Wasp Deterrents
In 2009 there were lots of stories in the media about the huge amounts of wasps in the UK. We caught a news snippet on the BBC News in 2009 that suggested the amount of Wasps around that year was the highest amount witnessed for 30 years.
The gardens have always had their fair share of visiting Wasps in the summer months as they often get attracted by the smell of fallen fruit from our many and varied fruit trees. One of the suggestions by a viewer made to the BBC was to use a paper bag, fill it with air and then tie it to a tree or object close to an area thats visited by wasps. The inflated bag is meant to represent a wasps nest, and as wasps are largely territorial our wasp friends in the garden might politely find somewhere else to inhabit! That was the plan anyway and Barbara gave it a go.
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