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First wasps' nest
We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were
taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
First wasps' nest
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote:
We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! Honey bees took over one of our bird boxes this year. If anything I would rather have wasps as their stings don't hurt as much as bees. Wasps are supposed to kill some other garden pests so maybe we should leave them to it! Steve -- EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. http://www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. http://www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. http://www.justnn.com |
First wasps' nest
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote:
We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! A neighbour called in early this morning to ask for some advice on what to do with a wasps nest near their front door. Tried to advise her to get a pest controller in but she seemed to think that it was a job that her husband would really enjoy (having failed to persuade me to volunteer). -- rbel |
First wasps' nest
On 29/06/2013 19:22, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:04:08 +0100, rbel wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote: We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! A neighbour called in early this morning to ask for some advice on what to do with a wasps nest near their front door. Tried to advise her to get a pest controller in but she seemed to think that it was a job that her husband would really enjoy (having failed to persuade me to volunteer). There's a 'spray' you can get for wasps nests that comes out as a jet of foam, with a range of about 10 feet IIRC, so you can apply it to the entrance of the nest from a safe(r) distance. Best applied in the early evening when the wasps are returning home. Then as they trample over/through it, they carry the poison into the nest. By next morning, most of them are dead, and those that aren't are pretty far gone. The one I have had best results with is the powder again sprayed around the entrance to the nest, or any other place they walk through; I had them one year going into the glasshouse after the grapes, they all entered through a small gap in the corner, dusted that and in a day they were gone. |
First wasps' nest
On 2013-06-29 13:15:44 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme said:
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote: We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! Honey bees took over one of our bird boxes this year. If anything I would rather have wasps as their stings don't hurt as much as bees. Wasps are supposed to kill some other garden pests so maybe we should leave them to it! Steve Out of the question here. Our garden and tea room are open to the public 7 days a week and few enjoy wasps with their cream tea or salads! This nest was about 8' from the tea room's back door, so the wasps would have invaded the kitchen which is full of sugary, jammy things being baked. Then they'd have moved onto the public area and the garden itself. I prefer bees because they don't look for trouble as I always feel wasps do! But even bees would have been a nightmare in that location for the same reasons but also because people would have been crossing in front of the nest the whole time and they don't like that. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
First wasps' nest
On 2013-06-30 10:27:13 +0100, Martin said:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:10:21 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2013-06-29 13:15:44 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme said: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote: We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! Honey bees took over one of our bird boxes this year. If anything I would rather have wasps as their stings don't hurt as much as bees. Wasps are supposed to kill some other garden pests so maybe we should leave them to it! Steve Out of the question here. Our garden and tea room are open to the public 7 days a week and few enjoy wasps with their cream tea or salads! This nest was about 8' from the tea room's back door, so the wasps would have invaded the kitchen which is full of sugary, jammy things being baked. Then they'd have moved onto the public area and the garden itself. I prefer bees because they don't look for trouble as I always feel wasps do! But even bees would have been a nightmare in that location for the same reasons but also because people would have been crossing in front of the nest the whole time and they don't like that. We haven't seen a wasp or a honey bee in our garden this year, nor for the second year running are there any mosquitoes. There are lots of bumble bees and hover flies. I've now seen four honeybees and two were in the house. How it is that they can fly in like arrows from a bow but never find the open window to get out again, is beyond us! Daft creatures! We have lots of bumble bees but few hover flies so far. All this general fall in insect numbers must account for the birds desperate need for food, I think. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
First wasps' nest
On 2013-06-30 11:42:24 +0100, Martin said:
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:42:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2013-06-30 10:27:13 +0100, Martin said: On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:10:21 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2013-06-29 13:15:44 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme said: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote: We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! Honey bees took over one of our bird boxes this year. If anything I would rather have wasps as their stings don't hurt as much as bees. Wasps are supposed to kill some other garden pests so maybe we should leave them to it! Steve Out of the question here. Our garden and tea room are open to the public 7 days a week and few enjoy wasps with their cream tea or salads! This nest was about 8' from the tea room's back door, so the wasps would have invaded the kitchen which is full of sugary, jammy things being baked. Then they'd have moved onto the public area and the garden itself. I prefer bees because they don't look for trouble as I always feel wasps do! But even bees would have been a nightmare in that location for the same reasons but also because people would have been crossing in front of the nest the whole time and they don't like that. We haven't seen a wasp or a honey bee in our garden this year, nor for the second year running are there any mosquitoes. There are lots of bumble bees and hover flies. I've now seen four honeybees and two were in the house. How it is that they can fly in like arrows from a bow but never find the open window to get out again, is beyond us! Daft creatures! and end up having to be picked up and chucked out of the window. We have a blackbird that stands up against the patio door watching us eat. Blackbirds are so tame that it's a miracle that the cats don't get all of them. Same here and the robins are positively pushy. There's a baby that haunts the area the staff have tea and coffee and the other day he was observed chasing off his elders and betters so he could scoff some crumbs! We have lots of bumble bees but few hover flies so far. All this general fall in insect numbers must account for the birds desperate need for food, I think. Taking my wife's breakfast is a step too far :-) Yes that does demonstrate a certain cheek, I do admit! After somebody posted the NHM site about bumble bees, I noticed that the bumble bees in our are all the same sort, Tour de France yellow jersey with black velvet trousers and orange tail, pratorum, http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curati....html#pratorum but they are also in two sizes large and small, nothing in between. I didn't scrutinise their genitalia. Glad to hear it - that would definitely qualify as 'get a life'!! ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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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. |
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First wasps' nest
On 01/07/2013 09:41, echinosum wrote:
'Sacha[_10_ Wrote: ;986414']We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! 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. Went to move a few boxes of the field this evening, I thought one had a Hornets nest on it, but tonight it is much bigger and has several small wasps buzzing around it. |
First wasps' nest
"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message ... On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote: We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! Honey bees took over one of our bird boxes this year. If anything I would rather have wasps as their stings don't hurt as much as bees. Wasps are supposed to kill some other garden pests so maybe we should leave them to it! Steve -- EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. http://www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. http://www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. http://www.justnn.com They are also known to raid bees hives so perhaps they're not so friendly after all Bill |
First wasps' nest
On 2013-07-03 21:04:24 +0100, Bill Grey said:
"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message ... On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:09:37 +0100, Sacha wrote: We've just destroyed the first nest of the year. The cheeky devils were taking over a bird box hanging in the courtyard outside the tea room's back door. It would have been a nightmare for everyone! However, the pest controller did warn me that they love the sort of humid weather we've had and that the professionals think this is going to be a bad year for wasps. Or a good year, if you're a wasp, I suppose! Honey bees took over one of our bird boxes this year. If anything I would rather have wasps as their stings don't hurt as much as bees. Wasps are supposed to kill some other garden pests so maybe we should leave them to it! Steve -- EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. http://www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. http://www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. http://www.justnn.com They are also known to raid bees hives so perhaps they're not so friendly after all Bill The bees sting them to death but of course, that kills the bees. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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