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Today in the Gabriola woods

on 05 Sep 2011

Here’s what’s up in the Gabriola woods today. Wasps here. I wondered about a wasp nest fragment a while ago. Now I’ve found the rest of that nest, and can see that it fell out of a tree when a branch came down. So glad I wasn’t underneath when it fell! Wasps there. Last month [...]

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Wasp-sucking machine

on 30 Aug 2010

It seems to be wasp season on Gabriola now, so I got out our glass wasp trap the other day and set it up. Marvelously effective, though we did have only thirty or so wasps to murder. Our wasp trap is boring compared to Matthias Wandel’s wasp sucking machine. That thing’s amazing!

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