Thanks to Imogen Lee of BBC News Online for the Headline
The Wasp is a much maligned insect. They are attracted by food and if you are outside eating they can be very annoying as they won’t give up if they are attracted to that picnic, or sweet smelling cakes that you are trying to enjoy.
However, my experience of them on my allotment, watching them fly by backwards and forwards to and from their nest in the ground for about six months. They didn’t bother me and I didn’t bother them. I checked on the internet and found out that the nest they had built would be abandoned and they would not return to it. And so it was, come the winter , I dug the soil around it and saw the papery cells and basically they were composted in the soil. They’ve never returned.
The headline is about some wasps which made a nest in some bookshelves and books of a nature reserve manager’s office in Norfolk. That was in June and they stayed until September, building a very impressive structure. They buzzed around the office but didn’t bother anyone , having their flight paths clearly marked and doing what wasps do and returning to their nest to feed and water their larvae.
Fortunately the nature reserve manager knew the value of the wasps and left them alone, it was only when the wasps had gone in October that she dismantled the large, intricate nest in her office and saw the cells where the wasp larvae developed.
They probably made it their home in the office because it was cool and there was shelter from the sun during the heatwave, it was a case of live and let live .
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.š
