RE: Re: Yellow Jackets

[Guest guest]

We are getting more & more wasps here - they are still here from summer and

they kill the bees. The site someone sent showed them clearly, those in the

US, I could have taken a photo of the one in the house today but I put a

glass over him and took him outside again. These are called European wasps

here. Not very nice at all.

Jane

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Re: Yellow Jackets

> >Are they the same as the European Wasp?<

>

> Jane- I doubt it, I think they are native to North America. They are a

> wasp

> but we don't generally call them wasps. They are small, about 3/4 " long

> and

> build their nests in the ground. When you walk through woods here in

> summer

> you have to constantly watch for any insect that flies up from or down to

> the ground. We have Yellow Jackets and big brown ground hornets. DB

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[Guest guest]

I like wasps. I find them very tolerant. They build nests, usually on our

deck. A couple times right on the eve over our front door! But we go in

and out without any trouble. Sometimes, if I'm doing something and they

decide I'm too close, they will actually smack me on the head for a warning,

so then I just move away and we are all happy again.

Once they were building a big nest in a very busy spot. I just couldn't

bring myself to kill them so I waited till evening, when they were all there

then hosed the nest down with water. Soaked everything so that they could

not fly. Then detached the nest and moved it out to a better part of the

yard, and shoved it a bush. When they dried off enough to fly, the went

right to the nest (smell? The few that hung on?) and lived there from then

on.

So many people kill wasps that we have a very small population now as

compared to years ago. I never kill them. The one that get inside I also

trap and take out.

I've never heard they kill bees. I have my beehive in the yard. Never seen

any 'fights'.

Samala,

-------Original Message-------

The site someone sent showed them clearly, those in the

US, I could have taken a photo of the one in the house today but I put a

glass over him and took him outside again. These are called European wasps

Here.

[Guest guest]

Bob, do you have the large red wasps? They are SO pretty. I've never been

stung by one but I've been told it's pretty painful. Much more so than a

regular wasp sting.

Here I have hardly seen more than a handful of bumble bees. No paper wasps

either.

Samala,

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We have Yellow Jackets and big brown ground hornets. DB

[Guest guest]

> I like wasps

That did it----------I'm sending a shrink to visit you!!!

;-)

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> I like wasps. I find them very tolerant. They build nests, usually on our

> deck.

I like them too. If they are too close to the door, we remove the nests,

but not until winter when they are empty. We have some that build nests

under our deck, or did. but they haven't done so in the last couple of

years. There is wax and wane phenomenon going on with them here. I

figure when there are more, it is because they have more prey, and I

usually don't care much for the things they prey upon, so we leave them

alone.

We also have huge things that look like wasps, but they are a kind of

tree borer, can be 2 inches in length. Scary to look at. They do not

sting. We left some dead tree stumps for them. Perhaps some of the

woodpeckers that come here eat some of the grubs, not sure about that

because the grubs are deep in the center of the dead trunks.

We also leave ants alone, supposedly ant nests along a house foundation

keep termites away (the ants eat the termites?).

So far nothing has tried to eat our house, LOL. Maybe because we leave

plenty of natural food for them in the yard? Or it could just be our

long cold winters.............

sol

[Guest guest]

I recently saw a decoy paper wasp nest made from cloth that you can

hang where they've been known to colonize. They're territorial and

won't build near it. Would be a good solution for doorways, porches,

etc.

Be well,

Léna

> wrote:

> > I like wasps. I find them very tolerant. They build nests,

> usually on our

> > deck.

> I like them too. If they are too close to the door, we remove the

> nests,

> but not until winter when they are empty. We have some that build

> nests

> under our deck, or did. but they haven't done so in the last couple of

> years. There is wax and wane phenomenon going on with them here. I

> figure when there are more, it is because they have more prey, and I

> usually don't care much for the things they prey upon, so we leave

> them

> alone.

>

> We also have huge things that look like wasps, but they are a kind of

> tree borer, can be 2 inches in length. Scary to look at. They do not

> sting. We left some dead tree stumps for them. Perhaps some of the

> woodpeckers that come here eat some of the grubs, not sure about that

> because the grubs are deep in the center of the dead trunks.

>

> We also leave ants alone, supposedly ant nests along a house

> foundation

> keep termites away (the ants eat the termites?).

>

> So far nothing has tried to eat our house, LOL. Maybe because we leave

> plenty of natural food for them in the yard? Or it could just be our

> long cold winters.............

> sol

>

>

[Guest guest]

So long as he brings wasps with him, he'll be welcome!

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That did it----------I'm sending a shrink to visit you!!!