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<blockquote data-quote="viviennem" data-source="post: 206054" data-attributes="member: 31282"><p>Wasps are actually very useful - they do pollinate some things (ivy flowers, for one!) and they also eat a lot of garden pests. They eat live prey such as greenfly and small grubs, and are useful scavengers in the garden.</p><p></p><p>Their nests are really clever - the queen hibernates over the winter, and then makes a nest by chewing wood and similar materials and building a complex, papery nest out of the pulp, where she lays her eggs and raises the workers for that season. Then she lays more eggs while the workers tend to her and the eggs/grubs.</p><p></p><p>They are usually no trouble - how long have you had that nest without knowing they were there? It's only when they start eating fermenting fruit that they become belligerent and aggressive - just like humans :lol: .</p><p></p><p>Havng said all that - I'm allergic to wasp stings (though not to bee stings) and as far as I'm concerned, the only good wasp is a dead one! In the autumn I make a point of killing any queen I can find, when they are looking for hibernation sites. Ditto for the spring, when they're just waking up.</p><p></p><p>In your situation, I would have left home!</p><p></p><p>Viv 8)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="viviennem, post: 206054, member: 31282"] Wasps are actually very useful - they do pollinate some things (ivy flowers, for one!) and they also eat a lot of garden pests. They eat live prey such as greenfly and small grubs, and are useful scavengers in the garden. Their nests are really clever - the queen hibernates over the winter, and then makes a nest by chewing wood and similar materials and building a complex, papery nest out of the pulp, where she lays her eggs and raises the workers for that season. Then she lays more eggs while the workers tend to her and the eggs/grubs. They are usually no trouble - how long have you had that nest without knowing they were there? It's only when they start eating fermenting fruit that they become belligerent and aggressive - just like humans :lol: . Havng said all that - I'm allergic to wasp stings (though not to bee stings) and as far as I'm concerned, the only good wasp is a dead one! In the autumn I make a point of killing any queen I can find, when they are looking for hibernation sites. Ditto for the spring, when they're just waking up. In your situation, I would have left home! Viv 8) [/QUOTE]
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