Someone asked about these ugly, dirty plastic bottles we keep in a garage. But are aesthetics necessary when you’re on a mission to kill? It has become a February ritual: setting the traps for the asian hornet queens. They wake up before their workers and start the construction of enormous, spherical, paper maché style nests, very high up in a tree; the nests only become visible in autumn when the leaves have fallen. A year ago we had to call in the hornet busters. They arrived at dawn with their gear to remove the nest in an old oak. 15 […]
Daily Archives: February 28, 2014
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