Got beyond the end of August without being pestered by wasps once this
year (Southampton) despite frequently eating outside.

Have the cool nights and lack of weather which is both warm and wet
impacted on the wasp population?

Nick

wrote:
Got beyond the end of August without being pestered by wasps once this
year (Southampton) despite frequently eating outside.

Have the cool nights and lack of weather which is both warm and wet
impacted on the wasp population?

Nick

That's odd..... I noticed that too. I'm near Peterborough and can't
remember seeing a single wasp so far this year.

wrote:
Got beyond the end of August without being pestered by wasps once this
year (Southampton) despite frequently eating outside.

Have the cool nights and lack of weather which is both warm and wet
impacted on the wasp population?

Nick


I've thought a couple of times how I havn't seen many this year. For the
last couple of years we have been 'hounded' by them, only seen 1 in the
house this year though. Still, I don't mind.

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:21:15 +0100, Karatepe
wrote:


That's odd..... I noticed that too. I'm near Peterborough and can't
remember seeing a single wasp so far this year.
No reports of the dreaded Blandford Fly yet. However, with the wife
away I sat down to a good vid and tea on a tray, and the very first
daddy long legs that I have seen, literally dive bombed into the
gravy. I was really shocked!
Robin

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Got beyond the end of August without being pestered by wasps once this
year (Southampton) despite frequently eating outside.

Have the cool nights and lack of weather which is both warm and wet
impacted on the wasp population?

Nick


Good question.

Last year there were swarms of them every time I fed my tortoises banana.
This year though there haven't been any. (Mind you, there seems to have been
an increase in bloomin' huge spiders taking their place. I don't usually
mind catching them, but these ones - no way!)

Last year there were swarms of them every time I fed my tortoises banana.

Well, stop feeding you're tortoises bananas then.

Robin Nicholson wrote:
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:21:15 +0100, Karatepe
wrote:


That's odd..... I noticed that too. I'm near Peterborough and can't
remember seeing a single wasp so far this year.
No reports of the dreaded Blandford Fly yet. However, with the wife
away I sat down to a good vid and tea on a tray, and the very first
daddy long legs that I have seen, literally dive bombed into the
gravy. I was really shocked!
Robin

Did you still eat the dinner;-)

I have been saying all year about the lack of wasps. I expect it was
the very late frosts this spring.

"Robin Nicholson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:21:15 +0100, Karatepe
wrote:


That's odd..... I noticed that too. I'm near Peterborough and can't
remember seeing a single wasp so far this year.
No reports of the dreaded Blandford Fly yet.

The Blandford Fly has been eradicated, except for the type
sold in the Hall & Woodhouse Brewery shop! That tends
to go for ones legs too :-(

Cheers, Alastair.

Common wasp numbers have been in decline for quite a few years now. There
was a slight pick-up last year but this year their numbers seem to have
crashed again.

I cannot offer a reason why this is happening at the moment but I know of a
few ongoing studies. Wasps feed on many pests including aphids, so they are
a useful predator.
________________
Nick G
Exe Valley, Devon
50 m amsl

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Got beyond the end of August without being pestered by wasps once this
year (Southampton) despite frequently eating outside.

Have the cool nights and lack of weather which is both warm and wet
impacted on the wasp population?

Nick

"Graham Easterling" wrote in
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Last year there were swarms of them every time I fed my tortoises
banana.

Well, stop feeding you're tortoises bananas then.

But they love it so much!!