That Wasp in Your Beer Is a Stressed-Out, Unemployed Single Mother

A reluctant defence of the garden's most necessary arseholes European Paper Wasp pollinating a marigold - My photo Wasps. The striped bloody nuisances of the garden world, the uninvited guests at every summer picnic, the tiny, winged psychopaths that turn a man sipping a beer on his terrace into a flailing, panic-dancing fool. I've sworn at them, run from them, and on one memorable occasion,…