permaculture

[lflondon@worldnet.att.net (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)]

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 06:57:17 -0700, Toby Hemenway
<hemenway@jeffnet.org> wrote:


>  Should I do anything or wait it out? Has anyone been through this before?
>As more fruit comes on will this be less of a problem or will the hornets
>continue to multiply-yikes!-in response to new food? What are hornets'
>natural controls and can I take steps to encourage their presence? Why
>isn't the planet waist deep in hornets? What's a nice permacultural,
>ecological approach to this?

If possible, find their nests (large roundish grey papery globes
hanging from tree limbs (or elsewhere?). Follow them to see where they

have made these nests. Move the nests far enough away from your fruit
so they won't return to it.

I realize this may be difficult or impossible but it would be worth a
try.