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Rhodie

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 425 Location: Rhode Hill, Uplyme
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Posted: 19/09/05, 08:01 Post subject: Wasps |
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Where have all the wasps gone. At Rhode Hill I have seen just one this summer/autumn. This compares with the plague status they were given last year. Is this a local phenomenon or are you in your neck of the Uplyme wood also happily in a wasps free zone this year? _________________ It's later than you think |
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geoff

Joined: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 706 Location: Lyme Rd, Uplyme
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Posted: 19/09/05, 08:10 Post subject: |
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Come to think of it you are right - just a few dozy ones about a month ago here - apart from the one that stung me while I was cutting the top of our hedge
I was told a few months ago that new 'superwasps' had been discovered, which had flown across the channel. More like a hornet it seems - is this true ? _________________ it's never too late |
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oliver

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Posted: 19/09/05, 15:37 Post subject: Yer |
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I also heard that they were spost to die out but this year they didnt |
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joe

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 37 Location: Seaton.
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Posted: 20/09/05, 15:47 Post subject: super wasps |
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There is a nest nearby our house of these super wasps. A few have been seen crawling through a space in our roof and some dead ones were found in our loft, the're huge!!!!!!! I think they are hornets.
Im not sure super wasps actualy exist there is probably just an increase in hornet population. |
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Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 54 Location: Lyme Rd, Uplyme.
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Posted: 20/09/05, 16:48 Post subject: |
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Have they been a problem to you over the Summer Joe ?
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joe

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
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Posted: 20/09/05, 17:00 Post subject: Not really |
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The few in the loft have raised awarness and seeing them out side my bedroom window is sometimes rather scary. (I dont like them).
Some have been eating the wooden table we have outside as well.
Other than being right pests no major problems have occured YET. |
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Rhodie

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 425 Location: Rhode Hill, Uplyme
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Posted: 20/09/05, 21:32 Post subject: Re: super wasps |
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joe wrote: | I think they are hornets.
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I think that you are right on this Joe what you are “lucky” to have are almost certainly hornets. _________________ It's later than you think |
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Rhodie

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 425 Location: Rhode Hill, Uplyme
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Posted: 20/09/05, 21:39 Post subject: Re: Not really |
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joe wrote: |
Some have been eating the wooden table we have outside as well. |
What they are in fact doing is not eating the wood but using it to make paper with which to build their nest in your loft.
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Other than being right pests no major problems have occured YET. |
If no major problems have occurred why do you class them as pests
Considering the size of hornets we are lucky that they very seldom sting  _________________ It's later than you think |
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joe

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
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Posted: 21/09/05, 15:37 Post subject: Well..... |
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If you had wasps buzzing round your garden and getting in your way all summer but none have stung you yet. I think you would consider classing them as pests  _________________ Small world eh?
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oliver

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Posted: 21/09/05, 15:58 Post subject: YES |
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very much so my dad was cutting the hedge and he was stung right between the eyes and i have also been stung and it is painfull |
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Rhodie

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Posted: 21/09/05, 20:10 Post subject: |
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But not by an hornet surely  _________________ It's later than you think |
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chris P

Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Posts: 11 Location: lyme regis
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Posted: 04/10/05, 17:33 Post subject: |
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i wouldnt count them as pests but they can get annoying hey yeh cum to think of it the school bins have had no wasp counts at all i dnt no if jow or ollie sor sum round woodroffe _________________ looming in lyme |
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joe

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
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Posted: 04/10/05, 18:18 Post subject: yeah |
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There are quite a few round Woodroffe
Last year one went down my collar  _________________ Small world eh? |
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martin

Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Posts: 7 Location: Yawl Hill Lane, Uplyme.
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Posted: 05/10/05, 12:07 Post subject: Wasps |
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Both this year and last a swarm of wasps has swarmed in two of my bird boxes .They do a lot of good hoover up pests and feeding them to the queen in exchange for a sweet .Its only when she fies in mid till late August that the workers become a pest as they seek a replacement sweetness.
However this year we had a rather sharp frost in late March which may have killed of quite a few queens before they could start to nest. _________________ Martin Young (cert RHS)
Garden Swing seat maker
Garden open 13th-15th June 2008 and 24th-25th July 2008 |
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michael

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 13 Location: Lyme Rd, Uplyme
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Posted: 11/10/05, 17:29 Post subject: wasps |
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lots of wasps!! + lots of crane fly aswell!! (they invaded us!!!!!!) |
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