Whats the point of wasps?

[Stere]

Was cutting some damson down recently a  massive cloud  of midgey type critters living on it swarmed up as soon as they got disturbed, had a face full of them.

 

 

[Rough Hewn]

Are there still greenflies on sycamore at this time of year? I almost never work on them now, but thought they’d mostly disappeared by August.
Probably misremembered of course.

I've inhaled, eaten and plastered myself in clouds of green fly recently.
Every sycamore has approximately 6 gazillion of the little feckers.
?

[treevolution]

I felled a Eucalyptus this week and the client has phone to say she now has a lot of warps flying around and landing on the stump.

 

Does anyone know if something that could be used on the stump to stop this.

 

Thanks

[sean]

On 06/08/2018 at 18:12, Rough Hewn said:

Anyone read "the wasp factory" by Iain banks?

Great book

[Steve Bullman]

13 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Are there still greenflies on sycamore at this time of year? I almost never work on them now, but thought they’d mostly disappeared by August.

Probably misremembered of course.

Does anything follow traditional seasons anymore?

[buffalo606]

On 03/08/2018 at 23:52, Steve Bullman said:

Whats the point of wasps?

the stinger ?

Edited August 8, 2018 by buffalo606
humour

[difflock]

Touche!

[Rough Hewn]

Found this today

 

Edited August 8, 2018 by Rough Hewn

[Rough Hewn]

Can't post videos?

[Gary Prentice]

21 hours ago, treevolution said:

I felled a Eucalyptus this week and the client has phone to say she now has a lot of warps flying around and landing on the stump.

 

Does anyone know if something that could be used on the stump to stop this.

 

Thanks

A stump grinder? 

 

Used to see it a lot on elms, can’t remember noticing on eucalyptus. I think they’ll stop after a while.