Anyone seen any wasps lately...?
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Hi,
I've been out and about floating with TheExcession (or should I call him The(Eire)Excession now he's travelled to pastures new) and I've found this group of general gassing has got kinda car related. Anyone would think this is a forum about cars.
Yet the title is "general gassing". Been looking for such things but have not discovered such gas leaking generals (apart from the odd ford anglia of course!!).
One thing's been missing in this heatwave. Its wasps.
The midges, mosquitoes and every other large low-flying insect is having a field-day.
So I asked my friends out and about. And there does appear an underground extinction has been going on.
I've tried Folkestone, Wales, Bristol, London, and no one has seen any.
What happened? Or is this is a Discovery documentary to be made for next year.....
A waspless Shadrach
>> Edited by shadrach on Monday 12th September 23:53
I've been out and about floating with TheExcession (or should I call him The(Eire)Excession now he's travelled to pastures new) and I've found this group of general gassing has got kinda car related. Anyone would think this is a forum about cars.
Yet the title is "general gassing". Been looking for such things but have not discovered such gas leaking generals (apart from the odd ford anglia of course!!).
One thing's been missing in this heatwave. Its wasps.
The midges, mosquitoes and every other large low-flying insect is having a field-day.
So I asked my friends out and about. And there does appear an underground extinction has been going on.
I've tried Folkestone, Wales, Bristol, London, and no one has seen any.
What happened? Or is this is a Discovery documentary to be made for next year.....
A waspless Shadrach
>> Edited by shadrach on Monday 12th September 23:53
I've been doing serious digging works in the garden, last year and this.
Last year they seemed to be everywhere, this year I've only seen a few.
In my garden alone, there has been a change, but I don't know if it's permanent or temporary. I'm not sure either if this year is, or last year was, normal.
Last year they seemed to be everywhere, this year I've only seen a few.
In my garden alone, there has been a change, but I don't know if it's permanent or temporary. I'm not sure either if this year is, or last year was, normal.
Sadly, I'm told that Wasps have up and down years and this normal. (I asked an entomologist)
On the other hand, wasps are an arguement for the non-existence of God. Some years back I made the mistake of going to a party given by my mates very hippy-of-the-worst-sort ex-wife. Some silly tart was going on about about how god had ensured that everything in life had it's place, to which my mate countered - "OK missus, what are f
g wasps for? 
Prof Beard
>> Edited by Prof Beard on Tuesday 13th September 00:27
On the other hand, wasps are an arguement for the non-existence of God. Some years back I made the mistake of going to a party given by my mates very hippy-of-the-worst-sort ex-wife. Some silly tart was going on about about how god had ensured that everything in life had it's place, to which my mate countered - "OK missus, what are f
g wasps for? Prof Beard
>> Edited by Prof Beard on Tuesday 13th September 00:27
Yeah, we were just talking about this today. A friend had a nest in his roof (they ate through the ceiling into a kid's bedroom), but in general the numbers are well down. Usually we can't sit out the back with food without a dozen of them wanting a bite, but this year I can't remember shooing any away at all.
Gareth
Gareth
From the BBC:
>They [wasps] are omnivorous, feeding on fallen fruit, >nectar and carrion, but mostly catching other insects. >Common wasps will also attempt to invade honey bee >nests to steal their honey.
So you would assume we'd get lots of bees (not seen) and lots of other (probably smaller) insects.
I'm seeing bucket-loads of little flies this year at the slightest amount of litter or washing up you leave around. Way more than normal.
I guess that this is nature's latest way against our pollution. Or maybe a lack of wasps...
Anyway thx for help. Glad I'm not going too doolally yet and that PH is still as good a source of general knowledge as ever.
>They [wasps] are omnivorous, feeding on fallen fruit, >nectar and carrion, but mostly catching other insects. >Common wasps will also attempt to invade honey bee >nests to steal their honey.
So you would assume we'd get lots of bees (not seen) and lots of other (probably smaller) insects.
I'm seeing bucket-loads of little flies this year at the slightest amount of litter or washing up you leave around. Way more than normal.
I guess that this is nature's latest way against our pollution. Or maybe a lack of wasps...
Anyway thx for help. Glad I'm not going too doolally yet and that PH is still as good a source of general knowledge as ever.
Craine flies and just flys how many do you want? I could start my own export company here. Wasps seen quite a few. Spiders yup lots of them. But we are also getting a lot of frogs. Oh and we have our own hedgehog that lives under the shed and keeps turning on the outside light. Made me laugh though as the dog approched it, it snapped itself into a ball and the dog must have lept about 10ft into the air. Most amusing.
Some wasps still exist down here in sunny Hampshire but thankfully not in great numbers.
As above though, spiders are positively rampant round these parts. (I don't mind 'em in the garden - eating greenfly and the like, but what does the one hiding in my wing mirror expect to catch?)
As above though, spiders are positively rampant round these parts. (I don't mind 'em in the garden - eating greenfly and the like, but what does the one hiding in my wing mirror expect to catch?)
GKP said:
Some wasps still exist down here in sunny Hampshire but thankfully not in great numbers.
As above though, spiders are positively rampant round these parts. (I don't mind 'em in the garden - eating greenfly and the like, but what does the one hiding in my wing mirror expect to catch?)
I have spiders in all my door mirrors. Why do we still call them wing mirrors? LOL. The spiders that are proliferating in particular are those gangly almost invisible hose spiders that spin webs in every corner. You also wonder what spiders in your garage eat besides other spiders.
los angeles said:
Trod on a few recently. Any car named after an insect? "Spyder" isn't an insect.
only one of the most succesful cars of all time, the VW beetle/käfer (not an official name tho, till that newest obscenity)
oh, and the vespa (wasp) which brings us back to the start.....
Prof Beard said:
Sadly, I'm told that Wasps have up and down years and this normal. (I asked an entomologist)
On the other hand, wasps are an arguement for the non-existence of God. Some years back I made the mistake of going to a party given by my mates very hippy-of-the-worst-sort ex-wife. Some silly tart was going on about about how god had ensured that everything in life had it's place, to which my mate countered - "OK missus, what are f
Prof Beard
>> Edited by Prof Beard on Tuesday 13th September 00:27
By the same argument: what, in the grand sceheme of things, relative to nature, are humans for???
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