wasps this time of year ?

[Andy_1984]

not sure if it was but it looked a lot like one, got in to my car and didnt sound like one either.

 

same coloring and pattern but had a more suasage like body

[chesters1]

probably a queen ,always about when its warm or sleeping in your shed etc

[Leon Roskilly]

Maybe a hornet.

 

They seem to be getting more common every year.

 

see: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/may/news_11635.html

Edited March 14, 2008 by Leon Roskilly

[chesters1]

we have quite a few around here i know of 3 hotspots with a few hundred yards ,nice laid back critters unlike wasps ,wood wasps are also far more laid back as well.

plenty of bees as well especially solitary bees and the usual masonry ones ,we had a bumble bee nest in the nearest bird box and one has been recurring in the shed roof for a few years since we took the asbestos off insulated it and put more modern sheeting on ,the only downside is wasps keep killing them in the roof but they either have the actual nest well hidden or its just a place bees like so queens looking about like it

Edited March 14, 2008 by chesters1

[Jeff S]

probably a queen ,always about when its warm or sleeping in your shed etc

 

not those type of queens Chesters

[DavyR]

Maybe a hornet.

 

Would be unusual as far north as Glasgow, though?

Edited March 14, 2008 by DavyR

[Andy_1984]

Maybe a hornet.

 

They seem to be getting more common every year.

 

see: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/may/news_11635.html

 

 

it resembled mostly the middle one in that picture though slighty fatter and brighter in yellow

Edited March 14, 2008 by Andy_1984

[Vagabond]

I've found and killed four queen wasps in the house this winter. Because of bathroom and central heating renewals I have been rummaging and cleaning in odd corners, lofts and cupboards rather more than usual, else I might not have found so many. We tend to get wasps' nests in the loft about three years out of ten - that comes with a fifty-year-old house.

 

...and re hornets - they used to be common in the Battle area, but last year was the first time I've seen them at Crowborough.

[corydoras]

Would be unusual as far north as Glasgow, though?

I haven't done any research, but I was brought up in Loch Lomondside and I never heard of them or saw them, but that does not prove they were not there. I remember when I was about 7 years old seeing a woodwasp. I thought it was an alien, nearly pooped me pants

 

Back on topic, I work in St James' Hospital in Portsmouth, and we had a queen of the wasp variety in the office a few weeks ago.

[peterpikefisher]

Andy I'm working next to the tunnel at Govan we dug up a nest last week in the old gas bunker at bae systems quite a few in it,

we just nuked them with gas oil and a burning rag