Wasps And Flies

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Just enjoying a chotapeg with the Memsahib on the patio as the evening cools off. She remarked that we haven't, fortunately , been bothered by wasps, or come to that, flies during these hot and sunny climes in the last 2 or 3 weeks .Eating Salad and tinned Pilchards has not attracted these pesky bugs ,thank Christ, when eating al fresco in the garden. Anyone else noticed this or are we just the lucky ones. So far?

[Hopkirk]

It's actually quite worrying. If there are less insects there is less pollination.

[Hopkirk]

https://www.buglife.org.uk/news/bugs-matter-survey-finds-that-uk-flying-insects-have-declined-by-nearly-60-in-less-than-20-years/

[retrocop]

//It's actually quite worrying//

Not for me. Their absence in my supper is less worrying. The bumbles are welcome in my garden any day. They don't seem to share my taste in food and pollinate quite happily whilst leaving us alone. Wasps? They are evil.

[DarceyK123]

You're lucky, we have had quite a few of the pesky blighters, how come the can always find their way in easy enough but cant find their way out?!

Tried everything this year, lavender around the door, fly curtain and even bought one of those machines they are supposed to be attracted to but still i fight a losing battle.

[Barsel]

Lots of little ants running about in my back garden, but I dread the flying ants. Not seen any wasps yet but flies, yes.

[Gill1941]

Flying ants only last a day. Just keep windows closed.
We need all the insects.

[Chipchopper]

Wasps don't kill people.
People with rolled up newspapers kill wasps.
On the other hand, ticks have no purpose whatsoever

[retrocop]

//Wasps don't kill people.//
Unfortunately they can kill a lot of people. A sting will, in some unfortunates cases cause anaphylactic shock
Ex President of the USA Jimmy Carter was a prime candidate for this.
When here, on a state visit. and a guest of our late HMQ he was accommodated in Buckingham Palace. His daily morning routine was to go Jogging for about three hours and it was suggested that Hyde Park was his best venue. Every day whilst jogging around the park he had two U.S. military ambulances and one NHS ambulance (Hosts Courtesy) which slowly trundled down the Bayswater Road and into Hyde Park where they continued along Serpentine Road with about ten secret service vehicles in tow. Just because of a pesky wasp or bee. :-)

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We were all briefed beforehand that the nearest emergency hospital was St Mary's Paddington should the worst happened.