Re: wasps
- Subject: Re: wasps
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:33:07 -0400
Vivien, perhaps you are thinking of "Insects and Gardens" by Eric
Grissell? published by Timber Press - I highly recommend this book to
all gardeners; should be required reading:-)
By and large, wasps are very beneficial critters and unless they
happen to locate their nests where it is impossible to avoid
interfering with them or coming too close to them on a regular basis
(and thus upsetting the wasps who think you are going to hurt them),
they should be left alone to do their thing in the garden, IMO.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: VBouffard@aol.com
>
> Cheryl, I read something about those blue-black wasps, I think in
Eric
> Fussell's insect book. Their name didn't stay with me, but the
author said
> that though they're huge and rather scary-looking, they are one of
those wasp
> species that don't sting and are valuable pollinators and
predators, too.
> Now I forget the name of the book, too; it's fairly new, published
by Timber
> Press and has gotten plenty of publicity. There is a passion
flower on the
> dust jacket. Sorry to be so vague!
>
> Vivien
> MA, Zone 6
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