up!
Every time I try to do this the foundress ends up flying away.
No worries. Keep trying. Eventually your relocations will work. We've had many relocations where the adult wasps eventually abandon the nest. Remember that the primary task at hand is to save the fertile adult wasps so they can reproduce somewhere in the ecosystem as they should. If one specific nest fails or gets abandoned, the foundress will simply start another nest which is just as valuable in the environment. Many times in the wild, even without human intervention, wasps will abandon their nests, due to many different factors, and move on to another site. It is normal wasp behavior. The key is to have the willingness to just do whatever you can to help all wasps survive. Attempting nest relocations is one way to do that so keep it up. You can also relocate nests into captivity and simply raise the colony that way (this way the foundress cannot escape), then release them during mating season later in the year.