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The irrational way our country (and much of the world) is being run, coupled with climate change which our gummint doesn’t want to acknowledge, makes for increased burdens on citizens lives, or no real life at all. In Jenny Shipley’s time help with wasps was decided to not be a service available to citizens, but that changed when schoolkids and others wanting to spend time outside near trees, had to hide inside from the vicious brutes in the air. The vicious brutes in Wellington had to change their habit but are hard to eradicate.
This from Nelson on wasps. Interesting, amazing works of art some nests are but better we make our own eh.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360600672/wasp-nests-size-cars-numbers-surge
Latest Nelson wasp update.
https://nelsonapp.co.nz/news/articles/69250f712313dd451dc3c02d
Nelmac Kumanu conservation crew member Louis Pierson, centre, found the huge wasp nest in the Maitai Valley. Adam Lumsden, left, and John Amosa are helping to hold the heavy nest, which was still full of larva.
Your outdoor-education lesson on wasps extended! This bit from BBC is interesting so I’ll put it up and we’ll get a better understanding of wasps which will apply in NZAO also.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrgrnxp4v8o
…”In the midsummer, you’ll see, or you might even hear, a scraping sound on wooden fencing or furniture in your garden,” Mr Webb said.
“If you focus on the sound, you’ll see it’s a little wasp just scraping the top surface of wood.”
The wasp will go back to its nest with a small pellet of wood in its mouth and create a sort of laminate of the wood pulp, a bit like paper, that dries and solidifies.
This process is repeated until the nest is ready for the larvae to develop.
“The detail and the different sorts of wood that they’re using within that nest as well make a different colour; it is phenomenal,” Mr Webb continued….
Apparently they do some good, but the cure may be worse than the disease – perhaps?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559989/murdered-kyle-whorrall-remembered-with-pohutukawa-tree-at-st-john-s-reserve May 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574546/watch-police-find-machete-in-auckland-reserve-five-months-after-bus-stop-killing-of-kyle-whorrall Sept 2025\
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580745/police-charge-another-teen-with-murder-in-relation-to-killing-of-kyle-whorrall Dec 2025
33 years old, USA citizen, been here 4 years, entomology study doing PHD… What is behind this killing? There is a back story that might help understanding this crime.
This from Gordon Campbell Scoop. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2512/S00003/on-the-rates-cap-gambit-and-chiles-dire-future.htm
On Chile’s progress back towards Pinochet? Teach us anything?
And thoughts on our rates cap, is that like a uk workman’s cloth cap, a useful piece of headgear? Or is it more a heady bit of news that has emotional appeal?