How to raise tiger head wasp

Tiger-headed wasps feed on all kinds of insects, so they play an important role in controlling natural diseases and insect pests. The living area of the tiger wasp is not wide, and it is mainly distributed in Pakistan, southern China and Indonesia. In China, it is mainly distributed in hilly and low mountain areas below 1300 meters above sea level in Fujian and Guangdong provinces. So how to raise tiger wasps?

1. Build domestication cages

In the field, a frame is built with wooden strips as a domestication cage, the lower part is buried in the soil, and the cage is fixed with wooden piles and iron wires. the top and all sides are covered with nylon gauze, and there are zipper openings on one side for people to go in and out. At the same time, cabbage insects are cultivated in the cage as tiger head wasp feed.

2. Capture and domestication

The wild female bee can be caught with a self-made bee-catching net, which is waved when there is a tiger-headed bee flying in the field in spring, and is put into a domestication cage after the bee enters the net to let the tiger-headed bee fly out, while feeding clean water and liquid feed in the cage.

3. Hanging beehive

Put the water and liquid feed in a bottle and put it upside down in a glass dish covered with absorbent filter paper or skimmed cotton. Tiger head wasps can eat through fully absorbent filter paper or skimmed cotton. According to the number of female bees caught, the empty beehive is hung for tiger head bees to build their nests.

4. Feeding management

With the continuous increase of bee colonies and larvae, there must be sufficient supply of cabbage insects, otherwise it will cause tiger wasps to eat larvae. When the first generation of adult bees are feathered, the beehives can be removed from the cage and moved to the fields without having to feed, allowing them to prey on all kinds of pests.

5. Overwintering management

The tiger head bee will huddle together when the temperature is below 6 ℃, and the beehive should be moved into a dry and ventilated empty room for the winter. The group begins to break up when the temperature rises above 6 ℃, and can be moved into the beehive again. When the temperature is stable above 13 ℃, the beehive will move out of the box one after another.

6. Disease control

The animals that endanger tiger-headed wasps are crows, magpies, ants, spiders, geckos, and so on. The most serious is the yellow-tailed nest borer of the family Lepidoptera. Rats will also bite swarms of tiger-headed wasps in winter, all of which need to be prevented.