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OK, Her'es the situation. I saw three wasps floating around in my room(i have a busted window and crappy frames) on Monday morning. Monday night, I get stung, I find a dead one in Kane's pond. whether he ate it and got stung or whether it drowned on its' own I don't know. I don't think he got stung as I did feed him two hornworm pupa after the matter. All my lizards appear to be fine. Has anybody encountered this and what have they done, if anything?

Note, I have a bunch of crap under the bed and on the top bunk.

whattup? i have had an experience where my outdoor "sunning" cage has large enough gauge screen that i have noticed wasps in there around the water and checking out the fake plants, but i think that the color of wasps (these were yellow and red, not just the dark red ones) was natures "do not disturb" sign and my water dragons appeared to heed it. they did take notice and the female stares at them but i havent noticed any interest from my wd's or the wasps. i too was concearned and watched them for some time, i didnt want to chase the wasp around and potentially aggrivate it, so i just watched through the window, i have since sprayed their nest(while the lizards were inside) and they havent returned.hope that helps, keelsey
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skateboardingtattooinghardcoredragonguy

WDs as well as many other lizards do eat and often love to eat wasps, hornets and the like without any harm
I sometimes put collected wasp nests into my enclosures and the lizards prey on the hatching wasps and love it. Also my chams shoot a lot of wasps whenbeing outside.
Good food.

Ci@o

Ingo

i freeze bees and give them as treats.. to all my dragons.. they love them....i don't see why feeding them live would be any problem...

alissa

Well Kane's jaws do move pretty fast. Of course, when a human shoos a wasp away, we get nailed. I think wasps recognize the presence of Raid as I have a can sitting on my desk, for intimidation. I've gotten to be a good shot over the years. Worst case scenario is I move the animals(my lizards not the wasps) for a time being and get Shoo fly w/diazinon. That stuff is pretty cool. Watching wasps & other pesky bugs succumb to spray and suffer a painful agonizing death is pretty cool. Then I cook the wasps and eat them(j/k). Ironically, I've let wasps and hornets come near me and I "petted" one once w/out any confrontation.