29 Jan 2025

A return to Wasps an expert view

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 29 January 2025

On yesterday's show we were overrun with wasp chat.

Tons of you texted in with your techniques for hunting down their nests.

From the bizarre like "My grandfather used to throw flour at the wasp so he could then see it and follow it back its nest." To the oft reported - put the wasp in the freezer and tie a string to its leg.

Today we have a pest expert Waspman A.K.A Lloyd Carpenter.

Common wasp

Introduced European wasps are a significant problem in New Zealand beech forests - could a gene drive be a way of getting rid of them? Photo: CC BY 2.0 Sid Mosdell / Flickr