First queen wasp of the year

[Cazza]

Just found my first queen wasp of this season. She was blundering about in my bathroom, having escaped from the loft. I can't remember seeing one this early. Makes me wonder what's going on up there?
Cazza

 

[Polyanwood]

Did you kill her cazza, or leave her be?

 

[hedgerow pete]

all wasps must be killed, they are satans little helpers, and i have gone hypo to the sting vemon

 

[Rosti]

Pete that's appauling, you simply can't say things like that!

Comparing a mildly misunderstood bloke like Satan to jaspers

 

[SER]

We had one in the kitchen this morning.

 

[hedgerow pete]

did he wipe his hooves before walking in or did he arrive in a puff of smoke

 

[Midland Beek]

I think I would rather be an aye-aye than a wasp.

Wasps are important for the natural ecosystem because they catch zillions of tiny flying insects - Mother Nature's natural pesticide.

Maybe Bayer might one day do research in to how effective wasp colonies are at managing insect pests. But I doubt it. Their business is one of death.

 

[Rosti]

Their business is one of death.

Who..... Jaspers, Bayer, Satan, Hedgerow Pete?

 

[Silly Bee]

I'm with MB on this by and large. Wasps do live on other pests being carnivores. Wasps are a pain in late summer though, and not just because of bees, they ruin my apples and other fruit if I don't take precautions.

 

[Cazza]

Did you kill her cazza, or leave her be?

I put her in a pile of dry leaves outside. Wasps are useful cleaners and tidiers so I feel bad if I dispatch them. However, I expect I will regret my actions when the inevitable nests appear in the garden and the darlings compete with me for my plums, invade my bee shed and pester the hives....

Cazza

 

[Polyanwood]

It feels easier to not kill queen wasps when they are nowhere near your hives.

 

[Silly Bee]

Oh, I wouldn't stand for one close to my hives.

I suppose that makes me a NIMBY

 

[freethorpe bees]

Oh, I wouldn't stand for one close to my hives.

I suppose that makes me a NIMBY

Does that stand for not in my bee-yive?

 

[Vergilius]

I saw one tucked away behind a curtain on 23rd of Dec.

Ben P

 

[SteveJ]

Clearing my loft out the other year in the days before I put felt under the tiles. I found well over twenty. Everytime I moved a box one flew up. All where quickly dispatched. Didn't do any good still got a nest in the shed following year. Probably divine retribution.

SteveJ