Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Wasps

I'm having a week of blog posts inspired by Nikki Magennis!

A while back she was thinking about bees. I've been worrying about wasps. Every year when the weather warms up I have to launch a capture-and-release program from my kitchen, as the windowsill fills up with wasps and bees. There's at least a couple every day. But not this year. Not a single one.

Where have my wasps gone? They didn't appear even when I made chocolate fudge.
:-(

(Some day I will share my fudge recipe, and the world will bow before me.)
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8 comments:

  1. Erobintica8 July 2009 at 12:14

    Hmmm. We still have wasps, but not as many as other years it seems - now that I think about it. And I've yet to have to catch and release any (hehe, I do that too). We've also lost many of our bats. Sometimes I try not to think about it because it makes me nervous.

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  2. Chris8 July 2009 at 12:49

    Capture and release??

    What has happened to the real Janine Ashbless? I recall your fury when I released wasps trapped in a wasp trap to fly free and unhindered.

    xx

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  3. Nikki Magennis8 July 2009 at 13:03

    Oh no! You're completely right, Janine! I've been so worried about the bees that I didn't really register how delightfully wasp-free the summer's been so far.
    But wasps are ace, when they're not stinging. Damn. Where are they?

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  4. Cora Zane8 July 2009 at 15:26

    You can have all our wasps, Janine. Or, hey, I'll trade you for fudge. ;)

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  5. Emerald9 July 2009 at 01:45

    What a nice picture.

    I worked with a photographer once who was said (by one of his co-photographers) to be one of the world's foremost experts on wasps. He was UK-based...if I were still in touch with him I would ask him. Hmm.

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  6. Janine Ashbless9 July 2009 at 10:59

    What has happened to the real Janine Ashbless? Damn, Chris - I was hoping you wouldn't notice. When I was doing my shamanic stuff a few years back I made a promise to *ahem* Somebody. So I stopped killing wasps. I don't do the shamanic stuff anymore but I remain in a state of non-agression toward wasps. But don't tell anyone because it's a tad embarrassing.

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  7. Nikki Magennis9 July 2009 at 16:09

    (I meant to say, I'm very flattered that the bee post inspired a wasp post, thank you!)

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  8. Anonymous17 July 2009 at 21:04

    Same problem as the bees, many of them have died. Oh, and on a more cutsie note, so have most of the ladybirds :( havent seen any of those this summer to speak of - which is causing huge amounts of problems with aphids.

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