So today while looking for ants, i found this wasp burrowing into ground and i captured her. Would be nice if someone could help me ID her, and can they be kept as pets?
So today while looking for ants, i found this wasp burrowing into ground and i captured her. Would be nice if someone could help me ID her, and can they be kept as pets?
I don't do well with solitary wasps, but as far as I know keeping them would require sand or substrate. They also need specific prey to feed their larva, which I think they do provisions for [ie. they stockpile prey insects/spiders in the burrow]
Offer some honey water, I know my velvet ants (ground wasps) love it. You could try a slice of orange as well. And yes, substrate. I'd say keep the moisture level of the substrate similar to that of the area you found it.
It looks much like a Specid wasp of the family Sphecidae. Genus and species cannot be denoted from the photos though. As mentioned above solitary wasps that are often known as digger wasps.
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