Queen Wasps in Logstack

[neiln]

I've had 6 wasps in my wood stack so far this winter, 5 since Christmas, 3 in one single split! That split went straight from pile to stove, but i turned around to be dive bombed by another wasp. There's a lot about still.

[Billhook]

Why Do We Need Wasps?

 

https://www.foe.co.uk/green-blog/why-do-we-hate-wasps-so-much?gclid=CPi0_qa2qtECFW4A0wodivMAgQ

 

 

Why we should learn to love WASPS, writes STEVE BACKSHALL | Daily Mail Online

[neiln]

We do need them and outside the house I leave them alone when possible, but inside, with a 16 months old girl about, I'm taking no chances. Annoyingly my wasp count is now at 13 for the season, 12 since Christmas! I've seen my local wood pecker actually inside my old garden shed, where the wood is, he must be gorged and fat on wasp, or blind.

 

Do some wood types attract wasps more than others? Been bringing in holly, laurel, leylandii and a bit of Oak.

[cornish wood burner]

We do need them and outside the house I leave them alone when possible, but inside, with a 16 months old girl about, I'm taking no chances. Annoyingly my wasp count is now at 13 for the season, 12 since Christmas! I've seen my local wood pecker actually inside my old garden shed, where the wood is, he must be gorged and fat on wasp, or blind.

 

Do some wood types attract wasps more than others? Been bringing in holly, laurel, leylandii and a bit of Oak.

The count is 19 here. Burning ash, oak and hazel but also some big diameter spruce that has holes from wood wasp nests in the centre. Possibly the wasps had used some of their holes.

[Steven P]

Reading this, I feel quite blessed, 3 years with my wood burner and piles of logs in the drive / in the garage and no wasps yet. I did get a wood wasp one autumn aftrnoon - huge but aparently harmless. but no real wasps.

 

Does location affect them, I am just outside Glasgow

[openspaceman]

We do need them and outside the house I leave them alone when possible, but inside, with a 16 months old girl about, I'm taking no chances. Annoyingly my wasp count is now at 13 for the season, 12 since Christmas! I've seen my local wood pecker actually inside my old garden shed, where the wood is, he must be gorged and fat on wasp, or blind.

 

Do some wood types attract wasps more than others? Been bringing in holly, laurel, leylandii and a bit of Oak.

 

Just two OAPs here so I catch them in a flour sieve and put them outside, I guess they just die. I'd quite like to put them somewhere to over winter but not figured how yet. I've been stung a few times in my life but agree they have a place and I see less now than I remember I used to.

 

They do seem attracted to sap of some trees and often would come to cut surfaces when pruning branches.

 

It was wood wasps that were attracted to Douglas and Larch when we felled them.