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yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 8:33 am Post subject: Wasps?
None. Not seen a single one this year, apart from the Spring queens trapped in the window. It's wonderful not to have to put on full beekeeping kit to pick the greengages, and I'm happy not to fret about the puppies playing with fallen plums and apples, but I feel uneasy when something as much a part of the summer as those varmints is missing.

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 8:54 am Post subject: Re: Wasps?

yummersetter wrote:

None. Not seen a single one this year, apart from the Spring queens trapped in the window.

It's wonderful not to have to put on full beekeeping kit to pick the greengages, and I'm happy not to fret about the puppies playing with fallen plums and apples, but I feel uneasy when something as much a part of the summer as those varmints is missing.

They're in the plum trees here but seem not to be aggressive yet.

EV

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 8:58 am Post subject:
Pete noticed quite a few dead round the hive entrances yesterday - and they're def around on our plums - not in quantity though. Not reached your bit of Somerset yet!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46359
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 9:30 am Post subject:
plenty in york and the local bees ,wild and domestic,flies ,lepidoptra etc etc all seem healthy i suspect there is a fairly low pesticide use in the city

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 9:30 am Post subject:
YS, LOADS here, can I send you some?

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 9:38 am Post subject:
Plenty at Whipsnade on Saturday, despite the rain.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 9:40 am Post subject:
We have 2 nests in the house - one under a bedroom lintel and one on the porch. Spray has been bought.

Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2585
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 1:04 pm Post subject:

Paul was moving some cut-to-length firewood from up in the woods down to the log splitter. Got nailed by 5 yellow jackets, including a couple that went up his pant leg. Came down to the house and I stabbed him with his epi-pen. I went up, could not find the nest.

Next day went up in the early morning while still cool. Cautiously started rolling logs aside, using pickaxe to reach over log and roll towards me. Uncovered the ground nest (large enough that there was a palm-sized depression in the ground!) and sprayed the h*ll out of it.

We've also had a paper wasp nest about the size of a basket ball about 30 feet off the ground on the eave of the house, and another smaller one about 10 feet away. Called the pest control company. Man came, put on bee suit, got his 24 foot ladder, sprayed both nests. They don't remove the nests but eventually they'll fall down.

Have replaced the epi-pen (expensive co-pay but necessary to have available) and the firewood is down and split.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 14 1:06 pm Post subject:
plenty here. hate the little gits.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8980
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 2:20 pm Post subject:
Loads here too. I don't mind when they are being useful, but they seem at a loose end and looking for trouble atm

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 3:32 pm Post subject:
Kill them. With fire.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 4:34 pm Post subject:
Send me your empty plastic coke bottles. They're here with a vengeance and I'm making wasp traps to hang in the orchards.

Mustang

Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 768
Location: Sunny Suffolk

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 9:58 pm Post subject:
i noticed a few taking a close interest in the entrances of one of my hives, so made 3 wasp traps and placed one on each hive. Checked them today, and there are ex-wasps in all of them now. Also took out a small wasps nest which I found in the garden. Hopefully that'll keep them under control.

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