Wasps in log piles

[Aussie treesmith]

Hit a nest with a hedge trimmer a few years ago when the European wasps were killing farmers, they chased me over the field and stung the crap out of me. Got them back that night with two lynx cans and a blowtorch taped together, crackle and pop!

 

Now in Oz and wasps aren't any bother, but we do get snakes, black widows and tarantula looking monsters

[treequip]

Have London Wasps Rugby Club got a "B" team ??

 

Don't know but I bet they have a good winger:laugh1:

 

I'll get mi coat

[geoff]

Hit a nest with a hedge trimmer a few years ago when the European wasps were killing farmers, they chased me over the field and stung the crap out of me. Got them back that night with two lynx cans and a blowtorch taped together, crackle and pop!

 

Now in Oz and wasps aren't any bother, but we do get snakes, black widows and tarantula looking monsters

 

Those European wasps are very unpleasant, they frighten the stuffing out of me & give me anaphalactic shock, ( however it's spelt).

Very often the nests are on the fringes of a trees crown, or up in a hedge.

[sasha.p]

I lifted the sheet of my log pile the other day only to instantly uncover 4 queens trying to hibernate needless to say they all got sqaushed with a log I bet there are loads in my log pile. I have been stung a few times this year so far and absolutly hate the things I dont like the sound of those ones they say are making their way over to Britain from France they look nasty.

[Gardenmac]

Was logging up a pile of scrat today ready to,put it though the log splitter and found 6 peacock butterflies amongst the logs. All in tauper and all hibernating. Carefully moved them and put them on the underside of the rafters in the new log store.

[Gray git]

How many btu's in a wasp, just put 3of the little devils in the logburner tonight after bringing them in from the stack. Seems to be a lot more hiding in the pile this year as finding at least 1 a day at the moment!

[Andrew Reed]

Now that is interesting because i had a single wasp a day for a few days in my room with the wood basket. So maybe I too have dormant wasps in the log pile outside. No popular or willow, but mainly cypress, eucalyptus, and some old lilac.

 

I've come across two bees/wasp nests this year on jobs. One lot disturbed with a strimmer on an earth bank near rocks, which luckily were only small black bees and only a few of them. The other lot were very sensitive wasps near a old wall in bramble, so I left that area alone until the weather was much cooler.

[campanula]

mmmm, our log basket was buzzing after cutting our poplar (yeah, I know but it is what we have) leading me to worry our woodburner was about to combust (we are stove novices). Nowhere to hide in a tiny horsebox (wasp terror) - had to snivel in the cold till newspaper was wafted about.

[Gillsgardening]

It's a nightmare, I've probably found about 30 so for in the log shed, a few brought into the house, then they soon wake up.

 

I'm allergic to them, and as it's the queen wasp which goes into hibernation it's nice knowing it will be one less nest in the spring when I kill them.