General Chat

I like wasps. They are gentle creatures who have better things to do than sting without cause.

They do a great deal of good by eating aphids which could otherwise devastate food crops.

Most years I have one wasp visit my kitchen, sometimes another comes along later in the season, so I leave out a little bowl of jam for her. She always uses the same route in and out, collects a little jam, takes it home and comes back for more. That is her job.

Ooh, Rollo, you've certainly gone off on one there. :-S

This female of a certain age doesn't mind much but wasps and wood lice are baaaadddd in my book. :-S

Any other creature is safe with me. :-D

Wasps are harmless and a very important part of the eco system. Leave them be - they won't attack unless threatened.

Why is it that females ( mostly ) over a certain age feel the need to conduct warfare against anything small and alive regardless of any real threat. Moths, wasps, bumble bees, bats, slow worms (smooth snakes), toads, snails, small lizards, mice, harvest mice, wood mice, beetles, frogs. As well as direct attack removing the environment which allows small creatures and birds to exist is also very popular - closing up the eaves ( hard luck hourse martins, swallows and wasps), closing boundary fences ( tough Mr Hedgehog ), unnecessary leaf collection ( hard luck for creatures hibernating under the leaves), installing the utterly naff decking, concreting over front gardens for parking (let's have a flood), pyroxenes and other insect killers - bye bye ladybird.

Our native fauna are on the edge of extinction thanks to the farmers. No wonder they are shifting to suburbia and villages even Islington.

Let It Be.
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Maggie
I dare not go in our attic. I send OH.I was told at the hospital a couple of months ago to carry my two epi pens with me even winter and I thought they were being over cautious but I have changed my mind tonight.

I used to have queen wasps hibernating in my attic!

If I ever had the attic hatch open for any length of time, they'd wake up, so I kept a can of wasp killer just inside the hatch. Every time I went up there, I'd open the hatch for 5 minutes, then use the spray, close the hatch, have a cup of tea, and the few that had woken up were dead! :-D

Fortunately (so far) no nests have been made in the attic.

OH just came downstairs with a huge wasp he had killed, which was flying around the back bedroom. I opened the window slightly during today. I am allergic to them so glad he found it. Have to say I never expected to see one this time of year.

Sylvia :-0