Reply to: Wasps (insects not Americans)

[TheDude]

How do you keep them hydrated or rehydration them?

You take them to a Waspital where they are put on a drip.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Finding "a bug" isn't a problem, it's when you find "half a bug"...

Reminds me of the lady in the Siliconix canteen who had half a slug in her BLT roll after taking a bite thereof: especially concerning with what slugs can carry.

[Zigenare]

If you grow your own fruit and veg, you are routinely eating bugs even if you inspect things and especially if you aren't. I don't know what percentage of blackberries/raspberries have tiny maggots inside but it's quite common. If you put them in a bowl of water the amount of critters floating to the top is surprising and if you pick and eat fresh from the plant those are not getting removed.
All part of 'natural' growing - you just hope they're too small to notice

Finding "a bug" isn't a problem, it's when you find "half a bug"...

[d000hg]

If you grow your own fruit and veg, you are routinely eating bugs even if you inspect things and especially if you aren't. I don't know what percentage of blackberries/raspberries have tiny maggots inside but it's quite common. If you put them in a bowl of water the amount of critters floating to the top is surprising and if you pick and eat fresh from the plant those are not getting removed.
All part of 'natural' growing - you just hope they're too small to notice

[Snooky]

Extra protein!

Never managed to actually find the remnants in a fig.

Most commercially grown figs are seedless varieties these days so you're very unlikely to eat a fig which had a wasp in it, unless it's home grown or from some small producer

[WTFH]

Yum.
Although I suspect if any were alive in the figs we picked last week, they probably died when the chutney was made.

[Zigenare]

Extra protein!

Never managed to actually find the remnants in a fig.

They're absorbed apparently.

[ladymuck]

If you like figs...
...then don't read this.

Extra protein!

Never managed to actually find the remnants in a fig.

[Zigenare]

Saw a ruby tailed wasp a couple of weeks ago, attention attracted by the metallic green sheen of its body.

https://www.insectweek.co.uk/discove...Tailed%20Wasps.

Tiny & parasitic.

If you like figs...
...then don't read this.

[Dark Black]

Dragonfly.

One of our cats is extremely adept at catching those as they fly* around the garden.

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_{* the dragonflies, not the cat}

[WTFH]

We get quite a few dragonflies round here, they are always nice to see.

Saw this the other day...






Sorry about the image quality, I had the wrong lens on, so this was the best I could manage

[DoctorStrangelove]

Fascinating, never seen one of those.

Neither had I until a couple of weeks ago during the previous heatwave when I had the kitchen window open whilst doing the dishes & noticed this tiny green thing shining in the sunlight looking for holes in the shed wall.

Fortunately for the bees, it didn't find any there & eventually flew away.

[Dark Black]

Saw a ruby tailed wasp a couple of weeks ago, attention attracted by the metallic green sheen of its body.

https://www.insectweek.co.uk/discove...Tailed%20Wasps.

Tiny & parasitic.

Fascinating, never seen one of those.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Saw a ruby tailed wasp a couple of weeks ago, attention attracted by the metallic green sheen of its body.

https://www.insectweek.co.uk/discove...Tailed%20Wasps.

Tiny & parasitic.

[WTFH]

We get quite a few dragonflies round here, they are always nice to see.

We have a few of their larvae in the pond, and see the adults buzzing around - always great to see them and the damselflies