[The_Hawthorne_Pack]

Usually at this time of year I have to be very careful picking up my fallen apples because they most often contain one or more drunk and surly wasps who resent their cosy retreats being picked up and dumped in a bucket.  This year I have seen ONE solitary wasp hopefully hovering round my evening glass of wine.  My apple trees are not humming with stripey marauders just waiting for me to attempt to pick the ripe fruit.  Is anyone else missing their vespidian seasonal visitors? 

[Fleecewife]

They are around here, but not bothersome yet.  Usually in September they start to be a plague.

The rest are in my SiL's garden 

[Somewhere_by_the_river]

...They are in one spot in our lawn and another in the middle of the potato patch that I need to harvest! I can work round the first, but the second... well, I guess I'll just count my blessings that the potato plant that seemed to sicken was down to a wasps nest and not blight 

[Buffy the eggs layer]

By the state of my OH who came in covered in wasp sting while trying to burn fallen branches this week I would guess that they are all at my place!

[devonlady]

I've seen two so far, both indoors.

[Bobs wife Morag]

In an old pile of hay I shoved, in my infinate wisdom, in an old haylage net earlier this year! "doh"

[bloomer]

Who cares there malicious evil wee barstewards...

I have no love of the wasp...

[Daisys Mum]

Here stealing the honey from one of our hives 

[Possum]

Come to think of it, I haven't seen any this summer. Perhaps it is the lack of sunshine??

[JEP]

we have had swarms of wasps killed a hive of bees
in the hay shed on the apples
making hay found 2 big nests mower took tops of
and yesterday just went down to about 20

[Greenerlife]

It is a plague of them here in Surrey.  My pest controller friends are busier than they have ever been - and I have had four nests just in my garden, let alone what they are doing to my poor bees!  I stand outside my hives every morning and kill as many as I can to give my bees a helping hand, but they have already robbed considerable amounts.  I hate them.

[Cosmore]

Not seen many here.....yet, more will no doubt appear around the fallen apples in September. Did see an enourmous Queen hornet in the spring, looking for a suitable nest site - I 'encouraged' it to depart over the road into the woodland.
A couple of years back we had a hornets nest in the chimney, only found out when the sweep came - I've never seen a sweep move so fast, lol!

[Bionic]

We have had loads. Traps have been placed in front of the hives and I think I need to put a trap in the stable yard too 

[MAK]

Different type ! The high number of early wasps has been a talking point here in the Central France.  We have had many small nests of a wasp that seems to have long dangly bits to its rear. I have been stung a couple of times so far. Their sting Hurts less than the " normal" wasp but the swelling seems a lot worse.
We had a drought and high temperatures for a couple of months so maybe that explains the early but different wasps. The hornets are out and about early too.

[Lesley Silvester]

I've only seen a couple this year but I don't miss them in the slightest.