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Podcast: Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Episode: Ruud Kleinpaste: Summer things in the garden
Description: Yes, I realise it won’t be summer for another week or so, but the following observations are just a few Gardeners’ Tips to muck around with: Ancistrocerus gazella is an introduced “potters wasp” from Europe. It got here decades ago and is a really cute predatory wasp that does some great things in your quarter acre paradise. This little wasplet makes nice nests inside hollow tubes and then it goes on the hunt for small caterpillars, usually the leafrollers that silk your leaves together and chew from within their leaf-silk tent. Ancistrocerus paralyses...