Wasps in January?
 

A couple of days ago my wife was alarmed by a loud buzzing behind
the curtain of the north facing bedroom window. Brave husband
coming to her aid found an active queen wasp there!

Has anyone else had an encounter with a wasp this year? I wonder
what woke this one up - and where it was sleeping!

Peter

In message , Peter
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A couple of days ago my wife was alarmed by a loud buzzing behind
the curtain of the north facing bedroom window. Brave husband
coming to her aid found an active queen wasp there!

Has anyone else had an encounter with a wasp this year? I wonder
what woke this one up - and where it was sleeping!

Sometimes they come out from hibernation if we have an unusual spell of
warmish weather. A couple of years ago, at night-time, our son went up
in the loft and left the door open. Sure enough, out flew a huge wasp,
which must have been up there for the winter.
--
June Hughes

On 29/1/05 2:29, in article ,
"Peter" wrote:

A couple of days ago my wife was alarmed by a loud buzzing behind
the curtain of the north facing bedroom window. Brave husband
coming to her aid found an active queen wasp there!

Has anyone else had an encounter with a wasp this year? I wonder
what woke this one up - and where it was sleeping!

Peter

They sometimes wake up in winter and it's probably as the days lengthen or
we have a sunny day, or something of that sort.
We've certainly had both honey bees and bumble bees in the garden in the
last couple of weeks, working over some small flowered Fuchsias.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 02:29:03 +0000 (UTC), Peter
wrote:

A couple of days ago my wife was alarmed by a loud buzzing behind
the curtain of the north facing bedroom window. Brave husband
coming to her aid found an active queen wasp there!

Has anyone else had an encounter with a wasp this year? I wonder
what woke this one up - and where it was sleeping!

Peter

Thank you all,

Well, yes, the heating house temperature was set up a bit during the
recent cold weather. But we are cautious ((mean ?) and the upstairs
temperature is set for night-time only and then only to 61 deg F
maximum. Before flaming starts let me say that the exception to
this rule is when the grandchildren visit on Thirsdays. The wasp
appeared on a Monday or Tuesday.

The trapdoor into the attic was "Cracked" to allow some heat up
there. It normally settles at about 9 deg F cooler than the landing
during cold weather. ** I suppose that we must be grateful that we
may have been spared a wasp nest in the attic next May. To be on the
safe side I will give the attic a good spraying. Being in the
north midlands this is the prime time for queen wasps looking for
nest sites.

** The water pipes have trace heaters.

Thanks again,

Peter.