Wasps

[DIDO.1 22,840]

Anyone finding many wasps yet. 

They seem really late. I've done a handful of small Queen nests size of a golf ball. 

I was seeing Queens still flying around up until a couple of weeks ago 

[LuckOrJudgement 437]

Seem to have dissapeared here in north Essex.

I have some old sheds and panel fences in the garden and normally these would have wasps on them harvesting pulp, but there's nothing.

Also been looking in other people's gardens in the course of my mole work - nothing.

Plenty of bees of all species though.

[Nicepix 5,650]

1 hour ago, LuckOrJudgement said:

Seem to have dissapeared here in north Essex.

I have some old sheds and panel fences in the garden and normally these would have wasps on them harvesting pulp, but there's nothing.

Also been looking in other people's gardens in the course of my mole work - nothing.

Plenty of bees of all species though.

Same here in France. Loads of bees and butterfies, some species I don't recognise. But hardly any wopsts or hornets.

[DIDO.1 22,840]

That's worrying that your not getting them down south. 

A mate of mine got called to a nest at the beginning of June, turns out it was last years nest and it was crawling with queen's. It was like they had hibernated in the nest and where only just waking up at the start of June! 

Around the same time I was getting calls for wasps, when I asked them to send me a pic it was queen's. People were finding them dead and dying in there homes. That normally happens but a month earlier, when they wake up in lofts and find their way inside the house rather than outside. 

It's like they are a month late. That could be a good thing if its got them past the risky cold snaps in spring....but I think something isn't right. Time will tell 

[Ratmanwan3 86]

Slow start in the Midlands, done 8 now, biggest about grapefruit sized. 

I think they will all come late like last year.

[LuckOrJudgement 437]

1 hour ago, DIDO.1 said:

That's worrying that your not getting them down south. 

A mate of mine got called to a nest at the beginning of June, turns out it was last years nest and it was crawling with queen's. It was like they had hibernated in the nest and where only just waking up at the start of June! 

Around the same time I was getting calls for wasps, when I asked them to send me a pic it was queen's. People were finding them dead and dying in there homes. That normally happens but a month earlier, when they wake up in lofts and find their way inside the house rather than outside. 

It's like they are a month late. That could be a good thing if its got them past the risky cold snaps in spring....but I think something isn't right. Time will tell 

Yes - I was called out to a kitchen a few weeks back, described as being 'swarming with wasps' - same thing - lots of dozy queens had ingressed from an old nest in a ceiling void.

At the time I thought we're in for a bumper year. But those queens have dissapeared totally.

Where are the foraging wasps in the hedges and shrubs? I'm seeing nothing here.

[DIDO.1 22,840]

Just done quite a busy one! 

[Daniel cain 45,558]

Sat on a dumper in work this morning and a f****r stung me on the back of my neck

[OldPhil 5,799]

Yeah,..I've managed to get into double figures, but as some lads have said, 'Something is wrong' ?

I think that August will be hectic and we will possibly have a late season, dragging well into October,..but, yeah,...it ain't good is it..

[tilimangro 1,013]

Starting to get calls now

very strange year

too dry then too wet and cold

not enough food 

time to pay attention I think

[gnipper 6,484]

Birds and plants were later than normal this year so the horrible stripey b*****ds are probably the same.

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

10 hours ago, tilimangro said:

Time to pay attention I think

How Dare You?!

 

Gnip; I was noticing ~ forty years ago, just walking down the road in the city ~ how the robin was singing, the privet blossoming out of time.

Now? Michael Stipe has become my doppelganger! WTF?!

[comanche 3,028]

I had a flurry at the begining of June . Then nothing until the end of last week when l did half a dozen  when the Sun came out for a couple of days.  

Hopefully it will become s bit busier.

Lots of foraging hornets about though so l'll polish my armour for the end of July

Edited June 29, 2021 by comanche

[mole trapper 1,693]

I've now done more hornets than wasps which is totally arse backwards 

[dytkos 17,802]

1 hour ago, mole trapper said:

I've now done more hornets than wasps which is totally arse backwards 

I've seen none of either, even down the sewage works where they breed. Good.

Cheers, D.