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  1. Paul in the woods
    If you strim a nest or near one there's enough about at this time of year to go for you. But yes, you tend to see the bored workers searching out sweet stuff much later in the season. This is what I was alluding to, when I inspect my bees you sometimes have a wasp or two go in the hives after the honey. I don't recall many at all last year but already I've seen far more this year than last. It could be the dry weather down here, until the rain in the last week several things seem to have given up as there hasn't been to food for them. Blackbirds for example seem to have struggled finding worms. Sounds like it varies from place to place.
  2. Paul in the woods
    Are you Ireland at all? An image search throws up several very similar stoves such as: https://www.heatdesign.ie/product/firewarm-freestanding-stove/ and https://dgstovesfireplaces.ie/product/firewarm-freestanding-boiler-stove/ If that doesn't help try taking a better picture and searching for it on google images or google lens.
  3. Paul in the woods
    As a bee keeper I can only comment on bees. I get stung quite often and head stings do seem far more painful that say hands, arms or legs. Bees actually seem more attracted to dark colours than light, so will home in on the black of a logo opposed to yellow. You can get desensitised to bee stings so it might be worth looking into something for wasps if you are likely to get stung again. One thing I have noticed this year is more wasps about than previous years.
  4. Paul in the woods
    Out of curiosity I had a bit of a google and in the US there seems to be quite a few comments about grey squirrels doing this to sharpen their teeth and cutting off tips of branches so they can reach the acorns. Not sure how likely either reason is but it would appear that they do bite off the tips for some reason.
  5. Paul in the woods
    I was just looking at the pics myself and thinking the ends look cut/chewed rather than torn off in the wind. I wonder if it's the squirrels just chomping the branches off and not trying to gather for nests. It's that time year when they strip bark and each year in my woodland they seem to do something different. Worth watching them to see if they are the culprits.
  6. Paul in the woods
    You are correct. The act only covers individuals, not businesses, so a business purchase is not covered. However, some credit card providers have paid out so possibly worth a claim.
  7. Paul in the woods
    I don't think that works or you need to be very cafeful. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/PayPal-Section75/ Worth remembering section 75 has quite a few loop holes and is rather outdated. I also thought it didnt apply to business cards, the 2nd holder of a joint card and they way some online transactions are processed can cause problems. https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  8. Paul in the woods
    Its my understanding that Japanese knotweed doesn't produce viable seed in the UK currently, apart from the rare occasion it hybridizes with Russian vine, so you don't need to worry about the seed.
  9. Paul in the woods
    It's hard to tell from the photo but it looks more like a insect/spider cocoon than fungus to me.
  10. Paul in the woods
    If it were my garden I would say voles as we have loads of them and I've actually watched them fell and cut up stems like that. But slugs can also seem to cut and chop stuff up rather than nibble.
  11. Paul in the woods
    I have a couple of dozen mixed Eucs I've grown from seed and all but one survived the winter. One has died back but is shooting from the base. I would have thought it was the cold or even damp and cold that's caused problems. However, although Eucs are known for thriving in dry conditions I wonder if UK grown ones get their roots down as deep as native ones or if they stay shallow as it's normally wet here?
  12. Paul in the woods
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/box-tree-caterpillar
  13. Paul in the woods
    Do you know what tree is and then length of the critters? The best I can come up with is a one of the pine aphids, something like Cinara piceae, greater black spruce bark aphid looks a possibility. https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/hemiptera/sternorrhyncha/aphidoidea/aphididae/lachninae/eulachnini/cinara/cinara-piceae/ Here's an enlarged pic of a couple of them from your pic.
  14. Paul in the woods
    Exuvia by the looks of them. The empty skin of a damselfly, dragonfly or similar, after it's changed from a nymph to a fly.
  15. Paul in the woods
    Will you not just be fighting with the saw, either being pulled to the log or the log to the saw?
  16. Paul in the woods
    Any pics of the flowers or any young fruits? Looks like a crab apple, malus, of some sort to me.
  17. Paul in the woods
    I thought the general rule is to cut the grass once the seeds from the wild flowers have set and had a chance to fall. Then remove all the clippings to gradually reduce fertility. The time of the cut will depend on the wild flowers youre growing, your location and the year - many things seem to be a week or two late this year. Obviously don't add any fertiliser. The RHS has a useful guide: https://www.rhs.org.uk/lawns/wildflower-meadow-maintenance
  18. Paul in the woods
    Personally as someone who lives on the edge of a woodland I wouldn't worry about all wildlife. If the logs came from a local farmer the beetles are about anyway. If you dry off the wood and keep the rain off that should stop the logs from being eaten any more. The orange log looks more like alder to me, if it is dry and feels light it's likely to be alder, if it's heavy then oak is more likely.
  19. Paul in the woods
    Fraying is rubbing your antlers against a tree, to scent mark and possibly remove the velvet from new antlers.
  20. Paul in the woods
    The trunk just looks like the apple tree started to produce roots where it touched the ground. If left it should just heal over and be fine, you may wish to keep it weed free at the base to keep air circulating.
  21. Paul in the woods
    Any signs of new life? I've got a couple of Evereste crab apples in my orchard and they leaf out very early. This year we had some very strong winds, 80+ mph, and they look terrible. All their leaves were burnt off and hardly any fruit survived. They are showing some fresh leaves now and should recover.
  22. Paul in the woods
    Roe buck fraying by the looks of it.
  23. Paul in the woods
    Did it have any smell? Closest I can think of is a deformed Clathrus ruber, basket stinkhorn.
  24. Paul in the woods
    This might be worth a read, go down to the bottom and it covers nitrogen robbing. Basically unlikely unless the plants are shallow rooted. https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/woody-waste-using-as-mulch
  25. Paul in the woods
    My seed came from Chiltern Seeds, sadly they dont seem to have any mixed hardy seed but they stock a few others.

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