Hi, I unearthed a queen wasp today when attending to my borders, it might have been in the earth of my strawberry basket, when I emptied it out ~ not sure! I just noticed it by the border, so I held a leaf in front her her and she crawled onto it, I then positioned the leaf in a hidden spot on the border, near where I'd replanted the strawberries, gently placed another leaf on top of her, and then a ceramic bowl over the top to protect from my resident robin! I don't have a shed unfortunately... My mum does have a garage though..
Wasps are beautiful and are the gardener's friend - even when you grab hold of a queen who's hibernating in the folded over top of a bag of compost as I did this time last year
Ouch that hurt!!!
But she survived to raise a family who would eat the aphids in the garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Hi, I unearthed a queen wasp today when attending to my borders, it might have been in the earth of my strawberry basket, when I emptied it out ~ not sure! I just noticed it by the border, so I held a leaf in front her her and she crawled onto it, I then positioned the leaf in a hidden spot on the border, near where I'd replanted the strawberries, gently placed another leaf on top of her, and then a ceramic bowl over the top to protect from my resident robin! I don't have a shed unfortunately... My mum does have a garage though..
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Wasps are beautiful and are the gardener's friend - even when you grab hold of a queen who's hibernating in the folded over top of a bag of compost as I did this time last year
Ouch that hurt!!!
But she survived to raise a family who would eat the aphids in the garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.