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01 Aug 19
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Seems to be a bumper year here in North Uk ,evicted upwards of 10 in the last two days from my house ,perhaps the rain and winds of late have damaged nests although the industrious vespula vulgaris is usually pretty picky about nest location .August is far too early for the final stage of their cycle when the workers become idle and the queen switches to reproduction of next years crop.The devil quickly finds work for idle hands but these wasps were in no way aggitated or aggressive .Something different is going on this year. Strangely I had two days of wasp ingress followed by a day of butterlies ,Two red admirals (I think ) and a Peacock. Seen loads of butterflies/moths this year ,plenty wasps and also a bumper year for Bombus. Garden is swamped with the invasive ladybird species Harlyquin (and slugs) .All in all a good year for insects it seems ,although there were none around in April when the fruit trees burst into early flower so naff all apples/pears/plums .The Tree Bee (ginger with a white arse )appears to be gaining a big precence and these guys don’t like having there nest disturbed ,so stay well away .
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Someone will be getting in a flap.
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it's Buzzing I tell you !
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Lots of them at the Ricoh Arena
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Drove the natives out to Brum
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Cleared out a wasp nest from my home last week.
Blocked up the hole they were using to get in with door frame sealer. Then found the nest under the floor boards and gave them several blasts with ''Raid'' Fly and Wasp killer, which made short work of them. All quiet now - job done. No quarter asked and no quarter given, that's the way I operate. |
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You're simply far too clever for them, Doc.
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Real men 'd kill them with their bare hands
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Everyone knows poisoning is the lady way to deal with things you want dead
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grasshoppers seem to have made a comeback in my area (south east ) and plenty of brightly coloured moths .good news tbf as a few years back i didnt see a grasshopper for ages and i work a gardener .
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No good fo de glass !
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Three wasps this year.
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Waisted on here.
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Whorts yor 20 EK ?
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No googling !
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I see that Marcel Berlins has died.
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Thread up ....evening EK
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(A new thread that is)
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Ayup Leops.
No Nigel on LBC this evening - Eddie Mair |
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Eddie Mair worth 5 Nigel Farages.....Farage is just selling snake oil.
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Putin/Trump support Farage so that is good enough for me to oppose him.
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Foyles - "grasshoppers seem to have made a comeback in my area (south east ) and plenty of brightly coloured moths .good news tbf as a few years back i didnt see a grasshopper for ages and i work a gardener".
Just read your post. I am in Mid-Sussex and you are right re grasshoppers. I have a small hay meadow with paths mown thru it and the sound has been if not deafening very loud. Sussex Wildlife Trust report a particularly good year for butterflies and moths. Another good year for bees too here: My orchard has really good germination this year and dumbledore (bumble) numbers are good. I am in no position to comment generally on honey bees as we have thousands - I am close to a 400 hive apiary, so 20m bees on your doorstep tends to distort the numbers. |
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Watch out for Asian Hornets invading blighty.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-asian-hornets-are-bad-news-for-british-bees.html |
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Had loads of wasps this year. One nest in the shed and at least two in the house.
Live and let live, I say. Mind you I didn't say that when one stung me - but it was my stupid fault. Have had to remove dozens of dead uns from the house, which was a bit of a nuisance. I think there is a line in All Things Bright and Beautiful that says you shouldn't kill wasp nests. |
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Wasps are fine until the end of the year when they can get cranky and nasty.
It's old age that does it. The danger sign is when you see the curtains on the nest twitching and hear muttering when teenagers walk by. |
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(or to be more accurate, they run out of their food source as the adults feed off a sugary secretion from the larvae that now aren't there, so they get desperate and aggressive looking for sugar sources, but I like my description better).
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They feed off rotting fruit so ingest alcohol and get drunk....don't they ?
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They feed their young "meat" and their young secrete a sugar in return, end of year there are no young. They also feed off sugars in plants etc like bees, but there are few of them end of the summer as well.
Not sure about getting drunk, don't think they need to be pissed to get violent and "salty" which is becoming a trendy word to say. |
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Never met a "nice" wasp in my entire life..horrid nasty blighters imo.
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You've upset Flapwasp now ! :
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One of the best day's fishing I've had was using wasp grub from a nest I destroyed with some powder I got from the chemist.
Chub love them, they'll jump on the hook for a wasp grub. |
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Yes you can catch a lot of things using wasp bait.
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To use them for fishing you have to have them alive ,poisoning nest is no good ,you go in at night ,position a torch away from you but shining on nest and come in from an angle ,grab the nest and horse it into a bin bag and run .A bee veil is recommended . As for the wasp lifecycle they feed on nectar but feed young black fly and aphids .Ants milk aphids for secretations and move them around to keep them producing they also have a similar cycle to wasps,I get a lot of ants around the plum tree and the wasps are constantly on hovering around the tree but exactly what they are doing is unclear .A queen over the year produces workers then fertile males and then queens the virgin queens mate with fertile males but not from there own colony . Wasps are deffo inebrients imo ,the redundant workers at end of year get the taste from fermenting fruit and quickly get mad for it ,hence the beer garden probs . Wasp/bee/ant lifecycle is very interesting ,have a nest of ants in a composter that look more like spiders than ants ,black ones .
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The Doc is clearly more adept at forum fishing than river fishing.
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Got him ! (Crippen )
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To use them for fishing you have to have them alive
Rubbish breadnbutter. Tells you how to do it here. http://angling-guru.info/wasp-grubs-as-bait More here. https://www.salmonfishingforum.com/forums/trout-fishing/29348-wasp-grubs-bait.html |
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The Doc is clearly more adept at forum fishing than river fishing.
Possibly mm, but forum fish are easier to catch. |
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That Fish is saying "great, now just drag me along at this height with my mouth open, lots of lovely flies. BTW Are you Ryanair?"
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