Maybe there was an ivy in flower nearby. They go crazy when that happens.
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Nick G
Exe Valley, Devon
50 m amsl

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Going back to a reasonably recent thread on the lack of wasps this summer.

I found them. I discovered where they've been lurking all summer long.

Wasps... bloody wasps... had no problem all summer and then on Saturday I
discovered where the entire wasp population of the UK has been lurking all
summer. Earsham, just outside of Bungay. The offspring was doing a time
trial on Saturday, same venue as previous week. The previous week I'd
collected a load of blackberries and made a delicious blackberry crumble
that evening. So this week I thought I'd collect some more whislt the
offspring was out cycling reasonably rapidly. I didn't get more than half
a dozen though... over a good hundred yards of hedgerow - where the
previous week I'd picked fruit unhindered, were clouds of wasps. They
weren't going for the fruit - they were just flying about the hedgerow -
*thousands* of the nasty things.

BAH!

Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off
please!