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by apochronaut » Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:17 pm
We had a pet yellow jacket wasp, one winter, that lived under the dish drainer but sometimes on sunny days, would venture into the window nearby. When I was washing dishes, she would almost always venture forth and sit on the rim of the dish drainer, drink some water and then eat a tiny blob of honey, I would stick to the drainer. That went on for almost 4 months but sometime in Feb., I decided to paint the kitchen and removed Jack( Jack Hornet) to , a little used rear bedroom window, for a few days, until the paint dried. Unbeknownst to me there was a spider living under the window sill and that's where I found poor Jack, the next day. Trussed and mummified.
It is easy to breed fruit flies. That might sustain your guest until the spring? We always have insects in the house here. It's -10c. out with 2 feet of snow outside my window and I saw a mosquito land on my laptop screen last night. No idea where it came from but we usually see mosquitoes in winter a couple of times. Maybe from the fish tank?