Originally Posted by echinosum

Not seen a single wasp yet here in Bucks. I wouldn't have thought the cold March was very good for them, but perhaps it wasn't so cold for you then.

In general there aren't many insects of any description around, though the late flowering of my fruit trees resulted in good pollination - the trees that have no fruit - pears and damson - had no flowers to pollinate. But the apples and peach are well endowed. My grape vine is flowering even later than last year, its July and the flowers aren't open yet. Hope there is enough time to ripen the fruit.