This queen P. Metricus was found as a, "Newborn," (That's what I call wasps with black eyes who have recently emerged from their cocoons, I don't know the proper name. Maybe someone could help me with that?) wandering through some leaves in my lawn at the end of September, 2011. The ends of her wings were slightly shredded, which is odd for one so young, and there was no nest in sight. A cold snap was on it's way so I took her in, she very quickly became accustomed to me and would sit on my hand contently even when I wasn't feeding her. Since I had a male of the same species at the time I put the two together. Soon she was accepting meat to accomadate her pregnancy. This photo shows her eating the white meat inside the top sections of a meal worm, (Tenebrio Moliter,) which I opened up for her. This was the only part of the worm that she would eat, and she would refuse the food all together if the digestive tract was punctured and the brown fluid within tainted it. Picky huh?