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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!



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wafflycat wrote:
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.snip


Also on the Thameslink line around Loughborough Junction yesterday - had to
close all the windows in the carriage!


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Maybe there was an ivy in flower nearby. They go crazy when that happens.
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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!




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Think of all those horrible flies that the wasps kill off then you won't
hate them quite so much.
Jonquil


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Maybe there was an ivy in flower nearby. They go crazy when that happens.
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That's odd, why's that then?




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Felly sgrifennodd
wafflycat remove celebrities, money and change caps to obvious:
Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off
please!


But won't a frost finish off the blackberries too?

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Quoting from message
posted on 10 Oct 2005 by Adrian D. Shaw
I would like to add:

Felly sgrifennodd
wafflycat remove celebrities, money and change caps to obvious:
Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off
please!


But won't a frost finish off the blackberries too?


My Uncle woldn't eat blackberries after the end of September, said Owd
Nick had trodden on them.

Later ones do not usually have so much flavour - could be less
sunlight or lower nightime temps. I'm not sure.

(waiting for a bit more frost to get at the sloes before making sloe
gin)

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:52:50 +0100, Elaine Jones
wrote:
Quoting from message
posted on 10 Oct 2005 by Adrian D. Shaw
I would like to add:

Felly sgrifennodd
wafflycat remove celebrities, money and change caps to obvious:
Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off
please!


But won't a frost finish off the blackberries too?


My Uncle woldn't eat blackberries after the end of September, said Owd
Nick had trodden on them.


My grandmother used to say they had been kissed by the devil....

Later ones do not usually have so much flavour - could be less
sunlight or lower nightime temps. I'm not sure.


ours on the allotments have been finished for some weeks now, but
there are still some tasty raspberries around.
Our blackberries were very early this year, fortunately there are
about a dozen large yogurt tubs of them in my freezer.


(waiting for a bit more frost to get at the sloes before making sloe
gin)



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