Being prepared for next year

Summerfly

Unfortunately wasps are pollinators and boy do we need them! Please try any other method, but don’t kill them.

100% agree. Wasps get bad press.

Waspinators don't kill them. That was the whole point of buying one/some - to discourage them from nesting near the house!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41042948

What use are wasps? See link

ExDancer

Waspinators don't kill them. That was the whole point of buying one/some - to discourage them from nesting near the house!

Precisely. I can’t open my windows because my dog is probably allergic to their sting: my last dog had to be rushed to the vets. They’re also damaging the mortar on my house. I try not to kill anything if possible but I can’t have this.

We used to have a waspinator that we used down in the south of France each August. It did seem to keep them away from our pitch.

Well, I hung two waspinators near to the back wall of my house. There is a lot of mortar missing from the main hole that the wasps were coming and going from but, thus far I haven’t seen any wasps. My neighbour had someone out last week to fill in areas where wasps had been getting into his house. I’m hoping that the waspinators have worked. Or, does the bad weather mean that the wasps aren’t active yet anyway?

Do you know I don’t think I’ve seen a wasp this year