Wasps nests - the wonder cure

Just heard a guy on Radio 4 claiming that any gardener who has a wasps' nest on this patch should rejoice, because he'll have no problems with insect pests whatsoever. The theory is that wasps will feed all the pesky things to their babies and voila! No more damage to plants. I don't really want to put this to the test, however.

 

Can't see mamma wasp catching a slug and feeding that to baby wasps:hehe:

They're what cause most problems in my garden!

 

I'm just picturing a wasp carrying a badger back to its nest.

 

Screen splutter:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

 

ClaraLou said insect pests not every pest!!! I have heard this also, but wasps are still a nuisance I think.

Val

 

Wasps are a gardeners friend, they kill aphids. As long as they are not nesting in your garden or on your plot I don`t see a problem. :gnthb:

 

I think there was a certain amount of joking involved in our responses.

 

Oops, I thought you weren't reading it properly!!!:hehe:

Val

 

A couple of pictures taken by a mate of mine over the weekend.

Its a wasp systematically cutting up a caterpillar and taking pieces back to the nest.

 

If the second picture is anything to go by, it wasn`t cutting up the caterpillar.:p:p:rotfl::rotfl:

 

Maybe they could manage a badger after all!

 

Or at least a slug!

 

Now this is too much for me. I don't know if I should laugh or run away in fear.:rotfl::rotfl: Those pictures are scary and I am sure they can carry away something much larger. Could we organise one to carry away a useless lump of a humanoid that still lives in my home.:D:D

I am not friends with wasps, I have no wish to be and if this year they lay claim to my plums on my plum tree, I shall personally smack every single wasp on it's botty. (from a great distance !!) :p

I have lots of calendula growing in my front garden which at first had a black fly infestation, then I noticed lots of hover flies and wasps feeding off them so I guess they do have their uses but can they please go to a neighbour's garden, and not mine !!

 

When we were working on an ivy clad bit of Claredon Palace, the hornets used to dive bomb the wasps, bite there heads & abdomens off & fly away with the middle bit.

 

Yuck !!