Country File

[John Cook]

The location is the kind of place wasps like to build nests.  The last time I had a wasp nest the noise was remarkable and there were dozens of them about, coming and going - unmistakable.  Without a picture of the critter it is impossible to say really.

[Elliesdad]

(In the days before Health and Safety) my father once had a wasps nest in the farm yard. His friend from the local council brought some SERIOUS chemicals (I think it might have been cyanide, but could be mistaken. Whatever, it was something very, very nasty) and just put small amount at the entrance to the nest. The explanation was that every wasp that touched the chemicals as they went in/out of the nest would be dead soon after.

On a different occasion I was once chased 100+ yards by angry wasps - so I'm afraid the little beggars don't get much sympathy from me.

Geoff

[Heedless Horseman]

Still have not got up close enough for a positive ID... possibly annoyed insects and ME on a step ladder ? !!! 
They don't look like Wasps and too small. Def 'could' be Bees... but, again, seem on the small side. Very little noise...so far.

Have seen pics of Bees taking up residence in several unusual places. In various locations inside cars, or using 'overflows' or flues...if not in regular use...etc.

Don't want to powder poison Bees unless they become a problem. No way they could be collected and rehomed. 

[mmcv]

To be fair wasps are just as important to the ecosystem as bees - they're also pollinators and great for pest control of other insects. If they're not doing any harm/damage might be as easy to leave them be then remove the nest at the end of the season when they've all died off to discourage anything else from taking up residence or them returning next year. If it is wasps I don't think they return to the same nest but will sometimes make one near their previous. 

[Heedless Horseman]

Just had Mouse upside down on fat filled Coconut feeder. So Cat has not wiped them out...yet! I quite like to see Mice... so as long as they are outside... and not in bits!

Lots of small Moths indoors, this year... especially in bathroom... but no idea where they are coming from. I try to capture and 'put out'... but lots of dead moths around.

A few Butterflies about... mainly some sort of 'White' with some brownish  'Wood' species.

Frogs in pond and young Foxes around... plus several Hedgehogs doing well.

'Life' goes on.

[Raider4]

Lots of small Moths indoors, this year... 

Yeah, I've noticed a large amount of moths this summer as well.

[Steve J]

In complete contrast, very few moths in the bathroom this year. Normally we have to keep the window closed or just ajar to keep them out.

[Techno 3]

Wouldn't mind a few moths....Currently being driven mad by a young buzzard, flying around Techno Towers, screaming "Feed me, feed me".
Mummy and Daddy have obviously decided that it's time it fended for itself.

This is Techno...currently under a hosepipe ban*. (I mean WHAT ?)

Cheers - Phil. *..The ban will make NO difference to me and Von...Only thing a hosepipe gets used for here, is to fill water troughs...and that doesn't count.

[Orcs]

Cheers - Phil. *..The ban will make NO difference to me and Von...Only thing a hosepipe gets used for here, is to fill water troughs...and that doesn't count.

I did wonder how you would cope watering the menagerie.

You mean to say you don't have a perfectly manicured lawn surrounded with Begonias?

[Techno 3]

Mark....My dear friend ....Our 'lawn' is still very green, and really quite 'lush'.

What we've noticed is that the 7 (garbage) acres we've got, over the road (Part of a SSSI) is SO amazingly dry, I could easily walk on it with my trainers. Normally I'd need waders to play 'bog hopping' there.

Over the road from us, is one of the two sources of the river Cleddau.....that source is virtually gone, like the source of Thames.

Cheers - Phil.

[Techno 3]

I wonder how long it will take certain certain members of our esteemed forum to realise that they've been blocked by everyone

They can still post...but no-one will be able to see what they've posted.

[Ithoriel]

And there I was thinking it was just that my posts were so boring nobody bothered to reply

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I wonder how long it will take certain certain members of our esteemed forum to realise that they've been blocked by everyone

They can still post...but no-one will be able to see what they've posted.

We live in hope in your case Phil 

[Orcs]

We live in hope in your case Phil 

Until i saw this post I thought you might have been one of them.

[Ithoriel]

We live in hope in your case Phil 

Pah! What this forum needs is ....


MOAR TECHNO!

... and more cowbell