Those German wasps are prolific little blighters! We found several were
coming into the tea room and its garden and the nest was rapidly tracked
down to our log shelter. That's mere yards, as the wasp flies, from the
nest found earlier. One of the dogs was stung over the eye incurring a
fairly expensive couple of trips to the vet with him. The second one has now
been destroyed but not before one of the wretches got me on the arm on
Friday! It's now reached the 'itching like crazy' stage but I'm a bit more
relaxed now that I know they're ex-wasps. ;-)

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 17/8/08 11:23, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:18:44 +0100, Sacha wrote:

Those German wasps are prolific little blighters! We found several were
coming into the tea room and its garden and the nest was rapidly tracked
down to our log shelter. That's mere yards, as the wasp flies, from the
nest found earlier. One of the dogs was stung over the eye incurring a
fairly expensive couple of trips to the vet with him. The second one has now
been destroyed but not before one of the wretches got me on the arm on
Friday! It's now reached the 'itching like crazy' stage but I'm a bit more
relaxed now that I know they're ex-wasps. ;-)

We've just started seeing our first bees this year. Despite stuff on the BBC
and
elsewhere that without bees there is no pollination, the neighbours apple
trees
have plenty of apples and all our fruit bushes have done well.

We've had honey bees and bumble bees around for a long time but of course,
in the very wet weather they don't forage. But I do remember that back in
January and on a rare fine day, we saw a huge bumble bee working over the
Lonicera purpusii by our front door.


--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On 17/8/08 12:08, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:06:07 +0100, Sacha wrote:

snip

We've had honey bees and bumble bees around for a long time but of course,
in the very wet weather they don't forage. But I do remember that back in
January and on a rare fine day, we saw a huge bumble bee working over the
Lonicera purpusii by our front door.

We've had lots of bumble bees and wasps, but no honey bees until last week.
We've also had a lot of wannabe a bee/wasp flies.

About this time of year I've formed the habit of encouraging people to plant
Eupatorium. Wish I could remember to do that in the spring, too! Writers
rave about Buddleia for butterflies and other pollinating insects but
Eupatorium beats it hands down. On a sunny day I daren't weed in that area
of the garden!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:54:17 +0200, Martin wrote:

Our lavender has a similar effect. Bzzzzzzzzzzz!

Cotoneaster bullatus in our case, alive with buzzing noises from a huge
range if insects.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In message , Martin
wrote
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:18:44 +0100, Sacha wrote:

Those German wasps are prolific little blighters! We found several were
coming into the tea room and its garden and the nest was rapidly tracked
down to our log shelter. That's mere yards, as the wasp flies, from the
nest found earlier. One of the dogs was stung over the eye incurring a
fairly expensive couple of trips to the vet with him. The second one has now
been destroyed but not before one of the wretches got me on the arm on
Friday! It's now reached the 'itching like crazy' stage but I'm a bit more
relaxed now that I know they're ex-wasps. ;-)

We've just started seeing our first bees this year. Despite stuff on
the BBC and
elsewhere that without bees there is no pollination, the neighbours apple trees
have plenty of apples and all our fruit bushes have done well.


I've had hundreds of Mason bees from my bee tubes pollinating
Spring/early Summer.

--
Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com