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fewer ladybirds in my garden this year. I expect they’re missing the aphids, too.Perhaps the birds are obligingly collecting the aphids up for their young, or they've all been parasitised by some wonder wasp. Who knows, maybe it was the hard winter after

in case wasps buzz out and start chasing you! (Oh, how I hate wasps).It’s that continual problem wildlife gardening: allowing creatures to have a little, but not a bite out of everything. They’re like toddlers at a birthday party, browsing the plates

(last year) a parasitised?large white caterpillar having climbed up my window with the maggots of the Ichneumon wasp emerging. unpleasant it may be but live and let live is my motto we need all the wildlife we can get. The great lack of butterflies

. It clearly hadn't returned to Africa and had survived the winter! I have a wooden gate at the front of my house and was suprised to see that it seemed to be decaying rather quickley until one day I caught the culpits for the damage, it was wasps chewing lumps

if these are the same species or if the French are exaggerating. ThanksCurrently they are making the most of the remaining grapes and figs on the trees and enjoying the October sunshine. Reply to HelenThere is no doubt that hornet stings, like wasp stings, are very

nests of bees nesting in logs....but 1 of my neighbours complained to the local council and said i was BREEDING WASPS...............'idiots'....if i were i would of encouraged the wasps to go to there house and sting them...hahaha. There's nowt so queer

!? so as to move around/travel @ night ! Not as though i'll stay up to see ! ... good luck 1 Thanks. HI Andrew .. Sorry to be a pain ,  but could also be Wasps /snakes.. I've been "had" a few times for example , by wasps, after Trimmimg around awkward

-deserved reputation, hornets are more docile and more secretive than the other social wasps. They are magnificent creatures and are a wonder to watch. Harry is lucky, I had to wait until I was 45 before I saw one. Hornets that I believe were a rarety are now rife

i was weeding down my allotment today and i saw this was attacking every moth and butterfly which landed on this globe poppy or thistle are they natural enemys wasp was attacking the moths spelling mistake Very interested to read about hummingbird

bees, bluebottles and hoverflies, but the overwhelming majority of visitors are wasps. Both of the common species are here, Vespula vulgaris and V. germanica and most of them are males. It takes me a couple of minutes to work this out; it’s something