Sitting in the garden over dinner recently, some friends and I wondered what happened to all the wasps? According to recent headlines, there are killer wasps murdering and maiming the British public wherever you look, but in sunny Tooting, despite hot weather, not a wasp has passed our lips in weeks. There are plenty of benign bees, though, like this one that looks like it fell head-first into a rhubarb crumble as it was gathering its stuff from a hollyhock. Interesting that if you search for stories about ‘killer wasps’ on the net, it doesn’t seem to be quite the international crisis that the headlines promised.
